Game Room Ver. 4.0 Showcase

I just realized that I have never showed the "completed" Game Room Ver. 4.0 ever since I made mention of it last year. This is partly due to the fact that I wasn't - and still am not - sure of the duration of my stay at my current location. For all I know, I might be moving again next month! Uncertainty can really eat at you and it had a feast on me for a long while until I decided that I would just do the best I could with my situation. So I decked out my latest Game Room to the best of my ability and the video below is the result of all of that hard work! Hope you enjoy the tour and sorry for the very long delay!

Valve Shows the Proper Way to Pre-Order

The Steam Deck is available for pre-order starting 10 a.m. PDT this morning and unlike the horror show of the PlayStation 5 and the X-Box Series X launch, Valve overall did it right. Did the Steam store give you an error when you tried to complete the pre-order as soon as it became available? Of course it did. Or should I say, of course it would. I had to take care of an important business around 10 this morning and I tried to complete my pre-order before I leave and I got an error message. I shrugged it off and left and when I came back around 1 p.m., I went back to the cart and completed the pre-order and it went through. I have seen the mad tweets and articles on the Internet about the "difficulties" securing the Deck and I just laughed. Apparently, these people are not familiar with Steam at all because this always happens during big events. The Steam client and website usually cannot handle the amount of traffic they get during the launch of major sales events but things have gotten better over the years. I usually have wait a couple of hours before I am able to start shopping but I didn't have to do that at all last month during the start of the Steam Summer Sale.

See Sony, it's not that hard to do.

Switch Pro Is Here but It's Steam Deck

Such perfect timing. After the recent announcement of the OLED version of the Nintendo Switch that had the Nintendorks plunging into the deepest and darkest depths of depression, Valve just announced a much better alternative. It's a portable Personal Computer custom built for gaming on the go that looks like a Switch, only it's infinitely more awesome and it's called the Steam Deck!

Stealing Nintendo's thunder like a... wait for it, pro.

YouTube Streaming Keeps Me Focused

I have been broadcasting live on YouTube for a little over a month now. Let's just get one thing out of the way: setting up a livestream on YouTube sucks. It sure feels like they are years behind the type of convenience and technology available on Twitch, the livestreaming site of many gamers' choice that recently justified its way into the lucrative softporn industry to make that as mainstream as gaming. On YouTube, you have to update the livestream page before every stream instead of just hitting the live button on your chosen streaming software. But you know what? This stringent, archaic, and definitely nonsensical setup is actually helping me stay focused on the selection of games that I play by curbing my somewhat wild, mood-driven approach to gaming. So maybe, their design, which feels heavy-handed, is intentional after all?

Olé! It's Only OLED!

The console cycles don't make any sense anymore. They haven't been since the PlayStation 3 era. First and third party developers don't even utilize the technology that's available to them before they introduce newer, supposedly more powerful consoles, only to run the same ugly, rudimentary games that don't require the newer tech all over again. Well, Nintendo. I may not have been a big fan of yours ever since you abandoned the Wii U so very quickly before its time, but I do commend you for not adding to the cycle madness with today's announcement of your new Switch variant... The OLED model.