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@Lup you've just reminded me Vampire Survivors got an update. More importantly, you've just reminded me I'm now missing achievements in Vampire Survivors.

I'm doing my part to liberate the Terminid hive world in Helldivers 2 and diving deep into Jurassic World Evolution 3. The step up in terraforming and building customisation over JWE2 is both sizable and overwhelming but I'm getting to grips with it.

@InterceptorAlpha I also respectfully disagree with their usage of "mid-range" there. 🤣

Experience seamless PC gaming on the go with the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X.

Not what I've heard.

Not even Microsoft is stupid enough to try charging for online play on a PC. Good to know they're not a completely lost cause.

@Fiendish-Beaver Infinite's multiplayer is free-to-play; only the campaign needs to be paid for.

I'm just going to say that Halo Studios has a history of:

1. launching games that are half-baked and not feature complete.
2. saying things and not delivering.

Don't get swept up in what's being said or treat it as gospel.

@BAMozzy

I do think they'll bring a Halo MP mode to PS to grow their Online community and user base. Maybe that's why its not been mentioned with Halo: CE because Halo MP will be a F2P game on all devices soon.

I certainly wouldn't bet against that. I would also hope that Halo Studios have learned a lesson or two from Infinite; namely, how to adequately and consistently support a F2P live-service game.

We all knew it would happen and soon. If not this, then most definitely the next Halo game to feature multiplayer. I don't have a horse in this race, so on a personal level I don't care. From a business and playerbase standpoint, Halo being on PlayStation will only benefit it.

I hope "no multiplayer" doesn't extend to co-op.

Edit: ok, so there'll be co-op; 2-player local and 4-player online. Push Square, of all places, had the info. Come on now, PX 🙄

@EdgarTheBug my bidet doesn't have a port of Skyrim yet. Maybe they could look into that?

Shut up Todd. You announced Elder Scrolls VI when it was likely not yet even in pre-production. That was back in 2018. Don't tease more stuff that's probably nearly a decade away.

This is an Xbox: as stupid now as it was a year ago. 👍

How are Xbox studios supposed to increase profits by 30% when Microsoft has a subscription service that actively discourages people from buying games and has a seeming aversion to adequately or succinctly marketing - let alone selling - any hardware that says Xbox on it?

How, for example, is Double Fine supposed to increase profits by 30% with Keeper, when it's a single player game with no extra monetisation that's only available on certain platforms and that Microsoft encourages users to not pay for? Ridiculous.

@Retron Microsoft's foot must just be a bloody stump at this point.

@Exerion76 your PC was an Xbox already. Everything is an Xbox, remember?

@somnambulance

Also, I’ll be making a habit of showing off that I was on TV yesterday! Lol.

I thought it was you I saw on Crimewatch recently!

@OldGamer999 Oooh enjoy! Lost Crown is phenomenally good.

More Vampire Survivors and I've jumped back into Helldivers 2 because I don't want to start anything new that I won't finish before Tuesday, when I drop everything for Jurassic World Evolution 3.

Bloodlines 2 is this generation's Duke Nukem Forever.

@Lrapsody

Push Square hate everything haha.

Especially unbiased and/or objective news reporting.

Pity Microsoft couldn't keep on the tens of thousands of people they've laid off, and pay them in "time spent playing on the platform".

Success in business is revenue, and this is exactly the kind of bullspit corporate bollocks a division that isn't financially successful would say

Well somebody had to miss Kinect, I suppose.

@BAMozzy Alongside Midtown Madness 3, Rainbow Six 3 and Unreal Championship, Rallisport Challenge 2 was one of the games I spent a ton of time playing online on original Xbox. Such an amazing game, with a ton of different stuff to do, like you say. We don't get 'em like that any more.

@Fiendish-Beaver I don't doubt the rumour that PS6 hardware will go into production next year, especially if 2027 is the intended release year. I do, however, doubt that it was reported on accurately on Push Square. Over the last eight days, I have made four attempts to get an incorrect piece of information - concerning Xbox Game Pass price changes - on one of their articles changed. It still hasn't changed.

I bet if Sammy Barker was reporting on PlayStation Plus price changes, he'd get it right.

Donkey Kong Bananza.

Oh good. Twitch streamers finally got their way. We can all rest easy.

It's hilarious that 37GB is now considered "modest". 10 years ago, a 37GB download would have been gargantuan.

I'll tell you what's not looking good: that YouTube thumbnail.

I got all the achievements in Vampire Survivors last week. I've still been playing, because the game's just too good, so more content is more than welcome.

Nice of Funcom to shut The Outsiders down after it said that Dune: Awakening was its fastest selling game in its 32-year history. Good work, lads. 🙄

Many years ago, Peter Molyneux brought an acorn into work. He planted it, nurtured it, watched it grow in real time.

And that acorn grew up to be Phil Spencer.

I don't doubt that Microsoft is going to have a crack at a new generation of hardware. But if they can't move the needle and gain some sort of foothold in that market this time around, I do doubt there'll be another gen for them after it.

Oh no, not Gears POP!?

Ubisoft games go dirt cheap very regularly. For example, Skull & Bones is on sale on Steam right now:

• Premium Edition £5.99
• Deluxe Edition £4.49
• Standard Edition £3.49

And every game included on this Ubisoft Classics thing gets deep discounts with alarming regularity. Who in their right mind wants to pay an extra monthly fee for a library of (old) games that you can regularly get for a song? If I was a GPU subscriber, I'd be pretty pissed right about now.

@Jenkinss the way things are going, you'd be lucky if that $500 got you the controller, never mind the console.

@el_pieablo I'm 41 and the plan is to play videogames until the point I'm physically unable to. Or I die. Whichever comes first.

@Titntin I'll admit to being swept up in the ABK acquisition hype. I'll also fully admit that it was stupid of me to not see the bigger picture.

@FraserG I'm going to leave this here. Everybody make of it what you will 👀

@EvilBear Just got to accept that we probably can't change peoples' minds on this sort of thing, and be content with not being part of the problem 👍

"BETTER VALUE LOL"
Phil Spencer

@Vordus I read all the books, watched all the films; really enjoyed them and the world Rowling built. Then, like with yourself, her politics ruined it for me.

I would love to play Hogwarts Legacy, but I can't bring myself to do so knowing that any money I spend on it helps further her abhorrent goals. My oldest friend (of 37 years) is a trans woman. I don't begrudge anyone playing it, as long as they know what they're funding and can say with conviction that they're ok with that; that way, I know to keep them at arm's length.

@PartyMarty oh nice!! I'm rocking an Intel i9 and RTX 4080; not the top of the line machine it used to be but it still runs most things I throw at it on max settings at 4K/60, and the few outliers at 1440p. Yours is an absolute beast though.

@FraserG Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem is on there twice, fyi 🙂

@Ricky-Spanish I also haven't had Game Pass in over a year. And I only had it then because when I upgraded my internet I got a code for a year's worth of GPU. Having Game Pass isn't a given, just because someone interacts with Xbox

@Scrubchub I haven't regretted stepping away from consoles (apart from Nintendo, because it'll be a cold day in Hell before they put anything out on PC) for one second. I went into PC gaming knowing that things like optimal settings in games aren't going to be spoon-fed to me, and that my first port of call in any game should be the display/graphics settings menu, and that small "inconvenience" has been outweighed by the benefits a thousand times over.

Haven't had Game Pass in over a year and haven't missed it. It's undoubtedly been great value for money, but being on PC there are so many ways to get cheap games that I didn't see the need for it.

@Grackler each time I've jumped ship to a new gaming ecosystem, I just haven't looked back. There's no point in stressing over it, especially as there's no guarantee that the games we own in said ecosystem will even be playable in one or two generations' time, let alone further down the line.

I would argue that including Skull and Bones actually lowers the value of Game Pass Ultimate.

@Valhura I agree. Yet another case of Microsoft's general incompetence.

@Questionable_Duck not my fault Klobrille is an idiot and doesn't know what a roadmap is 🤷

@AverageJoseph Here.

Good work Microsoft. More people whose livelihoods - and lives - are being put in jeopardy because of your incompetence 👍

@AverageJoseph I assume @Ricky-Spanish was referencing Kenan Thompson. Although it was actually Kel Mitchell who used to say "aw, here goes".

OMG EDIT I just watched a clip and he does say "aw, here it goes"! I never heard the "it" as a kid! I'm so disillusioned!!!

@Kendoguk my comment was more on how this "roadmap" - ie. something that's supposed to look ahead - has more past games on it than future ones.

@Questionable_Duck you do realise that a business roadmap is for stating and/or visualising future goals?