Nothing of substance to add, but for the record Jay Graber is a woman

I do a fair amount of streaming from my Windows PC. Your thoughts are correct, if you sleep your Deck it just breaks the connection, the game still continues to run on the host PC.

Seems psvr2 controller compatibility is in the works https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/8/24316130/apple-vision-pro-sony-psvr2-controller-support-gaming

I have 367 games in my Epic library. A few of them are f2p (e.g. Fortnite) but the majority are giveaways. The only game I’ve purchased on EGS is Alan Wake 2 due to exclusivity

Alan Wake 2 image seems unrelated? Odd since the others match

CRKD teased one for 2025

THE TURKEY’S A LITTLE DRY???

I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce AND mustard. And I don’t want any zombie turkeys, I don’t want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don’t want any other weird surprises, got it?

We have the knowledge and ability to be better

Indeed, what’s perhaps most striking about GenCast is that it requires significantly less computing power than traditional physics-based ensemble forecasts like ENS. According to Google, a single one of its TPU v5 tensor processing units can produce a 15-day GenCast forecast in eight minutes. By contrast, it can take a supercomputer with tens of thousands of processors hours to produce a physics-based forecast.

So it’s more accurate and uses significantly less computing power than current systems. Nice!

Didn’t realize this was a Firefox setting! “Use autoscrolling” was what worked for me

Every safe’s got its weak spot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmIRFl-guK0

Portal

Breath of the Wild

Alan Wake 2

Tutorial

I feel like this game is a good candidate for xcloud if you have game pass. Don’t have to worry about high specs or downloading, and if you have a decent connection there’s some lag but not as necessary for this type of game. Thoughts?

The title makes this sound like it’s going to be less common that they’ll be releasing games on PC, but in case anyone skips the article it’s actually in regards to PC-exclusive content

Totilo points out to Spencer that three of Microsoft’s nine releases in this period are PC-only (The War Within, Towerborne in early access, and Ara: History Untold), and asks whether this is a new norm for Microsoft.

“No,” says Spencer. “This is historical. There might always be some anomalies, but I look at those three as an anomaly. We want our games playable across as many screens as possible. We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want all the games playable across all of those. We want them to be Play Anywhere.”

Fair enough, I’m being overly pedantic

Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as “embrace, extend, and exterminate”, is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Microsoft sucks but the phrase doesn’t really apply to company acquisitions

From Bloomberg

“We definitely want to be in the market, and when we can find teams and technology and capability that add to what we’re trying to do in gaming at Microsoft, absolutely we will keep our heads up,” Spencer said. Still, there’s nothing “imminent” and very large deals are probably off the table at present as the company is spending a lot of time absorbing Activision Blizzard employees, he said.

I thought that seemed odd as well. Solid chance it’s AI