NotE3 2022 - Socoder

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Socoder -> Misc Gaming -> NotE3 2022
Tue, 31 May 2022, 15:25
Jayenkai	NotE3 2022 As we enter the month of June, and with E3 being officially cancelled, it's time for completely sporadic videogame news to start popping out from all over the place. Here's a new Sonic Frontiers teaser, with IGNs grubby mitts all over the title of the video. View on YouTube There's apparently a PokÃ©mon thing tomorrow, and Sony later in the week. Xbox are doing something next week, as are Apple. Sure to be a fun month of interesting and amazing things.. .. most of which we won't see until next year! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 01 Jun 2022, 02:40
Pakz	I think they delayed Bethesda's 'Starfield' Apple is rumored to release the new Macbook Air next week. With a new 3nm m2 chip. I hope it has a good improvement on single core performance.
Wed, 01 Jun 2022, 16:26
rockford	I hope Nintendo at least show something of the next Zelda game. Pikmin 4 would be nice too, it's only been about 100 years since it was announced...
Thu, 02 Jun 2022, 15:57
Jayenkai	View on YouTube The Sony Event is about to start.. (and/or has already started, and/or finished a while ago, depending on when you read this.) .. Pretty much the "Is there a new Parappa, yet?" show, as far as I'm concerned. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 02 Jun 2022, 16:28
Jayenkai	Thoughts RE4 again : Nah RE VR : Couldn't play that if I tried! Walking Dead thing, I'm fairly sure just dropped on the Quest, didn't it?! No Man's Sky : Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom!!! Maybe not in VR, though! But.. Mmmmm... Horizon : Those "machines" look like Zoids..!! Horizon update on PS4 : That looks a nice game. Wonder how Open World it is..? Spiderman on PC : OK, neat. Sony branching out to make more PC stuff. Stray : Meow! I've seen footage of this before, and it looks just as lovely now, as it did, then! "PS5 And PS4" .. Cool! Callisto Protocol : Yet another FPS survival horror with no doubt a heavy storyline that's probably unstoppable. I'd rather play oldskool Doom. Rollerdrome : Jet Set Radio - Deathmatch? Looked neat. Eternights : "What do you mean we can't have the Evangelion license?" Street Fighter 6 : Is that a proper Double-Dragon style story mode?! Not sure.. Tunic : 3D Indie explore-em-up.. Could be fun. Season - A Letter to the Future : No story bollocks for this one, please.. Just let me travel. That looks gorgeous!!! Final Fantasy FFXVI : ... Final Fantasy, innit.. shrugs .. and that's the lot. No Parappa. booooo PS5 VR sure does look powerful as hell. Niiiice!! But, I doubt I could cope with the cable. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 06 Jun 2022, 10:48
Jayenkai	View on YouTube Apple Event incoming. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 06 Jun 2022, 12:47
Jayenkai	Thoughts on the Apple Event > Reveal 🔎 Apple Event iOS 16 Lock Screen Change the font of the time. Nice tweaks to the photo's filter, etc. I mean... Sure, ok, but it's no Windows Smartphone, is it!?! Multiple Photos/Lockscreens/Homescreens/Browser Tabs/Messages/etc, linkable to different "Focus" modes. Messages Edit/Undo for messages, along with "Mark as Unread" Shared With You API to clutter up every bloody app. SharePlay within messages.. Not sure how that works.. But, ok.. AI Stuff Punctuation in Dictation.. (About fucking time Exclamation Point) LiveText in Videos. Kinda handy. Camera translate, so I don't need the Google Translate app any more! Magic Cut to "lift" objects automatically from images.. Foooookkk!!!! Wallet ID for Americans. Handy, but can I have one please? I have no ID!! Keys : shrugs I never go anywhere! Apple Pay : I do use this a ton, online, but this is all "go places" stuff, so no use for me. Apple Pay Later : 0% APR over six weeks. .. Mmmm! But I already use Amazon 5-month, when I need to. Apple Pay Order Tracking : Will still be pissing useless when the product ends up in the hands of Royal Mail, then disappears for three weeks. Maps 11 More countries for New Map. 6 More "Enhanced" cities Multistop Routes, so you can plan a route! Transit : Now includes "how much it'll cost".. You know that's not happening in the UK!! "Look Around" Add Apple's StreetView clone to your own apps. Sports... .... tuned out a bit, here Scores pop up on your home screen. Amazeballs. News has news of sports. Amazeballs. US/UK/Canada and Australia Thank god that bit's over. Family Sharing Extra Parental Controls, including "easy" ways to set up new devices for kids, and things of that type. .. Wonder if this works for me setting up Mum's iPad, too!? Photos Shared Photo Library for your family. One library shared with up to 5 people. Choose what to share. Sounds like a "person having an affair, accidentally shares photo" incident waiting to happen! Privacy Safety Check : Great stuff for victims. Allows users to basically block out all of another person's access to your secure data. HomeKit New SmartHome compatibility standard : Matter Privacy "Matters", but everything should be "Even Easier" .. .. it never is! All new interface, showing devices by room or category. CarPlay Next-Gen Car Play, replaces ALL of the dashboard with a giant digital screen, so that once your phone crashes/does an update, you're fucked!!! .. "and that's iOS 16" -=-=- Apple Watch bit tunes out again Apple Watch is lovely. It is healthy. New features. Apple Watch. Look at your Watch. It has a face. Look, the time. Oh. Wow. "Lovely Colour Combinations" All the things you can do on your phone, you can do on your watch.â€¨We'll repeat some of those things we just told you, so you know you can do them on your watch, too. Health Look at the numbers. No numbers yet? Run, you lazy bastard. Now look at the numbers. (This guy's explaining how pedometers work) RAWR! Intense Health!! How far did you run?â€¨That's not enough. The watch is alerting you now. Woot Woot Woot. It can even beep if you're not running fast enough, you lazy bastard! KEEP RUNNING!! There's a new Trialthlon mode. Run, Swim, Ride your bike. Get off your arse... iOS16 now includes the Fitness app, which .. .. is what the Health app was already doing, right?! What's that for!? I dunno. I'm not fit. Sleep - This is more like it! Except the Apple Watch battery doesn't last long enough to cope with all-day AND all-night. It can't do this. AFib History to track AFib.. "We expect to get FDA clearance, soon!" Medications App Track your meds, get notifications, etc. That notification thing would probably be useful for me. Of course, the hardest part of taking my meds is getting the damn chemists to bloody well deliver the sodding things, but I don't think a watch is going to solve that. Also seems to be able to track when meds clash. Kinda cool. "You can now connect your watch to your Apple TV!" .. um.. cool?!! "Can't wait to get it into the hands of users" .. "onto the wrists of users", surely!?! -=-=- Emmmm-Twoooooo 100Gb/s Memory bandwidth Up to 24Gb memory 8Core 18% M1 to M2 "up to" 10Core GPU 25% M1 to M2 .. That doesn't sound THAT big of an increase. I might wait for M3 to show up before upgrading my Base MacBook Air M1 -=-=- All New MacBook Air M2 - from $999 Big F-Keys... Magsafe The High-Impedance Headphone jack The Notch.. Aaaargh!!!! Arrrgghhh1!!!! AAARRGggghhh!!!! 1080p Webcam. (I haven't yet used my Macbook's webcam!) Audio : This is definitely the downside of my MacBook. Kinda sucks, if I'm honest. This one looks better. Performance : Repetition of the M2 stuff. Plug's got two USB ports on it. Woot! But, nah. I'm ok with mine. I'm happy. Stop looking at it.. -=-=- Macbook Pro M2 - from $1199 Same device, different chip. "And playing graphics intensive games"... ... What graphics intensive games!?!? "Multitasking is super fluid" Yeah, it's the same chip.. Stop repeating yourself! -=-=- MacOS : Ventura Stage Manager Minimised versions of background windows get shoved to the left hand side of the screen, whilst the current window takes up the majority of the screen. It's a bit like Multiple Desktops, but all on one screen. Not sure about the Drag'n'Drop. It does that annoying "... .. hold.. wait.. you mean this.. ok!" thing that the Mac seems to do. Spotlight More functionality. Spotlight is great, but I'm not sure how much I use it other than occasionally launching Terminal! Mail Undo, Schedule send, "Remind me", etc for emails Search, etc. I rarely use Mail on the Mac. But having this stuff on iOS might be useful. Safari (Don't fuck up the address bar again!) Shared Tabs, so you can build insane numbers of tabs together with your family and friends! Passkeys - No Passwords Standard : I might have to hunt for how to add that to SoCoder. God knows it's going to be a sodding minefield! Gaming ... Fucking 'ell!!! Aaah, it's all about Metal. Of course. OMG, THAT WAS NO MAN'S SKY!!!!! OMG! OMG!OMG!OMGO!MGOM!OGMO!MOOGMO!MOMGOM!MOGMMO!OMG!OMG!OMGO!MMG!MGOMGM!OG! Res Evil Village : Later this year : Still as Meh as my uninterest during the Playstation event. Continuity Hand off is coming to FaceTime, so you can get confused when you're trying to use your laptop, and your phone rings. You can now mount your phone to your MacBook to use the Phone's camera instead of the webcam. ... So why the hell is the notch there!?! Mounts are available later this year, from Belkin. They're going to price those high, aren't they!!? -=-=- iPadOS 16 "Even Further" .. Like all the stuff we already told you about, and weather. Collaboration Does what Google Docs did years ago, letting you edit documents together. You can also connect people together in messages, FaceTime and other things, as well as switch to other apps and stay connected. Collab-API to add the same functionality to your own app. Freeform Like a giant whiteboard you can use between all the people you're collaborating with. That looks handy. Scribble ideas down, things like that. Gaming Metal 3 again. Background Download API, so you don't have to sit and wait for big downloads. GameCenter Activity on the dashboard. See what games your friends are playing, and such. You have a Profile, now. Blimey, that only took about 20 years. Desktop Class iPad Apps Big update to Files. Are those going to be enough!? In-line Find+Replace Customisable Toolbars!! Reference Colour : "OMG! Screen good!!" -=-=- M1 in iPad New display scaling for split-view Virtual Memory Swap - allowing apps to use the full 16Gb Stage Manager - to the iPad. Allowing you to multitask like the Mac version does. Resizable windows. Overlapping windows!?!?! Fook!!! External display AS a second display! "Up to 8 apps simultaneously" Mmmm! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 06 Jun 2022, 13:48
Pakz	I think for me getting a new iPad pro at the end of the year might be worth it. The double the memory bandwidth sounds interesting. I'm getting a book on learning and statistics from data. Simulations I experiment with also. The additional speedups can help there. Though I only know how to use 1 core at the time. With the racing game and such I could use some extra power. My iPad m1 currently leaves my gaming laptop from 2017 in the dust. Even my current 2020 gaming laptop is slower.
Mon, 06 Jun 2022, 16:22
Jayenkai	Bill & Ted's Excellent Retro Collection is coming to PS4/5/Switch -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 07 Jun 2022, 08:47
Jayenkai	iPadOS16 - can't seem to access Stage Manager, so I'm assuming it's M1 only. (Works fine on Mac, but is far too swoopy, and is kicking off my nausea!!) Tried the "grab person from photo" and.. yeah, that works!! > Reveal 🔎 -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 07 Jun 2022, 11:06
Jayenkai	View on YouTube Sonicy'y stuffs -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 12 Jun 2022, 10:15
Jayenkai	View on YouTube Xbox/Bethesda event incoming. Goldeneye? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 12 Jun 2022, 13:02
Jayenkai	Jay's thoughts.. > Reveal 🔎 XBothesda Redfall : Fallout the Vampire Slayer! A vampire survival horror based in Massachusetts, or "Massive-two-shits" as my Mum enjoys saying. .. Every single time!! Hollow Knight : Silksong Looks alright, but a little too frantic for my old eyes! High On Life A neat neon Sci-fi FPS that looks more fun than it oughta be, "I need more stabbin' " Riot Games (!?!) comes to Xbox/Gamepass League of Legends (!!?!) Legends of Runeterra (!?!) Teamfight Tactics (!?!?!) and more, are all now part of Gamepass. Woot. A Plague Tale Requiem "Lady hides under table, the videogame" Forza Motorsport : "Real time raytracing" wowie.. That looks lovely.. I should probably play some of these, but they don't work too well via Cloud! Too much lag. Sure would be nice to just get out of the car and wander around this great big expansive map. Flight Sim Neeeawwww.. I had a play of this in GamePass Cloud recently, and .. worked as well as can be expected. I mean, sure it's lovely and all, but it's still Flight Sim. It still whinges at you when you nosedive into the local Cricket Club. ... .. And the Halo ship is now available in Flight Sim, because.. .. Sure, ok, why not!?! Overwatch 2 Free to Play?? How does Free to Play work on Gamepass? Civilisation? Populous? Age of Empires? No, it's ARA : History Untold !?! Elder Scrolls : Online : High Isle "A Brand New Adventure" it suggests. Sure looks big. Wonder how "Just go!" it is? Fallout 76 : Expeditions : The Pitt Expect a myriad of Downtown covers to bombard YouTube. A very small mention of Starfield : An "Epic RPG"!? Forza Horizons 5 Ditto from earlier, but it's gone into some kind of crazy MarioKart route, with giant Hot Wheels Tracks all over the place. How bizarre.. .. Oh, and it's officially licensed as Hot Wheels, too. How odd! Zoids!!! No, it's ARK again. I need to stop thinking of that as Zoids. Looks Zoids'y though. Scorn, a gloomy miserable looking FPS that looks like it wants to be the Matrix's Real World.. shrugs Flintlock "I intend to kill a God" followed by generic FPS stuff, but with magical powers, and the ability to Ring-Dash like wot Sonic does. Mojang Presents "A new game"!!! Crikey!! Oh, but it's still a Minecraft game. Minecraft Legends : A strategy game Lightyear Frontier Harvest Moon meets No Man's Sky? Is Lightyear a reference to Buzz? And is Frontier a reference to .. Frontier?! Gunfire Reborn This reminds me of that teddy-bear (/cats?!) FPS on the Dreamcast, and I'm damned if I can remember its name, right now. I'd play this one! The Last Case of Benedict Fox Crazy looking platformer, with lots of nice graphical effects. Mmmm.. Yes please! As Dusk Falls "An Interactive Story" Nope. If I want to chill out and enjoy a TV show, I don't want to have to do it with a gamepad in my hand, occasionally hitting A because the TV show thinks it has to be interactive. .. at 2fps.. Naraka : Bladepoint "Flash Flash flashy flash" .. Made me a bit nauseous, this trailer, if I'm honest. Looks like a giant battle-royal sword fight thing, but with a Story mode that keeps reminding me of Soul Calibur.. Pentiment This looks exactly like the sort of crappy RPG guff that I couldn't be arsed reading. Call me lazy, but we stepped up to Talkie adventure games in the mid-90s. Grounded "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" the videogame. A decent looking FPS with a sense of humour. (Getting sick of that "Boom : World Premiere" thing, by this point..) Ereban : Shadow Legacy Another FPS with mystical powers. Once you've seen one balloon... Diablo IV Another FPS with mystical powers. Once you've seen one balloon... New Class : Necromancer : To help defeat Lilith. I'm sure somebody gives a shit about this. "An open world.." Oh, I bet it's not.. Season Seven of Sea of Thieves A lovely "Pirate Captain" little song I enjoyed this trailer Ravenlok "Alice through the looking glass..?! Looks like a nice little retro styled 3D platformer. Cocoon Nice!!! Some kind of 3D puzzle platformer, from the looks of it. Carry the little orbs around to solve puzzles and then solve more puzzles and stuff. Wo Long : Fallen Dynasty Zombies and Swords. A battle eternally retold. A bunch of Persona games (3, 4 and 5) are coming to GamePass. I've never played any of these. Are they any good?!â€¨They look too JRPG for me. A wild Kojima appears "I'm going to make a game for Xbox" Oh, ok.. That's all. Bye Kojima.. Finally, here's that Starfield they mentioned earlier. "It's an epic role playing game" Sounds very much like a No Man's Sky/Elite, but .. oooh, that looks gorgeous. I do hope it's as open world as NMS is. Looks a lot more lively, but I can't help but feel like this footage is the tutorial level, especially when the guy on stage talks of having to go from specific Planet A to specific Planet B in order to kick off the "What's out there" storyline guff. Voice acting doesn't really allow for a whole lot of pseudo-random elements. "You can even build your own spaceships" : Is a direct dig at No Man's Sky. cheeky feckers. Oh, and no Goldeneye.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 13 Jun 2022, 00:59
Pakz	With those lootboxes and other ways to spend money in games. I kind of have no feeling for modern games anymore. In Diablo 4 it costs 100.000 dollars to get the most powerful armor. Diablo 4 is not even for sale in Belgium and Holland because of that. Starfield might look interesting. But Bethesda has been trying to milk every game since Oblivion with inapps. I am very much not going to play Starfield if there is any ingame store. It wil be a year after release before any game breaking bugs have been fixed anyway. Starfield would have 1000 skyrim size planets. Probably empty?
Tue, 28 Jun 2022, 10:25
Jayenkai	View on YouTube Nintendo finally did a direct, and Jay finally downloaded Portal! .. except now he's moved the Switch Dock, so will need to find a different way to let Mum play it. Bugger.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''