November 2025 PCG Article Discussion

[BeardyHat]

Bg is great but save often. Especially after talk, banter. The game is open so you can easily wander into fights way over your head. Goto naskel mines then goto the fortress in the lower left corner then head to the bandit camp and cloakwood

Wait to explore the side maps till after you get to Baldur's gate.

Last thing I was doing was trying to get to a map to complete...what's his bucket's side quest...the guy with the Hamster. But I stopped and haven't played it in several weeks since then.

 

[neogunhero]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/

Super excited that Valve is finally realizing their vision of Steam Machines after all these years. While I'm personally not going to get any of these, I'm really happy for Valve continuing to push the boundaries of PC gaming hardware. They've exploded the once incredibly niche handheld gaming PC market, and I hope they can do the same with VR and reclaim the throne from Meta. As for the controller, I don't think it will make a big splash in the ocean of millions of controllers, but seems to be very solid, at least a huge improvement over the first Steam Controller.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/

Super excited that Valve is finally realizing their vision of Steam Machines after all these years. While I'm personally not going to get any of these, I'm really happy for Valve continuing to push the boundaries of PC gaming hardware. They've exploded the once incredibly niche handheld gaming PC market, and I hope they can do the same with VR and reclaim the throne from Meta. As for the controller, I don't think it will make a big splash in the ocean of millions of controllers, but seems to be very solid, at least a huge improvement over the first Steam Controller.

The specs are mid, an overclocked Radeon 7600M with 8 GB VRAM and 16GB RAM with half a gig of storage. But it looks really nice. I wonder if they will be able to break out with it or what theyre expecting it to do exactly. If everyone who bought a Steam Deck gets one is it a success for them?

Im not sure personally if its going to sell as well as the Steam Deck, the niche for it is smaller. If its really cheap then I can see it doing well, if its priced closer to €1000 then I think it will struggle.

 

[neogunhero]

The specs are mid, an overclocked Radeon 7600M with 8 GB VRAM and 16GB RAM with half a gig of storage. But it looks really nice. I wonder if they will be able to break out with it or what theyre expecting it to do exactly. If everyone who bought a Steam Deck gets one is it a success for them?

Im not sure personally if its going to sell as well as the Steam Deck, the niche for it is smaller. If its really cheap then I can see it doing well, if its priced closer to €1000 then I think it will struggle.

For how low the specs are, I can't see it costing that much to produce, so hopefully the selling price remains low. That's the only way I see it doing well.

 

[Zloth]

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/valve-announces-steam-machine-frame-controller/

Wait, what?? The Frame watches your eyes so it can reduce the rendering resolution in your peripheral vision?? But... that's exactly the opposite of how eyes work!? Peripheral vision is MORE sensitive, not less! Any backyard astronomer knows that there are stars you can see only if you don't look directly at them. What you do lose is color.

Also, I wonder how fast it is at switching. An eye can dart from one side to the other pretty quick, and it's going to look weird if resolution has to take half a second to go from weak to strong.

I don't get how the audio works. They aren't covering the ears, as near as I can tell, which would be very nice - allowing you to hear the doorbell or whatever when playing games. It's neat that the two sides are phased so they cancel each other out at the center, too. But... where does the sound come out!?

 

[Johnway]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/concord-one-of-the-most-infamous-videogame-flops-of-all-time-creeps-back-to-life-thanks-to-fans-who-have-spent-months-building-custom-server-software/

Again, what does Sony hope to gain by taking it down? The game is not being sold, supported by Sony in any form. it sounds like they're still butt hurt that they made one of the biggest gaming disasters and doing everything they can to bury it dead. Especially if someone else can make it into a winner, if sony can't make all the profit from it, they'll gladly see no one makes any money/success from it. Unless Sony have plans to revive the game, they can go to hell. This is what SKG is all about stopping in the future.

 

[Zloth]

Unless Sony have plans to revive the game, they can go to hell.

That's not how the thought goes. There's very, very little chance they would want to revive it. But what do they gain from letting it go? Tiny is still bigger than nothing. Thus, they're going to stop ANYTHING that encroaches on their stuff.

This one is a bit tricky, though. You have to have the game already to be able to play this. It's not like, say, the Homecoming City of Heroes. So how can they stop it?? (Well, other than by being richer than the modders and throwing lawyers at them until they run out of the money to pay for justice.)

 

[Zloth]

The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today

They may have arrived decades ago, but the work (and play) continues.

www.pcgamer.com

Gotta love those Nethack upgrade notes. Deaths can be pretty funny, too.
"Killed by a hallucinogen distorted kobold zombie"

 

[Pifanjr]

The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today

They may have arrived decades ago, but the work (and play) continues.

www.pcgamer.com

Gotta love those Nethack upgrade notes. Deaths can be pretty funny, too.
"Killed by a hallucinogen distorted kobold zombie"

I really have to try NetHack some day. I love Angband, which is another open-source roguelike that started in the 1980s and while the last release is from 2023, it's still under constant development, with the last change to the source code only 18 hours ago.