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[vg247.com] The new Switch model is out in the wild, and it can run Zelda ​ for five and a half hours vg247.com gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] Zelda Fan Smashes PS4 In Rage  As Breath Of The Wild 'Clone' Genshin Impact Is Revealed nintendolife.com gamingeek
[nintendo.co.jp] Nintendo hosting Nintendo Live 2019 event in Japan ​ on Oct. 13th and 14th, 2019 nintendo.co.jp gamingeek
Combined sales of Mario Kart 8 + 8 Deluxe sit at 26 million making it the second best-selling Mario Kart game of all-time resetera.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Marvelous Europe to Bring New and Revitalised ​ Franchises to Switch within the Next Year (4 new trailers) gonintendo.com media gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] This week's European downloads - August 1 ​ (Chroma Squad, Trine 3 and more) gonintendo.com gamingeek
[youtube.com] Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered  Stay Puft Boss Fight Gameplay youtube.com gamingeek
[nintendo.com] Nintendo confirms Mario Tennis Aces "Game Trials" ​ Switch Online offer for North America nintendo.com gamingeek
[dualshockers.com] CBS All Access to air documentary and limited drama series ​ based on the best-selling novel, Console Wars dualshockers.com gamingeek
[youtube.com] ​Oninaki - new gameplay trailer youtube.com gamingeek
[videogamer.com] Take-Two Interactive credits in-game purchases ​ for its $299 million profit in Q1 2020 videogamer.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Connect Bluetooth Headphones to your Switch ​ with Bionik’s BT Audio Sync -- Now Available gonintendo.com gamingeek
[twitter.com] Nintendo fans protest announcement of Zelda: clone  "Genshin Impact" for PS4 by raging at ChinaJoy event twitter.com news gamingeek
[gameinformer.com] NBA 2K19 now the best-selling entry in the franchise and Take-Two's best-selling sports title ever gameinformer.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] The creepy corridors of video games a brief history on corridors. Worth a read. eurogamer.net editorial SupremeAC
[vg247.com] ​Death Stranding no longer listed as a PS4 exclusive on official site vg247.com gamingeek
[wsj.com] New Switch to Have IGZO Display From Sharp  Videogame maker plans to refresh its lineup with new models this month and next wsj.com gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] Video The "Impossible" Ports ​ That Shouldn't Exist On Nintendo Switch nintendolife.com gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] Hardware Review: 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ - ​ The Best Third-Party Switch Controller Just Got Better nintendolife.com impressions gamingeek
[videogamer.com] Bully 2 rumoured to release next year videogamer.com gamingeek
[videogamer.com] Pokémon Sword will introduce new Galarian forms and a new team videogamer.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Reggie Fils Aime says "facts are facts," fights back ​ against those who claim video games cause gun violence gonintendo.com gamingeek
[gamasutra.com] Square-Enix digital entertainment division sees net sales rise boost attributed to Final Fantasy X/X-2 and XII The Zodiac Age on Switch and XB1 gamasutra.com gamingeek
[siliconera.com] Platinum Games discusses their company's start how Bayonetta came to be, and their future siliconera.com gamingeek
 Astral Chain Japan Trailer youtu.be gamingeek
Testing download speeds and loading times ​ on the Switch revision youtu.be gamingeek
[youtube.com] Video - Wolfenstein and Dishonored Developers  Play Each Other's Games youtube.com gamingeek
[pcgamer.com] Making penises in games: it's hard pcgamer.com editorial Ravenprose
[playstation.com] No Man’s Sky Beyond Introduces the Nexus New Launch Trailer playstation.com media news Ravenprose
Turbografx-16 Mini: 8 New Games Announced! Splatterhouse!! Hells yeah!! youtu.be media news Ravenprose
[cbsnews.com] Someone baked bread with ancient Egypt yeast That someone was Seamus Blackley. Totaly videogame related. cbsnews.com news SupremeAC
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Mon, 05 Aug 2019 18:04:01
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This showed up today.

Butterfox switch joycon grips that are rigid and can be docked without having to remove them. They are pretty good, made for larger hands, they are okay for me even though I have medium sized hands. Not as comfortable as the switch grip.

They are hard and rigid and fit really snuggly into it. You have to pop them out by applying pressure on the part that slides into the brackets. Easier than it sounds but jarring compared to using soft silicon grips. The shoulder buttons are much larger and easier to press. I'm still waiting on the wider grip to slot in between them.

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Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:19:50
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This showed up today.

Butterfox switch joycon grips that are rigid and can be docked without having to remove them. They are pretty good, made for larger hands, they are okay for me even though I have medium sized hands. Not as comfortable as the switch grip.

They are hard and rigid and fit really snuggly into it. You have to pop them out by applying pressure on the part that slides into the brackets. Easier than it sounds but jarring compared to using soft silicon grips. The shoulder buttons are much larger and easier to press. I'm still waiting on the wider grip to slot in between them.

Nerd! Nyaa

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Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:38:15
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Nerd! Nyaa

But a nerd with less neck pain. smiley

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Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:05:46
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So glad I'm not a nerd. Cool

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Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:38:17
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So glad I'm not a nerd. Cool

Same here. cool

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:07:03
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VG27/4 in the article about Switch's with the revised processor arriving at retail:

"Is that enough to justify a system upgrade? Probably not. But we sure would like to be able to replace the battery inside our own Switches."

Another great example of games 'journalism'.  it's the exact same battery, you yolks.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:09:37
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Hey GG, how about trying to purchase a cheap broken Switch so you can use that as a spacer while playing on the telly?  Not sure how much taht'd cost, but in the end it might save you from buying a lot of plastic tat that you won't ever use again.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:15:24
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VG27/4 in the article about Switch's with the revised processor arriving at retail:

"Is that enough to justify a system upgrade? Probably not. But we sure would like to be able to replace the battery inside our own Switches."

Another great example of games 'journalism'.  it's the exact same battery, you yolks.

Not to mention that a more efficient CPU which runs the system at a cooler temp which helps prolong the life of the system is a much better reason to upgrade then a mere increase in battery size.

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Not to mention that a more efficient CPU which runs the system at a cooler temp which helps prolong the life of the system is a much better reason to upgrade then a mere increase in battery size.

I wonder if that is true.  You could argue that more efficient processors (those with smaller nodes, 7nm compared to 16nm for example) would be more prone to shortcircuiting as the smaller nodes are easier to melt when running a current through them...

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:05:49
SupremeAC said:
Archangel3371 said:

Not to mention that a more efficient CPU which runs the system at a cooler temp which helps prolong the life of the system is a much better reason to upgrade then a mere increase in battery size.

I wonder if that is true.  You could argue that more efficient processors (those with smaller nodes, 7nm compared to 16nm for example) would be more prone to shortcircuiting as the smaller nodes are easier to melt when running a current through them...

Not sure. I was just always under the impression that heat was detrimental to electronic devices and components.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:31:13

So my other part arrived.

It's a wide spacer. Used by itself it's a lot lighter than using the switch bundled grip, but without handles it's a touch hard to manouvre without it feeling somewhat, off.

With these:

Attached it's much better, though it's hard to remove your joycon from these grips and it already started to crack my joycon case a tiny bit. To be fair they are supposed to be left on permanently but then you can't flip them and use them for 2 player action which kind of negates the whole point of the joycon.

If I were to leave them on it is kinda cool and chunky and fairly solid and the shoulder buttons are larger and much easier to use. I just dont like that I might crack my joycon should I remove them and put them on a lot. It's a dilemma.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:37:17

So as expected I use SPlatoon 2 to test my contraption.

Grizzco was offline so I turf warred alot and omg......... still. The team with the most machine guns wins.

It's so banal when you are put on a team with 3 rollers and a sniper vs all machine guns. Or on a team with a brush, a sniper and a blaster vs all machine guns. You can just look at the results screen and know who would have won based on the weapon balance of each team OR....... which ever team has a disconnect automatically loses. And you have a disconnect in every quarter of matches at the moment. Ugh.

It still also sucks when you are shooting someone and their shots are hitting you, but for no reason your shots aren't registering as hits and then you die a half second later. Wondering wtf is going on.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:06:19
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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:09:51

^ no cat in the image?  sad

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It still also sucks when you are shooting someone and their shots are hitting you, but for no reason your shots aren't registering as hits and then you die a half second later. Wondering wtf is going on.

It's because of lag.  The original was much better in this respect and as a result felt much more fair.  I find Splatoon 2 neigh unplayable because of this.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:12:29
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^ no cat in the image?  sad

It's because of lag.  The original was much better in this respect and as a result felt much more fair.  I find Splatoon 2 neigh unplayable because of this.

Why does it always feel like the lag works against us and in favour of the opposition though?

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:15:03
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^ no cat in the image?  sad

No white stain either...yet

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:09:17
That looks quite nice, GG. I hope it works well for you.

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:15:34
That GameXplain trailer seems to explain exactly nothing. I was expecting them to rip open both the old and 'revised' joycons to determine if there was a discernable difference, but they went on and on about how they were the same size and weight. Utterly useless.
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Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:04:42
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That GameXplain trailer seems to explain exactly nothing. I was expecting them to rip open both the old and 'revised' joycons to determine if there was a discernable difference, but they went on and on about how they were the same size and weight. Utterly useless.

Spawn Wave will be taking apart the new controllers so he’ll no doubt point out any differences. I think he’ll put up a video of it tomorrow.

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Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:08:05

PSA: Ducktales Remastered is being delisted August 8th, only two days from today.

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