Playstation PC on Steam added 4 new entries on their official page in the last weeks

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qhvu5f/playstation_pc_on_steam_added_4_new_entries_on/

Now we have seen quite a lot of salt over the past few years but I think people are slowly coming to terms with the fact that Sony porting games to PC will continue to happen and it's not just some temporary thing from a list of excuses. But I feel like that if Nintendo ever starts porting their games to PC, the amount of salt we will see over the internet will dwarf both Sony and Xbox fans combined.

MSI confirms there are two die variants of Alder Lake-S desktop CPUs

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-confirms-there-are-two-die-variants-of-alder-lake-s-desktop-cpus

Newegg accidentially ships Intel Alder Lake CPUs to first customers and then asks them not to tell anyone

https://videocardz.com/newz/newegg-accidentially-ships-intel-alder-lake-cpus-to-first-customers-and-then-asks-them-not-to-tell-anyone

Age of Empires IV had a peak concurrent count of more than 54k players on Steam

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qi4xi1/age_of_empires_iv_had_a_peak_concurrent_count_of/

Pretty impressive considering it's available on gamepass.

can you imagine running around in mario party as your favourite bigtitty char and play bumper balls.
Thanks russian modders!

Makes sense. GPU cycle is generally every 2 years. Probably still going to be Q2+ and more towards Q3 2022 launch. Intel better make sure their GPUs aren't delayed cause RDNA 3 and Lovelace are on the horizon.

With Lovelace being rumored to be scheduled for Oct next year (also by Greymon55) maybe they felt the pressure to push it faster into the market. That and Intel coming in with Arc, But yeah 2 years is about right for a new generation. It just felt like a short gen because of the shortages lol.

Going to be good though, never would have thought we'd have 3 companies competing for GPU market again. Hopefully Intel can bring some value into the low/mid end and spur on others to not price them out of the target market (and not miners).

Ubisoft is Making 'Play to Earn' Blockchain Games
https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-play-to-earn-blockchain-games/
Ubisoft's Q2 earnings call led to several surprising announcements, including details about the upcoming live-service game Assassin's Creed Infinite. Yet even more surprising than that were sections of the call dedicated to Ubisoft's interest in blockchain-related technology. Specifically, Ubisoft is both a founding member of the Blockchain Game Alliance and helped fund blockchain-focused developer Animoca Brands. Ubisoft detailed several Animoca projects in its call, each tied to the blockchain in one way or another.

Yeah I'm really glad PS is gradually moving to PC. If not for compatibility alone but also the extra freedom PC allows.  I'm still going to buy PS consoles to play them as soon as they release but the salty replies are kinda cringe.. as games releasing on PC has no bearing on their enjoyment of said games and console. The meltdown would be insane if Nintendo decided to put a Mario or Zelda on PC.. but they would make major bank (even more so!)

And lol at Newegg, can't shut the can of worms when its already open. Someone going to get a slap on the wrist. Only a week to go I guess xD

Yea I will probably continue to buy consoles if for nothing else than to play Bluray movies and shows. I recently took a look into PC bluray play back and the situation is horrible. The compatibility issues are all over the place because you need specific CPUs to make it all work if you want that 4k HDR on PC due to DRM problems. And the janky thing is, it's not even about having the latest CPU. The only compatible CPUs for something like PowerDVD Ultra 21 are: Intel 7th generation and until Intel 10th. Intel's 11th gen? Nope, not compatible. AMD CPUs? Nope not compatible. Like you can play blurays but not at 4k HDR. It's fucked. Obviously you can always go the not so good method and that will work but downloading 100GB+ Bluray movies? Good Luck.

And that is why I like my PS5/Series X. They play Blurays without any fuss. It just works as they say...

I can easily see salt coming from both sides when Nintendo does decide to port to PC, because I know Nintendo, they won't just release their stuff on GoG/Steam in an easy manner, they'll likely set up some utter bullshit app that requires your blood sample, passport ID and some other safety, data collecting bs and added DRM on top. 

They want things done their way and nothing more, and they can fuck off of PC until they decide to change their ways. If you're gonna land on PC, you do things differently or face utter scorn.

Late next year. I wouldn't expect it sooner than October.

Nintendo won't port its games to PC, at least not for a long time. And that's because their consoles are underpowered compared to Sony and Msoft, and that makes the development of their games cheaper. Add to that the fact that most of their games, at least the ones with the bigger budgets, always sell several millions, and you can see that they're in no need to launch their games on another platform like Sony and MSoft.

So Ubisoft isn't happy with selling us their games, they also want to use our PCs to make extra money. Shame on them.

Well, at least the Steam users are safe from this plague.

Yea I am sure if Nintendo does ever port their games to PC, they are gonna put some Janky spin on it that will make me cringe.

I wouldn't doubt if the emulators for Nintendo games would have more functions and features than the actual Nintendo games themselves.