It’s slightly less impressive when you realise they could have built a massive slide instead and got mostly the same result.

Guess it’s better than a massive diesel truck though.

This is what game launchers looked like in my day.

If I wanted a different game I’d put in a different tape!

It’s probably the inbuilt browser component that seems to be in everything these days.

Chrome pulled support for Win 7 and 8 ages ago, so anything that relies on an up to date browser is sure to follow.

Gee, I wonder why it’s all AI generated horseshit from press releases these days.

The writing was on the wall when Jeff Gerstmann was fired over a bad review back in 2007. The whole game journalism industry has been on life support since then, and realistically been shafted ever since we went from purchased magazines to online.

Even then magazines would find themselves without timely review copies if they were not sympathetic to the need for good reviews.

Can’t be nagged about Windows 11 if you never switched to SecureBoot.

Meanwhile Final Fantasy XIV is doing a collaboration with hair dye.

I mean it didn’t take a genius to figure it out.

Guiltier than a Russian standing next to a pot of polonium tea.

I’d be amazed if he does any of it tbh. Last time he just spent most of it playing golf, and sticking his goofy-ass signature on anything they stick in front of him.

The last thing they want to do is actually deal with the boogeyman issues. If they did that they’ll have nothing to campaign on next time.

Most of this will be spent lining their own pockets.

Block the lot.

We don’t need US far right propaganda.

We have our own.

Is that in a “this is what the future could be like” way, or a “grr, war on motorists, blame gay immigrants” way?

That’s right though. Each day you get an increasing number of an item plus all the items from the previous days again.

Enjoy your birds.

How long are we talking about?

All mine have needed a pin code login every few days, regardless of how often I’ve used it.

The Ankh-Morpork Ambulance Guild strikes again.

I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.

If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.

They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.

The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.

Amusing as that is, I’m pretty sure it’s happened in every war since time began, and will continue to happen until we’re back at sticks and stones.

I mean, it’s from 1996. 3D games were in their infancy.

It’s a very methodical and laborious game about checking every last corner and crevice for a way forward, and it’s really not a game that concerns itself with flowing gameplay. Everything is awkward. It all feels very deliberate, from the block based layout to the walk button that takes you right the edge of them.

There’s a few bits where you need to keep running and jumping (the timed flame puzzle for example) and those can be iffy, but there’s not many. It’s a game of its time, and they’ve preserved it all. I’m surprised how well it still holds up if anything, considering the gameplay is left as intact as I remember it.

Intel’s long term prospects rely on China invading Taiwan.

Some are clearly designed for just that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewall-Appliance-4xUSB2-0-OPNsense-Ethernet/dp/B0CB3M6M16?th=1

Yeah, you need at least to do a jump back from the edge. I think that’s even in the Croft Manor tutorial tbh. It’s very open about it being tile based.

I didn’t even try “modern controls”. I know where I am with the tank controls.

Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?

We’re not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we’d like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.