Board game the Chinese players the option to download their account data before shutting down the servers. Whoever did that will (presumably) have the option to upload that data once the services are restored.

Extremely unlikely, Blizzard probably don't want a bunch of files that have been tempered with. Also, if it's like the data export you can also do for non-Chinese accounts, it's just stuff like transaction history, chats, and essentially your profile in a game like Overwatch (match history, stats, etc.).

Afaik neither blizzard or netease saved any of the data. Blizzard didn’t because Chinese players’ data can’t be stored on servers outside of china and netease didn’t because…fuck 'em?

I've read the exact opposite. When the servers went down Netease (or Blizzard) announced the accounts would stay and be saved.

I've only heard good things and watched a Streamer playing it last year, and I want to play it eventually myself.

While I generally like Souls-like games, I never got into most Fromsoft games, except Elden Ring, so we'll see how it goes.

Maybe Lies of P or Star Ocean The Second Story R, plus one or two "Survivors-like" (Halls of Torment, Death Must Die).

So they have some studios in Russia and Belarus, how does that make them Russian? They also have to studios in Denmark and Sweden, I guess that makes them Scandinavian.

This sounds terrible. I wonder how many more games aren't going to be available in Germany, because nobody is going to go back to fill out this questionnaire for some old game.

It also stinks that the first PC version will almost certainly end up being on Epic before steam.

Square is super inconsistent with this stuff, that it's pretty hard to tell what's going to be an Epic Exclusive and what's not. I do hope there's not going to be a second exclusivity period, before it's coming to Steam though.

Nioh 2 and Satisfactory

It was just a short reply about the top played games on Steam (by playtime), but of course it has to be expanded to a whole, useless article, along with a clickbait headline.

The Trails series (Trails in the Sky and Cold Steel).

Some of the worst villains ever, and you're constantly getting blue balled. The series keeps introducing new characters, that don't matter, and just drag things out for hundreds and hundreds of hours.

Zero and Azure are great though, until they connect back to the main story at the end.

Maybe, back then I read that there are two fan models going around and one is better than the other, so who knows. Or how putting a bit of pressure on a certain spot could help, or things like that. I was toying with the idea of ordering a replacement, when the iFixit stuff was announced, but never did it and forgot about it.

So far my friend is mostly emulating older handhelds, so it doesn't get too hot in the first place, and even if it gets louder it doesn't seem to bother him for now.

I bought a 512GB LCD on release and barely used it, maybe 50h at most. I just found the fan to be really annoying. Once the OLED was announced and reviewers mentioned it was much quieter, I bought it on a whim and sold my old Deck to a friend for cheap.

The fan noise is massively improved, I pretty much don't hear it ever. I'm actually using the Deck now, probably already more than I ever did old Deck, and will look at the performance for games on it, before I buy something.

So, even though I've had a Deck since launch, I'm still pretty new to it, and can't say too many other things about the differences. It was still worth it for me.