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[videogameschronicle.com] Microsoft CEO Backs "Play Anywhere" Philosophy MS is looking more and more like the world's largest gaming software company and less of a console manufacturer. videogameschronicle.com news aspro
[videogameschronicle.com] Research Firm Predicts a Two Console Future “There isn’t room for more than two major console systems,” videogameschronicle.com news aspro
[gamesindustry.biz] Aussie Game Dev Industry is Stable, and Growing 81% of Australian studios expect headcount to remain stable or grow in 2025 gamesindustry.biz news aspro
[eurogamer.net] Miyamoto, "We're battling rising development costs" "The more you polish something that has never existed before, the more value it brings." eurogamer.net news aspro
[eurogamer.net] Tencent retracts wo of it's Directors from the Epic Games Board After Justice department concerns were voiced. eurogamer.net news aspro
[gamerant.com] Switch 2 So Capable That a Lot of Players Will Be Surprised Dev comments, Matt from Resetera Edit gamerant.com gamingeek
[gameunder.net] Game Under Podcast Christmas Special A short compendium of some of our quiz segments. Edit gameunder.net news aspro
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Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:32:37
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What's bugging me about Metroid Dread is the slide move.

It let's you slide through some gaps but only one way so you can't slide back. That traps you in some areas and I'm finding it difficult to find a way out.

You can come across the same sized gap you slid through but need to morph ball back through?

So on the map you see sliding bits which are actually morph ball bits. And unless you really zoom in and study the map in detail, you'll frequently  come up against impassable bits.

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Did you guys hear that PlatinumGames seems to be hemorrhaging staff right now? It's not looking good.

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Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:24:29
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Yeah, things definitely looking pretty rough for Platinum Games these days.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:55:14
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Did you guys hear that PlatinumGames seems to be hemorrhaging staff right now? It's not looking good.

I remember listening to Nick Des Barre (Nick Rox) talk about his time at Platinum. This would have been 10 years ago. He was really passionate about wotking for them but described it as a debilitating, gruelling nightmare of a workplace.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:12:35
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Two week holiday has commenced. Both companies I work for are closed, so it should be a restorative time. Just have to wait until my daughter gives me my Steamdeck (I am not at primary residence so gaming is limited PC-wise until I get it).

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:30:06
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aspro said:

Two week holiday has commenced. Both companies I work for are closed, so it should be a restorative time. Just have to wait until my daughter gives me my Steamdeck (I am not at primary residence so gaming is limited PC-wise until I get it).

My break began yesterday as well.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 11:47:24
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So what's your favourite Christmas movie?

Mine is actually A Christmas Carol the Musical. The Kelsey Grammer one.

Whenever someone here hears that they give me a weird stink eye look, because they've never heard of it. It was a cable tv special show, never released on Bluray or even dvd here.

It was buried on secondary tv channels with very low viewership. It's on YouTube but you have to buy it in shitty resolution.

I have a dvd copy but even on a 1080p set it looks like it was made in the 50s the picture is so bad.

Now I want to watch it in the living room on a 4ktv at 65 inches. Even Mclassic won't help.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:23
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It might be a toss up between Home Alone and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. With Home Alone, the older I get, the more I am into Kevin's interaction with Old Man Marley. I tear up at the end when he is reunited with his family.

I absolutely love Blackadder's Christmas Carol and its spin on the book's story. A merry, messy Kweznus. I wish the Blackadder special would upgrade to HD.

Speaking of Christmas Carol, the musical, I actually attended a musical version about two weeks ago.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:08:39
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It might be a toss up between Home Alone and Blackadder's Christmas Carol. With Home Alone, the older I get, the more I am into Kevin's interaction with Old Man Marley. I tear up at the end when he is reunited with his family.

I absolutely love Blackadder's Christmas Carol and its spin on the book's story. A merry, messy Kweznus. I wish the Blackadder special would upgrade to HD.

Speaking of Christmas Carol, the musical, I actually attended a musical version about two weeks ago.

I've seen some poor quality audience member videos. Would be cool to see one with good official one with audio and video.

Was it the Alan Menken one you saw?

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:33:14
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Yes, it was.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:49:43

My favorite Christmas movie is the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Also, Die Hard 1&2 and Gremlins.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:13:27
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Two week holiday has commenced. Both companies I work for are closed, so it should be a restorative time. Just have to wait until my daughter gives me my Steamdeck (I am not at primary residence so gaming is limited PC-wise until I get it).

Ah, knowing what you're getting for Christmas, but having to wait until the day to play with it...

When I was 6 or 7 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night. I had heard odd sounds coming from my parents bedroom (no, not those sounds!); motorized sounds and my parents whispering. Their door was cracked open a couple of inches, so I peaked inside and saw my dad playing with one my of Chistmas toys: a Tyco electric slot car race track with configurable track layouts. OMG! I never told my parents that I knew what I was getting, and that two week wait until Christmas was unbearable!

It looks similar to this one:

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:32:39
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I remember finding my Super Nintendo in our camper. Long, long wait for that one.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:12:31
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My favourite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:23:01
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Ah, knowing what you're getting for Christmas, but having to wait until the day to play with it...

When I was 6 or 7 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night. I had heard odd sounds coming from my parents bedroom (no, not those sounds!); motorized sounds and my parents whispering. Their door was cracked open a couple of inches, so I peaked inside and saw my dad playing with one my of Chistmas toys: a Tyco electric slot car race track with configurable track layouts. OMG! I never told my parents that I knew what I was getting, and that two week wait until Christmas was unbearable!

It looks similar to this one:

Did you bust his balls for playing with it before you?

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:24:06
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Did you bust his balls for playing with it before you?

He was just testing it out to see if it worked.

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:31:28
So now the Verge has vouched and verified for the Reddit leaker the dock information has led to some informed speculation.

The power draw is 45w handheld to 60w for docked.

The wattage range they say is more like an rtx 3050 equivalent.

I saw a video with the 8gb version, Digital Foundry used the 4gb version for their tests ages ago.

So the other videos run around 20 games on it to see the resolutions and framerates using DLSS.

I was quite suprised, the dude playing was keeping all the framerates at 60 or higher. Most switch owners would assume a 30fps cap, at least for 4k output.

All games he tested at over 60fps and using DLSS the games were either 1080p (a few) 1440p (the majority) and quite a few at 4k.

He did say he had a great cpu though.

Encouraging nonetheless, even though it was never rated as a great card for PC owners. Supposedly he said it was low energy, quiet and didn't generate much heat, so is a good choice for laptops or mobile devices.

I think the Switch 2 has 12gb of RAM so it should do well on image quality.

They even ran God of War and Horizon on it over 60fps

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:33:17
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He was just testing it out to see if it worked.

These are the lies adults tell. Take Aspro and the steamdeck lol

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:15:12
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travo said:

He was just testing it out to see if it worked.

These are the lies adults tell. Take Aspro and the steamdeck lol

LOL

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Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:09:41
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My favourite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

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