I’m still excited for new Crazy Taxi but the AI bullshit has definitely put a dampener on it.

Epic Games is better than No Game. I’m looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

Balatro

Definitely late to this party but I bought a GameSir X2S controller and have spent all week streaming games on my phone with it. Balatro has quickly become an all time favourite for me.

GTA Chinatown Wars

I also tried some emulation on Android and it works great so tried out a few PSP games as I’ve never owned a Sony handheld so thought why not.

It’s all to common nowadays that PC gaming for a lot of people (and especially people new to the platform) is essentially “Steam” gaming…

Asked about this rule, Newell repeatedly denied it exists, even when shown internal communications seemingly showing Valve employees enforcing it: “Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms.” When asked how Valve would react if it ever happened, Newell initially said he was confused by the question and then added, “Many of our partners and many of our customers are quite happy with the service that we’re providing.”

It would be interesting to see what happens if some of the larger publishers did this.

The trailer from a few months ago made it look the the most boring and generic game and barely Fable like.

Windjammers KOF '98 Neo Drift Out

I’ve been playing some Neo Geo recently too :D

I’m interested in First Light but not enough to buy it yet.

My Card Is Better Than Your Card

Fun times :/

I tried Jellyfin probably 2 years ago and it was fine but Plex is just “plug n play” in regard to my family setting it up themselves with little help from me.

Plexamp is the only way I stream music too so that’s a big reason why I won’t move yet.

• Streets of Rage
• Super Hang On

In my opinion they should have just discontinued the lifetime sub instead of the ridiculous pricing and bad press.

Domina

Its a gladiator simulator sandbox game. It is possible to control individual gladiators but I find it more fun to let the cpu do it for me and watch the fights instead. You can choose a fighting style, equipment and stats to train and it’s a lot of fun.

Train gladiators -> fight gladiators -> repeat!

Forza Horizon

The first game is my favourite so went back and played a bit. Currently on the orange wristband.

There is a big different between Farming Simulator and something like Gas Stop Simulator though as the later games are just shitty asset flips of the same 5 minute gameplay loop.

Death Standing is one of my all time favourites but I also understand why it’s on this list.

It is an interesting report.

https://issuu.com/ballmatthew/docs/gaming2025_vee10?fr=xIAEoAT3_MzMz

https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-of-the-fallen-2-exits-epic-exclusivity

40w

It’s an old microATX build with 3 HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 M.2 and a Quadro P400 so I think 40w average is pretty good. It’s on 24/7 with no spin down.

I just checked my purchase history on Steam and a Terraria 4-pack (£4.49 total!) Is there on July 2011.

4.4 hours played :D