Not sure I'm gonna get it tbh. First iteration hardware/software can be a work in progress. So I'll probably be sticking with my Steam Deck for the time being. If I do get one down the road, it would be the Ally X.

The floodgates were opened last week as to the upcoming Halo CE remake. The modder who has been working on the Halo 3 Combat Evolved mod for the last several years straight up said she was offered to work on the Halo CE remake, but the studio didn't have time to train on her on Unreal, so she had to pass on the project. She didn't sign any NDA, and that the questions that were being asked made it obvious that Halo CE was the game they were working on.

Which is, a bit more than a leak I would say lol. Just 2 and a half weeks till it's officially shown off!

That is some good news for current subs in Europe. I got an email last week saying the higher price ($30/month) will start on November 4, 2025. I just double checked my subscriptions on my Microsoft account and it still says "Next charge on September 8, 2028, $29.99 plus applicable taxes."

I got three emails today from Xbox, all related to games I played... One was how they saw I played avowed but stopped playing it and it is the right time to continue my quest =p

Lol yeah Nintendo does that as well. I got one a couple weeks ago that I should get around to finishing Mario & Luigi: Brothership

That's powerwash 2 day!!!  Fallout DLC incoming? 

Anyway just got Yooka Replaylie pre order.

Just bought a pc.

MB • Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi
CPU • i7-11700k
RAM • 32 GB
GPU • EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra
SSD • 1TB Samsung NVME
PSU • BeQuiet 750w Bronze
AIO • BeQuiet 240mm aRGB
CASE: BeQuiet aRGB

$900!

So about 600 US dollars, absolutely stole it.

Have 2 series x in the home, one is going to help fund the purchase. The other one is staying in hope.

More and more it's looking like pc is going to be the best place to play and the cost advantage of consoles is gone.

Congrats, that's a very good price. I'm back to PC yet again. Only reason I would consider console again at the moment is wanting to play GTA6 without waiting a year lol.

It's the first time in a long while that PC can be price+power competitive with new consoles, (however the used console market is still massively better value, you can get a PS5 for under £280 and a Series S for under £150 here.)

If the next xbox is open platform, and the magnus leaks are true, holy hell it's going to be expensive. Though I expect Xbox to be releasing multiple SKU's so might have a more budget machine in the works also. Though will be hard to compete price wise as I don't think they're going to be subsidising the cost.

I'm quietly hopeful that next-gen PS is going to focus on keeping budgets down instead of chasing GPU power, with diminishing returns, increasing costs and the rise of AI upscaling they shouldn't be focusing on massive gpu power.

Console advantage has always been simplicity and price, if consoles are to still have a place they need to get back to that. A cheap, small, console that smartly utilises the latest AI technology (whatever FSR5 will bring).

Honestly the Series S was ahead of it's time. If we got a machine like that, but without the ram/storage constraints, and with full support for the latest AI technologies it could be something great.