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Ah yes the game gadget, so much wasted potential. In hindsight it reminds me of game room on live arcade. That had the potential to be brilliant (it’s why we put it on the cover) but the promised extra licences never appeared, the game releases dried up and it died. My understanding is that this is a different blaze to the blaze of old. They certainly weren’t happy when I mentioned Game Gadget to them

That makes sense @Uzi I think my confusing has come from the fact I used to get duplicates of cards previously and that's no longer happening. I certainly like the idea of selling cards I'm assuming they get added to your steam wallet?

I've been playing Far Cry Primal for the last week and I've been enjoying it quite a lot. Initially I was getting a fair few trading cards, but now I'm not getting any at all. I can't work out if you get cards for playing for a certain amount of time, for achieving certain goals or because I'm not in the Steam client. I purchased the game on Steam, but can't play it unless UPlay is turned on. Sometimes Uplay is working (I can tell because it shows a framerate counter in the top corner) and sometimes it doesn't appear to be there. Could it be that uPlay is taken over from Steam and that's why I've not unlocked the remaining cards?

My daughter would approve of all those LEDs @skittles Glad you're enjoying it, can't wait to get mine.

I've been surprised by how many shmups are coming over to Steam. It's weird that the Psikyo shooters don't allow you to save scores (I'm not sure if this is updated yet) but games like Raiden III and Ikaruga are certainly making me think about selling off my physical versions. Oh and now I'm working permanently from home I've discovered that my new monitor actually swivels so I can enjoy games in Tate mode

I reckon they're going to aim for 2 carts a month. I can certainly manage that.

I tried to load up Monster Hunter today, just so I can see how it compares but it keeps crashing. I got to the title screen one and it showed everything as being on low settings. I tried updating my drivers but it won't do it, possibly because it wants windows 10 and I'm on 7. Oh well. Not long to wait.

I'll certainly consider it when I get around to a new monitor but it's not on the horizon for a while. I'm not very good at those sorts of games so steer clear of them

I bought it in the steam sale so will have a look at that and see how it runs on my current system

Does it make that much difference? I remember running DMC as it ran at 140fps on my PC and I certainly didn't notice it feeling any more fluent than when it ran at 60. It certainly didn't look more fluid to my eyes. I've ordered this https://www.scan.co.uk/shops/3xs-pc-of-the-month so hopefully that will reach the 120 you're mentioning. I don't really play online games so hopefully that side of it shouldn't be an issue. I hate the idea of letting people down in-game because my system doesn't have the required grunt.

I'm purposely playing Farcry Primal at 30 on high settings so I can be blown away when I move over to 60. It makes such a huge difference to how a game plays for me.

So far I've picked up Far Cry Primal Apex edition Monster Hunter World Dodonpachi Ikaruga I've got my eye on the Jurassic World bundle as well

Nice I'll certainly be up for that then when my PC turns up in a couple of weeks

Is that the Microsoft thing? I did join it but it won't load as I'm currently on Windows 7 still

This video has shot up in views compared to the one I did last week. Either the algorithm is kicking in for my consistency or people just really like expensive Saturn shmups. Or it's just a freak of nature