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Definitely something I will still pick up when it’s on sale down the line.

Hmm…not sure I agree with “stuns”. It looks all right but not a gigantic leap. Honestly chuckled a little bit when I read that headline.

Already own the two best games here, Cyberpunk and Banishers, and highly recommend both. I am looking forward to New World: Aeternum, which got kind of a lukewarm reception so I never bought but I’ll happily take the chance to try it out.

@get2sammyb Romero posted today that reports of the studio closing are not true. They even met today in the studio to try to find a way forward so that it can stay open.

https://bsky.app/profile/romerogames.bsky.social/post/3ltfjxsyavs23

“ Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team.
Your sister site, Nintendo Life, updated their story on this. Figured you would want to update yours as well.”

Fingers crossed that they stay open!

And FWIW, there’s been a bunch of stories about how Microsoft is behind the ball on AI and the layoffs this year have been all about putting more money into AI. Microsoft wants to chase the AI money. Unfortunately it’s costing them company-wide to do it.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/report-microsofts-2025-layoffs-revolve-around-its-desperate-usd80-billion-ai-infrastructure-investment

Not everything is about GamePass as much as people here would like it to be. Just saying.

Boy am I glad Push Square published a story about horrors of GamePass. Really eye opening subject they never talk about. And long live console wars!

/s

Only thing gaming wise I’m saddened about is Perfect Dark. Really was looking forward to that but also obviously and more importantly my heart goes out to all those affected as well.

Stories that are being updated now are saying Xbox isn’t getting the brunt of the 9000 layoffs. They are mostly coming from other parts of the company:
“Microsoft's gaming operation isn't bearing the brunt of the layoffs this time around — but many of Xbox's operations in Europe, including King (Candy Crush) and ZeniMax (Fallout) have also seen reductions.”

So people need to stop acting like it’s 9000 cuts at Xbox. It isn’t!

@Alps_Stranger Downloaded. Doesn’t seem to include Vessel of Hatred, sadly. Oh well…

@Alps_Stranger I’m downloading it and when I go to “View Product” for my download, it’s showing the bundle with VoH. So fingers crossed! I’ll know in a few minutes.

From the way the news article was written, it looked like it may include the Vessel of Hatred but doesn’t look like it will.

Kind of funny seeing promotional videos with AMD for both PS 6 and the next Xbox.

Aren’t PS+ games out at 11 am EST in the US? Not seeing them yet…

Played a bit of this on iOS via Apple Arcade. It seemed enjoyable enough but never got around to finishing it wasn’t quite able to get its hooks in me.

I noticed the store seems to indicate that we’re getting the version of Diablo IV that includes the Vessels of Hatred DLC. If that’s true, that’s fantastic. I’ve played the base game on Xbox Series X and there is cross progression so I’ll be anxious to dig into the expansion!

I really feel scammed getting to play games like Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Doom: The Dark Ages, Mullet Madjack, Blue Prince, Monster Train 2, Oblivion Remastered, The Alters, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die — just some of the games from the last few months. All Day One and over 80 (and in some cases 90+) on MetaCritic.

Such crap. It’s one thing to not like GamePass but to say it’s all a bunch of crappy games is disingenuous at best.

Whether or not GamePass is a good business proposition, I’m absolutely loving it as a gamer. I can’t keep up with as many quality day one releases are coming to it. And I’ll take advantage of it while I still can.

I honestly am going to cancel PS+ Premium when it comes up for renewal because I don’t find much benefit in it at all. It’s usually older games I’ve already played or games I don’t have an interest in playing. Everybody’s different and has different tastes so if people are happy with it then that’s great.

I just personally get far more value out of GamePass and it’s saving me a ton of money. So I’ll keep it until that changes if it ever does.

That’s it. I’m getting an Xbox sticker to put on my PS5 so I can have another Xbox!

All this is is a normal Quest 3 with an Xbox label.

Went back to the Death Stranding DC over the weekend to see if I could get any further and while it’s interesting at times, I’m still really struggling to get into it. Problem is that there are so many games I have that are grabbing me that I’m still not sure I can get through it.

Maybe someday when there’s a lull in my backlog (which may be never), I’ll try again but this series just may not be for me.

Happy it turned out well for those who are into it though!

Wish I could vote for Expedition 33 three times. It was that good. Not only my GoTY at this point but probably my favorite game of all time. Just fantastic in every way.

I’m still interested. There’s only 4 reviews so far on OpenCritic and this is by far the lowest (the others are a 7.5, 8 and 8.5). Loved the original and, especially from the other reviews, sounds like I’ll love this too!

@Rich33 I think you’re wrong to think so many Xbox gamers would never buy another Xbox again. I know a lot of people who would (and read some of the comments on Pure Xbox if you don’t believe me).

After the initial shock of multiplatform games, there’s been a big surge of excitement for the games coming down the line from Xbox studios and GamePass is really firing on all cylinders. This sounds like it’s going to be a PC-console hybrid and that’s a good thing since many would likely jump ship if it wasn’t backwards compatible like they say it will be.

Or course, price will be a factor so we’ll have to wait for more info on that front.

Just glad they said it will be backwards compatible with current Xbox titles. Wondering if that will be an emulator or how it will work but if they took that away, that would lose a lot of Xbox players.

I’ll still be buying Xbox consoles as long as GamePass remains the deal it is now and I’ll also likely continue to buy a PlayStation but if they continue to be as lackadaisical as they are about first party, that may not be the case. Right now I have more reasons to want to play on Xbox (and I do) than I do on PlayStation. Sony needs to wake up.

Glad to hear it turned out well. Will be checking this out on GamePass tomorrow!

First game was love it or hate it. It obviously did well enough to get a sequel.

Hopefully it’ll be on GamePass day one like the first two.

Know it’s a “alpha”, but the demo for this is not grabbing me. Part of the advanced tutorial also seems broke.

Wondering if this will be a live service / F2P game. Hope not

Do wish it had a 1 on 1 mode.

This actually already came out on mobile a few months ago. Pretty fun little game!

Happy to see Alone in the Dark. Had interest but not to spend much money on so free is good. I have Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on my Series X. Great game in the vein of Jet Set Radio.

Actually have been playing this on mobile. Pretty fun. Kind of a first person Hotline Miami but set in the espionage world.

Nice. Would have been sad to just let the series die.

Let Bungie go back to Microsoft for another Halo and Sony can have, I don’t know, IP rights to Redfall or something. 😀

Seriously though Bungie probably needs to be put to pasture. Company just keeps on falling from its former grace.

I love how people are video game industry experts and can definitively say the game “flopped”. Things aren’t as simple as just sales anymore but, you know, everyone’s the expert.

How about let people enjoy whatever games they like and let the CEOs and shareholders determine what is actually considered a success for their bottom line?

Don’t care what the stats say, I’m absolutely loving it! That said I’m also still working on the brilliant Expedition 33 as well so there’s been a lot of great games in a short period so it might be eating into Doom’s numbers.

Look at the bright side, you don’t need to make difficult decisions like whether to play Expedition 33 or Doom: The Dark Ages tonight.

They need to just kill premium and roll it into Extra. Even then wouldn’t be a great month but definitely will drop Premium come renewal unless something major changes.

First season was outstanding (and both critical and audience reception was in the 90s on RT. It was far from just “passable”. Honestly think it’s the best video game adaptation on TV yet (yes, better than TLOU).

Cannot wait until the second season!!!

LA Noire never goes below $20. Surprising for that old of a game. But Rockstar….

As an owner of both a PS5 and XSX, I’ve actually been playing my Xbox more than ever. GamePass has been killing it lately and it’ll continue to be a huge reason for me to still want to get an Xbox going forward.

Still enjoy my PS5, but contrary to belief there are people who still like their Xboxes and have reasons for it. And that’s okay.

Just Revenge of the Savage Planet for me but I’ll play it on GamePass.

@ChrisDeku Content and Services is a lot more than just GamePass. Games they published also are in that and probably other things.

All I know is 45% more revenue for PC GamePass is a way more important metric than sub numbers themselves. You can say whatever you want to believe but that’s pretty definitive to me.

@ChrisDeku I never said users. And there’s plenty of articles that say exactly what I said. Like the one below where it explicitly says this:

“Nadella added that PC Game Pass revenue increased 45% year-over-year.”

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-fy25-q3-gaming-revenue

It’s 100% making more money regardless. And that’s good news for Microsoft and GP. GP sub price hikes were not 45% so there has to have been more users to go up that much.

It’s revenue so how could that be “cherry picked”? It’s just a comparison of what it made last year to what it’s making this year. And it made a lot more.

Last part of the article is outdated. Microsoft did recently release some numbers on GamePass as part of their earnings this week. PC GamePass revenue grew by 45% and GamePass overall is up 30%. It was one of the big highlights of Xbox’s earnings report. Seems to be doing just fine.

Own Balatro on three other systems so might as well own it on PS5 too. Though my phone version will always be my preferred way to play (perfect game for touch screens).

Only problem I have with these remaster reviews is that they say it’s the best way to play a game that was highly rated to begin with but then give it an average review score. Makes it seem like it’s actually worse than playing the original.

Not going to happen but it seems like the best solution would be to have a rating for the game itself and then a separate rating for the remaster effort.

Honestly they’re better off. Stay associated with the game and not this POS.

I never even heard of the game and you can’t really blame that on the shadow drop itself. You should be promoting your game months in advance. I read gaming sites daily so the fact that I haven’t even heard of it at all says something.