Thing is, Sony aren’t even putting out that many bangers. Certainly not by the standards of last generation.

But that’s the problem. Last generation was pivotal for the switch from physical media to digital, which means that anyone buying a new system is going to buy an updated version of their last gen system. Which was a PS4, because Microsoft completely fucked it last generation. Even with this gen’s disappointing games, baffling lack of focus, poor messaging, and bizarre management decisions, they’d probably be in a much stronger position if they’d made a product that people actually wanted to buy last generation, because more folks would already be invested in the ecosystem.

realMyst

Of course, that’s not the most recent remake of Myst. The current one is called, er, ‘Myst’.

Sigh. Looking forward to Riven. Again.

To be fair, Gearbox was always a pretty crap deal for whoever was buying it because 2K owns the publishing rights to Borderlands in perpetuity. It would not surprise me if they end up under 2K, and that they end up costing 2K a lot less than they cost Embracer.

The problem with Watch Dogs Legion is that all of the player characters are all procedurally generated, so while there’s plenty of plot, it’s pretty threadbare as a story.

Well it’s Xbox Wire, so it’s PR rather than any actual critical evaluation.

And we all know how well Xbox PR has been doing lately.

Minecraft has some pretty comprehensive version control, so you should be able to install old versions pretty easily.

The plan is to finalise today (as reported by The Verge), but Activision anticipates putting games on Game Pass over the course of 2024.

Personally? I’d expect something before Christmas. Got to push those end-of-year console sales after all.

I have no objection to this.

The kind of folks who read about savvy cost-saving methods on internet forums are always a vocal minority. The vast majority of users are always going to have signed up directly through the console, rather than faffing about with coupons and cheeky multi-step methods. Partially because it’s far more convenient to just set up a monthly auto-pay, and partly because not everyone has the disposable income to pay for multiple years up front, even though it would save them money down the line.

And I’m saying this as someone who uses a combination of MS Rewards, Nectar Points, a staff discount on digital coupons, ‘cashback’ rebates, and money or gift cards from answering surveys to fund my Xbox habit.

It certainly sounds like something they’d do.

You’re forgetting the early access for buying the dlc/collectors edition gubbins.

Edit: just read that it’s 8 hours before the early access release. But that’s normal for Bethesda. They did a similarly short embargo with Fallout 4, Deathloop, Dishonored, and the Wolfenstein games. For Prey they didn’t even send out press copies ahead of release (which was stupid).

A much better indication is that press copies went out on the 17th, meaning they’re confident in giving reviewers about two weeks with the game. Which isn’t normal in the modern industry. That’s basically Nintendo levels of confidence.

Honestly, it’s impressive that it was still functional at this point.

Lean. Better than last fortnight, but would it kill them to pad things out a little more?

GTAV has had quite a bit of polish, comparatively. Of course, I’m sure that if they weren’t mostly doing it to keep GTA Online looking vaguely fresh it would still look like a PS3 game.

The fact that Stray and Stray Gods are coming out on the same day is causing my head to keep singing ‘Stray Stray Gods’ to the tune of Red Red Wine at me.

The early access pack is offered as part of the DLC. To access the DLC, you would need either Game Pass or to own the game.

They’re good at doing this. And by good, I mean it keeps happening and I can only assume there’s something in the backend that keeps leaking messages like this and they’ve never been able to find and fix it.

Honestly the fact that Oblivion is as old now as Ultima III was when Oblivion came out is utterly destroying me right now.

Oblivion isnt even that old.

I just checked and oh god it’s 17 years old this year. Please excuse me while I go turn into dust.

The irony is that Ubisoft desperately now wants to be bought, but the massive kerfuffle over Microsoft buying Activision, and just how much of a ballache that has been may have made further industry-shaking acquisitions unlikely for the time being.

Yves is stuck with his massive, lumbering, inefficient, copy-and-paste factories and their collapsing internal structures filled with worker abuse and sexual harassment allegations.