Awesome!

Probably a Steam release due to SteamVR.

It's also interesting how much market share Intel lost, because all those were from low CPU sales. We'll have to wait and see if Alder Lake changes that trent.

Noticed that Reef Entertainment added Cameron's ancient Skynet Centurion model into the new DLC for Terminator Resistance. It was just a mere single drawing from way back in the 80's, and Cameron himself never did add the design into any of the films (or TV series), so I'm stoked to see this thing in action. 

Now this, this has my excitement and attention. 

The upcoming ‘big PlayStation remake’ is reportedly Chrono Cross
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-upcoming-big-playstation-remake-is-reportedly-chrono-cross/
A remake of Square Enix‘s classic RPG Chrono Cross is reportedly in development for multiple platforms.

Tbh I get the feeling Alder Lake S won't make much of a difference overall. One of the big reasons to upgrade your system is to get a new GPU as you don't want a CPU bottleneck holding you back. This is why the 5000 series had such perfect timing when it launched with Ampere and RDNA 2. You got class leading performance in every area in terms of CPUs and many people were upgrading in anticipation of getting those new GPUs. The GPU shortage while severe, people still had hope.

But now it feels like there really isn't a reason for many to upgrade. Those that wanted to upgrade to a new CPU probably would have done it already and then you combine the motherboard prices of Z690, the marginal increase in performance compared to Ryzen 5000 and the very expensive prices of DDR5 while also being extremely hard to find, it's kinda becoming a meh launch overall. Especially as we do have Zen 4 and Raptor Lake on the horizon which should have a significant performance advantage and Lovelace/RDNA 3 will be launching next year as well to drive more incentive.

Well, others will be excited about it but, as someone that didn't play the original, this "big" remake falls flat on me.

There are always people willing to upgrade to the latest tech available, and Alder Lake gives them that.

I'm not sure Raptor Lake will bring enough improvements to justify the wait. Zen 4 could be another story but, given that it's rumored to still be a PCIe Gen 4 processor, it could fail to atract some of the more demanding users. We'll see if the performance jump is enough to make them forget that, or if the leaks aren't true and it's also a Gen 5.0 processor.

Personally, I wouldn't mind upgrading the CPU+Mobo+Ram now and wait until I could get my hands on a GPU at reasonable prices, but I know I'm an odd ball here. Shame Black Friday hasn't brought the deals I hoped for.

@JEMC Assuming you want a new build you could always go for a budget ADL upgrade (with an entry level B660 board) and reuse your existing DDR4 memory. The 12400 is looking like a beast for under $200 (performs around a 5600x) or spend a bit more for the 12600KF. Could use that until Raptor Lake and sell it and get the next CPU in the 13XXX series.

Thanks for the suggestion but, pleaso don't take it wrong, there are several reasons why I'm not going to follow it.

For starters, I prefer to build my own PCs and be able to better tailor it to my needs or preferences. Also, I'm quite happy with my current case, a Fractal Design R5, and I'll keep it.

I'm also decided, maybe even obsessed, in getting an 8-core CPU. I believe that a processor with fewer cores could become a problem later on and shorten the shelf life of it, specially for games. And I'm not saying that because a CPU with less cores is less powerful but because, for games, sometimes the number or cores/threads is equally important if not more... and we know that devs don't always pay attention to optimization.

Finally, I can't go with a stop-gap solution because, believe it or not, my system still runs on DDR3 . That makes the upgrade a bit more expensive so yeah, it's better to go all for it.

Ah fair enough, I thought 'd throw in a suggestion xP But yeah if you're still on an older platform its probably worth going in all fresh. And true 8 cores is probably a safer bet in the long term. Granted CPU's are already powerful enough for gaming who knows in a few years when more powerful GPU's are out and new games and engines take advantages of more cores.

Talking about that case, I reused my Fractal R5 in my current build. Old one but still awesome. Cases I find generally you don't really need to update like PSU's when you find a good one.

If you are in the US, Samsung is having a pretty good Black Friday sale on their monitors including the Neo G9:

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/

Of course, since I am in Canada, I get rofled