The key problem for the Switch 2 will be to compete with the Steam Deck. While a good Steam Deck is still a bit pricier, there are a myriad of titles, and the vast majority of them are much cheaper than the 70-90 price point targeted by Nintendo.

Well, it is their money they are burning. Good luck with that.

Well, performance-wise, you cannot beat Intel and AMD at the moment. Then there is ARM, which is strong, especially if power consumption is an issue. And it is closing the gap to the top. Bonus: ARM has a range from simple M0 cores to GHz multiprocessor chips. Where is RISC-V on that scale?

Compare ARM performance: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=✓&q=ARM with RISC-V performance: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=RISC-V and you’ll see that RISC-V has a looooong way to go before it can be considered relevant.

RISC-V has it’s place, no question, but don’t expect servers or workstations anytime soon. At least outside China and Russia…

FTFY: by referring to the single source of truth opinion.

Well, that is where the problems started.

Looks like it is not any smarter than the other junk on the market. The confusion that people consider AI as “intelligence” may be rooted in their own deficits in that area.

And now people exchange one American Junk-spitting Spyware for a Chinese junk-spitting spyware. Hurray! Progress!

So basically development toys.

That’s the point. I don’t think RISC-V is coming even close to high-performance ARM chips, so building a laptop around RISC-V instead of ARM makes no sense to me.

What I have seen about RISC-V is not exactly promising performance-wise. At least not for a laptop or desktop PC.

I can see ARM-based laptops, or products like the RPi 500 (once it supports M.2 sticks and 8GB RAM, hopefully more one day), but RISC-V is not there yet.

Well, just another Microsoft F-ckup. Nothing new.

Sue them for damages.

Braben & Bells “Elite”. The original one on the C64.

“Destroy him, my robots!”

I’m outing me as ancient:

• M.U.L.E.
• Load Runner
• The Castles of Dr. Creep
• Seven Cities of Gold
• Paradroid
• The Sentinel
• Hanse / Kaiser / Fugger

Second that! Worms was great fun when hanging out with friends.

The “priorities list” has only two entries: a) make money with it and b) make it in a way that we can make a sequel to make more money.

Does this mean there will be a professionally recorded “Order!” mp3 somewhere?

Where is the point? One is a dedicated GPU, the other is an integrated graphics engine. One is for gamers (or was many years ago), the other for people using Word or Excel.

I draw the line right behind them. Where the real search results start.

…and there are people who play Dwarf Fortress.

The more confusing thing is a change on February 8th, where they add a Russian edition to their game if I interpret it correctly.

I had an app that did a simple job, and worked flawlessly for more than a year. Then it suddenly started putting display-filling ads in my message feed. I looked things up, and learned that the app has been bought by some online shopping profitteer company, and not only spews ads, but also collects all kinds of data all of a sudden.

If that does not describe a “shitty app”, I don’t know. One Star Review (would have given 0 stars if possible), and instant uninstall.

You are not even allowed to call a shitty app a shitty app.

Should be easy. Just take a AY-3-8500 chip, and the gaming console is basically done!

If their game was that good, we would read about it up and down the net. The fact that I read about it here for the first time tells a different story.

Stardew Valley

As someone who grew up with block graphic games and sprites on a 320x240 pixel screen in 16 colors, this looks impressive. Not my kind of game or genre, but still well done.

Two games on the C64: “The Castles of Dr. Creep” and “Elite”. The first was a jump-and-run platform game with incredibly simple and lowres graphics, but perfect for two cooperating players. The second was the absolute classic space game by Braben and Bell.

As in “We started a trial balloon, and your unfounded criticism made us take it back.”

That’s what I do. I take some entertainment - not just video games - and rate it by how much fun it gave me over how many hours and at what price. 8 hours for €40 in an amusement park? Cheap thrill. A €70 AAA game that I throw in the corner after an hour? Not good. A €200 LEGO set that takes a lot of fun hours to build and inspires me to something else? Perfect entertainment!

We will see. The overall platform is not bad, and I expect it to grow. It all depends on how good they will expand on it. Minecraft was way worse when it started.

From what I’ve seen (I don’t have the game myself) the key point of this game is that it offers a platform to build on, with the main quest as a kind of “game sample”. When they supply a proper support for mods and DLCs, there is a good chance that this game will really thrive.

I find myself on a large, nice, and green felt. As I stand up, I see a stack of cards in the distance. Next to it are seven spreads of cards, each with the top card face up…

If it does not even tell me what kind of genre the game is, I don’t actually feel teased. I feel more like disappointed.

Time to update to a Pixel 7, as they now get into a reasonable price range.

The teaser trailer is worthless. Looks like a bunch of pre-made animations, but unless that spaceship approaching is actually part of the gameplay, it does not show any actual gameplay. It could be anything between “Rock Raiders” and “Dwarf Fortress” in space, maybe with some “Doom” in it. Does anyone know what this game is actually about?

Yep, using the same. Very good for switching between languages, and a good selection of different keyboards for foreign languages. I use an English one, and a German one with the Umlauts as popups instead of a “complete” keyboard with the Umlauts as separate keys.

Downside: Completion is not as smart as the default keyboard, but that is easily f-ed up anyway if you post/write in several languages, so while the completion is simpler, at least it uses the matching dictionary.

Do it the American way: just bribe enough politicians, and you will eventually get a law that finally Puts an end to this.

Don’t expect them to do something just so, their calls and mails get filtered by a pool of people, they never see this kind of stuff.

I don’t know if they are using Unreal or Unitiy, or whatever, but it really sucks, and it is also so f-ed up that it won’t properly run in the Wine environment under Linux.

It gets even worse when non-game applications use those frameworks designed for games. Like Stud.io - virtual LEGO building CAD. Even if you don’t touch the thing, it still renders 60 frames per second. Whenever I use it, the fans run high even when it is idling. And don’t even think of running this on a battery-powered laptop…