Month: October 2024

May 4 is Star Wars day: It’s May the fourth, you see, a groan-inducing play on the famous Star Wars invocation, “May the Force be with you.” That date doesn’t actually get here until next week—one week from today, in fact—but that’s not stopping Steam and GOG from kicking off the Star Wars sales action right now.

The May the 4th 2023 Sale on Steam has an array of Star Wars games marked down, some of them quite deeply. Star Wars: Squadrons is down to $6/£5/€6 (85% off), Battlefront 2 is $10/£9/€10 (75% off), and Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens is $5/£6/€5 (75%), or a little bit more if you want the deluxe edition, which includes the season pass. The KOTOR games, Dark Forces, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, and The Force Unleashed are all marked down too, although I cannot in good conscience recommend The Force Unleashed. But hey, I don’t judge.

The situation is pretty much the same over on GOG’s less pun-tastically named Star Wars Sale, which has a slightly smaller selection of games, and as far as I can tell, the same prices across the board. You’ll definitely want to double-check pricing before you drop any money to ensure you’r…

Tekken 8 is, I am told, a very good fighting game. Not that I’d know too much about this sort of thing, as my reflexes are now old and haggard enough that I could be beaten by a well-trained dog that licks the buttons on command in anything that requires fast-paced controls. Sigh. 

Anyway, what I do know about is Nvidia GeForce driver updates, and the notes for the most recent release confirm that Nvidia is aware of an ongoing crashing issue in the game. Listed in the release notes for the latest 552.44 Nvidia driver is the admission, under “open issues”, that “Tekken 8 may randomly crash during gameplay on GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards”. 

A quick Reddit and Steam community search reveals many players complaining of random crashing and hard locks while playing the game, although it must be said that while a fair few are reporting using 10-series cards, the crashing issues don’t seem to be based around them exclusively, as many are still reporting problems with a variety of hardware.

South Korean players have already complained about crashes said to be linked to Intel’s Core i9 processors, and while that issue doesn’t seem to be limited to Tekke…