Thanks.

It's from Machinegames, so it makes sense that they've gone with a first person game given that it's what they're good at, but I agree that an adventure game is better played in third person.

The quality of the graphics don't matter much to me. If the game is good, I won't notice if they're good or bad after a while.

I will wait for reviews on the Indy game, looked a bit last gen in my eyes. And it has a stealth system which should of died a long time ago. A guard is not going to look at a street light for eternity, they would in real life look behind them.

I still have most of my physical PC games, f.e. every LucasArts adventure:

Plus a few hundred PC games on CDs or DVDs from my computer game magazines (PC Player and GameStar)... every month a disc with one or a few older PC games.

...So... Basically forever then?

...Considering Diablo 1 servers from 1996 are still online. Although most of the online transactions are P2P so it likely costs blizzard next to nothing to keep it online.

It's wccftech. So salts. And grains.

However 16GB was already a baseline for some time now for anyone using a PC in any serious fashion, 8GB can even be fairly limiting just for web browsing these days with the amount of tabs we can have open.

Impressive.

I wish I kept my physical games from when I was younger, but once I went digital they just disappeared...

Games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldurs Gate coming in a massive box, with the discs in a folder, including maps, notepads, game manual the works... Those were the days.

And I think it was X2: The threat that had a massive phone-book sized game manual.

Carmen Sandiego came with an encyclopedia.

Game prices have gone up and we get less. Go figure. Haha

I have stuck with physical console game collecting because they are easier to resell.

The rendering isn't to bad, it's the animations that are sticky and stiff which breaks the immersion, they were definitely on a budget on this... And likely spent it all on Harrison ford voice acting.

Ngl a bit disapointed at Indy being a first person. But then I read that some of these guy at Machine Games worked on Riddick, which gives me some hope.

The rest of the games are pass from me.

Last gen OLED Monitors getting relatively cheap

Well the source they site is TrendForce so it's not a wccftech original article and should be more reputable.

These are the Friday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

One of the best fantasy 4Xs on PC is free while the Steam keys last
https://www.pcgamer.com/one-of-the-best-fantasy-4xs-on-pc-is-free-while-the-steam-keys-last/
Endless Space and Humankind studio Amplitude is marking its 13th birthday, and to celebrate it's giving out free Steam copies of Endless Legend, its underrated fantasy 4X that apparently released all the way back in 2014. So there's a Friday morning confrontation with mortality for you.
You can pick the game up by heading over to the Amplitude Studios community website and then, well, going through a little bit of a rigamarole. You'll need to make an account, verify your email, then head into your account settings and link the thing up with Steam. Once you've done that, just return to that page linked above and click on the Endless Legend image halfway down the page to get your free Steam key.

The Humble Store has launched its Winter Wonderland Sale, with up to 90% discounts during 17 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/humble-winter-wonderland-sale-2024/.

Fanatical has a new Star Deal: Dying Light 2 Stay Human will be 60% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/dying-light-2-stay-human

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Quake Remaster Just Got a Slave Zero X-Inspired Mod
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/quake-remaster-just-got-a-slave-zero-x-inspired-mod/
Ziggurat Interactive and Poppy Works have launched Episode Enyo, a new mod for Quake Remaster that is inspired by Slave Zero X. As with all Quake/Doom mods, this is free to everyone. There’s also a trailer available for you to check out at the end of the article.
Episode Enyo takes place before Slave Zero X and tells the tale of Enyo. Originally hired to eliminate SovKhan, the oppressive ruler in Slave Zero X, Enyo ends up being compelled to serve as the Second of the Five Calamities.
This new mod comes with six campaign levels. Players will also find thirteen new enemies, one new powerup, and eight new weapons. There is also one Deathmatch arena. Oh, and let’s not forget that Aleks Kmiec has created a new soundtrack for it.
>> The article has a video.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition Community Patch 1.6 Released
https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/mass-effect-legendary-edition-community-patch-1-6-released/
The Mass Effect Community Patch Team has just released a new Community Update for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. This update aims to tweak and fix a number of issues that plagued the first remaster. So, let’s take a look at it.
Patch 1.6 for the game fixes some problems, like when Male Shepard’s visor and breather overlap. It also makes sure that the Master Overkill talent works as intended. Plus, there’s a script to avoid glitches in custom dialogue for FemShep when using mods.
The new update (Patch 1.6) also makes sure that the barrier shield effect is displayed correctly for your squadmates. Now, if you click on a power that’s already activated, it will re-request that power with a new target, just like it does on controllers.
And there is more. Now, when you switch weapons, the game won’t remove the highlight on a requested power. Plus, picking a power or weapon won’t hide the info box anymore. It also fixed a little hiccup where medigel got activated by accident while dragging with the right click. And yes, Community Patch 1.6 also sorts out some bugs in various quests.
>> The article has the patch notes, but no screenshot nor video of the update.

GAMING NEWS

Starfield Title Update 1.9.47.0 Released, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/starfield-title-update-1-9-47-0-released-full-patch-notes/
Bethesda has just released one of the biggest updates for Starfield. Title Update 1.9.47.0 packs over 100 fixes, tweaks and improvements. So, let’s take a closer look at them as we now have its full patch notes.

Obsidian’s Avowed releases in Fall 2024, gets new gameplay video
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/obsidian-avowed-fall-2024-new-gameplay-video/
Microsoft has shared a new video for Obsidian’s upcoming RPG, Avowed, showcasing 10 minutes of gameplay footage from it. Moreover, MS confirmed that the game will come out in Fall 2024. So, let’s take a look at the new gameplay footage.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II will release on May 21st
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii-will-release-on-may-21st/
Microsoft has just announced that Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II will be released on May 21st. That’s four months from now. Moreover, MS revealed some new gameplay footage for this game at its Developer_Direct 2024 event.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle revealed in first in-engine trailer, to be released in 2024
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-first-in-engine-trailer-release-2024/
Microsoft has just revealed MachineGames’ Indiana Jones game, which will be called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is an all-new adventure game that uses a first-person perspective.
>> And there are also screenshots of the game.

Visions of Mana releases in Summer 2024, gets new gameplay video
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/visions-of-mana-releases-in-summer-2024-gets-new-gameplay-video/
Square Enix has released a new gameplay video for its new Mana game, Visions of Mana. Visions of Mana is a new single-player action RPG that puts you in the shoes of Val – a curious and carefree young man and skilled fighter.

Outpost: Infinity Siege is a cool mix of FPS, Strategy & Tower Defense
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/outpost-infinity-siege-is-a-cool-mix-of-fps-strategy-tower-defense/
Lightning Games has shared a new trailer for its upcoming FPS/strategy/tower defense hybrid, Outpost: Infinity Siege. This new game will hit the PC on March 26th. You can also find below its official PC system requirements.

SAND LAND gets official PC system requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sand-land-gets-official-pc-system-requirements/
Bandai Namco has revealed the official PC system requirements for Akira Toriyama’s upcoming action RPG, SAND LAND. Also, according to the game’s Steam store page, the game won’t be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.

Friday news, part two:

Call of Duty's going to Alt + F4 itself if it catches players turning on aim assist while using a mouse
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-dutys-going-to-alt-f4-itself-if-it-catches-players-turning-on-aim-assist-while-using-a-mouse/
Call of Duty has a new shortcut for mouse and keyboard users trying to activate aim assist: Alt + F4. According to a tweet posted to the official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account Tuesday, the game has buffed up its security systems to automatically kill your game—as in MW3.exe itself—if it catches you using a tool to turn on the game's assist while using a mouse. The new measure works across Modern Warfare 2, 3, and Warzone.

Two more studios announce layoffs as 2024 continues to suck for game developers
https://www.pcgamer.com/two-more-studios-announce-layoffs-as-2024-continues-to-suck-for-game-developers/
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that's plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%.

Microsoft's answer to Civilization looks, well, a lot like Civilization, but has twists like simultaneous turn resolution
https://www.pcgamer.com/ara-history-untold-release-date-announcement/
Ara: History Untold maybe could've used a better title—it makes me think of a Las Vegas show, like the Luxor hotel's King Tut Experience—but it's interesting: a historical grand strategy game from developer Oxide Games (maker of Ashes of the Singularity), published by Microsoft, with ambitions to deliver "an evolution" in the genre.
>> Looks interesting, but it feels like one of those games that you have to try to decide if you'll like it or not (more so with that 1 turn for all mechanic).

The developer of strategy city builder Manor Lords expected 14,000 Steam wishlists... and wound up with 2 million
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-developer-of-strategy-city-builder-manor-lords-expected-14000-steam-wishlists-and-wound-up-with-2-million/
When I first saw footage of medieval city builder Manor Lords a few years ago I added it to my Steam wishlist before the trailer had even finished playing. That's how good it looked.
I wasn't alone, either. Manor Lords has occupied second place on Steam's top wishlisted games for at least a year, where it's rubbed shoulders with big name games like Hades 2, Starfield, and Hollow Knight: Silksong. That's especially impressive considering Manor Lords is being developed by a single person, Greg Styczeń, of Slavic Magic.
If you were wondering just how many people need to add a game to their Steam wishlist to reach (very nearly) the tippy top of Steam, we've now got a number for you: 2 million. According to publisher Hooded Horse, that's how many Steam wishlists Manor Lords is now parked on. And it turns out that number came as a big surprise to Styczeń.

Blizzard reveals how hard the nerfs to Diablo 4's sorcerers and barbarians will be next season as it outlines a new balance philosophy
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-reveals-how-hard-the-nerfs-to-diablo-4s-sorcerers-and-barbarians-will-be-next-season-as-it-outlines-a-new-balance-philosophy/
It's official: Barbarians and sorcerers won't rule Sanctuary in Diablo 4's next season, at least not using the same builds that absolutely crushed season 2. On a developer stream today, Blizzard said tomorrow's patch notes will include fixes to the bugs that fuel the strongest builds in the game, as well as changes that elevate the weakest ones.

After almost a decade, Bungie is letting Destiny 2 players fix their fugly guardians (and it won't cost anything)
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-is-finally-letting-destiny-2-players-fix-their-fugly-guardians-and-it-actually-wont-cost-anything/
I've had an article in my drafts titled 'All MMOs need a barber shop' for several years now. The likelihood of that piece ever getting finished inched further away this afternoon, with Bungie announcing that—after almost a decade, and countless complaints—it's adding a system to enable players to edit the appearance of their guardians. Here's what the developer had to say in the latest This Week in Destiny blog post.

31% of game developers already use generative AI
https://www.pcgamer.com/31-of-game-developers-already-use-generative-ai/
Valve recently announced that Steam will allow games made with assistance from generative AI tools so long as it's disclosed. If game developers tell the truth, we ought to be seeing a lot of disclosures in the near future.
In a survey of over 3,000 game developers from the organizers of the Game Developers Conference, 31% of respondents said that they personally use generative AI in their work, and 18% said that they don't personally use it, but colleagues in their workplace do. That means that 49% of game studios are using generative AI in some fashion—although mostly not in ways we'll directly perceive, judging by the other survey questions.

Game developers are growing more opposed to major acquisitions: 'Too much control in one company's hands is never a good thing'
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-developers-are-growing-more-opposed-to-major-acquisitions-too-much-control-in-one-companys-hands-is-never-a-good-thing/
The last couple of years have seen some blockbusters deals in the games industry. Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is obviously the biggest of them all, but Sony's buyout of Bungie is up there too, and even (relatively) smaller deals, like NetEase's purchase of Quantic Dream or Nacon's takeover of Daedalic, can't be overlooked. And while we on the outside can debate the relative merits of this industry consolidation, GDC's latest State of the Game Industry survey indicates that it's making people who actually work in the business a little nervous.

All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.4 livestream
https://www.pcgamer.com/genshin-impact-codes-4-4-livestream/
The Genshin Impact 4.4 livestream is the latest special program detailing what Travelers can expect to get up to in the coming update. If you're a regular Genshin player, these streams are usually worth tuning into since they provide info on events and upcoming characters. More importantly, they drop livestream codes you can redeem for Primogems to use when pulling those characters.
It looks like the two new characters this time are Pyro four-star, Gaming, and Anemo five-star, Xianyun, who is the human form of Cloud Retainer. There are also speculated reruns for Xiao, Nahida, and Yae Miko. I'll list the livestream codes below as they drop during the program—these usually expire within a day, so be sure to redeem them as soon as possible.

And now, the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

• There are two new Deals of the Day that will last until Monday:
  • The Murder Mystery Bundle, with two games, is 49% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/murder_mystery_bundle
  • Worms Revolution Gold Edition is 85% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/worms_revolution
• The Fighting Games Sale, including fighting and beat'em'up titles, features up to 90% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20240119_fighting_games_sale
• The last one is the Horror Week Sale, with up to 95% discounts during 7 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20240119_horror_sale

+Steam

• Farmer's Life, that has a demo, will be 35% off until the 25th of January: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137750/Farmers_Life/
• Boyfriend Dungeon gets a 50% deal until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/674930/Boyfriend_Dungeon/
• Besides gifting a game if you go through a lengthy process, Amplitude celebrates the Amplified 2024 Sale, with up to 80% discounts until Thursday, the 25th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/amplified2024
• As part of its Developer Direct 2024, Microsoft has put two games on sale with 70 and 90% deals until January, 25th. Can you guess which ones before checking them out? https://store.steampowered.com/sale/developerdirectjan2024
• EA SPORTS FC™ 24 will be free to try during the weekend and 70% off until the 30th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195250/EA_SPORTS_FC_24/
• Early Access title Timberborn celebrates its fifth update with a 20% discount until the 1st of February: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/
• Chants of Sennaar, that has a demo, will be 25% off until February, 1st: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/Chants_of_Sennaar/
• And the last deal involves Publisher Daedalic, with up to 90% discounts until the 1st of February (tho some deals may end sooner than that): https://store.steampowered.com/sale/daedalic

That will be it for this week. Until next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.

Meta To Utilize 350,000 NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs By 2024, Expands Efforts Towards AGI

https://wccftech.com/meta-to-utilize-350000-nvidia-h100-ai-gpus-by-2024-expands-efforts-towards-agi/

Absolutely nuts

GPD Unveils Upgraded Win Max 2 Handheld, Featuring AMD Ryzen 7 8840U APU at 15W

https://wccftech.com/gpd-unveils-upgraded-win-max-2-handheld-amd-ryzen-7-8840u-apu-15w/

Samsung Exynos 2400 RDNA3 GPU is twice as fast as Exynos 2200 RDNA2 GPU in 3DMark test

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-exynos-2400-rdna3-gpu-is-twice-as-fast-as-exynos-2200-rdna2-gpu-in-3dmark-test

Apple Vision Pro Offers 256GB Of Internal Storage For $3,499, Is Available In Three Internal Memory Tiers For A Higher Price

https://wccftech.com/apple-vision-pro-starts-from-256gb-storage-offers-three-variants/

Lol apple