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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/screenshots-have-seemingly-leaked-of-the-new-star-wars-game-from-a-team-of-former-xcom-developers-and-surprise-it-looks-like-a-star-wars-xcom-game/ I'd love a Star Wars XCOM game with a good story. Honestly, even if the story sucks I'd love it as long as...

I'm assuming this is just another April Fools joke, the timing is too suspicious.

I know one of my friends used to play through his desktop with his laptop all the time, though I'm not entirely sure what he used. There's also a good chance that he only did so for turn-based or grand strategy games where a bit of input lag doesn't really matter. Seems we have a similar...

I'm not looking forward to "upgrading" to Windows 11 either. However, I'm also not very interested at spending my limited gaming time tinkering with Linux. I'm considering getting a second desktop PC this summer, if I can make the finances work. It'll be nice to be able to play something when...

So far emulation is keeping up pretty well. The main problem is making sure the software stays available. I'm pretty sure you can kill them, but they're quite sturdy.

What is Satisfactory missing that requires a sequel instead of a free patch?

As far as I understand it this is one of those fun facts that got blown way out of proportion. Potato skin has a bit more fiber than the flesh of the potato, but is otherwise nutritionally pretty much the same.

It's only disturbing if anyone tries to use it for anything where you need to be able to understand how it came to its answer.

Why would you want to go back to when those games were more expensive? The games still exist, they're just cheaper now, as is the hardware to run it on max settings.

It's like orange juice with or without pulp. It's almost the same yet an entirely different experience at the same time. I don't peel my potatoes before mashing simply because I don't have the energy for it any more. It still tastes better than premade stuff from the store. But then I try to...

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/anthropic-has-developed-an-ai-brain-scanner-to-understand-how-llms-work-and-it-turns-out-the-reason-why-chatbots-are-terrible-at-simple-math-and-hallucinate-is-weirder-than-you-thought/ Fascinating stuff. Letting computers do pattern matching might not always...

B is better than A, but both are too busy for my taste. 4X games are like one very long tactics mission. Which is why I often abandon them if I don't finish them in one sitting. I will admit I played Advance Wars on an emulator and liberally used saved states, especially on maps with fog of...

I think you're right. I wasn't able to get very far into Fire Emblem, while I have played through Advance Wars 2 twice and did a lot of skirmish maps. To add to my earlier statement, it's not just the player characters in RPGs that are more complex, enemies are also more complex and varied. I...

I love tactics games, but I struggle really hard with cRPGs and I'm not sure why. What is the difference between controlling a party of adventurers in Path of Exile or Baldur's Gate 3 and controlling a squad of soldiers in XCOM? cRPGs have more story elements of course, but that's not the part...

I've played quite a bit of Trackmania Nations at LAN parties. You see the other players (and the ghost of your best time) but can't hit them and you all try to get the best time on a track within a certain amount of time. It's a good game, but the later tracks get absolutely ridiculous.