Sharing Jason Schreier’s take from bluesky:

Pleased to report that I love Avowed, the latest RPG from Obsidian. I expected strong writing and combat, but what’s surprised me (and kept me wanting more even after 40 hours) is the exploration. Everywhere you turn there’s a secret or treasure or rooftop to climb — it’s dense and full of life.

I’m a little surprised reading some of these reviews but I suspect that Avowed could wind up like Fallout: New Vegas, where there’s a vast gap between the critical reception and overall player consensus

It’s based on chromium so there’s always going to be people against it here, but I’ve been enjoying it as my secondary to Firefox.

Congrats on 200! Thanks for keeping up with this. Beautiful screenshots today

Congrats on the new rig! What kind of hardware do you have?

200 is getting pretty close!

https://youtu.be/eqGQEStnuwM

Yakuza 0 was my first and still has a special place in my heart. However, the new games with Ichiban have also been great. Slowly working my way through Infinite Wealth right now, but there’s just so much to do (I spent days just doing Dondoko island).

More people need to check out the Judgment games as well.

Ofc Mick is the goat, but I thought Andrew Hulshult did a great job with the DLCs for doom eternal.

The previous two games came down in price fairly quickly and are dirt cheap now so if you’re patient that’s probably the way to go

Games being added:

Today

• Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders

1/22

• Flock
• Gigantic: Rampage Edition
• Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
• Magical Delicacy
• Tchia
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• Starbound

1/28

• Eternal Strands
• Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap

1/29

• Shady Part of Me
• Sniper Elite: Resistance

1/31

• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

2/4

• Far Cry New Dawn

Nothing of substance to add, but for the record Jay Graber is a woman

I do a fair amount of streaming from my Windows PC. Your thoughts are correct, if you sleep your Deck it just breaks the connection, the game still continues to run on the host PC.

Seems psvr2 controller compatibility is in the works https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/8/24316130/apple-vision-pro-sony-psvr2-controller-support-gaming

I have 367 games in my Epic library. A few of them are f2p (e.g. Fortnite) but the majority are giveaways. The only game I’ve purchased on EGS is Alan Wake 2 due to exclusivity

Alan Wake 2 image seems unrelated? Odd since the others match

We have the knowledge and ability to be better

Indeed, what’s perhaps most striking about GenCast is that it requires significantly less computing power than traditional physics-based ensemble forecasts like ENS. According to Google, a single one of its TPU v5 tensor processing units can produce a 15-day GenCast forecast in eight minutes. By contrast, it can take a supercomputer with tens of thousands of processors hours to produce a physics-based forecast.

So it’s more accurate and uses significantly less computing power than current systems. Nice!

Every safe’s got its weak spot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmIRFl-guK0

Portal

Breath of the Wild

Alan Wake 2

Tutorial

I feel like this game is a good candidate for xcloud if you have game pass. Don’t have to worry about high specs or downloading, and if you have a decent connection there’s some lag but not as necessary for this type of game. Thoughts?

The title makes this sound like it’s going to be less common that they’ll be releasing games on PC, but in case anyone skips the article it’s actually in regards to PC-exclusive content

Totilo points out to Spencer that three of Microsoft’s nine releases in this period are PC-only (The War Within, Towerborne in early access, and Ara: History Untold), and asks whether this is a new norm for Microsoft.

“No,” says Spencer. “This is historical. There might always be some anomalies, but I look at those three as an anomaly. We want our games playable across as many screens as possible. We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want all the games playable across all of those. We want them to be Play Anywhere.”