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On my own personal gaming front, I sadly don't have much to report, plus, it's back to school time which means my time has started to be spent elsewhere.  Mostly I am exhausted and like to just plop down in front of something relaxing.  My go-to relaxing game continues to be PC Building Simulator.  Unfortunately, I've hit level 31, unlocked all the parts, and don't know if simply completing jobs is enough to keep me invested.  I'm on the hunt for another relaxing game to unwind with.

So shiny!  So chonky!

There has been some interesting gaming/hardware news this week.  NVIDIA announced its next generation 3000 series GPU's and, shockingly, some of them could actually be semi-affordable (although, I would say with the state of the world right now, I don't know how many people are going to be clamoring for even the cheapest of the new cards).  They rolled out their announcement with some gorgeous shots of the hotly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 featuring the much lauded, but little understood ray tracing.  I am very much looking forward to Cyberpunk 2077, but won't be trying to beat the ravenous crowds of hardware nerds to these fancy-shmancy GPU's.

Another piece of good gaming news was the announcement that The Witcher 3 is going to be getting a graphical update in time for the release of the next generation of consoles and this includes the PC version (PC Gamer Article)!  It has been a few years since I've delved back into TW3 and this update might just be the thing to start up another adventure with Geralt and pals.  CD Projekt is awesome.

This isn't exactly breaking news, but fairly recently EA decided to begin selling its games on Steam.  I am very excited about this prospect because I was never wild about Origin.  Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can migrate your Origin games over to Steam (sadface).  Weirdly, one of the games I've been feeling a hankering to go back and replay is Mass Effect:  Andromeda.  For a game that was critically panned by many fans of the series, the Steam reviews are currently sitting at "very positive."  I guess time has softened those wounds....

Whether you're starting to scrape up some pennies with the hope of snatching a 3000 series GPU, waiting for TW3 to get all fancied up so you can play through it for the 20th time, or thinking about replaying a game you felt fairly meh about (I'm looking at you Andromeda), have a happy, long Labor Day weekend!