And yet still the third most popular card according to the Steam hardware survey.

Only the 1650 (similar spec to 1060) and 3060 above it.

I was hoping the 4060 would be the new mid tier go to card, giving good results at a good price, but Nvidia want the new normal to be a 4070 or higher.

By this point 4K screens are not some extravagance. They’re standard. You can’t even buy a modern TV less than that. PC gamers should not be accepting the price they have to pay to get what “lol potato console hurdur” gamers get out of the box.

There’s definitely games where my 1060 really struggles even at minimal graphics. I even had to play Talos Principle 2 on PS5.

It’s rather telling that the most prominent PC exclusives (MMOs, etc) can run on a potato.

The Intel Arc GPUs looked interesting, but the lack of compatibility on older titles is off-putting. AMD lack the raytracing oomph and support isn’t as good as it is for DLSS. PC gaming has thrown all it’s chips in with Nvidia, and now it’s at the mercy of their pricing.

I’m sure the last few Ubisoft games I got from Steam all installed UPlay before letting me run them anyway…

I’m not buying it because £45 is not a budget price for what feels like an indie game experience. I can wait for a sale on that, or more likely for it to go to PSN Extra. Still got plenty on my backlog.

Well thanks PC Gamer, for that unbiased news.

Until GPUs get a sane price again, I’ll stick to my PS5 for anything that I want to look good.

The only one I can think of was the Spyro trilogy remaster, which had games 2 and 3 as downloads.

In any case I think there’s more chance of Valve going bust than Sony or Microsoft…

It’s that necessarily a good thing?

I remember suddenly needing a firewall on my PC back in the days of the Blaster worm.

Do we really want all those crappy IoT devices open on all ports to the general internet?

If only they’d carried on with that idea.

Not really, Ubisoft.

Much like music, movies and TV, you just need to make sure your content is both available for purchase for people who don’t want a subscription and consistently available on a subscription service for those that do.

It’s when you start fucking around and taking them off again because somebody else is offering you more for exclusivity that we get pissed off and just pirate things. You can’t expect Assassin’s Creed Black Flag to still be making you a noticeable amount of money, but a subscriber can rightfully expect it to be on your service.

I’m of the opinion that if a game is on a subscription service, be it PSN or Game Pass, then it should stay there except in very extreme circumstances. A game can take weeks to play through, and it’s only going to take one large game going AWOL at 90% completion for me to sour on the whole idea.

Israel operate on a revenge based policy. It really is not about the hostages.

Gwent.

I didn’t like the standalone version, but the in-game one had just the right level of puzzle to keep me at it.

OK, but that doesn’t make it affordable or relevant.

It’s like comparing a Ferrari and a Lamborghini. It doesn’t matter because the world runs on Toyota Corollas.

Additionally, VR lives and dies on software.

Self checkout is just fine, as long as you have enough of them.

Even better are the handsets you can take around the shop and scan as you go, as nobody wants to really be doing an entire trolley at the self checkout.

I honestly don’t know what GAME even sell any more.

The only store in my town closed ages ago. I think the two supermarkets are the only place left selling them new, and good old CEX for when you need to offload a pile of stolen goods.

The nearest one is inside a Sports Direct.

Yeah, as somebody with an ever growing pile of apps that stop working every time I upgrade my phone, I wouldn’t count on it.

If somebody doesn’t take it over and rebuild for every pointless Android change, it will eventually disappear.

Is it just a 70% smaller battery?

It was the same on Reddit as well.

PC gamers supposedly everywhere, meanwhile you can barely buy a decent GPU for the price of a PS5.

Hell, my ethernet networking doesn’t support the speeds wifi6 supposedly delivered.

Realistically, as long as it’s faster than your internet connection, you’re unlikely to give a fuck either way.

I only upgraded to gigabit ethernet for game streaming from my upstairs PC.

And on another note, why is it not backwards compatible with older apps?

I’ve got games and a bathroom speaker I can’t access because I got a new phone. Are we just expecting devs to sit there updating their apps forever to meet new stupid requirements?

Fuck the whole Android ecosystem. It’s completely broken from top to bottom.

Pretty benign as far as billionaire hobbies go.

The rest seem to want to run their own private space programs or worse, meddle in politics.

I think Witcher 1 actually did it better.

The gameplay is a tough sell though.