July 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[BeardyHat]

You know, thinking about it a little bit more on the buying mobile versions of games, one thing that grinds my gears and why I've pretty much stopped putting money into Android stuff is the fact that long term support is not guaranteed. I actually have quite a few Games and Applications that are just no longer supported by newer versions of Android; I spent the money on them and yet, I can no longer use them.

Sure there are some PC games that will no longer work on newer hardware, but typically with a bit of legwork, you can get them running via a variety of methods. But Android? My favorite Weather app was removed from the Play Store and I can't get it on my tablet. Carmageddon, which I loved playing on my mobile devices, no longer works on any of my devices, because it's never been updated. I grant that this is a developer issue, but if we're going to be white knighting Stop Killing Games, I feel like there are other things that ought to fall into that category, not just the Games themselves, but Applications as well.

I know this is generally par for the course with the world we live in, but I by and large try to avoid this kind of stuff in my life.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Do you have any experience using remote play for local co-op?

No, but I've always wanted to try that.

 

[neogunhero]

DRAMeXchange - 【Market View】3Q25 NAND Flash Contract Prices Projected to Rise 5–10%; Weak Smartphone Demand Limits eMMC and UFS Growth, Says TrendForce

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Shopping for a new SSD has led me to a market trends page stating prices may increase 5-10% for the remainder of the year. Somehow I went down a rabbit hole of reading Kioxia press releases about their latest NAND tech releases, and ended up at that site I linked. All I want is an affordable, durable SSD...

 

[BeardyHat]

DRAMeXchange - 【Market View】3Q25 NAND Flash Contract Prices Projected to Rise 5–10%; Weak Smartphone Demand Limits eMMC and UFS Growth, Says TrendForce

DRAM, NAND Flash, SSD, Module and Memory card, and provides market research on spot and contract prices, daily news, market views and reports, and monthly datasheets of semiconductor industry.集邦科技

www.dramexchange.com

Shopping for a new SSD has led me to a market trends page stating prices may increase 5-10% for the remainder of the year. Somehow I went down a rabbit hole of reading Kioxia press releases about their latest NAND tech releases, and ended up at that site I linked. All I want is an affordable, durable SSD...

I'm not sure what size you're looking at, but I have two of these guys, one in my Steam Deck, the other in my Desktop. My desktop doesn't have the screw hole for the shorter SSD, only fitting 2280s, but with the heat shield for it, it's held in place just fine and caused no issues. It's plenty fast, as well.

Pardon Our Interruption...

They were about $142 out the door when I bought them.

Edit: I also have one of these in my laptop. Very affordable, very fast.

https://a.co/d/0DDopDJ

 

[Pifanjr]

I've played a couple more runs of Noita, but I keep dying to dumb mistakes (mostly hitting myself with my own weapons). I also keep trying to figure out how to kill the guardian that shows up if you damage the Holy Mountain area, but I've only managed to do it once by making a little tunnel it couldn't follow me into and then putting something heavy on the mouse button so it kept shooting at him while I grabbed a drink and a snack.

I made it to the fourth area once more with some great wands, but as soon as I entered I got shot at by two enemies and when I tried to get to cover there were a bunch more enemies coming from the other side. I can't really deal with chaotic moments like that, I need to be able to hide and shoot enemies from around a corner.

 

[neogunhero]

I posted to the Tom's Hardware forums about some questions regarding SSDs. My main issue is my WD Blue SN570, which is my main drive, the download speed slows to a crawl when downloading anything larger than maybe 30GB, or even when transferring large files to that drive. They were all super helpful, and one person suggesting disabling Write Cache when downloading. That fixed my issue! Apparently these particular SN570 drives have a bug causing the cache to fill up quickly, as well as just having a small amount of cache to begin with. It's a strange issue that I've sort of put up with over the past two years I've had this drive, but lately it's becoming a bigger issue. However I have this temporary fix, so I'll hold off on buying a new drive for now.

 

[Zed Clampet]

My Currently Playing: Balatro, Monster Train and Dune Awakening.

Balatro is getting ridiculously hard. I've won a few run in Monster Train and that is getting harder as well.

We've arrived in the PvP zone for Dune Awakening and built a little house. I didn't want to build inside PvP because they reset those areas once a week, so we're going to have to rebuild everything over and over.