#fortnite time does NOT include time spent on the PC version

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Gaming in the Year 2023!!

These each come from (in order) : Steam, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Spotify (I just included it cause why not? Thanks Izzy for letting me on your premium plan lots of love)

I genuinely love these things. Idk why but I get a bit of a kick seeing how much I played over the year. Also ignore my fortnite time I'm genuinely embarrassed by it.

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You can provide your connection data to anybody you already know and invite them to collaborate and build in your world. Minecraft is a sandbox video game the place gamers can construct their very own worlds and experiences using 3D blocks. 3. Sign in to the sport Panel using the credentials supplied in the VPS’s management panel. Configure your VPS’s settings. Backing up your Minecraft server is a must when it comes to internet hosting your servers worlds and settings you've gotten spent days engaged on! Now you can play the game by the Minecraft consumer or configure the server settings additional. At the time of writing, this sport now has 141 million monthly lively gamers from across the globe. The authorized problem in opposition to "Fortnite" has been simmering amongst artists and dance creators for months now. Offering every day puzzles that problem you to guess all of the phrases in a sure order. Apparently, if you're new to this game and want to try it first, the builders offer you an choice to play the trial version as properly. Our Funds servers include this feature for a minimal price with our superior support choice or a one-time charge when purchasing the server. We hope to create a symbiotic relationship there, the place a few of the higher objects will come from crafters, and crafters will want the assistance of the raiders to collect some of the rarer elements.

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Thoughts on this current generation of consoles (PS5 and Series X/S)? How do you feel about them having SSDs? Do you think offering two versions of a console is a good business idea (physical/digital for Sony and Physical, more powerful/digital, less powerful for Microsoft)?

I mean, I don’t have either one, yet. I did not end up getting a stimulus payment like I was told that I would, and while I’m not exactly flat broke, I’m not in a position where I can drop $600 on a game console and feel comfortable about that.

SSDs are... whatever. It worries me that these consoles are always capturing video and what that’s arguably doing to hardware with a finite number of lifetime data reads and writes. Especially because, if I remember right, the PS5 SSD isn’t user servicable. If it dies, you have to pay a repair cost to send it to Sony. That’s aggravating.

I also still don’t really know if SSDs are so magical. I have a laptop with an SSD and it’s nice being able to turn the system on and have it booted in to Windows in under a minute flat, but it’s not, like, a hard-line requirement for operations, you know? Reducing loading times aren’t really something that’s high on my priority list.

Especially considering that, like...  I play a lot of Fortnite. I play on PS4, and I occasionally play with a friend who plays it on PC, where he has it installed to an SSD. His load times... aren’t really that much faster than mine. They can be, depending on the context, but in the case of an online game like Fortnite, you’re often waiting for the server to respond and send data. He loads back out to the menu way faster than I do, but when we’re connecting to a match, I think he’s only faster than I am by 2-5 seconds. Which to me is... pretty insignificant. Making it seem important feels like marketing smoke and mirrors to me, like how they kept “inventing” shaving razors with more blades.

Like, my PC doesn’t have an SSD in it yet, and does it bother me? Nope! Because I never turn my PC on and then instantly sit down at it. I wake up, turn the system on, and then go make breakfast and whatever. It takes my PC about 2-3 minutes to boot up, and it takes me a good 15-20 minutes to make breakfast, so by the time I’m ready to sit down everything’s been warmed up and ready to go for a very, very long time. Getting a faster load with an SSD isn’t going to offer a meaningful benefit to that experience.

I’m sure I’ll have friends pitching an SSD at me after reading that for other reasons, but I just feel like those people got spoiled by something they don’t actually need and now they’ve tricked themselves in to thinking they can’t live without it. I don’t even bat an eyelash at PS4 games with 20 second load times. Who cares? You aren’t going to be getting anything meaningful done in 20 seconds. “But it adds up” yeah but so does everything. You spent longer pooping than you did looking at loading screens. You’re not going to die waiting 22.8 seconds for a level to start, and it costs a lot of money to fix that minor inconvenience.

I don’t like the idea that they made the disc-based versions more expensive. That’s a very marketing way to nudge fence-sitters to adopt digital, when we’re having more and more examples of what going all-digital is going to do to our libraries of content. We lost hundreds of WiiWare titles and are about to lose hundreds (possibly even thousands) more when Sony locks down the PS3, PSP and PS Vita servers.

I get it, digital is convenient and takes up less space, but you aren’t as protected digitally. Did you know that I lost my entire library of 25+ Google Movies because of a change Google made to “Brand Accounts”?

There’s very little I can do about it. Because ten years ago Google+ made me define my personal account as a “Brand Account,” now Google gets to take away every movie and TV show I own through them. I can still technically watch them if I switch to my “real name” (which is the same account, but also a different account, for some reason), but then I can’t access my subscriptions feed or favorites list. 

And stupid garbage like this just happens with digital content, because there’s nothing you physically hold in your hands. You are at the whims of however they allow you to access what is ostensibly THEIR data, and that includes taking away your ability to access that data entirely. You can protest that, I guess, but that won’t change the fact that your ownership means very little to them.

And it’s only going to get worse from here. It won’t make them care any more than they already do. Just like charging for online features that are free on other platforms, they will find the minimum acceptable threshold for your frustration tolerance and they will still figure out how to make you do things their way. They will put you in a position where 99% of your library is digital and by the time there’s a problem you’re already too deep to back out.  And then it just becomes “an unfortunate symptom of business” that people blindly swallow because they’ve never known anything better.

So when I say, “there is no way I feel comfortable dropping $600 on a game console right now”, that’s because I will only buy these things if they include the disc drive because I will hold on to that thing for as long as I humanly can.

By which I mean: in 2028, when the Playstation 6 arrives, it’s going to be a tiny little Chromecast puck you put behind your TV and I will be laughed out of the room for wanting a disc drive. That already happens whenever I tell people I still have a disc drive in my PC that I need to replace. Physical media?! Everything should be ephemeral!

Needless to say, I don’t like it, and I don’t feel like there’s anything that can be done about it. I’m only considering buying the new consoles because I kind of have to, to stay “relevant.”

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How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Mobile Game?

The range of cellular app downloads, in trendy, has soared in current years and in keeping with Statista, the once a year downloads with the aid of 2019 reached 204 billion. 22.37% of those apps are cell games to be had for both iOS and Android.

Some spend money on growing some thing specific, some just clone the popular games, some introduce their personal simplified (or superior) versions of them, and so forth. In this article, we’ll speak approximately the game improvement levels, the reasons for developing some thing specific, and the cost of growing a cell game.

MOBILE GAME DEVELOPMENT STAGES

Where do you start the improvement of a mobile game? First of all, you need to define the motive of your app or cellular recreation. Why do you need to create the app inside the first place? From a business attitude, there are several motives:

You need to increase your customers’ engagement

You need to increase brand focus

You want to boom sales

You’ve were given an concept which you assume may end up very famous. (Test out your idea before you make investments too many budget into it.)

You’re bored and need to create some thing. (Technically, this is a motive as nicely, however this normally works simplest if you’re mastering the way to broaden apps yourself and need to check out your information. Otherwise, your funding without a clear purpose can be useless.)

1. GAME DESIGN DOCUMENT (GDD)

Once you know why you want the app, you want to create a Game Design Document (GDD). While the phrase “layout” may sound as though this is best about photo layout, it covers plenty greater:

General recreation description element:

Game putting - wherein does the game take region?

Game tale - what’s your recreation approximately? Is there a tale at the back of it? For instance, Mario’s aim is to save the princess who was abducted through Bowser or King Koopa. Or in Zombies, Run, the tale is which you’re one of the runners who need to bring home numerous artifacts from beyond the safe zones. The game story is an non-compulsory feature, but it allows your gamers to feel a part of some thing larger instead of just killing their time.

Gameplay mechanics (how does the consumer have interaction with the sport) and the description of how points are earned for your app and the way these points help the person (Can they be spent? Can the user set a file?)

Description of numerous degrees and the way ranges differ from every other (if there's multiple level)

Design component:

Wireframes layout to reveal how all app’s monitors are connected to and interact with each different

The list that outlines all artwork property that your recreation or app would possibly want (art, animations, audio, and so on.) and a wellknown style guide of the appearance and experience (you might consist of examples of different apps or art portions that you like for the dressmaker to apprehend what you're searching out.)

Business & Technical component:

Business version (aka monetization options, inclusive of top class, freemium, ads, in-app purchases, or subscription)

The description of the technology with a purpose to be used for the app advent

The description of all extra systems that the app will be relying on for logging in, analytics, push notifications, commercials, and advertising and marketing, and many others.

Also, on the way to provide an explanation for in reality what you’re waiting for from designers and builders, you want if you want to answer the subsequent questions (or at least to be privy to them, so that you can decide on the first-class path of motion with your sport builders):

What platform are you targeting?

IOS

Android

Computer (Windows / Mac / Linux)

Console (PlayStation / XBox / Wii)

Web

How many gamers?

Single-player

Multiplayer

Social participant (e.G. Scrabble, which connects the person with different humans around the arena and that they take turns or Two Dots that display you how you compare against your friends on Facebook)

Update frequency?

Does the game want to be on line all the time?

How regularly will you want your users to replace the game with new content, levels, or stay activities?

What is your app’s language? Does it need to be localized?

What markets are you making plans to goal? (App markets offer numerous alternatives to post your app in sure countries or international.)

The answers to those questions will layout the foundation for developers and venture managers so one can understand what are your expectations and requirements and, as a result, will be capable of estimate approximate budgets, timelines, and milestones.

2. GAME PROTOTYPES

In order to test out the layout’s appearance and experience in addition to to peer how the idea will paintings with your capability target audience, the following step is to create a playable prototype of your recreation for centered platforms (as an instance, iOS).

What is included inside the prototype?

The preferred layout of the sport (information may be brought later)

Important mechanics that would assist the person recognize the way to play the game

This step additionally takes a while, but prototypes assist you identify the feasible weaknesses before you spend money on actual game improvement and errors that had been by hook or by crook neglected in the course of the preliminary ranges. For instance, you can see if people can without problems recognize a way to use your recreation, what degrees are too tough to bypass, or how your recreation would paintings given distinctive user behavior.

3. GAME ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

For any type of venture, structure is one of the most important steps that would permit your app or website to grow and scale. Considering the reality that the app marketplace is ever-converting, choose a modular architecture in preference to a monolithic. This might help you to introduce updates and changes greater without difficulty, making your assignment flexible.

Right structure can help your venture to have streamlined and optimized approaches, which, in turn, will help your cell sport paintings quicker. In the age while all of us wishes almost instantaneous gratification, even a few extra seconds of wait time may hurt your consumer engagement price.

From the technologies’ aspect, architecture is also an important problem due to the fact one of a kind languages and servers interact with each different.

4. MOBILE GAME IMPLEMENTATION

The massive part of prep paintings is done. Now the sport developer wishes to continue to real sport development. The fashion designer prepares all the art work based totally at the topic that became defined inside the GDD, including gameplay, menus, degrees in addition to promotional arts. The developers inside the interim increase the game common sense that is primarily based on the designed art.

5. GAME TESTING

The testing segment is not only for seeking out insects or developer mistakes. The number one challenge of QA engineers is to ensure that the sport or the app that became evolved meets the requirements and is understandable to the users.

One of the beneficial resources for trying out is user comments. Sometimes you gained’t even suspect that a person might use your app, which is why you need diverse customers for the trying out section as well as expert QA engineers, who realize numerous approaches of trying out your app (overall performance trying out, unit trying out, load testing, usability trying out, and so on.)

MOBILE GAME TECHNOLOGIES

There are many technologies used for the improvement of cell video games, however the maximum famous are Unity and Unreal Engine.

UNITY

Unity is the engine we use at HUSPI for plenty of our apps and video games. It is versatile and easily customizable. One of the advantages of Unity is that it's also a pass-platform generation, which lets in you to create apps for numerous systems at the same time, using mutual backend.

What structures are supported?

IOS

Android

Windows Phone

Tizen OS (used mostly by means of Samsung)

Fire OS (used by Amazon Kindle capsules)

How tons does it price to use Unity (as of June 12, 2020)?

Free - for non-public use (if sales or funding is less than $100K within the closing 12 months)

$forty/month for Unity Plus version (if revenue or investment is much less than $200K within the closing one year)

$150/month for Unity Pro edition (if revenue or funding is over $200K within the last twelve months)

$200/month for Enterprise edition (if revenue or funding is over $200K inside the last twelve months)

Usually, the fee doesn’t remember if you’re using a improvement organisation since it’s the price blanketed by using the outsourcer (except you would like to own your license.)

What are some video games evolved using Unity?

Pokemon Go

Lara Croft Go

Angry Birds 2

Fortnite created with unreal engine

UNREAL ENGINE

The advantage of the Unreal Engine is that one does no longer need big programming abilties to create a recreation with its help. However, at the identical time, it is effective enough to create beautiful 3D snap shots that win users’ interest.

What systems are supported?

PC (Windows / Mac / Linux)

Consoles (PlayStation four / Xbox One)

Mobile (iOS / Android)

VR structures

SteamOS

HTML5

How plenty does it cost to use Unreal Engine (as of June 12, 2020)?

Free - for small initiatives

five% royalty if your lifetime gross revenues from the product exceed $a million USD

What are a few video games developed the use of the Unreal Engine?

Fortnite

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

Borderlands three

MOBILE GAME DEVELOPMENT COSTS

How plenty does all of this technique value from starting to release and sport guide? The most effective honest and definite answer that we will let you know in this newsletter is that it relies upon.

As you have got seen inside the first part of our article, where we've got mentioned the improvement stages, creating a game requires answering a whole lot of questions and setting priorities. Most of the priorities contain allocating price range to that unique a part of the game (as an example, a custom soundtrack or just inventory heritage song).

Game development can start from $1,500 for a simple shooter, for instance, as we've got created for fun at HUSPI when we had been testing out the talents of Unity. What’s the top stage of the charge? It may be over $1,000,000.

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The life and rise of Tim Sweeney, the billionaire CEO and founder of the company behind 'Fortnite,' Epic Games

Tim Sweeney is the CEO and founder of Epic Games, the company that brought the world "Fortnite."

Despite having a net worth of $7 billion, Sweeney enjoys the simpler things in life like Diet Coke and fried chicken from Bojangles'.

Read on to learn about the life and rise of Sweeney as he changes the way the world thinks about video games. 

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. 

Tim Sweeney may seem like your average guy. He likes hiking, tinkering with technology, the occasional Diet Coke, and fried chicken from Bojangles'. 

However, he is anything but average. Sweeney is the CEO of Epic Games, the company behind "Fortnite" — the popular battle-royale-style video game that raked in over $2.5 billion in 2018. Epic Games also brought games like "Gears of War" into the mainstream.

Sweeney has a net worth of $7 billion, millions of which he has donated to forest conservation efforts. 

When it comes to tech execs, Sweeney is one who remains rather low-key. He's single, unmarried, and doesn't have any kids. And he's never been enticed by the flashy trappings of Silicon Valley: Epic Games is based out of Cary, North Carolina, just down the road from Raleigh. 

Sweeney's first-ever job is still his current job, though the responsibilities have changed since founding Epic Games in 1991. Overall, Sweeney describes his life as "simple." If he means a simple life that has also radically changed the way millions of people play video games online, then, sure — a simple life indeed. 

Here's everything you need to know about Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games.

SEE ALSO: The first video games and software programs famous tech CEOs made when they were young

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Tim Sweeney, 48, was born in 1970 and raised in Potomac, Maryland, with two older brothers. His father was a cartographer for the US government and his mother took care of Sweeney and his brothers.

Source: Wall Street Journal

When Sweeney was a preteen, he visited his eldest brother in San Diego, California, at a startup he was working at, which had an IBM computer. His brother taught him how to program on it, and Sweeney spent the rest of the rather impressionable trip "just programming the computer, figuring things out."

Sources: Gamasutra, Kotaku

After turning 11, Sweeney spent hours on the Apple II Plus computer his brother gave him and used it to program video games. Sweeney told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that he spent more time "programming than I think I was sleeping or in school or doing any other one thing in the world."

Sources: CNBC, The Wall Street Journal

Sweeney would play Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros." when he was a child as a way to "discover what games were doing and how they were doing it," according to an interview with video game website Kotaku in 2011. Aside from gaming, the inquisitive future CEO would also take apart lawnmowers​, radios, and TVs to see how each gear functioned. He was also a big fan of arcades.

Source: Kotaku

Sweeney attended the ​University of Maryland as a mechanical-engineering major. During his second year of college, he decided to go all-in with gaming by creating his first full-fledged​ video game, "ZZT." He also founded his company, Potomac Computer Systems, which would later become Epic Games, to develop the "ZZT."

Source: Gamasutra, CNBC

Despite being a gifted young coder, Sweeney didn't initially know how to program graphics, like "actual characters and objects," into ZZT. Instead, he used symbols and smiley faces that would attack monsters and "run through levels." The hardware also functioned as an editor, so users could create their own games with it. He released the game in 1991.

Source: Engadget

Sweeney dropped out of University of Maryland just one credit shy of graduating and moved back in with his parents in Potomac when he was 20. He used the $4,000 in his savings and began working on what would later become Epic Games in his parents' garage. For quite some time, customers who were interested in buying a copy of "ZZT" sent checks to Sweeney's parents' house, and waited for a disk copy of the game to come in the mail.

Sources: The Wall Street Journal, CNBC

Sweeney sold "several thousand" copies of "ZZT" while living with his parents. He rebranded his company as Epic Games, a name Sweeney said was "kind of a scam to make it look like we were a big company." With new orders coming in daily, Sweeney was able to move out of his parents' house in 1999 and quit his side-gig, mowing lawns.

Source: Gamasutra

Sweeney then moved Epic Games to Cary, North Carolina, where it still remains. At the start, Sweeney's primary role was still programming, until the release of "Unreal," the company's inaugural first-person shooter video game.

Source: CNBC

"Unreal," which was released in 1998, was a PC-based game that allowed users the ability to play together on separate computers. The 3D graphics technology behind the game was called the Unreal Engine "that has evolved to become the ubiquitous bedrock upon which Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and even iPhone and iPad blockbusters are built," according to Kotaku.

Sources: Business Insider, Kotaku

In 2006, Epic's "Gears of War" was released. It was built upon the Unreal Engine for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The New York Times described the game as "a more deliberate, thoughtful sort of shooter [with] plenty of action and gore." The publication also called "Gears of War" one of the "best looking" games.

Sources: CNBC, The New York Times, The New York Times

By the release and subsequent success of "Gears of War," Sweeney was 30 years old and beginning to see success. According to an interview he gave to the Journal in 2019, he had a “Ferrari and Lamborghini in the parking lot of my apartment ... People who hadn’t met me thought I must be a drug dealer.” Sweeney has since gotten rid of his sports cars.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

The first "Gears of War" franchise, which included nearly a dozen titles, went on to sell over 22 million units, making over $1 billion in revenue. (Microsoft bought the "Gears of War" franchise in 2014 for an "undisclosed amount.")

Source: CNBC, Gamepedia, Engadget

Epic Games is also responsible for games like "Shadow Complex" and the "Infinity Blade" series, both role-playing fighting games set in past and futuristic time periods. In 2013, Chinese tech company Tencent invested $330 million into Epic Games for a 40% stake.

Sources: Business Insider, CNBC

In 2015, Epic Games announced that the Unreal Engine would be made free, making it easier for any aspiring game developer to start their next project. The technology behind the Unreal Engine is regarded as "one of the most widely used engines in existence." By making the Unreal Engine free to use, Epic Games gets a cut when game developers and publishers sell games made with it — a significant part of the way the company generates revenue.

Source: Business Insider

Epic had revealed a new game it was working on called "Fortnite" in 2011, a survival-style game that Epic pictured as a small, indie title. But Epic didn't start offering early access to the game — at that point, it was simply "Fortnite Save the World," a cooperative shooter — until mid-2017.

Source: Polygon, IGN

Everything changed for Sweeney and Epic Games in September 2017 with the release of "Fortnite Battle Royale" — a free-to-play battle-royale-style version of the game where users "collect resources, make tools and weapons, and try to stay alive as long as possible." The game found worldwide success just a few months after its release, amassing over 200 million players across seven different game platforms.

Source: NBC, Business Insider

Sweeney, however, does not like to take credit for the success of "Fortnite" — he credits it largely to the game developers on his team. The Journal reported, "the entrepreneur is adamant about one thing: He did not create 'Fortnite' — his employees did. He didn't design or program the game" — but he did create the company that did.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Even though "Fortnite" is free-to-play, Epic Games receives revenue from it "entirely from in-game purchases, even though the virtual goods give players no competitive advantage." Character costumes, called "skins," seasonal "battle passes," and accessories can cost up to $10 each. With over 250 million "Fortnite" players, the company made over $2.5 billion from the game in 2018 alone, and over $4 billion since its release.

Sources: Business Insider, Business Insider, Engadget, The New York Times

With the blockbuster success of "Fortnite," Sweeney skyrocketed onto Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index with a net worth of $7 billion. This puts him above other billionaires like George Lucas and George Soros, but well below tech giants Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Epic Games currently employs more than 700 people.

Source: Business Insider

"Fortnite" has not only made Sweeney a richer man, but many "Fortnite" players as well, including Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, 28, who reportedly made $1 million a month playing the game and streaming it on Twitch (he has now switched to streaming platform Mixer). This past summer, Epic Games also hosted a "Fortnite World Cup" where players could win a piece of a $30 million prize.

Sources: CNBC, USA Today

Read more: This 28-year-old makes $500,000 every month playing 'Fortnite' — here's how he does it

Sweeney is a very casual guy. His workplace attire consists of t-shirts and cargo pants. When people go to an interview at Epic Games, they are advised not to wear a jacket and tie.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Despite having a sports car infatuation at the beginning of his career, Sweeney has since spent his millions on conservation efforts in North Carolina. He bought 193 acres in Alamance County for​ preservation and donated $15 million to protect 7,000 acres of forests in western North Carolina.

Source: Triad Business Journal

source https://www.businessinsider.com/fortnite-maker-epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-history-timeline-2019-10

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Gaming on portable devices has really gained traction inside the last three-five years, and some clientele, such as Planet of Tanks Blitz, Pokemon Go and Fortnite, had been able to win significant market recognition. There is surely a future for mobile gaming, but, personally, I see numerous drawbacks also - no AAA titles ported on mobile devices, virtual touch screen-primarily based buttons do not give suitable feedback, and player expertise is heavily dependent on the capacity and delay in the cellular network. Moreover, new gaming capabilities, new game mechanics, advanced graphics, operating with the highest doable expertise and on any device - these are the expectations of the gaming audience.

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With the rise of games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite, headsets have become essential gear. Like any other personal audio purchase, there are a range of options, offering loads of features and levels of sound quality -- depending on how much you're willing to pay. At E3, Turtle Beach announced two new wired headsets that offer solid audio and decent features without breaking the bank.

The Stealth 300 is the wired version of the Stealth 600 that caught our eye late last year. It's still a lightweight headset with soft earpads that comfortably accommodate glasses. Those pads are wrapped in a mesh fabric, which should be a little cooler than leather during the heat of battle. Like the Stealth 600, The Stealth 300 has on-board controls on the back edge of the left earcup. There are controls for overall volume and variable mic monitoring, so you can adjust the level of your own voice inside the headset.

On the outside of the left earcup, there's a Mode control beside the power button. With this, you can toggle through a number of EQ presets, including Bass Boost, Treble Boost, Vocal Boost and more. The Stealth 300 also works with Microsoft's Windows Sonic tech on Xbox and Windows 10 for more immersive sound. Though there are dedicated versions of the 300 for both Xbox and PlayStation, the headset also works with PC, Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. Lastly, Turtle Beach says you can expect up to 30 hours on a charge.

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For $79.95, the Stealth 300 offers solid sound quality in a comfy headset I could easily wear for hours at a time. During a couple of Injustice 2 fights, the accessory performed well, pumping in audio that was decently crisp and clear with those EQ presets helping to better adjust the sound to the game. Sure, there are more feature-packed options that deliver better audio, but those are also significantly more expensive.

When it comes to the Recon 200, Turtle Beach has another compelling headset for well under $100. The Recon 200 works with all the same platforms as the Stealth 300 and has an Xbox/PlayStation switch on the edge of the left earcup. That's also where the volume wheel and mic monitoring control reside. This headset swaps the mesh fabric for leather on the earcups, but those earpads are still quite cushiony. Though the versions of the Recon 200 I spent time with at E3 had a flat finish on the outside, the final units will feature a carbon fiber-esque pattern.

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In terms of audio, I actually preferred the sound quality on the $59.95 Recon 200 to the pricier Stealth 300. The former does have smaller drivers (40mm vs. 50mm), but I thought the overall audio was slightly better on the more affordable model. I felt like there was a little more depth to the sound and a touch more volume, both things that are very important when it comes to audio gear. It does have an always-on Bass Boost, along with support for Windows Sonic. Battery life does take a hit here though, as the Recon 200 will keep you chatting for up to 12 hours before you'll need to plug in.

You'll have to wait a bit to get your hands on either of these though. The Stealth 300 is set to ship in July while the Recon 200 won't arrive until sometime this fall.

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The past few weeks and months have been stressful and emotional. We took the plunge and moved my nana from her cottage to the frail care building at her retirement village. We basically decided that it was happening on the Tuesday and the Friday we were moving her. We knew it was coming but the dates had still been up in the air until that point. We hauled her furniture to her new room all without her really knowing. She was staying by her sister during the moving process. It would have been too stressful for both her and us if she had been there. We had informed her that she would be moving but she does not really understand why. However to make it all the more challenging, we moved her from a two bedroom place into a single room. Not a one room place, a single room. We have to keep telling her that she is not in hospital and that if she was, she would not be allowed her own furniture.

  So that now means that the stuff that was in my nan’s place is now in our storage-space challenged house. Currently my room has two queen sized beds, standalone shelf, chest of draws, two bookshelves and my computer all crammed into it. Yeah, that is just my room, leaving out the rest of the house.

  The images show my room at the moment. A few weeks in and I am still sorting and making space for everything. I have turned my monitor on the pc stand because I am currently busy on my pc but my shoulders and back have been hurting for a while so I decided to continue from my bed.

Then on the 22nd March I had had enough and took my car to the mechanic. For roughly a month or so I noticed my car had been going through more than double the amount of petrol compared to what she normally consumes. This was alarming since I could not smell any petrol at all. I also knew her brakes needed seeing to so I was left with very little choice.

There is little that can express the pain of forking out 6K on your car vs the joy of getting her back and feeling like a new driver again. I giggled quite a bit on my drive home as I had to readjust to my new clutch, brakes and tightened accelerator. Oh yippie. That was until I started to hear a funny noise from my engine when I was about 10 minutes away from home. Not good.

I switched cars with le boyfriend who was following behind me on our way home so that he could test drive her. I was not sure if I was being neurotic or if there genuinely was an issue. Turns out I was not being neurotic and that my brake lights are on while I drive. Cue the annoyance. So  we pop the bonnet and water spewed out of the engine like a geyser. I quickly switched off my car ran around to have a look, only to see that my water cap is securely on. Crap. Thankfully that was a matter of the cap being placed on skew. So I took my car back to the people where they insist they could not hear any noise but did keep her overnight to do a full check…

Pst, note to self – It has been over a year, have you had the car serviced at all? Plus have you saved up for your shocks? It is also probably time to do those now since they were at a shocking state currently. Oh yeah, is the speedometer still serenading you, or did you finally crack and get the cluster sorted? It only broke July 2016….

I spent a week at le boyfriend’s place while his mom was down in Cape Town for business. I eventually threw a hissy fit over being forced to sit on the bed or lie down constantly because there was nowhere else for me to sit in his room. So he made space for me at his desk. That is how I know he cares. He actually gave me the chair he was using (because the other would not fit behind the door) and a laptop width of space on the desk. That is what you call true love, lol. He is currently hooked on Sea of Thieves and has decided that he can not play the free version of Fortnite anymore because of ‘trolls’. I shall insist on more desk space next time 😀

Then onwards to what has happened today. In reality, nothing has actually happened so I have used this chance to start planning ahead a little. This happens every now and again where I set out a daily schedule that I basically never actually stick to but have every intent of doing so. Yet life never goes quite according to plan does it?

So, as I read this and knowing myself I shall be chuckling at this point and nodding along. I have finally reached the point where if I catch up on the work I need to do, I shall be ready come Monday morning to work only at work, which will clear up my evenings and weekends to do what I want to do. At this point I am probably laughing.

I am currently taking part in my fourth 21 day challenge with today being day 3. It is the challenge where I learn something everyday. This is the forerunner to the challenge where I attend a webinar everyday.

I have not exercised in 22 days and we have basically lived on takeaway for a month, which I also somehow managed to loose 5Kg’s. The past few months have been rough, so I am looking forward to some structure and normality. I hope I can actually get that right.

  AYA: 6 April 18 It has been a while since I last sat down and typed up one of these 'A Year Ago' posts.