I hope Microsoft doesn't auto update people (me) to windows 11. I don't want to do this at launch. Will wait and see. I had windows 7 before this and got 10 only year or so ago. Too much change too fast is no good.

^At least I'm not having that problem this time around. This may be the only advantage of having an old CPU .

I do kinda wish we could create a poll to see how many people are gonna bite to bullet and try it out at launch and who is gonna wait.

I think I will upgrade when it comes out on my desktop but not my XPS as I need the XPS for work.

I'm gonna wait to see how v1.0 is received. If it's generally as good or better than 10 at launch I'll upgrade. If it has significant issues I'll wait til they're ironed out.

In a lot of ways, that's a good thing. Windows 10 launch felt like I was walking in a mine field at times. I think after 1904 I want to say is when Windows 10 felt stable for me.

Great gif to sum it up but the full context here is just too perfect in meme world. Nigel's even wearing an XBox colored x-ray shirt. I mean common.

Uncharted Collection PC leaks and includes all five games

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/uncharted-collection-pc-leaks-and-includes-all-five-games/

A ResetEra post shows an apparently leaked image of a social post announcing a new Uncharted Collection being released for Steam and Epic Games Store. The ad shows that every Uncharted console game - including the spin-off Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - will be included in the package. 

Edit: Apparently fake :/

https://www.everyeye.it/notizie/uncharted-collection-pc-annuncio-arrivo-leak-avvistato-537993.html  <-

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-uncharted-collection-for-pc-leaked.480100/page-8#post-72457789

The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG's Games Festival will end in less than a day so, if you're still thinking about getting "that" game or not, your time is running out.
Also, they've announced that September will be their RPG Month, with new releases, discounts and flash deals. You can learn more here: https://www.gog.com/news/set_off_on_a_fascinating_journey_full_of_game_deals_with_rpg_month_on_gogcom

Steam has four new deals:

• The new daily deal is SimAirport, 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598330/SimAirport/
• Superliminal is a new Midweek Madness deal, 45% off until Friday, the 3rd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/
• Vigil: The Longest Night is going to be 40% off until Tuesday 7: https://store.steampowered.com/app/720560/Vigil_The_Longest_Night/
• And the The Indie Houses event brings lots of demos of upcoming indie titles, as well as up to 80% discounts until September 7: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/theindiehouses

Fanatical has three new deals:

• The new Star Deal is A Total War Saga: TROY - Heroic Edition, 53% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/a-total-war-saga-troy-heroic-edition
• The LEGO games are on sale, up to 81% off during the next 8 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/lego
• And Curve Digital puts its games up to 91% off during the next 12 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/curve-digital

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Screw it, Mario Kart in Microsoft Flight Simulator, why not
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/screw-it-mario-kart-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-why-not/
Microsoft Flight Simulator is getting an official racing mode soon, but composer and environment artist Illogicoma had their own very bright idea: what about flying these beauties through some Mario Kart 8 tracks? Having the skills to make it a reality, this pioneering aviator just went ahead and did it (thanks, Kotaku).
The below video is timestamped to the point where Illogicoma and chums get down to the serious business of taking some planes around Mario Kart tracks. As they note themselves, planes were not exactly built for karting tracks (and vice-versa), so there's some shonkiness going on with the collision detection and turns that are impossible to make with the game's mechanics.
(...)
"As a proof of concept, [the mod is] not available right now," writes Illogicoma. "Sorry!" The video description adds "I really wouldn't be happy releasing it in the current state (it wasn't actually built as a proper package—we loaded from source) and I don't have masses of time to spend on it, but I would like to see about making this a bit more polished and maybe adding some more tracks. Never say never, but don't expect a big drop anytime soon." With a nice smiley face at the end.

GAMING NEWS

First early in-engine footage revealed for Dead Space Remake
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/first-early-in-engine-footage-revealed-for-dead-space-remake/
During its recent livestream, Electronic Arts and Motive Studio revealed the first in-engine footage for Dead Space Remake. Dead Space will be using the Frostbite Engine, and its first early in-engine footage looks quite good.
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Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Marvel’s Avengers
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/square-enix-has-removed-denuvo-from-marvels-avengers/
Square Enix and EIDOS Montreal have released a new patch that removes Denuvo from Marvel’s Avengers. As such, PC gamers can now play this Marvel game with faster loading times than before (at least when launching the game).

The Wednesday news, part two:

A game where you're the ship that blocked the Suez Canal
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/a-game-where-youre-the-ship-that-blocked-the-suez-canal/
In late March this year a giant container ship got wedged in the Suez Canal, and blocked one of the world's biggest trade routes entirely for six days. This obviously happened at a time when most of us were still sitting at home with our shirts off, so the world became obsessed with the story for a few days, and the ship and efforts to un-stick it became a meme. Good times.
Thing is, as experts were at pains to point out while we all had a good laugh, piloting something of this size through the Suez Canal is actually really difficult. An indie developer by the name of Napas Torteeka certainly noticed, and Whatever is a not-entirely-serious attempt to present the challenges of a container ship's captain in game form (thanks, 80.lv).

A Diablo character in Hearthstone was the least confusing part of Mercenaries mode reveal
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/hearthstone-mercenaries/
Blizzard revealed Hearthstone's new Mercenaries mode today. It's launching on October 12, and combines "RPG and roguelike elements" with a new take on card combat—one that left a number of livestream viewers baffled, because Blizzard's presenters focused on showing off characters and their abilities (Diablo's Lord of Terror is a card, which is cool) rather than explaining how the game works. That job was left to the blog posts published after the presentation.

Surviving Mars will soon let you drill underground, accidentally abandon colonists on asteroids
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/surviving-mars-below-and-beyond/
If Hollywood and Doom games have taught me anything, it's that nothing good lies beneath the surface of Mars. Surviving Mars' latest expansion, Below & Beyond, it's first premium expansion since mid-2019, says otherwise.

Say goodbye to Apex Legends' best movement exploit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/apex-legends-tap-strafing-removed/
A future Apex Legends patch will remove a popular movement exploit that has seen wide use in recent months. Known as "tap-strafing," the tactic allows players to quickly change their midair trajectory while maintaining momentum. Basically, you become a speedy midair bullet that's very hard to shoot at.

VVVVVV gets its first update in seven years, and it's a big one
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/vvvvvv-gets-its-first-update-in-seven-years-and-its-a-big-one/
In early 2020, the gravity-flipping platformer VVVVVV celebrated the tenth anniversary of its release by going open source. That meant the source code was posted to Github, where anyone with an interest could download and mess around with it in just about any way they saw fit. And as a direct result of that, VVVVVV's first update in seven years is now live.

Call of Duty: Warzone cheater stars in official anti-cheat ad, keeps on cheating anyway
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-warzone-cheater-stars-in-official-anti-cheat-ad-keeps-on-cheating-anyway/
Last week, Tiktok user rushman360 announced to the world, with a certain degree of incredulity, that he had been hardware banned from Call of Duty: Warzone. (...)
It wasn't clear exactly what happened, but it certainly seemed like an escalation in Activision's ability to detect and clobber cheaters. And now Activision is using rushman360's Tiktok tale of woe as a warning to others as it prepares to launch a new anti-cheat tool this fall: "We are coming for you."
(...)
The real twist, though, is the fact that rushman360, who guaranteed that "there's no more cheating in Warzone" last week, appears to be cheating in Warzone again.

Will Smith is in Fortnite, soon everything will be in Fortnite
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/will-smith-is-in-fortnite-soon-everything-will-be-in-fortnite/
If something or someone exists there's no reason why it can't be in Fortnite. In terms of likelihood, I'd rate Will Smith's new appearance in Fortnite on the "likely" end of the scale, because it's not as weird as, say, Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech airing in the whimsical promotional vehicle-slash-videogame about murdering other players. Plus: a dataminer unearthed the skin last month.

Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene leaves PUBG owner Krafton to form new studio
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/brendan-playerunknown-greene-leaves-pubg-owner-krafton-to-form-new-studio/
The creator of PUBG and, by extension, the battle royale genre, has left Krafton to form his own studio. Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene will form a new Amsterdam-based studio called PlayerUnknown Productions, with Krafton confirmed to hold a minority stake in the new entity.

What the hell is going on with these new Halo 3 armours?
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-these-new-halo-3-armours/
I have a lot of fondness for Halo 3's art style, especially when it comes to multiplayer armour designs. The game manages to instill your faceless space marine with personality using relatively simple shapes and themes, painted in bold bright colours with strong silhouettes.
I say this only after spotting that the next season of The Master Chief Collection will let you fight as an armoured Skeletor, as revealed in a Halo Waypoint blog post last night.

No Man's Sky: Frontiers is out now and makes you the space mayor
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/no-mans-sky-frontiers-is-out-now/
What a journey No Man's Sky has been on, to the extent that where players once frothed at the mouth about Hello Games they now rent billboards saying 'thanks' and mod Sean Murray's head into the game in mock-protest at the wait for the next big thing. Well, time to say goodbye to all those locales festooned with an Irishman's head, and hello to the next major update: No Man's Sky Frontiers is now live, and is a 6.6GB download.