Well, there is a lot less demand for Xbox360 emulation since most games are also available for PC.

Emudeck on the Steam Deck is absolutely insane. I wink winked Snes Rom collection and put them all on my steam deck and hot damn, Emudeck configured the games so that all of them have their own box art and are easily accessible from the Steam Decks UI. You can just hit play like you would any normal game and it just works.

Pretty much. RPCS3 sees 5-10 times the average activity of Xenia on Github.

Same goes for other MS hardware too. Just compare the state of OG Xbox emulation to PCSX2 or Dolphin. Literally more than a decade behind...

The Thursday news, the only post:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away two games:

• Dishonored - Definitive Edition: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dishonored-definitive-edition
• Eximius: Seize the Frontline: https://store.epicgames.com/ en-US/p/eximius-seize-the-frontline

Both titles will be available until January 5th, because the daily free games promo is over.

Fanatical has a new bundle: the BYO Mythic Bundle, with 27 titles to choose from to build your 1, 5 or 10 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-mythic-bundle.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

-Empty-

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

-Yep, empty as well-

GAMING NEWS

The source code of Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade has been leaked online
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-source-code-of-mortal-kombat-2-arcade-has-been-leaked-online/
In case you didn’t know, I’m a huge fan of the classic 2D Mortal Kombat games. And I’m excited to report that the source code of Mortal Kombat 2’s arcade version has been leaked online.
>> This is the third or so leak of the last few days. It's quite surprising.

High on Life can trap players inside Applebee's forever
https://www.pcgamer.com/high-on-life-can-trap-players-inside-applebees-forever/
There's a bug in recently-released comedy shooter High on Life that traps players inside an outer space version of the restaurant Applebees. High on Life, from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland's Squanch Games, is a crude, wacky, over-the-top zany riot of color and sound that either delights or annoys you depending on your personal tolerance for that which is wacky and/or zany.

Activision Blizzard developer Proletariat is unionizing
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-developer-proletariat-is-unionizing/
Workers at Activision Blizzard owned developer Proletariat have formed a union. Notably, the union includes a wider variety of studio departments, from QA testers to animation, design, engineering, and production employees.

Try the demo for Outpath, a fusion of Minecraft and clicker games
https://www.pcgamer.com/try-the-demo-for-outpath-a-fusion-of-minecraft-and-clicker-games/
An interesting-sounding experiment has picked up Overwhelmingly Positive Steam reviews over the past week: It's a demo called Outpath: The First Journey for a game coming in 2023 that'll be properly called Outpath. It's billed as a prologue chapter, but it's very much a demo of what seems to be planned for the main game. I think it'll appeal to fans of games like Forager foremost, but it'll also attract the idle-clicker, survival crafting, and production optimization crowds.

NVIDIA Settles On $799 MSRP For The GeForce NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-settles-on-799-msrp-for-the-geforce-nvidia-rtx-4070-ti/

Better than it's original $900 but still too expensive imo but that will effectively be the theme of this gen from both Nvidia and Radeon. It should at least be better priced than a 4080 since that costs around 50% more for like 20-25% performance gain. 7900XT could be with in 5-10% faster depending on the games with a good vram advantage but with slower RT, no Ai upscaling, worse power efficiency and worse drivers till AMD gets them fixed.

TSMC 3nm Volume Production & Capacity Expansion Ceremony Held at Fab 18 Site

https://wccftech.com/tsmc-3nm-volume-production-capacity-expansion-ceremony-held-at-fab-18-site/

Intel Core i9-13980HX CPU Powered MSI Raider GE78HX Laptop Matches High-End Desktop CPUs In Performance

https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13980hx-cpu-powered-msi-raider-ge78hx-laptop-matches-high-end-desktop-cpus-in-performance/

Battery life? Never heard of it.

Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low

Considering the recession and how gaming PCs don't exactly feel affordable, makes sense.

Steam Deck hits over 7,000 games either Verified or Playable

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/steam-deck-hits-over-7000-games-playable/

Great progress

Apparently, SRAM, so basically all the cache on CPUs and GPUs, almost didn't shrink at all compared to 5nm. I think some AMD engineers saw the writing on the wall early that they moved it out of the chip and into it's own die both on the X3D CPUs and the RDNA3 GPUs.

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7343/iedm-2022-did-we-just-witness-the-death-of-sram/

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-death-sram-affect-future-pc/

I'm torn with that rumored, still not confirmed, price point. On one hand, it's less than the original 4080 12GB price, which is good news, but on the other side we have Nvidia asking $800 for a xx70Ti card, and that's insane.

And the worst part is that this price makes the rumor of the 4060Ti being $500 more likely to be truth, because there's "only" a $300 gap between both, enough to fit the regular 4070.

Given the above, I expect 2023 to be even worse.

Oh, they did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBFpjM6EIY

Skip to around the 3 minutes mark.

I finally got to the first boss in Borderlands 1 GOTY Enhanced.

I got my ass handed to me. I know I'm not good with shooters but damn, 3 on 1 boss battle was tough - I got destroyed by his dogs :(

But 2nd try, I used my Shield Turret (since I'm playing as Soldier) - and covered behind my shield turret while I sniped him from afar.

I'm a bit rusty on FPS - this is my first FPS game in what....3-4 years? Regardless had a lot of fun playing it lol