Norris has it in the bag thanks to those extra two points he got from the super unfortunate Antonelli snap that let him overtake. I can just feel a Norris third place incoming, which is enough to guarantee it for him. I feel like a VER PIA NOR podium is the destined lukewarm milk of an ending this championship battle is set for. I hope I’m wrong though.

Is there a sister community for people who keep buying games and still keep playing the same old games as always regardless? Definitely asking for a friend, absolutely haven’t spent another month on STALKER Anomaly instead of working on the backlog. No sir.

Lovely shot. I like how the angle of the crane and the road create a strong sense of movement and left-to-right pull.

I mean, I love NV and think it’s by far the best 3D Fallout, but it’s also got a ton of performance and bug issues. Partly due to the engine they were working with and the insane development cycle, but still. The game isn’t without issues. It’s famously unstable and buggy if played without mods. I also think it needs mentioning that a lot of the assets look out of place, because they are. The game had such a short development cycle that a lot of them are just reused FO3 assets.

I love it, but there is a reason so many people recommend something like the Viva New Vegas modlist even for a first playthrough.

I have seen debates of both 3 and 4 over New Vegas. These arguments tend to come almost exclusively from newer fans. Anyone who played 1 and 2 first, especially back in the day, tends to have a much less favourable view of the Bethesda Fallouts. But there are tons of Bethesda-first fans who came into Fallout after first playing Skyrim, typically. The 4 fans either love the base building or tend to think the other games are “too old looking/feeling”. The 3 fans… I don’t even know, that game is pretty terrible I think. But they tend to argue the design of the world in 3 is better to explore than New Vegas.

I haven’t personally heard anyone argue 76 is the best Fallout, but I’m sure someone is out there.

I remember SLI! Those were fun times. With today’s prices I’m glad the concept never amounted to anything, though.

Of course. But also: Gene Haas is getting on in years. Whoever inherits the company when he kicks the bucket might want to cash out.

I forgot about those because I never played them myself and honestly this year has been awash with so many good releases that they kind of slipped my mind. But you’re absolutely right!

Interesting that they didn’t include Ninja Gaiden 4 in an otherwise incredibly exhaustive list, but apart from that I think this is as close to “every notable 2025 release, summarised and collected” as you’re going to get.

Toyota looking for a full buyout maybe? The Rovanperä masterplan is loading 👀

Twice!

F.E.A.R. was eventually fixed. I’m pretty sure only the multiplayer.exe. still has DRM. I played it recently including the expansion and it was just fine.

The only black-and-white rule is: if you’re buying an older game you should always buy it on GOG. No exceptions. There’s too many retro games on Steam that won’t even launch on modern machines, and beyond that GOG is typically very good at including fan made patches and fixes into their versions of old games, ensuring older games actually work and are just plug-and-play.

That turned out to be a lot more exciting than I feared! Not a banger by any means but I was expecting literally nothing. And all it took was an all-time blunder from McLaren. Really hard to understand their thinking but I’ll take it. Having a 3-way title fight going into the last race is not exactly common so I’m not going to complain too much about this race itself being pretty uneventful as far as on-track action goes.

I think Hanna Schmidt really goes unappreciated. Red Bull are so good on strategy, always proactive and so rarely commit major blunders. Was very happy to see her both on the podium and interviewed after the race for once.

Also can’t stop thinking about how much worse this could have been for McLaren if Alonso hadn’t spent half the race backing up the entire field. This was already bad but imagine Oscar and Lando having to pit into heavy traffic, on a track like this? I guess the lesson for the day is that coke is good for the pit crew because that 1.8 sec stop was brilliant, but maybe don’t let your strategists in on doing lines.

Either damage, puncture or maybe low fuel or something. He was crawling for that last two laps.

That was some coke-fuelled pit stop action. 1.8!?

Norris damage? He was pretty harsh on the curb there

I think the Vegas wet qualy with full wets randomly being used in the desert takes it for me, but yeah this was also a banger!

This Alonso train sure is something. He’s actually going to buy the McLarens a pitstop window.

I can’t imagine watching F1 without Multiviewer.