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HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

I wouldn't call me a fan of the series, but I have to admit that I enjoyed the new games.

And, just like Kingdom Come and Metro, there are two Tomb Raider games coming: a remake/re-imagining of the first game and a new one set after the reboot games: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/tomb-raider-comes-to-the-game-awards-with-not-just-one-but-two-new-games-a-re-imagining-and-an-all-new-adventure/

Although those games were supposed to be published by Amazon, before they decided to back away from gaming. I don't know how's the situation about these games right now.

TR is one of my all time favourite gaming IPs...well, until Reboot. That one is superb cover shooter, but has very little to do with actual TR. As for those new ones - first one already has remake in Anniversary, which is pretty good (I still prefer original), but if there's a demo I'll give them a go, though I'm not holding my breath, since one look at new Lara is giving me bad vibes about it.

But yeah, though I think TR needs another reboot to get it back on track, maybe those two games move the needle for Embracer. Personally, I'm not seeing it, everything around TR kinda sucks these days - I mean, Sophie Turner as Lara Croft, and Phoebe Waller-Bridgeas as writer and showrunner...yeah, sod off Amazon.

They took a lot of "inspiration" from Uncharted for the new games, that's for sure. But well, if you still don't have them, now you can get the remasters for free at the Epic Store.

When it comes to movies, I have to admit that I didn't like the ones with Jolie. They were the typical videogame adaptation that doesn't use the source material for anything. The one with Alicia Vikander was better (not that it's hard to do), but it's based on the rebooted games and it looks like it flopped. I don't see Sophie Turner in the role.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with ARc G3 Extreme appears in Australia, price starts at $1780 USD

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-claw-8-ex-ai-with-arc-g3-extreme-appears-in-australia-price-starts-at-1780-usd

The price is just insane. Handheld PCs have gone in three years from a cheaper yet capable alternative to gaming laptops to overpriced devices that can no longer compete with the versatility of those laptops.

It's not like they've become useless, but they've certainly become a smaller niche kind of device than they were.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM — 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/new-microsoft-surface-for-business-pcs-pair-panther-lake-chips-with-as-little-as-8gb-of-ram-13-inch-surface-laptop-goes-light-on-memory-but-still-starts-at-usd1-299

So, the same MSoft that raised the recomended specs of Win11 to 32GB (link) before lowering them again to 16GB because of the backlash (link), now wants to sell a Win11 computer with only 8GB of RAM.

I'd stay the hell away from that thing.

Talking about requirements, the LEGO Batman that Telltale launched with those outrageous system recomdations has been put to test by Hardware Unboxed and,  other than the 4K ones, it looks like those requirements were full of sh*t:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOnTm5dqGI