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Xbox also showed 24% of US active players engaging with Fortnite on Nov 2nd, the highest percentage seen all year.

Source: Circana Player Engagement Tracker

You think Valve doesn't have a monopoly in the PC storefront market? What percentage would you say they'd need to have to consider it a monopoly in your opinion?

#10: The Outer Worlds (PC): For my replay of this game, I decided to do a melee-focused, Dum-Dum character that turned out to be a lot of fun. Forgot how good the writing was in this game, and for my first doing the DLCs, they were both quality expansions. #gamesbeat2025

#9: Borderlands 4 (PC): I was concerned that Gearbox could no longer make a good Borderlands game after BL3 and TTW. Yet this is the second best Borderlands game, only BL2 is better. A very different tone in writing was necessary, which lead to a far superior story compared to BL3. #gamesbeat2025

#8: Borderlands 2 (PC): Ran through this one this time with the Gunzerker. Can I beat Borderlands 3 before Borderlands 4 launches? Probably not lol. #gamesbeat2025

September 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights Thread from Circana - Borderlands 4 Led Several Hit New Releases Helping Deliver 10% Growth in September US Video Game Spending

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Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 unit sales are trending 77% ahead the time-aligned sales of the original Nintendo Switch.

Couple fun US stats from Circana's PlayerPulse (n=5.1k):

Battlefield 6 purchase intenders are 79% male, 47% aged 18-34, 55% play on PC, and 56% intend to also buy Black Ops 7.

Black Ops 7 purchase intenders are 63% male, 32% aged 18-34, 47% play on PC, and 24% intend to also buy Battlefield 6.

Hyper enthusiast, price-insensitive players are really keeping things going, especially in the non f2p gaming space.

According to Circana's Q3 2025 Future of Games, only 4% of US video game players buy a new game more often than once per month, with a third of players not buying any games at all.

Xbox GamePass Price Increase! Still The Best Deal In Gaming? | Is The ROG Ally X An Xbox? YouTube video by Basement Radio Arcade Podcast (BRAP)

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Some early gameplay of Borderlands 4. I’m really enjoying the combat and it’s exactly what this franchise needed. But the performance needs a lot of work, very poorly optimized on PC.

#7: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (PC): Probably beat this one faster than any Borderlands game. Did it in like 17 hours and at level 26. While someone never getting a single legendary to drop. Playing as Nisha was pretty fun. Onto the GOAT, Borderlands 2! #gamesbeat2025

I have somehow 100%'d this game on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. I don't know how it happened, I promise.

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This is what I mean between the Pictos and your active Luminas.

Metal Eden is pretty damn good.

That is all.

#6: Borderlands: GOTY Edition (PC): Kinda mad at myself for taking so long to get through this, but it was a bit of a slog compared to the other games in the franchise. Onto The Pre-Sequel! #gamesbeat2025

‘Perfect Dark’ Developer Lays Off Staff After Funding Deal Falls Through Crystal Dynamics was close to moving the game to Take-Two, but negotiations fell apart

SCOOP: Perfect Dark was almost revived.

The game's developers were close to a deal with Take-Two to fund and publish the game following its cancellation by Xbox in July, sources say, but negotiations fell through, leading to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics last week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 has now surpassed 2 million units sold in the US life-to-date. It is currently 75% ahead of the unit sales pace set by the original Nintendo Switch.

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 drove July’s hardware spending growth. July dollar sales of PS5 hardware fell 47% compared to a year ago, while Xbox Series spending dropped by 69%. Nintendo Switch spending declined 52% year-on-year.

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E Aug 16, 2025

- The Battlefield 6 beta ranked 1st on Steam across the US, Mexico and Canada, while also ranking 4th on both PlayStation and Xbox in the US.

That’s the kind of energy I’m on. If it’s not at least Hall effect, it’s an immediate no.

Yeah, the Cyclone 2 is similar in design to the Xbox controller. Definitely go with the Ultimate 2 if the design of the controller is important.

Oh my bad, it may be hard to read it. The first screenshot shows input lag, and the first 8bitdo Ultimate had the most. The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 performs way better. On the second, it cuts off the full name, but there are two 8bitdo ultimates and one of them has 900hz polling and the other doesn’t.

Nah I meant the first Ultimate is the worst performing controller I have.

If the ergonomics is why you’d choose it, I get it. But I’d recommend the gamesir cyclone 2 over it, as it has a docking station, dongle, but better performance.

You can’t go wrong with 8bitdo….except for their first ultimate controller. 😂

I need to find a way to chart error rate %, but the only controllers that had less than 1% error rate were the Cyclone 2, Razer Wolverine 3 (when it worked correctly, once it showed a 12.5% error rate that was the worst by far) and Guilikit KK3 Max.

The actual worst controller is the Razer Wolverine 3 Tournament Edition. Which I hadn't use in a while, but I had to factory reset it because it wouldn't turn on. Testing had to be attempted multiple times because it kept disconnecting. I call it the worst because it's so unreliable.