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@get2sammyb For a racing game, it needs to hit the Initial D vibes.

Early reactions online are… not good! Looks like a Dreamcast game and the fact Blockuza is still a thing is hysterical. Change everything except the biggest complaint?

This is the sort of game I’ve been wanting since I was a kid. All they need now is a Eurobeat radio station and proper Touge racing. NFS Carbon is as close as you get.

@FredBiletnikoff He’s the most normal guy on the planet…?

This guy married his on-screen brother from Emmerdale. Sounds weirder than it actually is.

What a disaster.

I spent years side-eyeing Nagoshi’s excesses and extremely plastic mug but the man made Monkey Ball and created this juggernaut of a franchise. This guy seems to have dented that series already.

@TheArt It’s at the point where Sony partnering with an American firm would be more controversial and result in worse quality. Chinese tech is in a much much better place than it was even 10 years ago.

Genuinely crazy. My Bravia from 2007 lasted about 13 years, they’re very good TVs or at least were back then. Always wanted a Sony CRT too. As long as the quality is consistent then I get where they’re going with this, partnering with a Chinese firm makes manufacturing so much easier. Sony branding still being on the tellies makes quality key too, as blowback will be on them, not TCL.

Just not really anywhere else for them to go. Modern writing in a nutshell.

@Ralizah I still think 3 is a great game and worth playing. The sheer amount of stuff that’s been lost in this remake makes the original relevant. Plus it doesn’t have a predator front and centre.

@ZeroE I think when you see a man in his 70s, a legend of the club, getting steadily more annoyed with the board, you realise that they just will not improve the club for any manager. Probably similar to Man Utd in that sense, there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel for the foreseeable.

@ZeroE Don’t see it happening through our own efforts, only if Hearts completely collapse. The squad is just not good and they aren’t even trying to sign players worth a sniff. With Rangers getting Skov Olsen and Rohl looking like a decent manager, I think it’s more likely they snatch the season if Hearts slip.

Couldn’t they have hit Tynecastle instead? Only way we’re making that points difference up.

I LOVED Primal. Genuinely what an interesting game with heaps of atmosphere. Only downside was the 30FPS. I liked 3 but the characters sort of did my head in. You can’t deny that basically every game since Far Cry 3 and Skyrim have just been Far Cry 3 and Skyrim again.

@IkeCrane PWB has a single writing credit on a franchise, No Time To Die, where she did a rewrite at the request of Daniel Craig. She was completely uncredited for both Solo and Indiana Jones on the writing front as I assume she had input with her own characters but they were written by other people. Those three movies also share the distinction of being a mess behind the scenes before she was even involved. I’m not her biggest fan because she’s a tax dodging aristocrat but this level of hatred towards her actual writing works reeks of Gamergate.

It does look a bit like cosplay.

@Llamageddon Shad Gaspard was his body model.

@Gunbeld Yes, Gerard Butler can’t act.

@graymamba This guy is just as ethnically Greek as African Americans are. As in he isn’t Greek. It’s a weird choice, Kratos has literally only been portrayed by a black man.

@Gunbeld Didn’t watch it. Looked rubbish and devoid of creativity like literally all other Disney live action remakes. Plus that was years ago, who gives a crap?

It does feel a bit sus that they have 2 black voice actors as Kratos, and a black body model as Kratos, but they go with a white dude for the Bezos funded show. He’s just as Spartan as Shad Gaspard was.

There’s so many entry points for nonces. Kids are online from a young age and while I absolutely do not support the complete ban on under 18s using these services, parent accounts should be given more controls than they are. It’s up to the parents to be responsible and schools should be having lessons on online safety that are kept up to date.

Their strategy with Premium is downright deranged. Truly the most baffling service out there.

My mum works at an opticians and they’re really trying to push these Meta glasses… in one of the most deprived parts of Glasgow.

Got bought the Yakuza game on sale by an uncle three days ago. Every time!

He does make a lot of sense in the full interview. But no, let’s keep handing hundreds of millions to ex-Riot/Infinity Ward/Bungie devs to make an extraction shooter that doesn’t even last a year.

Probably the one game that genuinely is as bad as its reputation. Far and away the worst mainline entry in the series, no revisionism will help it. I’d rather play 2 again and that game really doesn’t work.

It’s a far more ethical use of genAI to train it on your own data sets but at that point, just hire concept artists. You’re not going to save any money.

@naruball You’re being disingenuous. Ebola is a disease that is currently killing people right this second. WW2 was over 80 years ago, and even then they whitewash it in games and it’s very broad strokes. I cannot imagine having such little empathy for the plight of dying African children that I’m trying to score internet points.

@naruball There’s a reason that WW2 games skip over the Holocaust.

Looks cool. Will wait for reviews.

Ebola is a real, horrible disease. Bad taste doesn’t even begin to cover it.

If the series has even lost my lesbian best mate who was a teenager when the first game released, you know it’s truly time to put it out to pasture. The series lost its legs when they abandoned the anthology concept, there’s no way they can continue for long going over the same Max/Chloe nonsense for eternity.

Don’t worry, Satya Nadella thinks this is the future.

Lmao it’s literally Brat Green. Mad to see Hyperpop in the mainstream, been into PC Music for over 10 years.

@Dogbreath @DartLOD My issue with PWB is that she’s a mega posho whose parents are literally named in the Paradise Papers but generally speaking everything she’s worked on has been pretty well received. She’s not done that much, Fleabag and the first season of Killing Eve (Before more insufferable mega posho Emerald Fennell ruined it) are great and I can’t exactly blame her for Indiana Jones 5 and No Time To Die when she wasn’t a main writer. The Amazon deal has been a lot of her sitting around doing nothing so this even heading to series is a surprise. What has she actually written to make either of you have that kind of reaction to her work?

STICK THAT UP YOUR DOJO

Oh man, Epic Mickey is great. Still have my Wii disc.

Used to love Level-5’s stuff. Not anymore.

Gives it less time to drop in price by next September when I might actually be able to afford it lmao

Right before Christmas too. Horrible.

If this is #10, this really has not been a vintage year.

If everyone ‘moves on’ then the industry as a whole is dead. This is the biggest threat to art of all time. The only way forward is complete zero tolerance. Besides, these sorts of stickers and sprays were always a way to showcase art, sometimes from the community. If they’re not even done by humans, what’s the point?

They lied. That’s why the award was stripped. They told the judges that they didn’t use gen AI and then separately admitted it. They should have been completely upfront. Blue Prince is a massively deserving winner too.

I think my innards would become outards.

@get2sammyb That’s good news, I suppose Sony don’t actually have a streaming service that would carry Peanuts, it’s not exactly Crunchyroll’s style. Seems a canny buy in my opinion, that fee will pay for itself in no time at all, just through merch alone.

I love Peanuts. The movie is genuinely good too. I just hope that the Apple specials will still be made, they’re super cute.

I love that the linked article below is Druckmann talking about how this is their most ambitious project of all time. That’s the problem!!!!

Anyone who peddles gen AI is missing the spark in their heart that makes them a real human. It’s a sign of true sociopathy and arrogance to think that an aggregator can mimic human creativity. I’m not a particularly religious person but humanity (and some other animals) has a unique element and that’s the ability to dream and to create. Gen AI does not have aspirations, it does not love, it does not hate, it does not have any real intentions behind anything it does. Ask yourself if you’d rather look at a drawing your child has made for you or a cartoon knock-off of the Mona Lisa. It’s not about fidelity and it never has been, it’s about the heart behind the art. If you can’t see that then you’re beyond help.