Upcoming Games (PC-centric Edition)

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Day 1 on Xbox Game Pass
 
June 22, 2023
Day 1 on Xbox Game Pass
I only learned about this one because it's a Game Pass release in a few days, and I try not to clutter this thread with independent releases, only the most significant ones, but it looks pretty sick for a smaller game, and the last game released by this dev, The Final Station, in 2016, garnered very positive reviews from Steam gamers.


https://www.bookwalkergame.com/
https://twitter.com/bookwalkergame?lang=en
 
July 26, 2023
Another one that isn't new, but is new to PC. It's curious that Sony seems to be doing a better job than Microsoft of implementing DirectStorage in their ports (recall that Forspoken was the first game released on PC to support the technology):
The PS5 game that was ‘impossible without SSD’ doesn’t need one on PC
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was the poster child for the PlayStation 5’s blazing fast solid-state drive — but on PC, it doesn’t technically need one at all...Sony, Insomniac, and lauded port developer Nixxes have revealed the game’s PC system requirements, which show you can get away with the standard spinning magnetic platters of a traditional hard drive if you’re satisfied with minimum spec (720p at 30fps).

Before you hold this up as the latest proof that the PS5’s SSD was unnecessary, you should also know there’s another technological innovation at work here: Microsoft’s DirectStorage, whose recent version 1.2 added the ability to buffer data from slow hard drives before passing it along to your GPU to rapidly decompress game assets.

In the blog post, Nixxes’ port of Rift Apart claimed to be the very first game to implement DirectStorage 1.2, and principal programmer Alex Bartholomeus specifically suggested it’s the reason you can use a traditional hard drive.
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https://insomniac.games/game/ratchet-clank-rift-apart/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_&_Clank:_Rift_Apart
https://twitter.com/insomniacgames
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/ratchetandclankriftapart
https://discord.com/invite/UyAeTgJ
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