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This Chinese Dark Souls is called Mistfall Hunter, according to an announcement at Xbox conference yesterday

During the Xbox Partner Preview that aired yesterday, the video game developer Bellring Games announced Mistfall Hunter, a third-person multiplayer extraction RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Or, in other words, a very interesting Dark Souls. As explained yesterday, the game is set in a scenario where a relentless war has taken place between the Supreme Gods and the Outer Gods, leading to an apocalypse similar to Ragnarok. Almost all the gods have fallen, and their blood has turned into the Gyldenmist, a corrosive force that has spread throughout the […]

During the Xbox Partner Preview that aired yesterday, the video game developer Bellring Games announced Mistfall Hunter, a third-person multiplayer extraction RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Or, in other words, a very interesting Dark Souls.

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As explained yesterday, the game takes place in a setting where a relentless war has occurred between the Supreme Gods and the Outer Gods, which has led to an apocalypse similar to Ragnarok.

Almost all the gods have fallen, and their blood has turned into the Gyldenmist, a corrosive force that has spread across the land, deforming the souls of the living and driving them to madness and monstrous mutations.

A Declining World We Must Save, As Always

There are still a few humans left, seeking refuge in the last remnants of civilization. However, a mysterious girl named Dew has the power to resurrect fallen heroes and give them immortal bodies.

These reborn champions, known as the Gylden Hunters, follow her into the heart of danger, fighting against Gyldenized creatures and harvesting Gyldenblod. Their mission is to repair the shattered Web of Fate and pull the world back from the brink of oblivion.

Mechanically, Mistfall Hunter is described as a third-person action game where aiming is key. Players can master a wide variety of combos and customize skills to suit their strategy. The game offers different classes, such as the Mercenary, the Sorcerer, Blackarrow, and Shadowstrix, each equipped with unique weapons and traits.

By the way, Mistfall Hunter will have its first closed beta on Steam later this year, and you can sign up by completing this survey.

Some classes can wield multiple weapons, unlocking completely new combat styles. Players can switch weapons to turn the tide of battle. RPG elements are ensured with a variety of talents among the classes to create powerful builds.

As a Gylden hunter, you can play solo or team up with up to two friends. The land is rich in precious Gyldenblod and endless loot, but you will have to face the fearsome Gyldenized creatures and rival players.

As in any extraction game, each battle is a high-stakes gamble, where death means losing everything you have gathered so far, which keeps the tension high at all times.

Today is the best time to buy the amazing Assassin’s Creed Mirage: on Steam and at a historic low price

For us, it is one of the best Assassin’s Creed games of the last decade, a true return to the origins where the charm of pickpocketing, assassinating from the shadows, and establishing justice are the pillars of the adventure. In our review, we made it clear that it is a truly powerful AC and the best installment for those who no longer have 50 hours to spare on a single video game. More is not always better. The latest Assassin’s Creed at 50% off and on Steam. For all those who didn’t play Basim’s adventure, Ubisoft has just launched […]

For us, it is one of the best Assassin’s Creed of the last decade, a true return to the origins where the charm of pickpocketing, assassinating from the shadows, and establishing justice are the pillars of the adventure.

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In our analysis we made it clear, it is a truly powerful AC and the best installment for all those who no longer have 50 free hours to spend on a single video game. More is not always better.

The latest Assassin’s Creed at 50% off and on Steam

For all those who didn’t play Basim’s adventure, Ubisoft has just released the title on Steam, the largest PC gaming client in the world. It’s clear that the French company needs to sell, and there’s no better place than Steam for that.

Additionally, the Ubisoft team wanted to take advantage of the launch on Steam to offer the biggest discount on the game to date, with a 50% discount, it is now only 24.99 euros. The best investment in years.

If you don’t know what to do this weekend, stop hesitating and run to Steam to buy this fun and refreshing adventure. For a truly chilly weekend that’s coming our way, there’s nothing like a blanket and sofa right in the middle of Baghdad.

As I said at the time, I don’t have 50 hours to play, not even dedicating myself to this business. And that’s where Mirage shows that good perfumes come in small bottles: all the essence in little liquid.

Silent Hill 2 Remake confirms with its sales what no one expected

For months we doubted that Silent Hill could be a strong game, and it wasn’t entirely our fault. The trailers looked very bad, the fights between the publisher and the developer, dodging questions from the press… everything indicated that the game was going to be a disaster. Today we know that this was not the case. Konami has proudly announced that the remake of Silent Hill 2 sold more than one million units worldwide between PC and PlayStation 5. And the actual figure must be quite higher if we take into account […]

For months we doubted that Silent Hill could be a powerful game, and it wasn’t entirely our fault. The trailers looked very bad, the fights between the publisher and the developer, dodging questions from the press… everything indicated that the game was going to be a disaster. Today we know that it hasn’t been the case.

Konami has proudly announced that the Silent Hill 2 Remake sold more than one million units worldwide between PC and PlayStation 5. And the actual figure must be quite higher considering that the report only mentions sales from the first five days (up to October 11).

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It is an impressive figure, considering that the game was released on October 7th. It is another indicator of the game’s great reception by both critics and users. On Steam, the Silent Hill 2 Remake did not reach a massive peak, reaching 23,600 concurrent users.

However, user reviews are extremely positive, with 92.5% of players leaving a favorable review. This amount of positive votes is something we didn’t see coming, to be honest.

A game that is almost perfect, an outstanding remake

Unfortunately, the game presents some technical deficiencies on PC, especially regarding scrolling instability, as in most recent Unreal Engine games. Bloober Team still has work to do through patches to fix this.

By the way, the Polish team has hinted that the Silent Hill 2 Remake will not be the end of their collaboration with Konami. Fans of the franchise are already wondering which of the other installments should be remade first. In any case, it will take several years, so it’s best to enjoy this remake and move on until there is something concrete to announce.

Steam has just changed a historic platform policy that affects us all

We have taken several years until a store has taken the step of accepting reality. We players no longer buy games; we buy licenses. And these can expire, as we have unfortunately experienced over the years. Apparently, Steam has started to publish a notice in its shopping cart indicating that purchases in its store are only for a license and not for a game, as discovered and published this morning by Engadget. It seems to be an attempt by the company to get ahead of a new California law that will come into effect next year and requires […]

It has taken us several years to realize the true terms of licenses for gaming stores. Players no longer buy games, we buy licenses. And these can expire, unfortunately, we have seen this over the years.

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It seems that Steam has started displaying a notice in its shopping cart indicating that purchases in its store are for a license only and not for a game, as discovered and reported by Engadget this morning.

It seems like an attempt by the company to get ahead of a new California law that will come into effect next year, which requires companies to admit that buyers do not actually own digital content.

Licenses expire, games don’t

When opening the shopping cart with items inside and before proceeding to checkout, a notice in the bottom-right corner says: “Purchasing a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.” This is the first time we see this, so it seems to be relatively new.

Last month, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, enacted the AB 2426 law, which requires digital marketplaces to make it clear to customers that they are only purchasing a license to access the media.

It will not apply to permanent offline downloads, only to digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows, or e-books from a digital store.

Companies that fail to comply with the regulations could face fines for misleading advertising if they do not clearly explain the limitations of a specific digital purchase. The law is a consequence of situations like that of Ubisoft, which removed The Crew from players’ libraries after the game’s servers were shut down. The world is adapting to the reality we have to live in.

The day Blizzard could have become Steam… but didn’t want to

Steam is currently the most dominant video game store in the entire PC world, a game store owned by Valve, the parent company, and led by the legendary and beloved Gabe Newell. Today, it’s hard to imagine the world of PC gaming without Steam as the gathering and purchasing place for gamers worldwide. However, from what we have learned, there was a window of opportunity for another company to take the position that Steam eventually occupied. Would the future of gaming have been the same? We will never know. But let’s […]

Steam is currently the most dominant video game store in the entire PC world, a game store owned by Valve, the parent company, and led by the legendary and beloved Gabe Newell. Today, it is hard to imagine the world of computer gaming without Steam as the meeting and purchasing place for gamers worldwide.

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But from what we have learned, there was a window of opportunity for another company to take the position that Steam eventually occupied. Would the future of gaming have been the same? We will never know, but let’s tell the story.

In this story, imagine that instead of Valve running a hugely successful online game store, it was Blizzard. It could have happened if the executives had not decided against turning Battle.net into a third-party game store many years before Steam appeared on the scene.

A future where Blizzard would be as powerful as Valve today

The revelation that Blizzard could have potentially taken Valve’s place appears in the new book by the renowned video game journalist Jason Schreier, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment.

According to PC Gamer, Schreier writes that several years before Valve took Steam out of beta on September 12, 2003, a Blizzard programmer named Patrick Wyatt and others pitched to their bosses an idea to turn Battle.net into a digital store with a variety of PC games.

Mike O’Brien, the engineer who proposed and built Battle.net as a free online multiplayer service for Blizzard’s titles, liked the idea. Still, the company’s executives at that time were not convinced and rejected the proposal.

Indeed, Battle.net was launched on December 31, 1996, a few days before the release of the original Diablo, which means they were ahead of Valve’s original idea by six years.

That said, although Blizzard could have made even more money if it had launched a store before Steam, it’s hard to imagine that its version would have been more successful than Valve’s giant.

As you may recall, last month, a series of highly anticipated releases, such as Space Marine 2, Black Myth: Wukong, and God of War: Ragnarök, helped Steam break its concurrent user record once again, attracting 38.3 million concurrent users.

Steam will allow selling games made with AI (as long as there is no deception involved)

Steam, just in case, has welcomed our new leaders with open arms. In June 2023, they were closing the door to generative AI, but now things have completely changed.

It remains to be seen whether AI is the new NFT or, on the contrary, it is the ultimate technological revolution that will leave all of us on Earth outdated. And Steam, just in case, has welcomed our new leaders with open arms. In June 2023, they blocked the way for generative AI, but now everything has changed completely.

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Artificial Games

Starting right now, Steam has surrendered to the evidence and will allow users to upload games made in part or entirely with Artificial Intelligence. In fact, they will allow the vast majority of them unless they commit brutal copyright infringements… And as long as it is properly indicated for potential buyers to have all the information.

There will be two possibilities: either previously created content or content generated in real time. In the first case, we are talking about art, sounds, dialogues or music created during programming, and in the second case, for example, the use of ChatGPT so that the characters’ responses are always original. However, in this case, the programmer must explain specifically what they have done to prevent illegal content from being reproduced.

They also claim that real-time AI sexual games will be prohibited, but in reality, all of this is just smoke and mirrors: no matter how much they want to sell the idea that generative AI is capable of creating without violating copyright, we all know that their models have been trained with millions of images from authors who have not received any financial compensation or given their consent.

Is this the future, to scrutinize every game to check that no one has copied authors of more or less prestige? Wouldn’t it be easier to simply hire an artist or a writer to do the job? The question shouldn’t be so difficult to answer.

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You can finally see PlayStation controller supported games on Steam

Steam has announced the latest updates on its blog, and there is some exciting news for those who use their PlayStation controllers on PC, whether it is DualSense or DualShock. From now on, players will be able to see the games that support these controllers. These features will be available on game pages.

For all you DualShock and DualSense users, navigating the Controller-Friendly section on the Steam Store just got a whole lot smoother. Thanks to the update, you can now effortlessly filter games based on your PlayStation controller of choice, making it a breeze to find games perfectly tailored to your gear.

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The search results now feature handy controller-specific options. This means you can swiftly narrow down your game choices based on whether you’re using an Xbox, DualShock, or DualSense controller. No more wading through games that don’t match your gear – it’s all about streamlining your gaming experience.

Some gamers prefer controllers on PC

Valve is tuned in to the rising trend of controller love among PC gamers. They threw out some eye-opening stats, revealing that about 12% of all active Steam players regularly opt for controllers. And it’s not just any controllers – for certain games, over 80% of players embrace the controller life. Think ball sports games or intense RPGs – controllers are the weapon of choice.

Valve’s update isn’t just about numbers; it’s about recognizing the controller revolution on Steam. Last year, they logged over three billion game sessions with controllers, and here’s the kicker – 60% of them used an Xbox gamepad, with 27% opting for the PlayStation gamepad. That’s a significant leap from four years ago when Steam recorded around 990 million sessions. Controllers are officially taking center stage on Steam.

Here is Steam’s official statement(You can find the full announcement here):

Whenever we’re thinking about what areas of Steam to work on, we like to turn to data, especially to note how things change over time and which indicators suggest particular player interests. When we dig into controller usage data, we see a few interesting changes over the past few years.

  • There were over 3 Billion game sessions that included a controller in the past year
    • 60% Xbox controller
    • 27% PlayStation models
    • The remaining % is made up of Steam Deck, Switch Pro, and hundreds of other controller models
  • The same period four years ago (ending Nov 2019) had 990 Million controller sessions
    • 76% Xbox controllers
    • 19% PlayStation controllers
  • During these four years, PlayStation controllers saw a 4x increase in sessions

Diablo IV arrives on Steam: here’s how it affects you if you’re a player

This year’s most diabolical game will arrive on Steam just for Halloween. This is the masterstroke that has been achieved after the purchase of Xbox at…

For me, it’s one of the best games of 2023, although veteran players of the series are complaining that the endgame isn’t as it should be: bland and with hardly any rewards and incentives to keep playing.

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Well, as we were saying, Diablo IV, one of the most significant games of the year, will arrive on Steam on October 17. The news comes through the gaming news and deals Twitter account Wario64, who spotted an announcement of the infernal RPG on Steam before anyone else.

While it’s available on consoles (except for Switch), the PC version of the game was previously exclusive to Blizzard’s Battle.net service.

A decision that has been a long time coming and where Microsoft has little influence

The expansion of Diablo IV to Steam is in line with Blizzard’s previous efforts to attract more PC gamers, as they made Overwatch 2 available on Steam earlier this year.

Blizzard has stated its intention to bring more of its games to Steam but has not shared which games they plan to offer there or when they would be available.

Overwatch 2 was the first game Blizzard released on the platform and was met with immediate criticism. It currently has an ‘overwhelmingly negative’ rating with over 190,000 reviews, likely due to players’ dissatisfaction with the implementation of a battle pass and canceled content.

“Diablo IV, released in June this year, shouldn’t have that problem as it was generally well-received, and players are quite happy with it. Additionally, Diablo IV will be coming to Steam alongside the highly anticipated Season 2.

For this reason, it’s expected that at least in the first few weeks, user reviews will be quite positive, following a successful first season. Blizzard is taking a significant risk with this Season 2 and Steam launch. There’s a lot at stake.

By the way, if you want to play Diablo IV on your Steam Deck, here’s a very useful guide we released a few days ago to play any PC game on Valve’s console.”

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This is the most used graphics card, according to Steam’s global survey

The expensive prices of the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti coupled with somewhat disappointing performance, and combined with the high availability of the RTX 3060…

Few things are more interesting than the surveys Steam publishes every quarter about the configurations their customers use. And this would be uninteresting in other circumstances, but being a survey with tens of millions of users, the sample size is tremendous.

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September has been another month in which the RTX 3060 has proven to be the GPU with the best performance (1.4% more) among participants in the Steam survey.

The high prices of the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, combined with somewhat disappointing performance, along with the high availability of the RTX 3060 in the second-hand market, have pushed Nvidia’s card to take the top position.

That’s why the RTX 3060 leads the main GPU chart with a share of 6.27%, ahead of the previous number one, the GTX 1650, which is found in 4.78% of the participants’ machines.

The RTX 4000 series fails to convince gamers

The extremely expensive RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 failed to increase their performance, and the RTX 4060 was the best in the series with a tiny increase of 0.31%.

Meanwhile, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX continues to decline, dropping by just 0.2% and currently occupying the 73rd position.

Last month was not the first time the RTX 3060 claimed the top spot in the main GPU chart. It also happened in March, but that month saw a series of unusual changes; the RTX 3060 experienced a massive month-over-month increase of 6.2%, something nearly unheard of.

Valve never provided an explanation, and the survey results returned to normal in April, with the RTX 3060 dropping from the first position.

The most common features of PC gamers

In the rest of the survey, trends were reversed in several categories. Windows 11 has been narrowing the gap with Windows 10 for months, but the older operating system surged almost 2% to nearly 58% in September, while Windows 11 dropped by 1.79% to 37.4%.

Another shift in the status quo occurred in the CPU table. AMD has spent most of the year closing the gap with Intel, but the red team dropped by 2.24% in the latest count, while the blue team increased its market share to 68.77%. Intel could widen the gap further when Raptor Lake Refresh chips land in a few weeks.

Moreover, having six cores solidified as the most common result after a 2.74% increase. Most people have over 1 TB of free space on their hard drives, while the most typical amount of VRAM remained at 8 GB, which is becoming problematic for an increasing number of titles.

Lastly, English continues to be the most common language, but only by a margin of 0.11% after simplified Chinese rose by 5.34%.

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