VenomousAlbino

Ray tracing, maybe?

Official EA Play Live checklist

• Battlefield 2042
• Apex Legends
• FIFA 22
• Madden 22
• NHL 22
• The Sims 4

@suikoden What video were you watching?

I'll try The Last Stop and Raji but I'm not starting another roguelike/roguelite; every time I start a new one I just end up going back to Dead Cells, Slay the Spire or The Binding of Isaac anyway.

Maybe I'll give Hades a go next month.

Give it up, Ubisoft.

@SplooshDmg That's one thing I wouldn't slam the front door on.

I hate everything about this.

@Vepra nothing worthwhile? Do around 30 seconds worth of actual research and tell me Sumo Digital by itself - let alone Sumo Group as a whole - has done nothing worthwhile. I'll wait.

@SplooshDmg I think $1.27m for 13 studios worth of staff and assets is a pretty good deal.

Sumo might not own or have access to a lot of IP's, but do you know who does? Tencent.

@Xiovanni I'm just saying, one brings in a lot of money for the company and one doesn't, so it's not hard to see why the company's priorities lie with Apex. I'm not saying that's ok, but that's how it is

@101Force I can say. If it turns out to be another developer attempting to take out the competition, I will personally buy you every game you ever want for the rest of your life. 😉

I assumed there had been cross-play and cross-progression in Warframe for years already. Shows what I know.

I've tried to get into Warframe a few times but find it kind of boring. Maybe it's more fun in a group

Damn, I was playing this yesterday afternoon. It's still my go-to online shooter.

@Xiovanni probably because Apex Legends brings in millions in revenue every month while Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition is on sale for like £2.50 every month.

I already have several devices I can use for cloud gaming. I'd buy an Xbox handheld in a heartbeat, but only if it played the games natively.

@LordMonkfish I agree, but maybe they thought they knew the games were going to be ready to go?

But... Game Pass doesn't stop you from buying games. Game Pass and game ownership aren't mutually exclusive concepts.

@Carck You do realise that getting anything out of this activity or progressing in it is going to be the tedious af, right? Unless you buy those shark cards of course.

Cool. Now not only does Rockstar not need to make GTA 6 any time soon, they can also not make a new Midnight Club either. Why bother when they can just chuck the content into GTA Online and monetize the f**k out of it? What's next, a Bully update?

@SuperJoon it's ridiculous isn't it? Hitman 3 with all of the Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 content also installed takes up less than 70GB. It wouldn't surprise me if @Enigk has a point.

Netflix will see lower than predicted/desired uptake and will abandon game streaming within a few years, guaranteed.

News just in: not everything is a hint, tease or indication of anything. The internet at large will learn nothing.

I've always found TSU very underwhelming; indisputably impressive in terms of map size but that's really the only thing the series has going for it. Forza Horizon 5 is out THIS year, so I have no reason to even give Solar Crown a second thought.

It's not something we're currently looking at, but thanks for the idea.

@Tharsman But the entire pitch for Yooka-Laylee was that it was unashamedly Banjo-Kazooie/Donkey Kong 64 style platforming, but bigger. Going into it with greater expectations was where you went wrong there.

I booted up Live & Reloaded on Series X yesterday with the intention of just having a look at it and ended up playing around 2 hours. A lot of hasn't aged particularly well (dialogue, humour and voice acting mostly) but in 4K/HDR it looks pretty good, all things considered.

Doom 2016, very closely followed by Doom Eternal; I only just started playing through The Ancient Gods so I'll reserve judgement for now, but so far... well, it's more Doom so it's inherently great. 😁

@Dezzy70 From what I can ascertain, it's not a case of Rare not being allowed to; it's a case of Rare not wanting to, and the worst thing Microsoft can do is force Rare to make a game they don't want to make. The consensus around the newest Banjo game Rare actually wanted to make was largely negative (not me, it's one of my favourite Xbox 360 games); can you imagine the backlash against a new Banjo game that turned out bad because the developer's hearts weren't in it?

@Dezzy70 Nope, can't do it: improvement over what?!? You'd have to press fewer buttons if you just pressed the eject button on the console than if you ejected the disc by navigating through menus with the controller, and you have to get up to actually take the disc out either way. Ejecting the disc with the controller is literally and indisputably the more inconvenient option in this situation.

@Dezzy70 But you have to go up to the console to actually take the disc out. You may as well push the button to eject the disc while you're over there.

@rjejr are your Microsoft and Xbox accounts not just the same account? Mine are.

@Xenomorph_79 Nintendo gives you a percentage of the price of every Switch game (new retail or eShop) game back as store credit.

Microsoft needs an army of Phil clones on standby. Just crack out a new one when the current Phil decides he's had enough.

Hitman III; an absurd amount of Hitman all in one launcher.

I would've said Knockout City, but everyone playing got good and now I can't keep up.

Playground was money well spent on Microsoft's part. FH5 is THE game I'm anticipating this year.

I'm all upgraded and have been holding off on playing The Ancient Gods until this update landed. Doom Eternal looked lush on a bog standard Xbox One.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yes 😊

I'm hoping Conker Reloaded is easier to go back to than the N64 version, 'cos that game does not hold up.

Also, the Midway compilation has Smash TV in it, so Mrs. Venomous Albino will be very pleased.

I can't help but laugh at the comments about "financial stability" and 'secure future". Ask former employees of Evolution Studios, Guerilla Cambridge, Bigbig Studios, Sony Manchester, Sony Liverpool, Incognito Entertainment and Zipper Interactive about financially stable and secure futures. 😂

@Kienda agreed. The GoldenEye levels in Far Cry don't harm MGM's bottom line in any way, shape or form. It's just a fun little homage or nostalgia kick that, if anything, actually keeps the Bond property as a whole fresh in people's minds.

F1 2021, Cris Tales (NOT A JRPG), The Ascent, Death's Door and Flight Simulator all interest me, plus Bug Fables and the Blaster Master Zero games are supposed to be good.

Ffs, July is supposed to be quiet.

Hot Pursuit Remastered is brilliant. I never played the original and I'm surprised how good it actually is.

I'm also playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is gorgeous with FPS Boost switched on.

I ordered one for the wife and one for myself. My reward points balance hasn't looked this sad in a while.

I bought this earlier in the week because it was only £18 and the campaign is supposed to be good. I've had 3 achievements not unlock for me and after 5 hours I'm already bored. I can't think of a game that epitomises squandered potential more than Avengers.

@antstephenson Yeah, I thought the whole reason Microsoft was going browser based on Apple devices was because it would be less of a ball-ache than dealing with Apple's arse-backwards policies.

@Halucigens if Scarlet Nexus is anything like Astral Chain, then I really need to play Astral Chain, because the Scarlet Nexus demo was great.

@PhhhCough oh, nice. I'll have a look at those.

@PhhhCough No, I was under the assumption that they're on the PS4 version.

Far Cry: New Dawn is on sale at the moment. Is it as bad as everyone makes out? I bought Far Cry 5 on sale recently; finished it last week and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I feel like The Messenger didn't stick around that long. Not that I was going to play it. I'm really burnt out on 2D platformers.

Design Lab came back in time to order an engraved controller for my wife for our 10th wedding anniversary, so A.

@Doctorwhoooourgh impression? I thought there was actually a really fast car in here. 😲

I picked up that SpongeBob remaster for the missus, and for myself I got Far Cry 5: Gold Edition and the year one pass for Doom Eternal ready for the Series X upgrade.

This isn't the least bit surprising. The Series X and PS5 versions are coming later in the year and Take Two would very much like you to pay for the game a second or third time. Shutting down the Xbox 360 and PS3 servers is definitely one avenue to forcing players to cough up more money.