Friday news, part two:

Take a closer look at Cities: Skylines' Parklife expansion
https://www.pcgamer.com/take-a-closer-look-at-cities-skylines-parklife-expansion/
After announcing its latest slice of DLC, Parklife, earlier in the month, Colossal Order have given us a slightly closer look at Cities: Skylines’ upcoming expansion in a new trailer.
The last expansion, Green Cities, stole countless hours from me as I tried to fashion the perfect, pollution-free utopia, but I always felt it could be a little greener. And soon it will be. The biggest hook in Parklife is that parks are no longer single structures that you plonk down. They’re districts rather than buildings, so they’re modular and customisable.

Chucklefish is publishing Eastward—a sci-fi RPG with hints of Zelda, Mother and animated whale carcasses
https://www.pcgamer.com/chucklefish-unveils-eastwarda-sci-fi-rpg-with-hints-of-zelda-mother-and-animated-whale-carcasses/
What do you get when you cross Zelda with Mother/Earthbound Beginnings, whimsical animations, and a soft sci-fi-inspired post-apocalypse? In practice, I can't say for sure—but it certainly looks like a Chucklefish game. Eastward is the work of Shanghai-based studio Pixpil, who's spent the last three years growing its debut project.

Watch Fortnite get clobbered by meteors as the comet apocalypse approaches
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-meteors-landing/
The Fortnite apocalypse foretold earlier this week now appears to be unfolding in earnest—meteors are falling from the sky and striking the surface, wreaking death and destruction and heralding the imminent arrival of the great comet that may, or may not, destroy Tilted Towers.

Hearthstone's new Monster Hunt mode is now live
https://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstones-new-monster-hunt-mode-is-now-live/
Hearthstone: The Witchwood's single-player Monster Hunt mode is now live, meaning that it's time for intrepid adventurers to venture off into the dark forest to seek fame and fortune in battle against a horde of monstrous beasts.

PUBG's latest update adds a new car, a new gun, and a 'heap' of weapon balance changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/pubgs-latest-update-adds-a-new-car-a-new-gun-and-a-heap-of-weapon-balance-changes/
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds update 12 is a "big one," with a new map selection menu, improvements to the Miramar map, a muscular new vehicle called the Mirado, and the usual array of tweaks and bug fixes. There's also a major focus on weapon balance changes, which PUBG Corp said will necessitate a longer wait for this update to go from the test server to live.

H1Z1 publisher Daybreak Game Company cuts staff
https://www.pcgamer.com/h1z1-publisher-daybreak-break-company-cuts-staff/
H1Z1 publisher Daybreak Game Company, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, has confirmed that an unknown number of employees have been laid off. The cuts come less than two months after H1Z1, an early battle royale game, went free to play, a shift which itself happened just over a week after it launched as a premium game.

>>That's never good.

Bungie details Destiny 2 Exotic Masterworks and more changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-details-destiny-2-exotic-masterworks-and-more-changes/
Following the big Destiny 2: Warmind reveal from earlier this week, today's This Week At Bungie blog post delves into one of the big changes coming to the game with the start of season 3 in May: The quest to make Exotics "feel more exotic." A big part of making that happen will come in the form of Exotic Masterworks, which senior investment designer Mark Uyeda said will "create new in-game goals for hobbyist players and reinforce specific activities with these long tail pursuits."

Get Alien: Isolation for $10 this weekend
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-alien-isolation-for-dollar10-this-weekend/
As you might've spied on the interwebs, Alien Day was yesterday—a day 20th Century Fox first earmarked in 2016 (in-line with the second film's 30th anniversary) to celebrate all things Alien. The day itself has been and gone, but both Steam and Humble have extended Alien-related sales into the weekend.

>>Check it out on the Humble Store or on Steam (it's the daily deal), or over at Fanatical too.

Let's finish all this by taking a look at the GOG and Steam deals for this weekend:

+GOG

• The daily deal is Always Sometimes Monsters, 90% off: https://www.gog.com/game/always_sometimes_monsters
• Next comes the weekly sale "I got a plan", full of strategy games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180523_weekly_sale
• And lastly, we have the weekend promo, "March of the Penguins", with games that support Linux and/or low spec machines, up to 85% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180427_weekend_sale

+Steam

• Let's start with the free to try game, because Day of Infamy is also free to try and 70% off this weekend: https://store.steampowered.com/app/447820/Day_of_Infamy/
• Spintires: MudRunner is 33% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/675010/Spintires_MudRunner/
• Rocket League is 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/252950/Rocket_League/
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

That's it, the end of the news, but only for the week. Until the next round, have a happy and gaming weekend.

It's about time.
With that in mind... Valve wasn't as rigid as EA, always got a refund through Steam when I requested it, especially when I cited Australian consumer law.
EA on the otherhand were assholes... And I happily took my complaint to the tribunal when they refused to come to the table, which resulted them in getting a chunky fine... And me getting what I wanted anyway.

^ Well, Valve, as well as Nintendo, Sony and EA, have been accused by Norway of breaching the European consumer law, so this may not be the only fine Valve gets: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-04-27-nintendo-valve-sony-and-ea-reported-for-breaching-european-consumer-law

In other news, Intel has, once again, delayed its 10nm chips, this time to 2019: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12693/intel-delays-mass-production-of-10-nm-cpus-to-2019.

On the plus side, they have confirmed the incorporation of Jim Keller to lead the silicon engineering department, and has posted another record results for its Q1 FY 2019.

On another note, F1 2015 is free to get once agian, this time from Steam itself: https://store.steampowered.com/app/286570/F1_2015/

To wrap this up, one question: what happens when you have a skilled polish dude, 64 3.5" floppy drives, 8 de-lidded hard drives and 2 old scanners? Things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLBT5_NXBs

You can find more "songs" in his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/sh4dowww90/videos

The best resolution is usually the native resolution of your monitor. Most modern games should automatically choose that as default. Many older games unfortunally choose a much too low resolution as default.

Additionally if you have a Nvidia card, the "Geforce Experience" app can help you choose and set up sensible settings depending on your monitor and the performance of your CPU and GPU. It ain't perfect and I personally adjust the settings a bit, but it is a good start.

Yep, the best resolution is always the one of your monitor, but if you can't run it because the performance at that res is too low for you, try to use one with the same aspect ratio (2560x1440 - 1920x1080 - 1280x720).

What monitor do you have? Do you know the model?

Another way is, if you have Win7, to right-click on the desktop, there's an option to change the resolution, and there you'll find which one you have as it will be the max. possible. I'm not sure if it works the same in Win10.

Well, at least now you know your monitor resolution to properly set up your games. I hope this solves your problems.

My new setup will soon be complete. I ordered another KBM combo for my SPC so I don't have to carry my wireless combo around anymore. Then I'll have 3 monitors, 2 PCs, 3 KBM and a Notebook which I frequently use as second screen to my TV monitor. All in the same room.

Finally my room actually looks like the room of someone who appreciates PCs.

Well. I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 11 3000 2-in-1 with an AMD A6-9220e.
It's a piece of crap, but should be good for emergency services work.

AUD RRP is $400. Got it for only $280 brand new. #winning.

Now to get an SSD and double the Ram.

Interested to see how it runs games like Skyrim, Minecraft, Overwatch, Halo Online and so on.

Witcher 1 for free:

https://www.pcgamer.com/pick-up-the-first-witcher-game-for-free-at-gog/