| People might moan, but this clearly still a very lucrative title for Rockstar. |
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Back 4 Blood open beta set for August
Rockstar wants you to steal $100 billion in GTA Online this week (virtually, of course)
Microsoft hints at more developer acquisitions, post-Bethesda
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Crysis Remastered PC tech review: brutal performance limits can't be overlooked
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Long story short: it looks and runs worse. But what about all that fawning Alex did over it a few weeks ago, after his visit to Crytek's offices? I could have sworn the DF boys were going on about how much the developer cares. lmao |
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Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda is all about Game Pass
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Microsoft buying Bethesda and Zenimax for $7.5bn
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Welcome back Xbox, welcome back. I just like to see the competition. And fuck it, it's also just really nice to see MS going balls deep in the hardcore gamer console market again. |
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17 years later, Freedom Fighters is back
| I remember this had nice music too. |
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Cyberpunk 2077 will be "slightly shorter" than The Witcher 3 because players complained The Witcher 3 was "too long"
| Good. |
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This is how Xbox Series S backwards compatibility really works
| Utterly confusing naming tongue twisters aside, this is really great and consumer friendly work from Microsoft. I just can't imagine Sony ever going to the same effort for its own customers, the lazy greedy gits that they are. Xbox is smashing it at the moment. |
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The top 10 games of the generation
| I agree with some and strongly disagree with others. But it's nice to see Destiny get a mention. I no longer play the game, but it absolutely defined this generation in gaming for me, and it felt like a major evolution in online mic enabled co-op, for which I'll forever appreciate it. |
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Sony confirms PlayStation 5 won't natively support PS3, PS2, PS1 games
| I'm always surprised when a handful of whiners always moan that a newer console won't be compatible with games they bought and played to death 15 years ago. |
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Halo co-creator's Disintegration shutting down multiplayer servers in November
| I don't know what the hell they were thinking when whoever it was green lit this game. I think even my mum would have called it out as having no chance. |
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PS5 is a surefire hit, but Sony's broken promises are eroding trust
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Big PS4 gamer for most of a decade, but I think the market is changing and players are now even more savvy than they once were. Honestly, the "exclusives" aren't a platform selling point for me anymore. Price and general wealth of choice are. I'm just going to stick to my PC for a couple of years, maybe upgrade the graphics card further down the line (if absolutely necessary). PC gaming has evolved a LOT from where it used to be, back when PS4 launched, it's more intuitive and plug n play than PC gaming ever was. For example, I use my old Xbox 360 pad for 90 percent of everything I play on PC, it just works. And everything is just so ridiculously cheap, or better... completely free. Then there's the growing cross platform play, which is the single best thing to happen in gaming in a decade. It means I'll still be able to party up with my old Destiny mates, should I ever want to again. Then you can add the option of Game Pass on top! There's really no downsides. Nah, I'm going to wait. I'll eventually play Demon's Souls via Steam. Of that I have zero doubt, and I'm a patient guy. |
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PlayStation Plus Collection brings a selection of PS4 games to PS5 at launch
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@Mr_Writer85 Yeah that's true about Game Pass and online gaming being separate. Which is scummy. |
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| Just want to say it's been a nice little discussion with you lot tonight, in the various threads after Sony's stream. So cheers for that! |
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@tialt Sony have enjoyed an insurmountable lead this past gen, but I wouldn't take anything for granted moving into the next one. That's the catastrophic mistake Xbox made last time. |
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@Mr_Writer85 I want something on PS5 which I can directly compare with Game Pass though. Don't say that PS Now bollocks. |
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@the_ewan If you're right then I think it's great gesture and I couldn't fault it. But I still wonder what exactly a Playstation Plus sub will look like on PS5. Because in light of Game Pass on Xbox, I just don't believe that a couple of random freebies each month is going to cut it, not anymore. I already think it's bad value now, on PS4. Sony do now have to up their game, IMO. If they're thinking they can just continue with the same antiquated service whereby I must pay them a monthly fee in order to access the multiplayer component of my favourite purchased games, then I'm afraid they're sorely mistaken and I'll just fully move over to my PC libraries instead, where online gaming continues to be completely free of charge. |
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So basically they're just giving a stack of old PS4 era PSN Plus monthlys to players all upfront and saying "this is the next gen Playstation game pass." You're not fooling me, Sony! Fine for new adopters, but useless to the majority of PS players who already bought and played these old things ages ago. Which begs the question: for longstanding PS Plus subs, what is Sony's actual answer to MS Game Pass? |
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Sony sets the price of some PS5 launch titles at £70
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| That's their price point vs hardware costs loss per every system sold in action right there. |
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That Harry Potter game is finally official
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@Brainflowers Oh god you said "trending" in relation to your own comment. Ugh. |
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@peterfll I don't mind alternative views. When they're constantly forced down my throat though, or I feel a bit bombarded by them, I sort of lose interest in whatever "they" were first trying to say, the thrust of the original point lost in the hubris. Normally the setting for such discourse is an echo chamber. |
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@peterfll Actually in my own comment box it's for me to dismiss whatever the heck I want. You might think you're entitled to dictate the terms of what I can and cannot dismiss, but you'd be being daft. |
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| Imagine using the reveal of a great looking new Harry Potter IP as a platform to spout boring woke shite in the comments section of a gaming website. |
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Out of everything shown tonight so far this is the only game that looks good to me. And I'm not even into Harry Potter. But this looks fabulous. Edit: I take it back, Demon's Souls looks badass too. Although they really should have updated the floaty old stairs/steps traversal animation by now. It's the same basic one they've been using in these games for years. |
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Here's our first look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War running on PS5
| Looks boring. Great fidelity though, heh. |
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PS5 costs £450 in the UK, the same as Xbox Series X
| Anyway, what's this new PSN Collection thingy? |
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Btw, the new CoD campaign looks same 'ol on-rails interactive movie bullshit from 10 years ago. Just shinier (and with more puddle reflections). Looks like the weather is really going to be shitty in games this next gen. |
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I still can't stand the design either. I'm going to have to wait for the black version, which in the end is better for my wallet anyway. |
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They had no choice. I honestly don't see the digital edition being widely popular though, at that price (and compared to the S). |
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Try Star Citizen for free with its latest Free Fly event
| Don't bother, it runs like shit. The video settings are essentially bugged and making changes to improve performance literally does nothing. Even changing your res has no effect on frame rate. It's still a very very unpolished experience. |
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As Destiny 2 prepares to delete many of its worlds, several main characters are seemingly killed
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@Cold_Waste In other words you're chronically addicted to the game and the very notion of having parts of your addiction withdrawn are playing havoc with your coping mechanisms. It's normal for MMO titles to retire content over their long lifetimes, including explorable geometry. Who really cares if Mercury or Mars are being pulled out of the game? They're dead destinations. I played a ton of Destiny 2 and bought everything up to the Moon expansion. I haven't been on it in months (it's boring), but I was thinking about returning for this next big add-on. I couldn't care less that Bungie are taking away some of the destinations I've paid for. Or as I see, removing a lot of the bloat. I've more than had my monies worth. |
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MIA pirate game Skull & Bones has a new vision, Ubisoft says
| All they have to do is add boarding and Jack Aubrey themed DLC and I'm onboard, if you please. |
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Xbox Series X costs £449 in the UK
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@Crocoman You're overlooking the fact that the CPU, the memory and the modern storage solutions here are a SIGNIFICANT "like-for-like" upgrade over what the similarly priced current-gen consoles shipped with when they debuted years ago. When the PS4 and Xbox One came out, their hardware was already antiquated by mainstream PC standards at that time. Have you forgotten how disappointing the CPU spec reveals were? Have you forgotten the shoddy performance profiles in all those early Digitial Foundry analysis videos? I haven't. The same drawbacks simply cannot be said of these new consoles - where the hardware spec (at the comparatively very low price) is comfortably sitting in the mid to high end of what is available right now in the PC market. Performance will be superb out of the gate, unlike last time. This key differential cannot be disregarded. The new consoles are VERY cheap at the price. The bang for buck here is far bigger than it was last gen. I too was expecting around the £479 - 499 price point, btw. |
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This is fucking badass from Microsoft. Sony must surely be shaken up by this price point right now. You're essentially getting a thousand quid gaming PC for less than half the price, even if you built your own. Great time to be a gamer. |
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Xbox All Access: the best way to buy an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S?
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Can't believe today's news tbh. Sony may indeed have the first party lineup, but nows where we see just how much that really matters in the minds of consumers - when faced with the astonishing sort of value Microsoft are now offering. Sony really need to have a big answer to this. |
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EA Play comes with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass for PC at no extra cost
| Over to you, Sony. |
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The Xbox Series S memes are here
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@Nino_Chaosdrache The PS5 looks gaudy AF, to the point that I'm probably not even going to bother and just stick with PC gaming. I've been a PS4 player for years, but Sony's new system looks dated even before it has come out. |
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@Miyamotosan It's striking. You just have boring mainstream taste. |
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| It's a brilliant design. I wish the PS5 could have looked this good. |
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Crysis Remastered: this is what ray tracing looks like on consoles
| Impressive wizardry, well done Crytek. Got to admire their tenacity. |
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Marvel's Avengers review - not super enough
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Good review, although I'd hardly refer to the Thor voice acting as "diamond tier". The iron man flying parts absolutely sucked in the beta - and it's IMO essential-to-get-right aspects like that which remind me just how well Anthem nailed its own flying suit thrills - a game which people enjoy to casually criticise and dismiss all the time, while totally failing to acknowledge and even take for granted how that game actually really nailed its core mechanical gameplay. I dunno, I just always appreciate the more refined parts of otherwise failed game design. I suppose I expected a big budget Avengers game to at least get satisfying iron man gameplay right, but they couldn't even do that. So what would we expect from the rest of the game? Not that much really. |
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Xbox Series S finally revealed, priced £249
| That design is fuckin awesome. Well done MS. |
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition comparison video makes me prefer the original
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Crysis Remastered's PC unlimited settings mode named "Can it run Crysis?"
| Shame I have no desire whatsoever to ever play this game again. The gameplay will still be old hat. |
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Avengers' Kamala Khan is this year's most important hero
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More of this sort of thing, but ideally in more inspiring games than this one. I played the beta and apart from finding her overly excited fangirl lines a bit cringy and dare I say irritating, I had a lot of novelty fun with the way the character controlled and her move-set. I should imagine I'd probably warm to her by the end of the campaign, but endless melee slamming would likely become far too boring for me to ever reach that far. |
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Existing Kingdoms of Amalur owners on Steam get next week's remaster at half-price
| Lol the 50% off figure is what they should be charging top whack. |
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Here's a brief gameplay peek at CD Projekt's new creature-hunting Witcher mobile game
| Nah, you're alright. |
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AgentDaleCooper
3 months ago
I'm guessing the split screen gamer demographic has shrunk to almost none existent levels compared to twenty years ago.