Okay, I just converted kWh in m³... factor 10.3 according to my last bills.

€0.54 per m³ mid 2018 to mid 2020
€0.62 per m³ mid 2019 to mid 2021
€0.63 per m³ mid 2020 to mid 2022
currently €1.35 per m³ until May 2023... so 2.15x of last year

I hope that the Ukraine war ends until then.

I won't be able to post the news later today so, instead saving it all for tomorrow, here are the weekend news! (no store deals today, sorry)

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

Slime Rancher 2 sales smash dev's 'pipe dream' in 6 hours
https://www.pcgamer.com/slime-rancher-2-sales-smash-devs-pipe-dream-in-6-hours/
As reported by GamesRadar, Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to 2017's first-person goop creature farming simulator, just launched in early access to massive sales success. Posting on Twitter, the game's director, Nick Popovich, characterized the game's success as being beyond the team's wildest expectations.
"I had a pipe dream in my head that we could sell 100k copies of Slime Rancher 2 in the first 24 hours if the stars aligned," Popovich wrote. "We did that in less than 6 hours." In a different tweet, Popovich revealed that a single hour of sales beat Monomi Park's previous best day by "a literal order of magnitude."

I told you, no store news. Check GOG, Steam, Humble Bundle/Store or Fanatical to check them for yourselves.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Judgment Mod restores Kyohei Hamura’s original voice & likeness
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-judgment-mod-restores-kyohei-hamuras-original-voice-likeness/
A team of modders has released a restoration mod for Judgment. According to the team, this mod restores the original voice and likeness of Kyohei Hamura as portrayed by Pierre Taki.
As its description reads:
“The purpose of this patch is to restore Kyohei Hamura’s original appearance and Japanese voice to the likeness of the actor that portrayed him in the original, launch version of Judgment, Pierre Taki, who was replaced because he got arrested for possession and use of cocaine.”
This is a port of the mod originally made for the PS4 version, remade to work with the remastered PC version.

New Zelda Ocarina of Time Unreal Engine 5 Fan Remake build available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-zelda-ocarina-of-time-unreal-engine-5-fan-remake-build-available-for-download/
CryZENx has released a new build from his fan remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5. The catch here is that this early build is currently available only to his Patreon members. However, and once it’s stable, it will be made available to the public.
In this build, CryZENx changed alot of stuff. For instance, he changed the colors and the grass, and added more stuff like better road texture and details on it. There is also a better waterfall now . Furthermore, CryZENx added BOTW style of music. At night time, you will get a different music style according to the weather.
In order to showcase these new features, the artist released a new video that you can find below.

The Cyberpunk Netflix show is taking over the 2077 mod scene
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-cyberpunk-netflix-show-is-taking-over-the-2077-mod-scene/
The Netflix anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is the first thing that's made me a little bit interested in playing Cyberpunk 2077 since its rough launch in late 2020. And it seems like I'm not the only one who dug the anime's interpretation of Night City. Cyberpunk 2077's player count has jumped up to an impressive million people per day. And for the last two weeks, the Cyberpunk 2077 Nexusmods page has increasingly been populated with Edgerunners-inspired mods. I've counted about 30 so far, released since September 15.
>> The article mentions several of those mods.

GAMING NEWS

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales PC Requirements & PC Teaser Trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/marvels-spider-man-miles-morales-pc-requirements-pc-teaser-trailer/
Sony has shared a PC teaser trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales, and revealed its official PC system requirements. The game will be coming to PC in Fall 2022, and Nixxes will once again handle its PC version.

Open-world action-adventure fantasy game, KAKU: Ancient Seal, coming to PC in 2023
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/open-world-action-adventure-fantasy-game-kaku-ancient-seal-coming-to-pc-in-2023/
BINGOBELL has revealed its upcoming open-world action-adventure fantasy game KAKU: Ancient Seal. The game promises to let players navigate their own path through a mysterious continent full of strange creatures, ancient ruins, and unique tribes.

The Weekend news, part two:

Busted: UK police arrest 17 year-old hacker in connection with GTA 6 leaks
https://www.pcgamer.com/busted-uk-police-arrest-17-year-old-hacker-in-connection-with-gta-6-leaks/
UK police have arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire as part of an ongoing police hacking investigation. According to sources spoken to by ex-Reuters journalist Matt Keys, the arrest is directly related to the recent hack on Rockstar Games and subsequent historic leak of GTA 6 materials, and possibly last week's intrusion on Uber, too.

Apex studio has to remind players not to be dicks to developers
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-studio-has-to-remind-players-not-to-be-dicks-to-developers/
Recent times have seen some gaming companies, and most notably Bungie, step up their efforts to shield staff from the more unpleasant elements of fandom. In Bungie's case the studio's taking action against not only cheaters, but serial harassers of its staff who have issued violent threats. Now Respawn, the Vince Zampella-led studio behind Apex Legends and Titanfall, has felt it necessary to warn elements of its community about their behaviour.

Here's when Wrath of the Lich King Classic launches in your time zone
https://www.pcgamer.com/wrath-classic-release-time-unlock/
The World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic release is almost here, so it's a good time to make sure you truly are prepared for your adventure to Northrend. The second-ever WoW expansion is arguably the most popular—as the server queues will testify—and will see us travelling to the northern continent where the Lich King has made his home.

Something weird is going on in Diablo 2: Resurrected and we have no idea what it is
https://www.pcgamer.com/something-weird-is-going-on-in-diablo-2-resurrected-and-we-have-no-idea-what-it-is/
The rollout of the Diablo 2: Resurrected 2.5 patch yesterday seems to have kicked off an ARG that has players working to decode numeric strings hidden in the game's chat lobby.

Rick Sanchez is coming 'very soon' to MultiVersus
https://www.pcgamer.com/rick-sanchez-is-coming-very-soon-to-multiversus/
Rick Sanchez, the abusive alcoholic mega-genius who forms the trouble-causing half of Adult Swim's animated duo Rick and Morty, will very soon be taking his place in Warner's cartoon fighting game MultiVersus.

And just like that, the Dark Souls 3 PC servers are back online
https://www.pcgamer.com/holy-cow-dark-souls-3-pc-servers-are-offline-again/
After seven months of silence, Darks Souls 3 PvP servers on PC finally roared back to life at the end of August. It was fun while it lasted, but it didn't last long, because a month later they're offline again.
Update 9/24/22: As reported by GamesRadar, Dark Souls 3's PC servers are now back up and running, though FromSoftware did not announce the change or clarify what went wrong. Servers for the other two Dark Souls games remain offline, with no roadmap of when they might come back.

Call of Duty is betting big on AI. Will it pay off?
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-is-betting-big-on-ai-will-it-pay-off/
The writing is on the walls. Call of Duty is going through a change, and it may actually stick this time.
You can roughly map out the evolution of first-person shooters over the last 1.5 decades with the yearly Call of Duty releases. (...)
This brings us to our current era, the one I believe is on its way out the door: battle royale. (...) Infinity Ward is bringing back battle royale in Warzone 2.0, but at the same time it's going big on its next bet: AI and PvPvE.

Ex-Hearthstone director moves to League of Legends as new design director
https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-hearthstone-director-moves-to-league-of-legends-as-new-design-director/
August Dean Ayala will be the new design director on League of Legends, after his departure from Blizzard on September 16th. Ayala was previously the game director on Hearthstone and had worked at Blizzard for 11 years. He announced the job change via Twitter.

This cheery, Hexen-like FPS declares war on goblins
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-cheery-hexen-like-fps-declares-war-on-goblins/
As reported by Alpha Beta Gamer, the retro-style FPS Wizordum recently got its first playable demo as part of the 2022 Realm's Deep event. This fantasy-themed boomer shooter takes its cues from Raven Software's Heretic and Hexen, and has you fling fireballs at goblins in an overrun medieval town.

You're the emergent AI who destroys, or saves, humanity in this sandbox strategy game
https://www.pcgamer.com/youre-the-emergent-ai-who-destroys-or-saves-humanity-in-this-sandbox-strategy-game/
An upcoming strategy game will cast you as the first AI and ask you to choose whether to become Skynet, save the world, or something in between. Heart of the Machine is set to release in 2023, and it's a heck of a game concept. Having awakened in a world where nobody knows you exist, you as an AI will set your own goals in a vast cityscape in the far future.

Oxenfree 2 has been delayed
https://www.pcgamer.com/oxenfree-2-has-been-delayed/
Night School Studio has delayed its "What's going on with that radio?" spook-em-up Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals. Originally announced with a release date of fall 2021, then pushed into 2022, it's now been delayed into next year. "Seeing your fan art, reading your excited comments, and connecting with you fuels our ambition to make this our best game yet", Night School said on Twitter. "To make OXENFREE II truly special and add more localizations, we're moving our release window to 2023."

Ryzen 7000 reviews are out

Review roundup:

https://videocardz.com/138525/amd-ryzen-7000-zen4-raphael-desktop-cpu-review-roundup

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x/18.htmlx

https://www.techspot.com/review/2534-amd-ryzen-7600x/

The games Linus tested has Ryzen 7000 beating AlderLake while losing pretty massively to 5800X3D

The games GN tested, Ryzen 7000 performs similarly to 5800X3D outside of CSGO

It has a pretty massive lead in productivity applications though but the temps and power are pretty high at 95C with 360 AIO paired with 7950x but AMD says its alright. It does also require more power but as usual, Intel sucks more power.

So as predicted back when AMD first started showing the IPC numbers, Ryzen 7000 is a pretty pointless upgrade for gamers with AM4. 5800X3D either beats Ryzen 7000 pretty handily or is within 1-2%. In some rare instances, Ryzen 7000 takes a big lead in very old games like CSGO but that's very rare. Combine the disappointing gaming improvements with needing a motherboard upgrade (gets really expensive if you want PCI-E Gen 5 for GPU), DDR5 6000 Ram and potentially a cooler upgrade cause these chips run very hot... Well you just spent a whole lot of money for gaming performance that's similar to 5800X3D.

Raptor Lake will be announced tomorrow but it's expected to be 5-10% faster in gaming but least you get very cheap motherboards as Z690 have been getting good discounts... However it is a dead end platform. To me though, both Ryzen 7000 or Raptor Lake are poor upgrades. If you have AM4 with a CPU older than Ryzen 5000 and you are buying strictly for gaming, get 5800X3D knowing you are able to keep up with Ryzen 7000s very best in most games.

So unlike 2020, 2022 has to be one of the worst years to upgrade your PC if you are a gamer... Lovelace disappointing, Ryzen 7000 disappointing, Raptor Lake probably disappointing and I wouldn't get my hopes up for RDNA 3. 5800X3D + Ampere continues to be the best bang per buck combination that should allow people to hold out till these companies get less greedy.

As noted by Hardware Unboxed, AMD says that this is intended, all their Zen 4 chips will boost up to 95 degrees, so with a better cooler you can reach better clock speeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WubXd2tXOA

Their 7600X boosts to 5.45 Ghz, which is 150 Mhz above max specs because their cooler could take it.

I wonder however where the differences come from with the 5800X3D between HU and LTT, as they're very different results here.

Feels like a Zen+ moment. And not that impressive once you factor in the cost of upgrading your whole system.

The 5800X3D is still a beast.. will be upgrading to that and that'll be me done for the next few years.

Yea but obviously this means a worse cooler will get lower clocks which will get worse performance than in their benchmarks. 7600X running at 93C with a 360 AIO isn't exactly a good thing not to mention, the room will get hotter more quickly than previous gens. The fact that a 5800X3D runs cooler than a 7600X while delivering similar performance + having two extra cores is crazy.

I think it's much worse than a Zen+ moment because of the platform upgrade cost. Zen+ was just meh in terms of performance but with Ryzen 7000... AMD is basically just asking you to pay $500+ on top of the CPU just to get almost the same gaming performance.

I'll wait for the other tests from HU before I judge the chips. Having the entry-level chip, the 7600X, beat the 5800X3D (a more expensive CPU, though if you have the Mobo and Ram still a cheaper upgrade), is nothing to scoff at.

Again, I wonder why on LTT the 5800X3D stood out so much in some reviews when it got beaten or was just marginally in front at HU in those same games with a weaker CPU.