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Anyone remember Blitz The League on the 360 and PS3?
I wish we'd get more of these sorts of games.
We got so many cool arcade sports games in that generation, The Bigs too.
Now its just Madden roster updates every year

Was Fear Effect Reinvented cancelled? I liked the look of it and got excited that this was that.

@ErrantRob What is the title of the book, sounds like it would be a good read.

Out of the 6 games that are published by MS, these four would have appeared in the charts regardless of MS buying the companies or not. Anyone claiming MS are keeping PS gamers supplied with games is just silly. If they hadn't of spent vast sums of money to acquire studios their release slate would've been more barebones than Sonys.

The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion Remastered (Microsoft)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Microsoft)
Doom: The Dark Ages (Microsoft)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Microsoft)

"PC exclusive on the Epic Games Store underperformed"

I find it ironic when companies complain about low sales while self limiting their audience by taking an exclusive deal.

Translation: AI can write match-3 games no problem

Many thanks to the XBox players for beta testing for us.

The main issues is that all the shops that sell physical games have shut down. If I go to my local town there isn't a single shop I can go in to buy a game. It had Game, HMV, GameStation, 3 Independants, Tesco, Argos, and more i'm probably forgetting that are long gone.

The Game Collection online are my go to now for all my purchases.

“It's worth noting that PlayStation Trophies are automatically disabled on a platform level for all games when using a save file from another platform,” the team clarified.

This isn't true as I have unlocked trophies in Destiny 2 on PlayStation after unlocking them on Steam and Xbox. Fall Guys too

Don't worry it's only 4 games guys!

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I feel this should be reviewed when the whole thing was released in April or not have a score assigned but thats just my opinion.

Battlefield 1 was average
Battlefield 5 was awful
Battlefield 2042 was broken

Don't preorder this, stop encouraging them

The one and only reason for me is because they had the gall to charge £74.99 for the complete version and the disc had day one DLC that was £15 that wasn't included. It was an immediate no from me. Waiting for a heavy sale if at all. And I'm someone who has purchased all the LiS games day one.

Where did Indiana Jones chart:?

They did the bare minimum with this update.

The game runs at 60 fps sure but the clothes still render at 30 fps which is very jarring.

Its been a bug since it was released on PC and never fixed. It's a simple fix to implement as well. You can do it yourself on PC by editing a text file but obviously you cant do this on console. Why Ubisoft still haven't fixed it is outrageous which is a shame because in my opinion this is the best AC game. Will be replaying for sure though to unlock the Jack The Ripper DLC trophies.

@TheDudeElDuderino What nonsense 😂No it isn't. It's an ever changing live service shooter like Destiny, The Division etc. Sony don't allow early access/game previews to be released on their ecosystem. Helldivers 1 still gets updates/has an ongoing war.

I know it isn't critical to most people but this is all about perception. This is the first big release from Sony since the console launched, it should 100% have been Pro Enhanced. Sony seem to mess up a lot of the small stuff that are easily avoided.

This wont sell even at the cut down price. The announcement tweet was just full of people asking whether it was on Gamepass. Microsoft have programmed their entire userbase to not buy games.

EA games released exclusively on their own app until 2020. So to claim this is their biggest launch on the platform while a good headline really isn't as good as they make out.

70k for a AAA day 1 release isn't really big numbers either.

@HonestHick Monthly peak for August and September was 150k with daily counts around 100-110k so yes impressive but not as impressive as this article makes out. For comparison Helldivers 2 had a weekend launch of 458,709 players. In days gone by CoD would have decimated HD2.

306,460 people are playing the COD HQ app not Black Ops 6 alone. This launcher encapsulates numbers for MW2, MW3, Warzone and Black Ops 6. So yes while impressive, i'd say down on previous years. The general consensus is also the maps are a bit crap so once people have finished with the campaign i'd expect a quick decline in daily players.

The problem these days is that games are just too expensive and there are too many of them. Publishers have become too greedy. Just as an example the new Life Is Strange is £75 if you want to play it today. Respectfully they can f**K off for that price. I paid £15.99 for the original. I can 100% say the new one will be a worse game too.

Banishers came out as a full priced release. Back in the day it would have been a budget priced game £24.99, 30 at the max. Any interest I had disappeared as soon as I saw the price, and judging by this report I wasn't the only one.

Publishers are finally reeping what they have sown for years and I for one am pretty pleased. The industry needs a reset.

To anyone who has received this in the UK, is it all on disc or does it have a download code for part of it?

@Rog-X What about the other 8 months this year? Did Xbox gamers play 1 hour of Hellblade 2 a month to tide them over? 😝 While we were busy playing Sony Published titles Helldivers 2, Last Of Us 2 Remake, Rise Of Ronin, Steller Blade & Astro Bot

But I thought it was only super evil bad Sony that paid for exclusivity on games? 😏

Perhaps these devs all competing for our money should at least try to make their games seems like value for money. I'm sorry but charging £16 for a 15+ year old game meant this didn't even get a look in from me.

It's a good job Hogwarts Legacy flopped as badly as it did. It makes the decision by WB Games to shift their focus onto live service and free to play titles much easier to understand.

@daveofduncan It was the fact that it barely hit 30 fps that made it unplayable. It 100% needed a few more months dev time.

Only interested in this when it runs at 60fps. Tried at launch and it was just unplayable.

This game requires a Riot account to even play it. I assume there will be the same uproar Arrowhead got for Helldivers 2 online 😏

How do they come up with these prices? £15.99 for an 18 year old Tomb Raider game is insane. It's currently 89p on GOG for PC. I'm sure they'd sell lots more copies if they priced them sensibly.

Ultimate Team in NCAA. There goes all my enthusiasm I had for this. Shame.

Since 2020

68% of SE games have been multiplatform
19% have been Nintendo exclusive
13% have been Playstation Exclusive.

But hey exclusivity is killing the company 😂

Redfall has a season pass that has delivered zero content so far. I hope the PC players keep the same energy they just gave Sony for daring to ask them to create a PSN ID.

Sony should offer a super rare awesome looking skin and 1000 Super Credits for linking your PSN ID. You can guarantee the PC mob would be tripping over themselves to make an account and hand their details over to Sony.

You just know this is gonna be full to the brim with battle basses, currencies and micro transactions. The exact opposite of what the rabid fan base was clamoring for with the #Skate4 posts.

Take Two increased the salary of two of their top executives (likely CEO + 1 other) by 100% in 2023 vs. 2022. Their combined salaries rose to $72,350,718. Or in other words: An increase of 36m in one year for two individuals.

This should be added to every article online reporting on this closure. Absolute scumbag moves.

@Deljo We've had the following games as console exclusives so far this year on PlayStation and it's only May. Helldivers 2, The Last of Us Part 2: Remastered, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Pacific Drive, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Rise Of The Ronin & Stellar Blade.

It can look exactly the same for all I care, as long as the upgrades are free and boost the FPS to 60fps i'm happy.

Have they announced whether the DLC is getting the next gen treatment? Can't see anything about it anywhere.

I can't play games at 30fps now after enjoying 60fps. If a game doesn't offer it (Dragons Dogma 2) I simply won't play it. I feel the narrative of 30fps is OK is simply because the Xbox exclusives aren't hitting it. There is no excuse for Hellblade 2 not to run at 60fps. Lower the resolution to offer it.

@GrimWillows Yea I purchased them and all three are downloading as we speak

I've only managed to download Clear Sky so far but it has 30 and 60 fps options for anyone worried about that.

Edit - All three titles have a 60 fps option.

The bundle has a price glitch on the UK store right now. Can get the whole trilogy for the price of one game £15.99

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EB0236-CUSA43978_00-0550328121149114

This is a real scum bag move. Reviews should be updated when companies do this. Hit them in the metacritic.

What a great start to the year to own a PlayStation. This, Helldivers 2 and Final Fantasy all before March.

There isn't a phrase that puts me off a game more than Seasons. The slow drip feed of content on a game starved for it at release just isn't for me.

@IOI I mean there is one in January! 😂 Its single player and has 93 on metacritic.

This same reviewer gave the the PS Portal 2.5/5 giving it minus points for:-

• Requires a PS5
• Doesn't do anything besides PS5 Remote Play
• Expensive for a single-use device when other Remote Play options are available

I'd exercise caution listening to his "expert" analysis.

Ultimate Editions should only be released once development has ended on a game in my opinion. Then they can be released with all content + patches on the disc.