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@16BitHero I just wanted to get to my house in the game 🤣 Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I was flying east because the coast was on my right when I was flying, so it must've been from Cardiff Airport (surely the most stupidly named airport ever, as it's not even in or that close to Cardiff)

@PsBoxSwitchOwner to be fair, since the "buff everything" updates made everyone happy, the only bad update we've had is the DSS killing us more than it kills the bots and bugs 🤣

@Xbox_Dashboard yeah. It's a good job they're not bringing one of these out every year, or MSFS fans with bandwidth caps would be sh*t out of luck 🤣

@Xbox_Dashboard if the game wasn't online only, it would be an absolute behemoth of an install.

@ParsnipHero same here. I dabbled, but after the novelty of flying from (I think it was) Heathrow to my house in Cardiff I lost interest in it pretty quickly.

@Xbox_Dashboard Horizon 5 Hot Wheels was fine, but Horizon 4 Lego was waaay better.

@Balaam_ well said. I'll freely admit that I myself speculated about things like IP revivals and such, but the year post-ABK acquisition should be a cautionary tale for anyone speculating about what cool things Sony could or would do if they do acquire Kadokawa.

Is this really "throwing shade"? 🤔

I'll admit it is throwing shade when Playground calls out Keighley for always wearing a suit with trainers like he's a chav at a wedding.

@themightyant I'll take your word for it. I had a look at the financial report you linked to, but the combination of my visual impairment and my autistic brain just saw a massive jumble of numbers and I noped out of there pretty quickly 🤣

@OldGamer999 I don't want Microsoft making love with my devices.

I'm no financial expert guy, but is Sony in the position to make an acquisition like this? They spent over $3 billion on Bungie (which was inarguably not money well spent) and lost anywhere between $200-400 million on Concord. Again, I'm no financial expert guy.

FYI for PC players. If you're yet to play The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Humble currently has a Telltale bundle where you can get a bunch of stuff - including all four seasons of Walking Dead - for under a tenner.

@Ricky-Spanish I'm on the edge of my seat innit.

I have a wired full fibre connection and consistently get a bare minimum of 900mbps down on Steam. When I had Game Pass and was downloading some games from the PC Xbox app, I'd never get that.

They're great, but I've always preferred Crash. Also, the PC version (on Steam anyway) has this weird thing where running it above 30fps breaks the game and makes it impossible to make some jumps and get past some of the timing based stuff.

@DEATH2SONY JWE2 is another game that's like crack for me. 195 hours so far 😭

Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival came out, so I'm off the wagon again. Someone decided it was a good idea to make it Steam Deck verified, which doesn't help matters.

Other than that I'm still hooked on Helldivers 2 and am about 6-7 hours into Fire Emblem: Engage.

Death Stranding passed me by, but its release on Xbox and all the new attention it's getting has piqued my interest.

@nomither6 the Xbox One was the point that Xbox lost its way. But in my opinion Kinect was the harbinger of doom; the first time we got a whiff of Microsoft's plans to "own the living room".

I'm already turning 40 next month. First Nintendo Life is all like "lol Minish Cap is 20" and now this.

This comment is an Xbox.

Mmmm... Project Gotham Racing 3 and 4. Xbox 360 was truly the heyday of Xbox. Well until the Kinect came out anyway; Xbox's first-party output has been spotty at best since then.

Geographic diversity especially in Asia? Confirmed: Microsoft to acquire Fntastic, The Day Before 2 greenlit.

However, he also warned of the need to remain "creative and adaptive" in order to achieve continued success.

I agree with this in theory; Xbox can clearly no longer compete with PlayStation purely on sales of its own hardware and only selling first-party games on said hardware. However, I do hope that all the other initiatives - Game Pass, Cloud, first-party games on rival platforms, etc - continue to keep the Xbox business "healthy", because if they don't pan out either then I do wonder sometimes about how much longer Microsoft will be willing to pump money into the Xbox brand/ecosystem.

@Utena-mobile only one side attacks. The other defends.

@TheGameThrifter I'm conflicted when it comes to people such as yourself. On the one hand, I detest reading the inane ramblings of those who are convinced that there is some sort of woke agenda. But on the other hand, it does make the people worth blocking that much more conspicuous.

@TheGameThrifter from what I've read, it's Sweet Baby Inc who's being bullied, harassed, threatened, etc.

I saw the words Project TH before I saw the thumbnail and my knee jerk reaction was "OOOOOOOOO, Tony Hawk!!!" and now I'm disappointed. I did this to myself.

@Balaam_ precisely. It's a miracle the game is even coming out at all, given the devs' circumstances.

@Pichuka97 @Staxo we've been through this. They mention Game Pass because it increases site traffic.

@FraserG Pillars of Eternity seems super duper unlikely. Isn't the Pillars of Eternity IP owned by Microsoft now?

Mine would come across super bitchy, so I've decided to keep it to myself. 👀

@Rog-X

in the meantime they are currently releasing more AAA First Party titles than Nintendo and Sony combined

Citation needed.

@MjJmediablogger maybe so, but I bet wanting the clicks and engagement outweighs wanting to drum up interest in the game 😉

@Elbow it's the Nintendo Switch Online approach.

@Kezelpaso did @Ricky-Spanish put a gun to your head and force you to write this? Do you need help? Blink once for yes, twice for no.

@Elbow chicks dig giant robots. 👍

@Krazee5255 have you ever heard of the expression, "pot calling the kettle black"?

@TheGiraffe they're probably gearing up to announce more re-releases.

If I could choose again, I wouldn't have bought a Series X and would've moved over to PC a few years before I actually ended up doing so. This generation of Xbox has been great if you like playing or replaying old games; backwards compatibility paired with FPS boost revitalised a lot of older games. However, buying into this gen on the back of being able to play Microsoft's first-party output was one of the stupidest things I've ever done, gaming-wise.

@Broosh oh wow, that's actually a much smarter way of handling it. Good on them 👍

It'll take a few days for some people to download it if the last game is anything to go by. 🤣

They should. Warcraft III Reforged went down so well, after all.

@SilentBluntman and make Game Pass useable through Steam, like EA does with EA Play.

@Sol76 I wouldn't read too much into that, as he probably meant to say hands. I also wouldn't read too much into it, as he's an utter melt.

@Balaam_ what was the last handheld you played on? A Game Boy Micro? 🤣

I have no interest in MSFS2024. I dabbled with the last one back in 2020(?) and it's just not for me.

Stalker 2, I'm not sure about. I don't really know anything about Stalker except it's nuclear-y.

Indiana Jones, I have high hopes for. MachineGames' Wolfenstein games are excellent, so it'll be interesting to see how they tackle something with less shooting and more puzzles and exploration.

I've only ever known of two people with the surname, Corden; James and Jez. I find both insufferable.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner @Balaam_ I personally find it irritating that so many news articles, reviews, etc mention Xbox or Game Pass in the headline, but if it gets the site more traffic and ad revenue then I can't really argue with that logic.

@IGN_Commenter most of the weapons in Halo, especially the Covenant ones, look like they were manufactured by Mattel.

Somewhere out there, Ricky-Spanish just shivered and doesn't know why.

Yet.

That's peak concurrent players. The actual number of people who will have tried the beta will be even higher.

@Ricky-Spanish one of these days I'm going to check my phone in the morning and see a news story about you chainring yourself to the railings outside Activision HQ.