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Well done guys... your fired!

@splinters they've confirmed its a straigght adaptation of the 2018 reboot.

Yh, i mean he was always my first choice, he has the chops and the build, plus is half greek. He'll just need to get back on juice to look the part unfortunetly.

Original was a little rough round the edges but also a ton of fun, look forward to see if they refine it.

I played their first two games, awesome stories and worlds, gameplay fairly meh. Im still quite interested in what they create next, and glad they have been given a chance at independence.

Great job guys. Heres your reward... mass layoffs!

Nice. I missed this one back in the day and it has grown into a cult classic since. I dont have Premium so ill just pick it up and play. This era of games really brings me back to special times, had a chance to play Timesplitters 2 & 3, and Ghosthunter thanks to these retro releases, and loved the lot.

I havent played Avowed so feel bad to judge, but ive played pretty much all their games since Alpha Protocol, and it just didnt grab me in any form to dive in or hunger for a sequel. A new Fallout game from them though? Color me hyped!

A nice concept for a remake would be to streamline the Ezio trilogy into one epic storyline,trimming the fat off and getting rid of the present day stuff.

Im really trying to rack my brain, do we ever hear good news anymore with this industry? I remember opening these sites and getting hyped, now i just get depressed, its dire. Theres nothing more frustrating then hearing a good game from a famous IP that sold well, still has ppl fired off it. It just feels like theres no chance to succeed.

Its sad days, when great devs, make great games, and its still not enough.

@ShogunRok well, at least we have the same creative lead as New Vegas.

I mean, isnt that all they work on anyways? Dont want to come across snarky, im sorry for several that lost work today, im glad Xbox is looking to let studios go as oppossed to shuttering. I wonder why more publishers dont do the same?

This is horrible news, but least the studios were allowed to survive, losing Double Fine would have exceptionally painful.

@SuntannedDuck2 agreed, its a good one, it did the trick for me when i moved from 360 to PS3 and craved some Gears back in the day. Now with the sequel, not sure how well it holds up.

The problem was the gameplay via mobile wasnt great. Always hoped they would patch Hidden Agenda with normal controls, cause its a very solid narrative game.

Its a fine sortve retro Gears clone, sequel improved on it alot.

I understand the desire, they would be stupid not to pursue. But GaaS are hit and miss, dont buy an entire studio or put your teams used to doing other games on the mandate, finance an external company to make a GaaS game, if it flops, no big deal, if it succeds (aka Helldivers 2) then yay.

Yh tbh if anyone can charge 80 for a game, its GTA. Im not surprised considering the industry n yrs in dev it took. Plus there be yrs worth of online content so theres value. Im not in a rush, i want it for the campaign only, ill wait for sale down the line.

Yh they always seemed like a weird buy for Xbox considering they slightly were Sony secondparty. Idk, i used to be a big fan of the studio but supposedly alot of the talent left already. Lets see if there are buyers, however everyone is cautious with their pennies nowadays.

If Wolverine's in Tokyo, you canbet ur dollar there's ninjas!

Ive got the solution for them; gate off firstparty games into a small xbox userbase that has been programed to play via subscription service instead of buying games. Yep, that'll move copies for sure...problem solved!

@Yor-sama yh that, or they put it back on other platforms, using that old 'case by case' buzzword lol.

Im so confused... for decades they were a platform that became a publisher? Now their a publisher becoming a platform?

Gears of war: E-day... oh wait, nvm lol.

@trev666 my guess is if everyone buys it, it'll stay on PS. Gears sold mediocre, Forza sold great, hence no word on reversing 6 port.

Yh im getting deja vue here... Starfield was multiplat, then exclusive, then didnt sell f*** all, then was multiplat again. Even if its true, its quite likely to be undone, unfortunetly the small install base will be playing it via game pass, meaning not much money will be made on sales.

It was a solid show, some nice if not great firstparty stuff. Funnily enough i most got hyped when i saw i would get a chance to play Psy-Ops and finally complete Omnimusha 4 via retro classics.

@THEBrew yh not going to disagree there, thats nonsense. Im more surprised that its good, thats what intriguiged me, thought it would be a souless dumpster fire.

@THEBrew it was the main creative team that were ejected.

Woah, that certainly is a plot twist i didnt see coming. Call me intriguiged...

Yep i certainly would. I miss this franchise, Second Son was abit meh, but 1 & 2 are bonefide classics, and one of the reasons (Uncharted 2 & MGS 4 as well) that i switched from 360 to PS3 during that gen.

@Oram77 of course to each their own, but it does seem like in current times in a turbulent industry, when Sony first-party studios go all in on trying something different, as oppossed to the type of games they thrive in, the game ends up cancelled and the dev ends up shuttered, e.g Bluepoint,London Studios. I would rather Housemarque stick to what they know while doing small variations on the formula, as the case with last two games.

@Oram77 an AAA take on what they did with Dead Nation/Alien Nation would be cool...

Thats a bummer. Greedfall really felt like a throwback to retro Bioware games that i loved, i wouldve loved to see more of their work.

I get why Naughty Dog couldnt support it, couldnt Sony have handed it to one of the four (at the time, mind)GaaS studios they owned to handle that aspect? Im no CEO but it still baffles me they couldnt have done that.

Crazy it couldnt work with Sony, they seemed primed for being bought, but supposedly there was bad blood, and yh, no firstparty studio (asides the big 4, ND, SP, SD and Insomniac) feels safe at the moment. NOTE: oh and i cant forget Gran Turismo and MLB studios, my bad, they seem safe too.

Im not a CEO so what do i know, but i still cant understand why they didnt just hand this over to Firewalk when Concord flopped? Naughty Dog certainly couldnt support, i get it, crazy they realized it 80% in, but oh well... but Firewalk was filled with hightier GaaS devs, they had been bought and then had no project to work on. Why not hand them this title, let them complete it and support?

Its fine, a solid RPG, people were just disappointed because it didnt match the hype of a new Elder Scrolls/Fallout, but i at least enjoyed it more then Fallout 4.

Here we go again. Im sorry but how does this put a nail in the coffin in PSVR 2? As your article explained, this was a flop sequel to a celebrated game whose studio had closed down a while ago, is it surprising its being shuttered? Because Concord was shut down, is the PS5 on deaths door? Im not going to act like VR is thriving, its had a tough 2026 for certain, but it will survive, and if the writer thinks it doesnt, i certainly would welcome a more compelling argument. Instead Stephen Tailby shoehorning this narrative into anything VR related is getting tiring. You got my click mate, good on you, last time you will though, your play is getting transperent now.

I think with all the hype having subsided most will be pleasently surprised. It has its issues, but its still a solid Bethesda RPG in a whole new realm that i enjoyed, even more than Fallout 4 personally. Just dont expect the new Skyrim/Fallout 3.

Synth Riders adds a new update on the PSVR 2? This is obviously a no contest neon sign that the headset is dead, done and dusted, stick a fork in it cause... oh wait Push Square is saying something neutral about it with zero spin?

Is dropping VR for their new release? They already released it as a VR game three years ago.

I mean the pc audience welcomed Sony with as much enthisiasm as an imploded testie, forget it, its too late, lets move on.

You cant put the genie back in the bottle, Microsoft has seen those multiplatform numbers, no way they will let that go, theyve been on the majority of PS top 10 charts for last yr. Only way they go back exclusive is if the Xbox userbase expands to rival that revenue...

My impression was that Phil wanted to keep everything exclusive, then the narrative went case-by-case, then only a select few, then everything. The problem was the higher ups mandated they bring in rev and going multiplatform was the way forward to do that. Dont see how just being a new CEO would change that, feels like shes just trying to win goodwill, but Microsoft (not Xbox) wants their games on everything.

Why would they even bother asking? Come on, that would be like asking, is Master Chief gonna show up on playstat...uh, hold on 😮

There's alot of confusion for me about the title, biggest thing; why not wait for the State of Play this thursday to reveal it, so weird...

Man, NCsoft is really gonna eat their lunch here, what a shame they didnt put all their resources into porting that to PS5 as well instead of this.

Lets get them on Fallout already. Xbox owns both studios and the IP, New Vegas has aged really well, it seems like a no brainer.