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@Jey887 Engagement is a meaningless metric to tout for a game because it could include people who bought and refunded the game on Steam, people who bought a used copy and played it after someone sold it after hating it, etc.

Actual sales is a far more meaningful metric. If this game hit that many actual sales, that’s more impressive to me than a dev saying “engagement” or “players.”

It’s nice seeing a company touting “sales” instead of “engagements.”

Very happy for them!

Boltgun is such an excellent love letter to the original (and I mean ORIGINAL) Wolf3D and Doom. Best out of the bunch this month.

After three console generations of GTA5, I’m kinda sick of waiting for Rockstar to do something else. I’m fine without GTA6 at this point in my life.

What were we expecting them to say? “We feel betrayed by Rockstar and their unilateral decision to delay the game. Appropriate legal measures will be taken, and the beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Bought the ultimate edition on Xbox on sale, will eventually get it for PS5 as well. Probably when it gets closer to delisting and it gets the same massive discount 4 got!

VERY good month. Tried Balatro on Apple Arcade and the lack of a storyline kept me from getting sucked in like others have been, but the gameplay is solid. Boltgun is EXCELLENT, bought it on XBox and glad to have it on PS as well! FOR THE EMPRAH!

ARK I’m less interested in, but I’m sure it’ll be worth a shot.

@Gamer83 Given that Marvel Rivals is an online multiplayer hero shooter, I’m not surprised you can’t beat it in single player…

@Dampsponge You aren’t bothered by 30fps, so no one else should be happy that a 60fps patch came out. Got it.

I think given all the incredible work they’ve put into the game proper, they can be forgiven for not pumping out DLC content.

Game is pretty darn spiffy as it is.

@kailun Thanks for sharing.

The rest of us will just appreciate that, even with Ubisoft’s silly decisions, they actually made a good move here allowing this PS4 game to run at 60fps on a PS5.

I think I’ll stick with the PS4 version. I don’t need horde mode, and 60fps on the PS4 version is just fine for me. Glad to see this game getting a little love. Hopefully this makes the orginal guy in charge less salty over the Astro Bot cameo last year.

@PlatinumMikey Good assumption! I bet the devs wish they could forget the S, but there’s just so many of those little underpowered units out there!

@PlatinumMikey …as opposed to the two on XBox side? glances at the series X and series S

In the immortal words of Jeremy Clarkson:

Oh no!

Anyway…

Absolutely will be on this the day it comes out.

Also happy to see them actually making a physical version that presumably has the whole game on disc, unlike the Switch 2 “game key” release they’re doing.

@AhmadSumadi …Since 2013 when launched on the PS3, TLoU has had three releases of the first game on PS and one on PC, two releases of the second game on PS and one on PC, one release of BOTH games as a package on PS and a tv show for two seasons so far.

Stellar Blade has had one game released once (so far, PC version imminent), DLC crossover with NiER, and now a crossover with an existing mobile game made by the same developer, Nikke.

There is zero similarity in “over-saturation of the market.”

@AhmadSumadi …how are the two situations similar? They’re very different games, one is a mobile game and one isn’t…

No hurry, I’m just curious how the guy who ranted about the Days Gone cameo in Astro Bot is taking this remaster.

@J2theEzzo I didn’t even bother claiming it on PS Plus. Too much effort for too little reward.

Wait, what? ActiBlizzMS would NEVER do something like this and milk money out of fans of another IP shamelessly, it’s totally out of the blue! Surely!

looks at Veilguard’s recommendation mentioning it has “gripping heroes”

…does it, though?

I got my first XBox in April of last year, a series X, just to try out some of these XBox exclusives. After playing some of the Halo games and Gears of War, I was kinda underwhelmed and was considering selling it.

Then I fired up Forza Horizon 5 for the first time.

As a result, I still have that series X, as well as purchased copies of Horizon 4-5 digitally and 2-3 on disc. It’s safe to say that Horizon 4 and 5 were the huge reasons I kept that console.

And now 5 is on PS5, with 6 HOPEFULLY also on PS5 at launch.

It is a good time to be a PS owner!

I thoroughly enjoyed Cult of the Lamb. Not sure I’d want a sequel, but my time with it was fun as heck.

Honestly, I’d never have tried it until I saw it on deep discount at Walmart on disc. But I was very pleasantly surprised!

@tameshiyaku “played on other platforms” would seem to encompass that.

Played it on gamepass, and since the physical copy isn’t really the whole game I felt no need to pay full price for the PS5 version at launch. It’s a darn good game, I hasten to add, and I look forward to playing it on my preferred console in the future.

I’ll get it on discount used down the road. Don’t really feel like rewarding MS for this kind of silly physical release.

Also, wish that movie poll had a “only the original trilogy!” option!

@N0CYmr0k @PlatinumMikey Wow, you two are taking a comment poking fun at this article WAY too seriously. Name me ANY Sony or MS guy who will say something bad about ANY Sony or MS studio.

Now reread my original comment and note the absolute non-seriousness of it.

And yes, I played GoT. One of the best games of the last ten years, and I platinumed that sucker.

@PlatinumMikey If you genuinely thought he’d ever say anything bad about one of PS’s top studios, I have a bridge to sell you.

“As the game is brought up, the former PlayStation executive only has glowing things to say about the studio.”

Wait, whaaaaaat? Someone affiliated with PS is saying good things about a PS studio? This is a shocking turn of events I could never have foretold!

I suspect it could hardly avoid improving on the Switch version’s performance. Was hoping this would make its way to PS, glad I held off.

Nah, I don’t want to pay for content (again) that I’ll lose access to. Bungie lost me a long time ago.

So has the original guy in charge been able to keep his mouth shut, unlike with the Astro Bot cameo? That’s what I’m REALLY curious about.

@DarthOreo I’m sorry you feel that way.

I feel the same about this quadruple-A game that has been a total failure, but that’s just me.

It’s somewhere between the PS4 and PS5, obviously. Closer to the PS4 in some ways, the PS5 in others.

The Switch 2 can do things the PS4 could only dream of, and it’s all solid-state storage so access times are faster which mitigates a lot compared to the hard drive based PS4. Yes, you could drop an SSD in the base PS4 but it couldn’t USE most of that speed due to hardware based throughput limitations.

Nintendo did a fine job on the power level for this console, given the need to make it a hybrid. Zero complaints from this Sony/Nintendo fanboy.

It amuses me that a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game did pirate ship battles better than this so-called quadruple-A game.

I am shocked, SHOCKED I say that this would be a factor. SHOCKED.

@ItsBritneyB_tch MS increased the price of the series X in several countries last year.

They do this, too.

@darylb24 I have nothing to add to your comment, just wanted to say I appreciate the P5R profile pic!

I hope P5R gets a Switch 2 upgrade to get the resolution to PS4/5 levels!

@RoomWithaMoose True! Without dipping toes into politics, I can only hope that good or at least neutral things happen in the near future.

And that my PS5 doesn’t die in the next few months, requiring a more expensive replacement!

@RoomWithaMoose Could very well be. Or the current stock in the US is high enough that they don’t see a need to do a price hike at the moment, at least until they need to start bringing a more substantial number here. I see PS5s (and series X/S and Switches) on the shelf regularly in my neck of the woods, and unlike 2020 they don’t vanish instantly once they’re put out anymore.

Either way, it’s telling that PS5 prices have never previously gone up before this in the US but they previously have in other countries. Including, if memory serves, Japan itself.

Interesting. I’d have expected an increase in the US due to tariffs, but not in those specific areas. Huh!

@Darkri74345 I know this may shock you, but not everyone has gigabit or faster internet even in 2025, and may not want to spend hours downloading the game they just bought on disc.

I’m blessed with quite good internet personally, but the idea of having to download the entire game when I just bought a disc-based copy is…dumb.

@LifeGirl Some folks just can’t stop themselves, sadly. Thankfully the mods here are on point, and doing a good job!

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic. Why bother putting ANYTHING on the disc then? Just go the COD route and put a little installer on it.

MS: “Yeah, we can’t afford a second disc. That would cost an extra ten cents per physical copy, we can’t afford to lose that!”

Marathon-in-name-only is definitely not for me, sadly. Wish Bungie well, but I’ll stick to Helldivers 2 or FF14 when that rare urge to play with other people strikes. I’m sure some folks will enjoy it, though!

@AndyKazama Careful, certain people here will accuse you of never playing the original when you express affection for OG Marathon!

@Northern_munkey Nope, but I did play Star Raiders and Circus Atari!

@BranJ0 It amuses me that “well, it looks better than concord!” is our metric now.

That said, I doubt this will be a massive success but I’m definitely willing to be wrong. Maybe Bungie won’t remove content that the original purchasers paid for and lost access to this time around, since they aren’t bothering with anything silly like a story or plot with this game!

@LordFunkalot You win this one! I had a VIC 20 as a kid but didn’t have that game!

@Northern_munkey I respect the attempt!

That said, I’d be willing to give this game a shot for zero dollars. Just wish they’d chosen a different name, feels kinda icky dredging up a previous game name that has very little in common with what this is beyond having network capable multiplayer functionality.

@RoomWithAMoose Yer darn right!

@Northern_munkey Hilariously, you would lose this bet! My grandparents had a copy of it and I played it quite a bit along with Adventure and (of all things) a game that was officially licensed by the band Journey!

The joys of having grandparents who invested money in an Atari 2600 for their grandkids in the early 80s.