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Nice!

You also have Cat Quest 2, which is cute and fun game.

Portal 2 also has a co-op mode and is pretty cheap on sale.

Btw, Lego Harry Potter is divided in 2 games, but you can get them pretty cheap in a Steam sale (the summer sale stars on the 29th)

I can recommend Lego Lord of the Rings. Me and my gf had a lot of fun, and it is the only Lego game I played with her that didn't bore me to death.

We tried Lego Harry Potter, and while she loves it (she loves the Lego games), I just found it boring as hell, so it depends on the person

I am nearly finishing Breath of The Wild, using CEMU instead of using my Switch (which my gf is using to play BOTW and Pokemon Violet), and I am playing Football Manager 2007 for a bit of nostalgia.

I will then finish Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night which is a great metroidvania, for those who loved Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (because it's the same producer, Koji Igarashi).

The first I remember was in my cousin's computer in 99 or 2000, and it was Motocross Madness or Motocross Madness 2.
I remember just going out of bounds for hours just to be thrown into the air ahahah

When I got my personal PC in 2005, my first game was, Need for Speed Underground 2, followed by Pro Evolution Soccer 4, CS 1.6, GTA: San Andreas, and Football Manager 2005

Exactly, I don't see how Microsoft taking Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Starfield, and other games away from Sony and Nintendo increases competition.

It just forces people to buy into their ecosystem (Xbox or Windows) if they want to play the games they could play in their prefered platform before

Yeah, probably looks good to investors

That list is a bit outdated at points.

It's missing Ares for various emulators, RMX for N64, CEMU for Wii U, Duckstation for PS1 (best emulator for the system), for example.

I usually check Emulation Wiki because they have a lot of info.
They usually have the full list of emulators for each system, and them they tell you if it's recommended to use or not.

It's usually also shown if it's open source and in active development.

Right now?
No, I don't think so.

But Windows is getting worse, and GamePass won't be cheap forever.
Same with them putting the games on Steam, it can change on a whim.
I mean, even on PC, nothing stops them from walking back and just making everything Xbox exclusive in the future again.

They can make changes that make it impossible (or extremely hard) for their games to work on Linux using Proton.

There are many ways they can use these company mergers to fuck the consumer in the future.

Consolidation is always a bad thing, in my opinion, because it takes away choice from the consumer and puts it in the hands of trillion-dollar companies whose sole objective is to make ALL the money all the time, forever.

Wasn't the Disney stuff under Trump's administration?
It seems Biden (from an outside perspective, as I am not from the US) is at least trying to reign in companies a bit, so this block isn't that surprising.

The EU decision surprised me more, but I can understand their arguments.

As a gamer, this could be great in the short term, with Activision-Blizzard getting good leadership and hopefully new games from franchises which are not CoD or Diablo.
Medium/Long term, it could be awful, with Microsoft getting more and more market share and then turning around and fucking us in the ass really hard after they lock us in their ecosystem

Redfall seemed more like an "Anthem" situation, where they didn't know what they wanted, just fooled around with company time and money for years, and when MS bought Zenimax cut that shit out and forced them to finish it and ship it.

It was so badly mismanaged that they hoped MS would just cancel it.

Haven't played since 2020 (thanks pandemic for helping me <3) and it was already pretty shitty then.
They had a nice resurgence in 2019 (when I started playing) and took that as an incentive to nickel and dime even more