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Might have to give TopSpin a try. Is there any word on if or when it might come to Game Pass?

@themightyant Apparently it’s an animated version of a live-action scene from the comedy show Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

There is one thing that’s immediately apparent from this list: Xbox bet hard on Kinect, to a greater extent than I ever knew.

I’ll just leave this right here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/fGJ4gWfmRsk?si=tDfdr_pjZfA6t5QD

Yay!!! You covered it! Thank you, @Liam_Doolan!

No news update about Halo Infinite getting updated with the Match Composer? That’s a pretty huge update.

Whenever I hear of this game, I keep getting it confused with Killer Freaks From Outer Space, the Ubisoft game that went on to be ZombiU, and later Zombi.

@Trmn8r I know what these terms mean. The average consumer, especially one who is just getting into games, and could discover this article through a search engine may not, though.

I understand that what I’m about to say is probably going to seem pedantic, but I feel it’s important to be said anyway: using terms like “CoD”, “343”, or “SSBM” (in the case of the XDefiant article) can be very alienating. Yes, the author briefly mentions the full name of what’s being referred to, and yes, as gamers, we generally know what all of these terms mean. However, someone just coming off of Google, for instance, may not understand what any of those terms mean, and in all fairness it’s not always incredibly obvious, especially without an explanation of what they actually mean. It feels more like the kind of move a niche gaming website would make, not one you’d expect from a widely-known gaming media company.

Never mind any of that, “343” is not the name of the studio. The name of the studio is “343 Industries”, or “343i” for short. Yes, it’s a tiny difference in the end, but it gets back to the point I made above.

@Chaotic_Neutral Same. Played four matches yesterday, and the game felt janky even with settings being adjusted.

Very excited for this, for some reason.

Unfortunately, none of the closures this week were probably ever under Phil Spencer’s control. Xbox is most likely having decisions made by the Microsoft puppeteers at the moment.

Yay!!! Finally! Excited for this to finally come out!

Will this newfound success lead to more Xbox releases on Sony's storefront?

The appropriate word, for some reason, feels like capituation. This will certainly be interesting...

@CaptainCluck The comparison to Windows Phone checks out, mostly because I really liked Windows Phone. I also liked Windows 8's Metro UI, though, too, so maybe I shouldn't get involved with beloved things. XD

@Odium @Odium Cloud storage for Switch album captures is an amazing idea!

@Kieduss Microsoft is actually advertising Halo?! Boy, oh boy, do I hope we see that new game from 343i (and, if I’m not mistaken, Certain Affinity) at what-was-once-called E3!

Is that Halo Infinite in the marketing image?

I completely forgot this was happening. I wanted to try it, but I was dealing with a migraine, so it most likely wouldn’t have been very fun anyway.

@Kezelpaso I see. Hm, yeah, that’s interesting, since PlayStation doesn’t support Bluetooth headphones either…

Bethesda Game Studios used “Create a Fallout TV show”…

It’s super effective!

EDIT: I was First! for the first time in my history of using the Internet!

@MaccaMUFC I was wondering this as well. There are three headsets in the image, but only two headsets mentioned in the article?

@BAMozzy Which of the Zombies maps do you recommend for a newcomer? I have the game on PS Plus, but I’ve only ever played Zombies Outbreak on the newer Cold War.

Unfortunately with the change in program, I can’t redeem points anymore. In order to redeem points, I need to add a phone number to my Microsoft account, but the account dashboard won’t let me link my phone number, because it says it’s already attached to a Microsoft account. The account in question is one that I haven’t had access to for nearly a decade and have long since forgotten any information for.

I never had an Xbox One, but what I’ve seen of the mid-2010s dashboard seems much, much better than what’s there now.

I just want them to get rid of the “Browse the Store” button… (and not replace it with a fourth ad)

@NEStalgia I wouldn’t be surprised if the stock was shorted, too! 😂

They can afford to make it free, so why would anyone ever believe it’s worth anything more?

Nothing but a greedy corporation.

@NEStalgia From what I’ve heard, it’s like GameStop here in the States, but (obviously) over in Europe.

@xanderten50 There was a Stadia exclusive Pac-Man game?

@RetroMan71 There's too many services now.

Yes, there was market consolidation when everything was on Netflix and Hulu. However, with everything spread across many services, there is still market consolidation (because the streaming services that matter are essentially just Hulu, in many pieces, that costs much more) as well as the wonderful addition of headache-inducing anti-consumer splits that reduce the end-user to a mere statistic.

@TheSimulator It’s also not on Paramount Plus, of all things.

Isn’t it just Pac-Man 99, but on Xbox?

Shame it’s on Prime Video, since we now have to pay an extra fee just to watch with no ads and Dolby Atmos/Vision.

We’re getting closer to this every day: https://youtu.be/RdBhRKksN0w?feature=shared

The Palworld joke seems to about furries? I can’t think about it too much, because it makes me feel weird, but I’m not sure what the angle is on that one.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner cries in “Thank you for a historic launch. Just two weeks in, MWIII has already set records with the highest engagement in the new Modern Warfare Trilogy!"

Maybe I’ll actually be First! this time…

No matter what, this is just a slippery slope that is heartbreaking, but also somewhat surprising how it took as long as it did to arrive.

@Utena-mobile It’s crazy good, but also crazy worrisome, because it means that essentially every shred of new content we’ve gotten for the last year/and a half has been made by Forgers and not 343i. Understandably, they’re working on the next game, but it’s still a weird situation.

@InterceptorAlpha This would be SO helpful when trying to look for games on sale.

@Utena-mobile There may already be a Blood Gulch remake from the forgers, but it’s not in matchmaking.

EDIT: @Utena-mobile https://www.halowaypoint.com/halo-infinite/ugc/maps/929ea13c-6f93-4eff-9842-d9b92b20ed6c

@Utena-mobile I don’t know if I meant to put it, or if I overlooked it, but either way I appreciate you pointing it out.
To your point about this probably being the future of metrics, it’s shameful how the megacorporations, that effectively rule over the hobby we all share, keep setting their own bar lower and lower, while (by raising prices and reducing value) make us as consumers work harder and harder for the same enjoyment, pleasure, and happiness.

@Grumblevolcano Microsoft paid $69 billion to be able to brag about the “Highest engagement in the new Modern Warfare Trilogy” as worded in an actual Call of Duty email I still have from November 2023.

I was never too huge into the grind of this game, and I haven’t really played it since a few months ago for multiple reasons.

That being said, it’s terrible that Microsoft forced their hand so much that we now have what are essentially monthly $5 battle passes, because between that and the in-game shop, it seems like they’re trying to fleece us off every bit of cash, and while I’m not one of the members of the community that’s been there since 2001, those that have deserve to be rewarded, not fleeced for every last dime.

@BowsersBuddy I didn’t even consider that such a device could be streaming-only, thanks for the reality check.

It would make sense to me that an ‘S’ console-like portable could start at, say, $299 for 512GB, potentially having a 1TB model for $349 or $399, with the flagship ‘X’ console remaining $499 for 1TB, just with better performance and graphics due to essentially being a desktop PC.

Furthermore, to fulfill this idea that backwards compatibility is part of Xbox’s strategy for “Play What You Want, When You Want, Where You Want”, the new portable could have a slot for the existing storage cards, while the flagship console could have more than one slot, but not at the expense of USB extended storage, I hope.

@HotGoomba It could’ve easily been a press release. As it is, we basically got a press release in video format.

As I mentioned in chat though, it’s interesting that they confirmed new hardware is coming within the year, even if we have no context of what type of hardware it is. Probably a Steam Deck competitor, now that I think about it…

Actually, I don’t think that’d be a terrible idea: take the hardware chops that the Surface team absolutely has, and repurpose the division into an Xbox arm. It could even be the next generation of ‘S’ console, with the flagship console being the much more powerful one.

@dreadful https://youtu.be/RdBhRKksN0w?feature=shared

I’m very happy to see they finally addressed the issue with video backgrounds resetting. At least for me, they were resetting every single time, and I thought it was something I was doing, so I kept selecting them over and over, only to eventually give up because it never seemed to stick.

However, it would be really nice to get a major update that fixes things like campaign crossplay only being available for certain titles, among many other things.

I was just talking to family about how amazing the new map is! I mean, I'm sure it'll be more of a level feeling with time, but it's still a really great map.

Also, Mint Blitz is an awesome YouTuber. He found another cool Easter egg on this map too!

@PhileasFragg At least in the EU, according to the (entirely optional) new business terms, the cut of subscriptions is down to, if I recall correctly, 10% or 17%. But, and this is a huge change, the new rules allow for payment processing to happen outside of the App Store, even if the app itself is still available there.

So, theoretically, Microsoft could adopt the same payment processing used on Xbox, without having to provide Apple with any cut.

How is this even possible? Isn’t this an existing game just added to the subscription service?

@Kaloudz It's the comments section of videos as well as the Community tab on the Xbox channel on YouTube.