As far as I understand it this basically kills the grey market. All those sites like the Impound have a time limit now until their stock of giftable ships runs out.

Which I think is probably a good thing.

Most monitors are pretty shit at displaying HDR so it's a common sentiment. The differences are massive (and hard to come back from) on an OLED.

The tracked controller portion of it is not in yet, the hardware exists but they haven't done the software support for it (from a valve interview somewhat recently), and I can confirm that is true directly.

It works as a gamepad, I haven't yet figured out if you can do some of the pointer actions through any other shortcut, but for games and streaming games it works well in Bluetooth mode.

Looks like early leaks show this build includes QT Boost, which is fantastic.

I can confirm you only need to physically disconnect the non-windows target drive during installation, and as long as you offline the remaining drives after connecting them, windows and other drives will be fine with updates (THIS is the most important part, do it in Disk Management on first boot into windows).

I've run two Windows instances for years, through multiple OS major updates and never had problems with this setup, before doing the offline drive change to each of them, they would both fuck over each other (I had one for work and one for personal).

One thing I did that may be necessary, is I didn't let a boot loader handle the dual boot, I only used BIOS to manage changing the boot target when switching over - I was doing dual windows boots at the time so this may actually be fine with grub, so ymmv on that front.

I still don't understand the hate for this game, also when it's clear it's from people who have not played it. It's fine if you don't like that style of game, but it is excellent if you do.

The hater narrative is so weird. It's okay to not like something and move on, it's weird to flaunt it around and dance when any semblance of failure arises.

Reserved that night at 9PM EDT (was on a plane) and I'm before December 2026. Sounds like the first day was just a lot of reservations.

They've been pretty quiet about it in general, I'm not sure if no news about it confirms a "soft cancel" as you put it. Every time they mention it they reconfirm it but it's probably not as visible outside the community.

Rockstar and GTA6, or Valve and the new steam hardware are probably good examples of many companies choosing not to say anything until the answer is more than "work continues".

When did they soft cancel the 2026 release?

Still in stock in Canada, so I guess the US part of North America is sold out.

I've only seriously put any time into Matathon, but it has randomized multiple exfils, so maybe give it a try if you have interest in the genre apart from that (I'm not sure how common it is).