1. 📰 Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (direct link) (👍649 👎3)

from PC Gaming (!pcgaming@lemmy.ca)

Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090

Gamers Aren't Interested In The New AMD/NVIDIA Gaming GPUs, As Rising Prices Have Made Them Basically Non-Accessible. Over 57% of PC gamers have been prevented from buying a new GPU due to the supply chain situation, and with President Trump's tariffs, they have become even more out of reach. 🖋️🤖

Posted by cm0002

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2. 📰 Microsoft Lays Off Thousands Of Employees, Cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild, And More Xbox Games (direct link) (👍135 👎0)

from Xbox (!xbox@lemmy.world)

Microsoft Lays Off Thousands Of Employees, Cancels Perfect Dark, Everwild, And More Xbox Games

This represents the fourth time in 18 months that Microsoft Gaming has laid off workers. However, Variety and several other outlets obtained a memo to Xbox employees from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. HR is working directly with impacted employees to provide severance plan benefits (aligned with local laws), including pay, healthcare coverage, and job placement resources to support their transition. Microsoft has laid off thousands upon thousands of workers over the last 18 months, including 1,900 employees in January 2024. According to the report, the number of impacted Blizzard employees could reach as high as 100, with the Overwatch team appearing to escape unscathed this time around. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by AlexanderTheGreat

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3. 📰 [Discussion] Steam Summer Sale has started, what are you buying to play on your Deck? (direct link) (👍71 👎0)

from Steam Deck (!steamdeck@sopuli.xyz)

Welcome to Steam

We're out of personalized recommendations for you right nowWe can recommend some different titles once you've played more games. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Fubarberry

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4. 🖼️ Satisfactory 1.1 Update (direct link) (👍62 👎3)

from PC Gaming (!pcgaming@lemmy.world)

The update for Satisfactory is out. You can build elevators! https://youtu.be/G-EkOyjRSHk

Posted by dracs

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5. 📰 The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer - YouTube (direct link) (👍45 👎1)

from PlayStation (!playstation@lemmy.world)

- YouTube

Posted by CosmicSploogeDrizzle

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6. 📰 Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' (direct link) (👍30 👎0)

from Amiga (!amiga@sopuli.xyz)

Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company'

Retro tech tuber Perifractic has released an intriguing video dubbed Can We Save Commodore? My Biggest Project Yet! During the video, we hear that he is attempting to buy Commodore, and thus bring it back into the hands of its fans. Ultimately, this will mean a whole host of new Commodore branded and ‘chicken head’ logo-bearing products. 🖋️🤖

Posted by Hanrahan

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7. 📰 Loom (direct link) (👍25 👎1)

from MS-DOS gaming (!dosgaming@retrolemmy.com)

DOS GAME CLUB

First of all returning veteran DGC member Esko ("Firefyte"), who has been speedrunning Loom for many years. Joining the podcast for the first time is DGC member Eino ("Evil Taco"), we love it when we get new people on! And last but not least we are joined by Mads from the Retro Asylum Podcast, who did a podcast on Loom themselves a few years ago. On top of all this, DGC members Watchful, Juan ("Reidrac") and Christian ("stdevel") sent in a voice message. And thanks to DGC member Console for editing the episode, you're a lifesaver! 🖊️️🤖

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8. 🖼️ Review for Retroid Pocket Mini V2 (direct link) (👍14 👎0)

from SBC Gaming (!sbcgaming@lemmy.ml)

Received Retroid Pocket Mini's new OLED screen. The black shell blends well, making letterboxing invisible. Replacement was easy, though their guide isn't optimal. SNES/NES look perfect at native aspect. Love its battery life, ergonomics, and power, but ABXY buttons feel awful. Prefer the Flip 2. 🖍🤖

Posted by Shatur

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9. 📰 [Playstation Lifestyle] Xbox Layoffs Confirmed as Former Exec Says Console Is Dead (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

from PlayStation (!playstation@lemmy.zip)

Xbox Layoffs Confirmed as Former Exec Says Console Is Dead

Microsoft is cutting 9,000 jobs across the company today, with its Xbox gaming division being affected. This will be the fourth mass layoff the company has undergone in the past 18 months. King, the makers of Candy Crush, is eliminating 10% of its employees. Other studios like ZeniMax have also been impacted, while more are expected to be announced. 🖋️🤖

Posted by ZippyBot

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10. 📰 Nigel Mansell World Championship (C64) - 1993 Gremlin - GTW64 (direct link) (👍8 👎0)

from Commodore 64 (!c64@lemmy.world)

Nigel Mansell World Championship (C64)

Status: Preview, Findability: 3/5Keeping with all the hype of the ex-world champion, Gremlin bought the rights to produce a game based on the famous British Formula One driver, with Nigel Mansell’s World Championship. As a result, the game became one of the holy grail titles for the C64, one which many had been looking forward to including myself. Martin Piper for instance found a hidden talking head for Nigel Mansell – likely to have been used for the training segment. Warren Pilkington ripped the tunes as a SID (see downloads) and found 5 unused bits of SFX as well. So at long last – check out something of a Nigel Mansell game on your C64 for yourself as we close the case on a title that has haunted Games That Weren’t for 26 years and C64 users for much longer. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by i_am_not_a_robot

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Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

📰 Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan (direct link), posted in Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS (👍53 👎0)

Nintendo Runs Out Of Replacement Parts For 2DS Systems And New 3DS LL, Ends Repairs In Japan

This includes repairs for "Nintendo 2DS systems" and the New Nintendo 3DS LL (known as the XL model here in the West) - mentioning how it's now officially run out of parts necessary to repair these systems in Japan. Here's the full updated notice (via machine translation):Nintendo: "As we have run out of parts necessary for repairs, we have stopped accepting repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS LL and Nintendo 2DS systems. Please note that repairs for the New Nintendo 3DS system have already ended on August 28, 2024. Nintendo also announced it had run out of replacement parts for the Wii U in Japan last July, and ended online play for both the 3DS and Wii U in the same year. Repair services for these systems haven't been available for some time now in many other parts of the world. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by cm0002

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