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@Microbius Me too! It is the one I am looking forward.

@Microbius lol, I know! This article, I think, will receive so many comments...

@Kaloudz Right, as always, mate!

I, too, think it had been a great year so far. To take one single failed game to go all doom and gloom, is a bit of a reach, IMO (let alone declaring the last nail in the coffin of the brand).

Since Last Christmas, I have played very good games on Xbox and on GPU, like A Plague Tale: Requiem, Eastward, As Dusk Falls and Pentiment. I'm still on Hi-Fi (around track 9), and the next ones are Ghostwire: Tokyo, Soul Hackers 2, Last Case of Benedict Fox and Redfall.

That one is an interesting list...waiting for a bunch of titles! But for me, the special one is Hellblade 2.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I think that it's highly likely!

@Kaloudz Me too! I will start downloading it this weekend.

@Fenbops Consoles AND controllers!

@EvenStephen7 Very well put. I know this is often a thankless job, as I have worked on news sites. So I will say thank you to @FraserG and everyone in the staff. Even with all the MS-ABK news, this one's my favorite site of the four.

@Titntin Nicely put!

I don't know why, maybe it was because of the recent news and rumours about "Game So or So not selling well on Xbox", but many people are treating this deal as if Xbox life as a brand depends on it.

I don't see it that way (but anyway, what do I know?), but many people are happy to shout that this will be a killer blow for the Xbox division.

@Kaloudz Lol, I was thinking the same! I think it is Teller...?

Yeah, a day one for me too. Love Remedy games! I hope we can see some gameplay soon.

Great news! Of course, I have already beaten this one on GP (as I looove Remedy games, like Control and Alan Wake). This one and Hellblade were the first games I beat on Game Pass (and I bought the two later, as they're on sale very often).

Hope more people can try this one out. @themightyant Yes, give it a shot!

@Kaloudz Lol, "the Nickelback of the gaming space". That made my day,

@Tharsman "Going forward without the CMA just makes it harder to fight an FTC lawsuit, since they can point at it as a reason they are not alone in their opinion. Not a lost cause, but harder".

Spot on, I was thinking the same.

@Kaloudz Yeah, mate, I'm curious too. If one (or two) regulatory bodies blocks it, but the others approve, what would happen?

@Wheatly Very interesting take, indeed.

@Kaloudz They are some old school point-and-click adventure games from the mid 90s. I played the first two some years ago on Steam, and they're cool. Of course, as cool as a point-and-click adventure game could get!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/495700/Gabriel_Knight_Sins_of_the_Father/

@Sebatrox Oh, thank you!

I would love to see the Gabriel Knight games in console one day.

@Kaloudz I don't have a full IP list, but I forgot (and I remembered recently) that Activision owns some of the legendary Sierra On-Line IPs.

@FraserG Thank you! Interesting to read a response to the rumour.

@Wheatly Exactly! I was reading about the Nintendo Indie World of today to see if VS was announced for the Switch. I see it was not, but I was curious to see the pricing over there.

@Daaan14 I love Remedy games (Quantum Break, Control and Alan Wake). Looking forward to AW2 and, I hope, Control 2!

@Wheatly I double-dipped too, playing it on XSX and Steam Deck.

@Kaloudz Hopefully, this will be all over soon!

@Kaloudz I tried FC5 when it came to GPU - only to realize that I have already bought it! I got it on one Far Cry sale (I think it was a bundle with FC3 through FC5 with some DLC thrown in the mix). I played it via XCloud (so see how it went) and it looked great. Now that I have tried FC6, I got 5 on my downloading queue!

@Titntin Oh, thank you for the comment! . TBH, I may not have bought the DLC if it wasn't included on the sale, because I think the game is fine as it is and it was perfectly satisfying.

Having completed the main game (I think one year ago), I left the DLC for later. I only launched the one with the protagonist from another mythology (I don't remember which one, exactly). It looked great, but yeah, too samey-samey.

Having bought the Season Pass for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (hey, don't blame - I fell for Rayman!) and played the first content, I feel that Ubi is not so great at DLC - their games are already so massive that it looks like they run out of ideas with the post launch thing pretty quickly.

@Kaloudz I think it is, it looks and plays great! But I may be biased, as this is my first one and everything looks kinda "new" to me, lol.

@Kaloudz @Banjo- I loved Immortals, I hope they gave us one sequel soon. I have yet to play the DLC (I bought the Gold Edition on one of that famous "Ubi sales", btw). Loved the Mario+ Rabbids series. Now I am having a blast with Far Cry 6 (this is my first one in the series, and it's great fun!).

I love classic Ubi and I have been playing some of their classic titles on Series X and Steam. Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia (the PS2 era trilogy was great!), Rayman, Beyond Good and Evil...these are IP other companies would kill for, I think.

Of course, this new sub is a hard sell. Ubi tend to low their prices pretty soon and pretty often, as everyone has already said.

And on Xbox, I feel, is even a harder sell. Not only for the "Game Pass factor" (which, I think, offers more value), but if you're into the MS Rewards Program, you can get many Ubi games on sale with points.

For instance, I recently bought Far Cry 6 (with all the DLC) with my earned points.

Like many have said, this maybe work as an "occasional" sub, for a month or two.

Anyway, I like Ubi games, so I hope this service improves in the future.

@Kaloudz Now that I remember, on the same trailer, it says AC: Mirage will be day one too.

@Kaloudz I am not sure, but I think the new releases will be added day one (I think I saw it on the trailer here at PX, even they show the Skull and Bones game as a "Day One" addition). But don't believe me, I may be wrong.

All I can say is...I love Ubisoft games, so I hope this service will improve in the near future.

@NEStalgia Loved the Monty Python reference!

@Kaloudz I get you, my man. Damn those problematic "ads", lol. Some time ago, I was a victim of those, but on my smartphone!

@Kaloudz the DC outfit comment made my day! lol

@themightyant Oh, I didn't know that Braid was going to be remastered. It was such a great, great game.

@J_Mo_Money hahahaha I didn't knew that method!

I will use it from now, and maybe Hellblade 2 will manifest

@Kaloudz hahaha you're right.

That Xbox One era, eh?

@Kaloudz @J_Mo_Money The Xbox369 would have been NICE, lol.

JK, and agree with both of you, XGP is the best deal and I have discovered many great games thanks to this.

@themightyant "Depends if you are using American English or British English".

Oh, maybe a little off topic, but thank you for this note!

I didn't know about this (not being a native english speaker myself, but inferred by how @BAMozzy writes). One can learn something new every day, indeed!

BTW, always glad to read the posts from both of you (@themightyant and @BAMozzy)

@Kaloudz I am a huge Ubi fan too!

On the matter at hand, I would love to support this...but, like many have said, with all the (in)famous "Ubi Sales", I think I currently have all the games I want from this publisher.

It needs a nothing less than stellar line-up in the future releases from Ubi to get me invested in this...

@Kaloudz Yeah, IIRC, I can do all of that too.

Like you said, there must be something new, but I am missing it...

@Sebatrox "God of Boredness", lol.

I thought I was one of the few with that sentiment.

Played the 2018 one, and I have no desire to play the new one. At least, not at the moment.

@Banjo- Agreed with you, my man.

@themightyant I will replay soon, because I only have one more Achievement to unlock (the one about collect all the Lorestones). And hopefully, we will hear soon about Hellblade 2.

@BrilliantBill Totally agreed with you.

@Kaloudz I surely hope so!

But I have a huuuge backlog, so any delays will give me time to catch up!

@Kaloudz I felt the same way! Like, OK, this is the big next thing in horror and...nadah, just some nice ideas and some motion sickness, lol (IDK why, 'cause I am not prone to this as I have played many games with a first person perspective without issues). It just felt like a very "meh" game to me.

I know BT is a talented studio (otherwise, Konami wouldn't have chosen them for the Silent Hill remake) but I am not a fan. And the news about this remake must rank as the "least exciting game to (not) look forward to in 2023", XD.

I am not a fan of soulslike games (like you!), but "Lies of P" looks most appealing, even if there is a "close-to-zero" chance I will try it 😅.

@Kaloudz I am with on this, my man.

@Sakisa Couldn't agree more!

@Banjo- I know! I had a similar experience when I bought my PS4. When I had my PS3, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence was one of the digital PS2 games on the store. So, when I bought a PS4, I thought the same games were transfered to that digital store. But when I looked it up, no dice! No Castlevania: LoI, no Project Zero 1,2 or 3. I don't know why Sony didn't move those games to the PS4, but well, it was a case of "Sony being Sony", I guess.

BTW, what are your thoughts on the PS4, as it is the only PS you have had?

@EvilSilentFrame I was thinking the exact same thing! It is (along with 1) one of the scariest game I have ever played. Yet, it is beautiful in many, scary and creepy ways. A strong, interesting and (at least tome) poignant story, great art direction, great enemies...def, one of my all time faves!