Justin Trudeau announced that he intends to resign as the Liberal Party Leader, and the Prime Minister of Canada today after the party selects its next leader. Trudeau's resignation has been streamed by various platforms such as: CBC, CTV News, Global News, CPAC, Radio-Canada.

His decision comes after months of criticisms including within the Liberal Party and the resignation of Chrystia Freeland, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada since 2019. Justin Trudeau will remain as the Prime Minister for now until the Liberal Party finds a new leader.

Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Leader Opposition, posts his reaction saying that Trudeau's resignation came only due to his unpopularity for the upcoming Federal election. And that the Liberal Party is looking for a new candidate to resume the same agenda emphasizing his call for a Carbon Tax Election and dump the NDP-Liberal Party coalition. Jagmeet Singh, NDP Leader, stated that Justin Trudeau has let Canadians down with the increased cost of living saying that the Liberal Party are more interested in themselves. Jagmeet adds that Pierre Poilievre is a threat to the middle class of Canada.

The new Prime Minister will be dealing with woes of increased cost of living; furthermore, providing affordable housing in a midst of a housing crisis; cracking down on crimes and drugs; tackling on the illegal immigration issue with remark from Donald Trump's imposed tariffs; and bolstering the defense budget to meet NATO target. In summary, restoring Canada's image at home and on the world stage.

And just like that, the 2024 Steam Winter sale is live. The sale will last until January 2, 2025. Personally, I don't have anything specific in mind; maybe a couple of cozy games or an RPG; but GOG is also having a similar sale. Oh, better buy those winter themed Steam profile icons from the points shop.

Maybe get Palworld in time for their major update.

GOG is hosting its 2024 Winter Sale until January 2. GOG is slowly getting popular due to reassuring and explaining to customers what it means to buy games from them. GOG provides you with the installer for your purchased games.

While Steam has made it clear that players purchase a license to play the game, some are concerned about the "license" keyword. That is, some players interpret it as not "really" owning the game. In addition Steam has to be normally tethered to the Internet to play games. Not to mention connecting to Steam first and then being able to download the game.

Whereas GOG states that if you bought your game, you own it. And reassuring you with an offline installer to your game. GOG is formerly known as Good Old Games.

Palworld will release its next major update on December 23 dubbed as Palworld: Feybreak. The major update will add another island that is 6x bigger than Sakurajima Island. Feybreak will also host a new faction leader (boss?), new set of weapons to craft, and new Pals to capture. Other new things to expect are new items, and new themed building sets. The new Pals have not been named yet but I don't mind as the update will drop in 10 days. It's also fun to have players discover the new things themselves.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will cease its online server today to make way for the (paid) complete version of the game today. The game will no longer be playable on Nov. 28, 2024 3:00 PM (UTC) which is 9:00 AM, central time.

Two things:

I haven't delved into the Pocket Camp much because I was much more invested on the mainline entries. Which would have been Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Plus I wasn't too keen on the microtransactions. But farewells are bittersweet with players posting their first day and last day in their camp. With about 7 years of content, I'm getting this game on my devices for sure. The discounted price is really a no-brainer. The only thing that would be missed is the online play, where you visit your friend's camp.

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Steam's Autumn Sale for 2024 is live and will run until December 4. Now's the time to get some games at discount for December break. Or to add onto your ever growing backlog.

It's ironic to say but if you currently don't have funds for this sale period, the Steam Winter Sale is not too far away (December 19, 2024 to January 2, 2025). I DO hope that you have are well this year.

Turkulon, the giant turkey boss, will spawn on Wednesday as a world boss in time for New World's Thanksgiving event. Turkululu, Turk Turk Turk, Turkinator, X Turk, however you call it, Turkulon is one of the beloved bosses in New World since 2022. Turkulon shoots eye-beams, drops egg bombs, and pecks a mighty AOE damage. Some notable loot include a turkey leg warhammer, a feast trophy to boost duration of food buffs, and a disgruntled fowl pet.

Maybe Turkulon can drop the New World roadmap while it's live.

As I'm still having an identity crisis in Throne and Liberty-- that is, I still don't know what I will do in the game-- I'm back playing in Aeternum (for a while). There are two artifacts this season and I think I can reach level 100 on January for the fisherman campsite skin. New World: Aeternum will be down tonight, November 18, to prep for the Turkulon event. My other favorite event will follow which is the Winter Convergence Festival.

Steam implements its bult-in screen record feature to capture those insane or clutch moments in your game. This will give Steam Deck its own screen capture ability but will include the PC as well. It makes PC gaming simpler. It's a win to make things easier instead of frisking for other third party screen capture software.

Go to Steam -> Settings -> Game Recording to find all of this fun stuff. What will make it easier is you can start the recording through a hotkey. Or set it to record in the background. You can also change the folder where to save your videos locally.

Nintendo Switch can take screenshots and record 30 second gameplay videos. Xbox can also do the same but you can record longer videos. Playstation also had the same feature when they added the share button. Although having this on the PC will do wonders since the video file can be exported as mp4 format. Which can be edited further. And there is no set limit to the length of recording you can manually capture.

Other software to screen record would be Xbox Live bar, the GeForce experience app, or a paid screen recording software. There were workarounds but these weren't obvious initially. It's worth mentioning that Windows 11 has its own screen recording function.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will no longer be a free-to-play (with subscription service) mobile game. Instead it will become a standalone full single-player mobile game. Its live online service model will cease on November 28, 2024. It will become a complete paid app afterward which is a good way to end things off to this 7 year old mobile game.

There had been numerous content added to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp that it's ironic that it has about 7 years worth of added content compared to the main entry of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. New Horizons 2.0 was released on September 2021. But it would be an utter shame to have all of Pocket Camp content cease to exist, right? So Nintendo will make it a paid game instead for the mobile platforms -- which is honestly a good move despite a last ditch effort for some revenue. A welcome move, even. With absence of network play of course.

I'll buy Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete. I've been a late adopter of the game in 2020 since I've been playing New Leaf around the time it released. I haven't subscribed though. But I welcome the game as a solid and full game for my mobile. Oh the irony again, the reason why I staved off from it is I'm not much of F2P mobile spin-offs for my Nintendo game. And now it has become a paid game instead. Full circle.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete pre-order is live. Early discounted price is at $9.99 with planned release on December 3, 2024. The discounted preorder price will apply until January 5, 2025. The app will then be set on its regular price of $19.99 on February 2025. Read more details on its official page.

Back 4 Blood is on and it's 90% off on Steam right now. Back 4 Blood is (considered) the spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, although it received mixed reviews. The 4-player coop game did not make a significant impact compared to the Left 4 Dead IP perhaps due to the competing identity crisis attributed to the game that it should be a Left 4 Dead game instead of being Back 4 Blood. However 90% off is a huge discount and B4B is still worth your collection with 90% off.

The largest downer would be that Turtle Rock Studios has announced that they will no longer release more content to Back 4 Blood. But frankly this all suggests a Back 4 Blood 2 to me. I'm also suspicious that Back 4 Blood will soon be free on Epic.

I still feel stupid buying World War Z at full price on Epic only for it to be free after a few days.

The Provincial Government of Manitoba announces that the provincial minimum wage increase is in effect today from $15.30 to $15.80 as of October 1, 2024.

PlayStation 5 Pro will be priced at $959.99 CAD and pre-order is live today, September 26. PS5 Pro will be released on November 7, 2024. Note that the PS5 Pro will not possess a disc drive and will be digital on this release. A separate PlayStation 5 disc drive is available and will need to be purchased to play your physical discs. I bought mine at $699.99 on May 2022 (which was $783.99 with tax). I didn't even want the bundle version but this is when the PS5 supply was still short, so I went ahead and bought it from Best Buy while it was in stock.

Although $959.99 for a console without a disc drive? How much ACTUAL fps gain are we talking about? It is possible to build a 4k gaming PC under $1000, but would they compare with a PS5 Pro? Point is: we're going back to the olden days when consoles were expensive. PS4 Pro was released with $499 CAD retail. Sony, throw in the disc and MAYBE PS5 Pro would be worth it.

New World will delete expired usernames upon New World: Aeternum's release date on October 15. This means that any username that has not been active prior or after October 15 will be deleted and will be made available for new players to use. New World will NOT delete player characters, but only the usernames.

Any character with an old inactive username that's logging back into the game will have to rename their character first before being able to play. To avoid this, log into the game now, and keep logging in within 6 months to retain activity. But if your gaming has been reduced to just logging into the game, it's probably better to stop playing the game altogether.

On the flip-side: if you want a name change, don't log in for 6 months then come back afterward.

New World: Aeternum will release on current-gen consoles XBox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 this October 15.

Shinji Mikami comments that there is no space for a Dino Crisis remake because of Monster Hunter according to an interview by Eurogamer. Shinji Mikami is known for the creation of Resident Evil and Dino Crisis when he worked as a director and producer for Capcom. However, fans are confused from his statement suggesting that Dino Crisis and Monster Hunter are mutually exclusive.

Monster Hunter is not a survival horror game. At best, players capture monsters that resemble like dinosaurs. Dino Crisis is a survival horror game, where players investigate and try to survive in a setting that has been infested by dinosaurs.

Interestingly, both Dino Crisis and Resident Evil had familiar similarities such as the fixed cameras, pre-rendered scenes, and obviously as survival horror games. Dino Crisis felt like Resident Evil with dinos. Yet each title earned millions of respective sales, granted that Resident Evil had more sales. If having similarities was an issue, Dino Crisis shouldn't have existed back then.

If we're hearing this right: the statement doesn't make sense. A Dino Crisis remake could not exist because Gran Turismo exists. It would make more sense if he said there's no space for a Dino Crisis remake because of the Resident Evil remakes. But that would drive a point for a Dino Crisis remake as the recent RE2, RE3, and RE4 remakes raked millions of sales. Clearly there's a market for survival horror remakes from the Playstation 1 era.

There are a few things to note though. Shinji Mikami does not work for Capcom anymore. If we're talking about remaking Dino Crisis, it would be Dino Crisis 1 and 2. Not so much for any spin-offs. Dino Crisis is interesting enough that fans keep trying to rebuild their fan versions of the game. Perhaps Shinji Mikami making such a Dino Crisis remark started a conversation on the Internet which a potential impact for a remake. While I've been waiting for a Dino Crisis remake for a VERY long time.