Absolutely love the solidarity of Bethesda's developers here. Not only with protesting outside, but also filling the office with posters and what not to let management know it's unacceptable and inexcusable what they have done to their studio, and to their colleagues & friends.

"If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease, and I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world." - Satoru Iwata

@MasterClank Good on you. 👍 this is the proper way to support the developers that make the games you really enjoy. Some people seem to have the misconception that gamepass magically covers all developmental costs and that they don't need sales.

The game looked great, there is no denying that. Unfortunately the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired, this is probably the least Gears feeling Gears game so far. It's lost it's soul and with it, the long time fans. The campaign could be a redeeming aspect though if done right but I have already written off the pvp and horde siege / we have helldivers at home.

I wonder what Asha thought about Scabby, the giant inflatable rat that the developers had put up outside the office to greet her. 🤣

Looking forward to the Toy Story Retro Roundup and Toy Story 3 remaster.

I can believe it. Avid gamers & fans of the series have been waiting 13 years for this, of course we want the best edition of the game that has all the bells & whistles.

Microsoft low-key calling you old. 😉

@strzelec Sure, if you like to pay more.

I wish Microsoft would have went the same route as Sony with providing a open M.2 NVMe SSD slot in your Xbox instead of these expansion cards. So many more options and price ranges.

I originally had planned to play the Gears E Day beta a bunch this weekend but the beta has so far left me dissapointed. Another case of a game ditching their long time fans and chasing a new audience. Instead I'm going to play Resident Evil Requiem.

It's another feature I will never use as my games library is already 99% digital. If the Series X had a digital option at launch it's what I would have purchased.

My hype for this game is only increasing day by day. We are 104 days from release of the biggest video game release of the past decade! Gonna be a November to remember, that's for sure.

It's a great update across the board. I always did enjoy Wildlands more than Breakpoint, now it's even better.

Already shared my thoughts in the other article:

After playing several matches of standard siege today, I can tell this is going to get old fast. I'll probably just play the campaign and then end up uninstalling the game. What a let down E-Day is turning out to be. I didn't like Gears 5 but E Day feels like a step even further in the wrong direction at every turn. The weapons don't feel great, the music is crap (thankfully can switch it to Metallica), the enemies are bullet sponges and the matches are unrewarding. What happened to meat shields? What happened to executions? Your character literally punts the air, it looks so weightless and goofy. Everyone moves around so fast now like it's call of duty, there is no sense to just how big they are or how much they should weigh wearing this bulky armor. Horde Seige is nothing more than a gimmicky gamemode that will almost certainly die out pretty fast, especially when there isn't any squad fill. I have had multiple games ruined because teammates leave and your stuck with useless AI that never get filled by real players. Good luck defending an objective by yourself. So much wrong with this game.

I'm hoping the campaign at least has a good story because I don't see myself playing the multiplayer when Gears 4 and Reloaded exist which offers a superior Horde mode, and the other the best PVP.

@Fiendish-Beaver I did the same, except I went back to Reloaded after about 5 standard siege games, with two of them ending because teammates left and the AI that takes over is useless. Crazy how a 20 year old game (albeit re-remastered) plays and feels better than E-Day does. I'm getting the itch to play through the series again now though but only up to 4, I didn't like 5 at all.

Thankfully this game will be on gamepass. After playing several matches of standard siege today, I can tell this is going to get old fast. I'll probably just play the campaign and then end up uninstalling the game. What a let down E-Day is turning out to be. I didn't like Gears 5 but E Day feels like a step even further in the wrong direction at every turn. The weapons don't feel great, the music is crap, the enemies are bullet sponges and the matches are unrewarding. What happened to meat shields? What happened to executions? Your character literally punts the air, it looks so weightless and goofy. Everyone moves around so fast now like it's call of duty, there is no sense to just how big they are or how much they should weigh wearing this bulky armor. Horde Seige is nothing more than a gimmicky gamemode that will almost certainly die out pretty fast, especially when there isn't any squad fill. I have had multiple games ruined because teammates leave and your stuck with useless AI that never get filled by real players. Good luck defending an objective by yourself. So much wrong with this game.

@looks4tranz apparently they added a cheats menu in this update.

@Glassneedles Yep this years big reveal is disappointing, no other way to put it. After multiple years in a row of Nightdive reviving classic games and giving them the remaster treatment, this year they made a mod pack for some levels in a game they already released.

They set the bar and the expectations the past few years, they missed the mark this year.

@SMJ They always reveal the surprise game during the first day, usually the very first stream.

This was the surprise. Yay..

Absolutely unprecedented, no other game has done this before.

Just ģoes to show how big this game is, and is going to be, when Netflix paid for exclusive rights to host the trailer for all of their 325 million subscribers. I wonder how much they paid for the 6 hour window before it'd supposed to be released on YouTube.

My dissapointment is immeasurable.

After the rumors of Wolfenstein 2009 getting the remaster treatment by Nightdive, instead they made a few more levels for Quake, a game with a lively and healthy modding community that has already made dozens upon dozens of levels for it already.

@IllusiveMan yep the remake is a mess when it gets into demanding sections. Keyes, especially going for the catch skull, was a pain to try and get through due to stutters and low frame rate.

I'm so sick of hearing about Microsoft layoffs. Literally watching some of my favorite games and studios die in real time.

Hell yeah! Let's go! This is my most anticipated game of the last decade. Hype is through the roof

Nice! I hope they introduce badges, or something similar, for your profile showing how many platinum achievements you've earned. I easily have 100+ games that I have earned all achievements in from Xbox360, Xbox One and Series X.

Can we just skip August and jump straight to September? August is looking grim from gamepass releases, but I can't wait to play Dune and Minecraft Dungeons 2.

@dskatter I'm more than happy to wait for it to come to gamepass, or drop to the same price as a month or two of gamepass. I basically forgot the game even existed until this announcement.

That makes financial sense to ME.

@LordHrivnasty That was almost 3 years ago, a lot can change in that time such as sales slowing down. I know I'm not paying almost $70 CAD for a 3 year old game.

Glad there's an opt-in / opt-out toggle for the voice recording in clips. I don't want to be a part of some random person's clips, it's bad enough gamertags aren't censored in video recordings.

I had zero expectations for this game and somehow walked away dissapointed anyways. At launch it had some really bad performance issues, which were addressed by a 30+GB patch yesterday, but that's the least of the game's issues.

There's next to nothing for enemy variety, you fight the same golems with the same attack patterns over and over again. The intro to the game seemed promising, then they rip away all the cool abilities and flashy combos you had and leave you with the bare minimum so you're just repeating the same attacks over and over again. I played about an hour the first day, and another hour+ yesterday after the patch and simply can't get into it. There's just nothing remarkable about the game, it feels and plays like yet another generic souls-like game with an uninteresting story. I honestly feel like this release would have gone mostly under the radar had GameFreak's name not be tied to it.

You know what else would make folks happy, and make a bigger impact than XPA? Putting the game on gamepass.

Been waiting for Endless Legend 2 to hit Xbox. I'm a fan of games like Civilization and Stellaris so this looks right up my alley. The fact the developer removed the game from gamepass before the 1.0 launch leaves me with displeasure and dissapointment though, it hardly seems fair that PC players got to play over the last year through gamepass, the same service I pay for (albeit for more than PC gamepass costs) and they pulled the rug from under us console players. Here's hoping the game makes a return to the service in September.

Not that surprising. I wish I could say Campaign Evolved was a great remake, but it's not. They took a lot of the soul out of the game with the changes they made. The music hits, the story hits, but the visuals leave something to be desired as well as some of the questionable changes to sound effects and weapon sounds and weapon changes. The bonus missions fell flat aswell, they simply weren't fun and didn't really expand the story much after hyping them as a prequel of sorts. (Also feature some of the worst cutscenes in the game) I don't see sales of this game improving much on Playstation without some sales.

Got into the beta yesterday for 30m before it was shutdown. Lag, rubber banding aside it was pretty fun. Horde mode is the shining star, the PVP doesn't hit like it used to, alot of the balancing / changes to the weapons like the gnasher they brought to Reloaded is directly in place in E-Day and feels off, it doesn't have the same punch it used to have in the series. Animations look stiff and weightless, they toned back a lot of the screen shake effects as well, reaver and brumak rockets don't give a sense of explosions going off nearby. The sprinting is broken, you continue to sprint for a bit after you let go of the button. The "difficulty" of horde mode definitely needs tuned, bullet sponge enemies isn't the answer they need to throw more elite enemies into the mix, not make regular locusts bullet sponges. They seem to have removed using enemies as meat shield as well as chainsaw duels which sucks.

From an aesthetic point of the view the game looks good, but it's too damn bright. What happened to the dark, grittiness the series is known for? This was a complaint in Reloaded and it seems Coalition has completely ignored that feedback.

Overall I feel the foundation is there but the game needs more work with the way the game feels right now but hopefully there's time for Coalition to take our feedback and make changes.

I can't remember the last time I played a Xbox 360 game, let alone og Xbox. These resources would be better used elsewhere.

It's awful. Janky controls, janky animations, predatory microtransactions, forced into trios if you want to play past the first map, matches are filled with bots, the in-game chat is not moderated and always on your screen so get used to sexist, racist and other toxic "discussions". I could go on and on about how bad this game is, but I'll let the reviews speak for themselves.

67% on Steam
2.4/5 on Xbox

As an ultimate subscriber, this looks absolutely awful. There is nothing of interest here. Do better Microsoft or I'm switching to premium, it's the better value for your money and it's becoming very obvious.

Not sold on this game whatsoever from what I have read about it. I'll give it a chance but I have basically zero expectations, this is Gamefreak afterall. Multi billion dollar franchise (pokemon) and they still release unpolished, bug ridden games that seem to get worse and worse.

Shift at Midnight was the highlight of July followed closely by Halo for me.

Asha is going to have to move mountains to return Xbox to it's glory days. Microsoft just released their quarterly report and once again it showed Xbox is still on the decline. 10% decline in content and services (gamepass) and a 13% decline in hardware sales during the last quarter, falling to 29% for the fiscal year. For the full 2026 fiscal year, Xbox revenue fell by $1.7B year over year

From the previews it sounds like they missed the mark on the pvp multiplayer, but the horde mode shines. Hopefully the campaign is good as well but I hope they have time to fix everything wrong with the pvp as that's the backbone of gears of war, if it's not good the game won't have nearly as much staying power.

I'm surprised that 2k puts these WWE games on free play days every year. It's always the same weekend of Summerslam and I have beaten the story modes / showcase modes, the only modes that interests me, of the past like 4-5 games for free every year.

@Titntin only the first map is playable solo. The second and third are locked to trios. You can not play the whole game solo, you will quickly find yourself at a brick wall playing solo.

It's utter crap. Played the beta a few weeks ago and I could tell it was going to get slammed in reviews, and it looks like I wasn't wrong based on the 58% on steam. Nothing more than a low quality game filled with overpriced microtransactions to nickel and dime you, or in this case skins which you of course need to buy extra gems to get because they are priced just slightly higher than the price of one gem pack. I hope these predatory practices become illegal in the future. If you offer a shop, all items should be priced appropriately so players don't need to spend more money than they should to get what they want.

Thank for you destroying a beloved game studio, Microsoft. RIP psychonauts 3.

I thought this was coming to gamepass. Oh well, I can wait. Not something I would buy, but would try on gamepass.

More damage to the Xbox brand. Thanks Phil.

It's absolutely unacceptable how long Xbox live was down / experiencing issues yesterday. Do better Microsoft.

Xbox seen the PSN outage a couple days ago and didn't want to be left out I guess. I noticed issues last night but it didn't affect my connection to ffxiv. This morning all my gamepass games are showing the little warning symbol, trying to say I don't own / have access to them.

$30 gamepass will be back in no time at this rate with the $23-$25 tier sporting ads and $30 gets you ad free gamepass.