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Damn, another one I need to buy. Not sure if I like the silent protagonist. Everything else is in line with other games so you can just start playing without reading tutorials.
There's a sale on Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 bundle if anyone's interested. Savage discounts.
I played a bit of Super Mario Odyssey this weekend.
Played Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this weekend. Beat the campaign. It was short, only about 7 hours give or take, but I quite enjoyed it. It’s a campaign that you can play co-op with three other people. I played through with online randoms. Went fairly smoothly all things considered. Played some online multiplayer. So far just played the skirmish mode that has two 20 player teams face each other. It’s definitely chaotic but I really enjoy big team battles.
Nice.
They’re all waiting to see you crack.
Without question. And they've come close to getting it a few times too.
We should have a vgpress watch party one night when Rob is streaming.
The US eshop has the three Rocksteady Arkham games for $10 a piece. Also, Costco has DK Bananza for $39.
11/17/25 -
Valve classifies the performance of the Steam Machine as comparable to and in many cases even higher than 70 percent of the PCs surveyed in the Steam Hardware Survey.
Hardware Engineer Yazan Aldehayyat explains that the device should offer enough computing power to make the existing game catalog usable without restrictions.
At the same time, Valve is aiming for an entry-level model that reaches a wide range of buyers through a lower price. The performance level of typical home computers serves as a technical reference point. The Steam Machine uses a commercially available chip, whose firmware and software have been adapted for SteamOS. According to previous information, the performance ranges between Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5, with the RAM of 8 GB of VRAM being considered a limiting factor. Release: Early 2026 (Europe)
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Wait, 8gb RAM? Is this correct?
And more costly.
Red Steel 3 incoming?
They're selling the trilogy both boxed and digital for £16 here.Like $20? The Arkham Knight port looks so bad though.
The trilogy is $59 here
8GB of VRAM (Graphics card) and 16GB system RAM,which is industry standard these days. Most PC games will run just fine on those specs.
I do agree with GG though, it should have been more. They're promising raytracing just like sony and ms did, but 8Gb won't cut it. Even more so since this is 'just' a PC and not bespoke hardware devs will spend time optimalizing for.
24GB of total system RAM (8GB+16GB), which is more total RAM than the Switch 2, PS5 and series X.
It'll be just fine.
But who is their demographic? I'd argue that there are 2 kinds of PC gamers: the hardcore who care about pixels, shaders and frames per second who are sufficiently tech savvy to create their own bespoke streaming solution to stream their PC powerhouse to their tv, and on the other end the casual gamers who game on PC because that's what they already own for study or work and they don't see the point in buying an expensive box to put under their telly. Is there really enough middle ground for this to be succesfull?
At least with the SteamDeck there was a unique selling point. It's a Switch for PC gamers! The Gabecube doesn't have anything that comes close to that as a selling point. Unless it's priced very competitively, which I doubt as Valve won't want to take a hit with every unit sold and they won't be able to get as good a deal on parts as Sony and MS.
"Steam has over one billion registered accounts, but it's more useful to look at active user numbers, which were around 154 million in April 2025. The platform also saw a peak of over 41.6 million concurrent users in October 2025."
Valve believes there's a market for it there. I'm no market analyst; I just think they making a cool product That I believe a lot of people will enjoy. People upgrade their computers every so often. Steam machine gives them another hardware option That may be more user friendly.
Valve makes 30% on every dollar spent on Steam games, so They don't need to sell 100 million steam machines to be successful.