Unfortunately the word spunky did not mean what they thought it meant…

That looks incredibly cool. Hard to really quantify for non-Brits just how huge Lara Croft is here, she’s up there with Mario in terms of the general public knowing her.

6’s scope is far greater than 7. And I like both equally. 6 just has a mad plot across so many varied areas that I don’t think you could cover them all with modern graphics in one game.

I’ve been having to sell off my vinyl collection to get by. Something you cannot do with digital music. Probably something to read into there.

Kingdom Come Come Mr Bond You Get Just As Much Pleasure From Killing As I Do

@Werehog Gives me a bit of time to play Shadow I guess 😂

@CroCopTeam I cannot buy him having lived for 200 years and seen every conflict in that time. Mary Jean is also an issue, I cannot wait for the mandatory stealth section.

@PegasusActual93 Good luck finding any truly indie game of any quality. I expect the next wave of ‘indie’ games to be a Dave The Diver situation where they pretend they’re indie and have a massive publisher as that’s the only way to rise above the crap.

This looks truly bad, considering last year they were saying they were listening to fans and then ended up with an atrocious game by the end. It’s like they decided they’re just doing their own thing and we all know it’s going to be rubbish but who cares because people will buy it. It’s ok though, they’ve added incredible ‘legends of football’ like Akinfenwa and Fellaini to the game, before adding rather a lot of frankly better footballers to the game.

The art style still sort of annoys me. It’s not stylised at all, Wolverine’s just a bloke.

We’ve entered a new wave of Engineslop. Games where you can practically pick out the default elements and identify the assets clearly purchased from other sources. Combine that with vibecoding and indie gaming is dead, it’ll be incredibly difficult to find quality when faced with the sheer volume of releases.

I tried Luna out of curiosity and the input lag was the issue for me. Streaming has potential but it’s just not viable yet. Although I did beat quite a few games on PS Now through streaming, mostly PS3 ones.

@get2sammyb The issue is that social media means we see these people modelling and doing press and posting pics all the time. Getting Davids, Giggs and Roberto Carlos in a room together for a photo shoot and opening movie for FIFA 2003 was a novelty. It’s not so special anymore and also the athlete isn’t as baked into the identity of the game with sports games pretty much ditching opening movies to allow you to access your gambling mode quicker.

Am I the only one seeing ‘Blacks Ops’ 😂

Jonathan Blow is an absolute w*nkstain but unfortunately does make good games. This will probably be good too.

Sorry Haters, But Marathon Is Looking Real Good Right Now

That article was only 5 months ago by the way. Bungie deal has been a disaster.

@anoyonmus According to who? She looks perfectly fine to me 😂

@MFTWrecks I just don’t even see what angle there could be. I’m so confused.

@Rob3008 How is there even a backlash? She’s one of his most famous baddies, she was in X2 for God’s sake!

Poor guy. It looks kinda wank from what we’ve seen but it’s a big role to miss out on. Reminds me of when Rob Kazinsky got injured and had to drop out of The Hobbit. I wanna say that Nicole Kidman was supposed to do Panic Room too but messed up her knee.

Wolverine putting on his anti-Sabertooth claws to fight him for the first time in his 130 year career.

It’s remarkable how quickly RPCS3 has advanced in recent years. I’ve not ran into major problems with games in a good while now, even got Rock Band working with a guitar. I was gutted when my PS3 started yellow lighting last year but at least I can sort of replace it on PC.

It’s been a build up of terrible decisions and this is where it’s come to a head. The issue now is that you’ll have the contrarians coming out to defend Sony solely on the basis that they find the complaints annoying.

@ShadowRJ @stocko No Ratatouille? Running around a kitchen and the streets of Paris rat sized would be brilliant, a bit like the Ventus section of Castle of Dreams.

@For-Kier Protest is a basic human right. Are you sure you’re not the real Kier Starmer?

Really great comics writer and a UK games media man himself! Loved his Young Avengers, shame it’ll only end up being abysmal if they try to do it in the MCU.

Oh look, protests work.

@Mr-Cage Empathy costs nothing. Games are pretty much the only thing keeping me sane since being laid off in an adjacent sector, so seeing the people working hard to make those games also being laid off is incredibly sad. It’s not difficult to have human emotions.

@Dogbreath I need to play Liberation, I only have that and Unity’s plats left to go minus the newest two games. I remember starting it after finishing 3 and then getting distracted by playing Black Flag instead.

@Mr-Cage Are you asking why there’s not more negative coverage of Ubisoft? Of all developers? The one with the negative coverage whenever they make anything? That Ubisoft?

@Nexozi Not at all, people want to make the most of their PS5 while knowing that the future of PS is bleak. At this rate we’ll have games coming out on PS4, 5 and 6.

Providing tools to fans will always be the best option. It’s amazing how much fun you can still have across Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox with fans having revived the online support.

It’s a shame it’s not really my thing, I love their Sherlock Holmes games, jank and all.

Sort of abysmal not including the DLC but i’m guessing it’s to maintain parity with Xbox, which already had them with BC and so you had to buy the DLC. Would like to see these hit PS Plus at some point.

I dunno, it’s a bit of a weird decision. It’s not inherently homophobic to have a homophobic character especially since he’s shown to be wrong pretty much in every way and learns from his mistakes. The pervy stuff makes sense because they’re high schoolers and he’s an immature idiot. What really should be changed is the sheer amount of fat jokes and the way the game itself makes fun of Hanako, that’s aged far worse.

Not to sound mean but I regretted even spending like £20 on the first one. Here’s hoping this is far less barebones.

@shoeses Oh yeah, I have that Transformers Devastation from PS Plus, my first ever month with it. Think I got that and the Resident Evil 1 remake, pretty decent month back when I had practically zero games.

@shoeses We already got Ultimate Alliance and I’m really annoyed I didn’t grab it before the license expired.

Messi. Fatal Fury has Ronaldo after all.

Is that not like an 8th of the world’s population. And China don’t touch Xbox. This is beyond absurd.

Horrible horrible news. Surprised they’re returning to being independent studios which is a big silver lining but regardless this is devastating. Things are just awful out there, I was laid off right before Christmas last year and still there’s nothing. It’s beyond disheartening.

Fighting games are enormous in the developing world, which this disproportionately affects. Get it sorted Sony.

Genuinely will be more popular than the new games. Those two are classics. And the old zombies on new consoles will be a big deal, even despite the fact most of those maps have been remastered.

I struggle to think of those in the shareholder class as humans.

People are stupid. It’ll sell. But the specs arms race is over, the only paths forward are crappy AI-driven upscaling tech or prohibitively expensive consoles. My prediction is that we’ll see streaming take over next generation. Which of course means more and more data centre space needed, which means they’re competing with AI firms for that as well as RAM, which means a humungous subscription price hike.

The Xbox fans are the ones that are hating on this remake so tbh, the PS fans should be the ones they’re aiming for. Give people who’ve never played a Halo game an entry point into the Xbox ecosystem.

So, so many disastrous decisions. Honestly, probably would be massively priced out of the PS6 anyway, never mind after RAMageddon, so PS5 will likely be my last console even if I had faith in Sony.

Honestly think this will get challenged especially in the EU. If there’s digital only games, that means the PS Store is the only way to buy them and there’s a lack of competitive pricing. I don’t think that will be allowed to stand.

Really bad news. Loved Deathloop, would play anything Arkane put out.

@get2sammyb The crash is coming, if I were Sony I’d be pivoting hard away from AI. Investors are starting to realise that there aren’t actually revenue streams for AI and all the money tied up is just from them scamming investors, inflating user metrics and investing in each other’s companies to blow up the share price. Think Oracle dropped something like 19 points this week.