Another pointless waste of money that met an utterly predictable end. The only consolation is that people kept their jobs and they cancelled it before they released it. Hopefully this sorry chapter is nearly over and they can get back to making actual games again.

I don't really care about AI helping with code in the same way as producing art, voices etc. but there's something shady about releasing a game, letting it get reviewed, letting people buy it, and then announcing you used AI.

Seems incredibly unlikely that they'll be able to turn this one around. Still, we all love an underdog story I guess so good luck to them.

I've already platinumed the game and if you could prestige platinums I'd probably have done it about eight times over. So I'm super into the idea of mods to spice things up. Going to wait until there's more as I don't really care about anything here. I'll go back in once there's more to choose from.

Feels like half of these are a con to get you to sign up to another subscription service you'll inevitably forget to cancel and end up paying more for.

Discount on controllers is nice though given how prone they are to stick drift.

I've seen all the Hellraiser movies and I like them all. Some of them I like in a this-is-a-good-movie way. Some of them I like in a this-is-nonsense-but-I-like-it-anyway way.

I have no doubt I will like this Hellraiser game, and I'll be playing it at some point.

If they're going to do it properly then I'm all for this.

If they're going to do what they did to Final Fantasy VII then stay the hell away from VI.

PS6 is on track in the same way that Bethesda are right where they want to be with Elder Scrolls VI.

Sony can dynamically get in the sea

This actually suits me as there's a bunch of things I'm way more interested in all coming out early in the year and I was always going to end up bumping this to make way.

I love things like this in games honestly. I play games on normal the first time, but if I'm replaying, and I'm replaying for the story, I often drop the difficulty so I can have a leisurely time with it. Playing Mass Effect through again now just blasting things with zero challenge and it's a great way to spend an evening after work.

I am genuinely really excited about this. I can't wait.

Depending on how it plays and how offensive the monetisation is I might give this one a try. It's got style.

Now we're talking. This one is straight on the list.

"We need over a year to put all the stuff back in the game that we took out" is certainly something.

I was sold on this one second after I saw it for the first time.

Announcing the game and then 8 years later announcing the game again but with an extra word on the end would certainly be a move. I'd probably wait until we had something to show but what do I know.

This is the first Call of Duty I have had any interest in for a long while, purely because I like the idea of the campaign. I occasionally play through the campaign on one of these but the last one I played was the one with Kevin Spacey in it. No chance I'd ever buy it full price, and there's zero chance I'll ever play the multiplayer so if it ends up cheap I might play the story.

I played this back when it launched and thought it was rubbish, but I also don't really care about Star Wars. Also I was like 13 or something so what the hell did I know. It might be great.

I need a new controller because I've got another drifting one and it's doing my head in. Might get one of these fellas. I'm a sucker for clear controllers. Shame there's no blue one but I'll live.

I've already got the platinum in the other two versions of this so I might as well do this one too. I'm a big fan of the game and think it tells a pretty fantastic time travel story. Looking forward to replaying it.

The pressing issue is whether or not we can get the bouncer from Lizzie's cool trousers/boots combo thing now. You can't put those in the game and then not let us wear them.

@get2sammyb It's not Devil May Cry. The fun isn't in learning the combat and doing perfect parries and insane combos. It's not that vibe, man. Easy is the way forward I reckon. You don't need to be getting killed on your way to work at the jazz club. You've got a job to do.

Interesting read! I'm an RGG enjoyer and I'm one of those that doesn't think they've fallen off or lost the plot. They keep making games, I keep liking them. It's like once you get to the mad later seasons of a TV show you like. You know inherently that some things were better back in the day and the storylines are getting sillier but it's comforting having the characters around.

They could make Yakuza games forever and I'd keep playing them. I'm in on this already, obviously, because I love what RGG does. But everything I hear about the combat makes me wonder why we can't just bash square. I get they're trying something new, and that's nice, but bashing square to punch people in the head is a winning formula.

I don't play these games for tense combat challenges. I play them because I want to walk around Japan, go bowling, sing a few songs on karaoke, get called "gramps" by a local hooligan and then put his head through a shop window with minimal effort. This sounds like one I might play on easy if the difficulty doesn't stop you getting the platinum.

I mean, we can give him credit. But it's a bit like giving credit to the guy shouting "Run!" as the meteor falls. Yeah we know. And I know there's a bunch of fellas over there in robes they made out of dish cloths praying to the meteor because Phil Spencer told them "No, really, the meteor is good" but most of us saw the meteor and instinctively new that the meteor bad. Because it's a meteor, and no amount of pie charts with comical stats replacing "MONEY IN" with "USER SMILES" was ever going to convince anyone who had half a brain that this thing was ever going to work.

What bothers me mostly - and we're off the meteor now - is corporate cheerleaders parroting fantasies about the sustainability of Gamepass. Particularly those in media. Repeating utter nonsense completely unchallenged because Honest Uncle Phil said it. Ludicrous. And they should be held to account. Fanboys are a problem everywhere but Xbox fanboys actively contributed to the downfall of the brand, and now they're doing it again fawning over Asha like the second coming.

This has seemed inevitable for years but it's still really sad. This was a studio that made amazing games utterly decimated by appalling publisher decisions and irresponsible industry consolidation. Get in the sea, EA.

Okay mod support is wild. Really wasn't expecting that. My biggest wish aside from third person mode was more cosmetics and mods, so this rules.

It does look from the outside looking in like they're restructuring the company for a clean sale, but they could also just be reorganising so that spinning Xbox off is more viable should it come to that, and they might not be actively planning it. They could also just see that they're not very good at managing studios and they're putting their top franchises with management teams that will do a better job.

As with everything at Xbox, the truth of the matter is that we don't have a clue what they're doing, and they probably don't either.

I really, really like this game and will almost certainly pick it up for whatever it's going to cost me based on all these weird discounts. Presumably £12 or something.

My girlfriend is going to lose her mind if this is true.

I can't believe they keep doing this. It never ends. I've already replayed it twice this year. Now they're talking about dual wielding.

Wish list-wise, the holy grail is a third person mode which will never come. Absolutely criminal we can't see our characters when they've got all those rad clothes etc. in the game. I would also like more clothes, obviously, and haircuts. Otherwise, whatever they've got, I'll take.

My cats attacked the TV when I was playing this so I only played the first twenty minutes. Seemed cool though.

Yeah. I'll get $1000 worth of use out of it in one year.

I suppose it really comes down to a) can you afford it, and b) how much are you going to use it? If you play COD once a week for a couple of hours then this pricetag looks egregious. If you're putting six hours into Dragon's Dogma 2 every day like I am then it's a lot more justifiable.

This is absolutely being done because there's a contingent of fans getting off on it. Nice to see a dev listening to their fans I guess. But anyway, I love when games do this and was always disappointed that more games didn't rob this from San Andreas. I like the idea of not taking care of myself and having to join a gym. It's fun. But then I'm the sort of weirdo that changes clothes every day in game in something like Red Dead Redemption 2 and stuff. I'm into the life simmy parts of games.

I know £1000 looks bad. I mean, it's got four numbers. That's worse than three. But I don't think it's outrageous anyway. I get so much use out of mine that it's actually comical and everything costs a fortune now anyway. A pipe of Pringles is £3 in Tesco. It's crisps. I just paid £4.80 for a coffee. Cartoonland.

Blame Russia, blame Trump, blame moron tech bros and their AI boondoggles. Who cares? It's the same as it ever was. Some dude thought he could make more money by making everything worse for everyone else and he did it and it got worse for everyone else. Tale as old as time. No point crying at PlayStation.

A grand for a console I'm gonna use every day seems comparatively reasonable when there's bottles of olive oil at £14 on supermarket shelves. I'll buy a PS6, and I'll stick to vegetable oil thanks.

I haven't played this but I do like Remedy generally, so I'm glad this is doing relatively well.

Every single second of this movie that I have seen is appalling so I don't think I'm gonna bother watching it. Maybe not everything needs - or is able - to be a film.

That's 30 minutes he could have spent on Dragon Quest.

Everything about this makes me want to play it except it being in first person. I'll maybe pick it up at some point.

I like all of the Hellraiser movies - even the bad ones which is most of them - so I'm pretty sure I will play this at some point.

I'm super not into the managing the cold thing, but if it's not too demanding then I'll live. Mostly excited to get back into the world and get a new haircut and smash some monsters up.

It would be rad if they made some games that I can play on my Crunchyroll machine.

My eyes started glazing over just reading the descriptions of the puzzles. I don't think this game is for me.

Surprising. I thought this looked terrible.

Combined trophy lists like these are criminal and need to be stopped. Sony needs to go and look at the Mass Effect Legendary Edition trophy lists. Perfect. One platinum for each game and an overarching, series wide trophy list for things you do across multiple games.

And then you've got Kingdom Hearts over here. Now, I know it's only Kingdom Hearts. But we gotta stop this before it gets to something good.

Imagine actually naming yourself Geralt of Goonia, typing that tweet out, reading it over, thinking, "yep - nailed it" and then hitting post. If I posted that I would get plastic surgery, change my name by deed poll, move to a new town and start a new life out of sheer embarrassment. Absolute clown shoe behaviour.

Same as always. Tedious, angry outrage merchant YouTubers make a big stink about it. None of it really matters. And then when it sells gangbusters they'll just lie and pretend the sales numbers are made up. It's all a conspiracy.

Anyway, I pre-order games for the bonuses if I'm interested when the game is available to download. I have very little interest in this game but I know I'll play it and I do like the blue armour so I'll probably pre-order it for that and then just play it later.

Xbox is a mess so it's par for the course, but cancelling the nearly done PS5 version of this game to get a few cheers from delusional Xbox fanboys on the internet while cancelling games, laying people off, and closing studios to increase profits is about as Xbox as it gets.

This is a shocker.

Danganronpa 1 and 2 are fantastic games if you enjoy a manic visual novel. Both are absolutely wild narratively. Danganronpa 2 has my favourite case in the series. It's so ludicrous I always look forward to it, and I'll look forward to it when I play it again when this comes out.