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Microsoft spending billions on Co-pilot that no one ***** wants so they can win this stupid AI arms race that no one ***** wants, pushing up the cost of components.

Also Microsoft: surprised Pikachu face

This makes perfect sense from the publishers point of view to maximise revenue.

Currently can get vouchers for the ultimate edition on shopto for £79.70.

I'm not one to pre-order anything, but may make an exception in this case as November is usually a tight month.

Can't wait to play dress-up with Lucia while my wife watches on wondering what has become of me 🥲

Obviously they want to kill the resale market, which is fair enough from R* point of view, not many would be ballsy enough to do so.

It's gonna be a big-ass download though I bet, I only get 30Mbps so will be an overnight job.

Want a games console? Get a PS5 - better specs and cheaper.

Want a Linux games console? Get a Linux PC that offers same specs at cheaper price.

Want an overpriced Linux games console that offers terrible value for money? Get a Steam Machine.

It should be called the Conspicuous Consumption Machine.

Do you remember the Korean stealth game MUDANG: Two Hearts, announced last year at the Xbox Games Showcase?

No, no I don't.

Presumably the ditching of REDEngine for UE5 will make a big difference this time around.

@NerdyPaul You keep mentioning that we should address what makes social media toxic rather than ban it. That's the whole point of it, is to suck you in and keep you scrolling by any means necessary. And let's say yes it's political theatre, that's fine too. Ultimately if it makes even a 1% difference of kids not using it and making them mentally better off, surely that's a good thing.

@NerdyPaul Yes let's write a nice email to Zuck and Elon asking them to change their algorithms which have made them billions... The 'worthless' ban won't stop kids gaining access, the same way legislation won't stop kids getting hold of booze or having underage sex, but it marks a line in the sand that it's wrong that kids access social media. While not being a silver bullet it will have some effect and is actually achievable.

Here come the tin foil hat brigade - BuT iT's jUsT A pLoY fOr ThE GoVeRnMeNt To GeT mY DaTa, I rEFuSe To VeRiFy MY ID!!!!

No, it's validating the point that social media is damaging to kids. It really is that simple.

I don't think it will have an effect of gaming, more an attempt to get kids off the fecal cesspit doom scrolling of FB, TikTok, Insta etc which is good thing.

When your kid turns round and say 'why can't I have FB all my mates do'. Giving them the answer 'Because its the law', and ALSO explaining to them why the law is there, is much better than just saying to them 'in my opinion, it's a cesspit and I don't want you on it.'

I'm glad a line in the sand will be drawn and Kier finally has the balls to do something that shows a spine for once.

Such a shame, I loved the Hellblade games but appreciate they probably cost a ton to make and didn't get the return.

I hope the talented Devs find work elsewhere and can continue their unique style of creative output.

More Uncharted than Hitman sounds good to me. Hopefully Bond doesn't spend any time putting laxatives in security guards drinks so he can gain access to any rooms or some such nonsense!

This is why I set everything profile related to Private / Nobody / Off. The more social data you share with you world, the easier it will be for you to be socially engineered!

The hud and UI customisation in Shadows is brilliant. Compass on, everything else off. The game looks so much better with no trails, outlines, health bars etc.

The 'reading faces' was a massively overrated gimmick for me.

A lot of the time you'd have to wait AFTER the character spoke to see if their eyes twitched or they looked dodgy or whatever, which resulted in weirdly long pauses between dialogue.

Only to then find out I'd 'doubted' wrongly. Never finished it.

I was hoping for a more Nightfire vibe than Hitman, but what we've seen so far looks more like the latter.

Explaining to people that you're wearing kingdom come when they ask 'what fragrance is that' may raise a few eyebrows.

Take off the rose tinted specs. If this had been delivered by any other developer and publisher it wouldn't have stood a chance.

"Posing as a journalist requires a camera and a press pass – one that isn’t readily available." So MI6 can get you dropped in via parachute to a crane but cannot get you a press pass.

Yes, yes, I know - it's a game. I just hope there isn't too much Hitman-esqe stuff especially with 'ranking' system at the end to let you know how bad you've played the level.

@Kalime78 The word 'Furious' is literally in the headline. And PushSquare loves cherry picking the minority of social media accounts to back up the headline that are on the 'on-disc or bust' pitchfork bandwagon.

I find it such a bizarre principal that people get irate about a game they bought today MIGHT not work many years down the line. Is there even an example of a well known SINGLE PLAYER game that no longer works TODAY due to activation servers going down?

Realistically the gold release won't even fit on the disc or be ready to ship printed on the disc. Welcome to the dystopian future. I get how it's possibly mildly annoying, but people refusing to buy because of it and social accounts such as 'Physical Forever' just seem too far out of touch.

PushSquare sure has found it's niche with these 'Furious' people who refuse to buy a game that requires internet! "But its about PrEsErVatION!!! I want to play it when I'm 80 and live in my post-apocalyptic bunker!!"

In 20 years time if/when that happens, guess what, you'll STILL be able to pick it up from some abandonware site or run in some kind of emu on a bargain bin laptop by that time.

I'm currently playing Shadows and am honestly blown away with it. The weather system is fantastic. And it's easily the best looking open-world game I've played.

And as someone who had a bit of burnout with the franchise, the combat is also fantastic, the dual protagonists are so much fun to play as, and I love how mission objectives are no longer just map markers; you have to actually go and find this dude who is 'by a bridge south-west in Kyoto'.

The story, writing, and characters aren't on a par with The Witcher, but they're fine, and the rest of the game more than makes up for it.

@naruball "Nearly One Lustrom Ago" sounds better imo. Or maybe "Four Hundredths of a Century Ago" for dramatic effect.

"The cost of fuel is going up. The solution is to get rid of vehicles."

For the UK they should release a Jimmy Carr skin, and have the signature HaHAAAAA SFX on kill.

@MrPeanutbutterz The rubbish Ragnarok?! Checks Metacritic 94/100 (141 critics) 8.3/10 (15,649 reviews)

The game isn't rubbish, you just didn't enjoy it.

I've yet to pick the first one up, but this looks like a game I can enjoy playing with my lad!

@Icey664 It's developed by 4 people. Assuming EVERYONE who played left a review, that's £112,000 in sales taking platform fees into account. If 1% of people left a review, then it's a ridiculous £11.2m in sales less platform fees.

They had 6 VA's to pay and other software licensing fees, so take that with a pinch of salt, but however you spin it, it's a pretty good take home profit for a 4 man team.

Nice! I'll look forward to playing this when it comes out at the same time as Half-Life 3!

@Stevemalkpus "I suppose doing things you hate is just the price you pay to avoid loneliness" is one of my favourites!

@Oram77 What seems off is their last game stands at 3.5/10 user score on Metacritic, and this title seems just as overly-ambitious for a team of 4 people.

I've just finished E33 and I thought it was...ok?

In fairness, I went straight on to it from finishing GoW Ragnarok so I'd gotten used to an unreasonably high level of quality for comparison. Visually, E33 was just ok - yes the environments were dreamy and beautiful, but they lacked any real foreground detail, and after a while, running through them all felt a bit samey. The graphics technically were just ok, even on performance mode it felt like the game was struggling to render, and lip-synching was noticeably poor. Gameplay never really evolved or added anything new throughout the entire game.

While the over-arching story felt fresh, I didn't feel hugely for the characters, other than Maelle, and their storytelling wasn't particularly developed throughout, other than the few 'big reveal' moments. Comparing it to GoW 2, for example, where the story and character development emerged from and during the gameplay, I didn't have the inclination to think "ok, I'd like to press X to learn more about this character" round the campfire in E33. I also found the picto/lumina system to be detractory - are 193 pictos really necessary?! I spent a silly amount of time flicking though menus and equipping/switching the damn things, and resetting skill points than felt necessary.

On the plus side, soundtrack was perfection, and I like that each character had their own unique attack mechanism although I found some of them a bit confusing. And yes, I could have done with an map marker system on the main continent map, and a quest log of some kind - not Ubisoft level of handholding, but a Morrowind style journal or something would have been useful as I often found some areas that were locked off, with no idea how or when or why they would open up.

I can certainly feel the love the developer had for the title, but feel the hype train went a bit overboard with this one.

Xbox boss: "The idea of locking games one store or one device is antiquated for most people..."

Nintendo: "Hold My Beer."

"Understandably, the video is being heavily criticised online..." So we've embedded it below to increase the views it gets.

Jiggle physics? Check. Count me in.

The gameplay of the Tencent copy shown in the trailer is similar-ish to Horizon, but the promo art and UI are an absolute shameless blatant rip-off which understandably got Sony's hackles up.

I hope "more activities to take part in and side quests" doesn't translate to "more collectables to collect and more pointless s*** to check off"

Never heard of it, but am downloading the demo now! General consensus seems to be though that the game runs out of time/budget by part 3.

I'm towards the tail end of the main game, and I'm sorry to say I wont be returning, as I've found the main game thus far to be hugely underwhelming.

The environments haven't inspired a sense of awe and wonder as, say, Uncharted 4. They could have had some epic vistas and underground areas, but everything seems so small and enclosed. I'm no brain box, but the puzzles seemed incredibly easy. The enemy AI is nonexistent with a visual range of 6ft and the memory of a housefly. No inspiring or creative use of movement, climbing, using the whip. No set pieces other than Shanghai and the battleship. The 'stones' being a macguffin to have you wondering around the various locations with no real plot or character development. The Emperors tomb was a far better game in my opinion!

Is..Is that...Hezbollah Snake?

Is there any reason why they started with MG 3? I played MGS on the original PlayStation, can I just jump straight in to this one?

@CaptainBiscuitJeans Me too. I know I'm missing out on a great game, like all the recent RE games that will be forever on my wishlist because dammit I'm too old and tired for this sweaty palm terrifying ***** these days.

Locking a cosmetic behind a DLC is standard now, and dare I say acceptable. Locking a character class behind DLC is indeed rather scummy.

@PushButtons I don't know who that is, but if I did, I would upvote your comment.

I mean the trailer looks great, so I'd imagine the core of the game is pretty much there. I'm fairly confident the date will stick.

That's 9 months of crunch, i.e. all employees working 18 hour days to meet launch.

@Czar_Khastik Blast it, have my angry upvote!

Or maybe make a new, proper DA game that people actually want.