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Really sad for the employees and the brand. FM7 on PC is still fantastic but newest one wasn’t great.
Hard to defend Microsoft at the minute. The Xbox brand has been garbaged with core pillar IP being jettisoned along with peoples’ jobs. Genuinely disgusting.
Game Pass and the huge acquisition have been a disaster and I warned that it might be.
Microsoft should just go full software at this point, axe hardware and GP and make the studios they have left profitable (or more profitable!)
Garbage company at present but we all saw it coming a few years ago.

@nessisonett Clash of Evil 😂

No one is left to buy it on Xbox.

I have liked the Campaigns in the last several games but the MP has become a joke with irrelevant skins. Nicki Minaj (I think) in the WW2 one was a low. Franchise is becoming garbage and I have no interest in the next one. Hopefully Battlefield will be back.

@JuiceboxMeister they don’t care about peoples’ jobs.

Pre-built third party PC with Xbox sticker - this is an Xbox.

Boring already. Announce something or don’t.

@GeeEssEff out of all the comments, this landed with me tbh. I already have a PC with Steam and Xbox stores. No need to wait for that ‘ASUS Pre build!!!!’ 😂
I have a PS5 too. I’m good.

@get2sammyb I could not put it better. That’s why you are a journalist! 😜

Dead on delayed arrival.

@GirlVersusGame Wowzers! ❤️❤️❤️

@ppitchfork I’m sorry to hear this.

Remember “it’s just 4 games.”

Not overly news-worthy that Halo is inbound - it’s all full-slate. Be nice to hear which game it is though.

@Oram77 I know. I know. Always sad to hear people lose their jobs. Seems to be a lot in this industry and seems to be the mega corporations making big money too. That’s all I’m saying.

This game is a PR stunt.

Jobs Gone.

Mega corporations making lots of money whilst actual people lose their jobs.

It’s for the payers.

Phil’s ‘one more thing’ was like Columbo from Wish. Ask your Nan.

Name drop Forza etc and then show COD.

I’m really not interested in this COD. Seems to me they are using the branding Black Ops as it is successful? Looks like Inifinity Warfare? Wasn’t that a thing with Kevin Spacey? I won’t buy it this year so saves me money.

Some one said ‘jet packing Nicki Minaj’ and yup that is where this franchise is at.

@Frmknst they have all been great mate (except some spinoffs)

@Icey664 you’ve really missed out… great games and suited 1st person.

@KundaliniRising333 it will likely be a compromise - a cash grab upgrade path. £60 for new customers and £60 for existing owners.

This game needs 60fps. I have it on PC for that reason alone.

@Oram77 I thought exactly the same!!!

@Toot1st true. Not everyone wants GamePass though. Be interesting to know if more people bought Black Ops 6 and played on PS5 than just played on GP. Anyone know?

I would say $30 cheaper than the S with Black Ops 6 is going for the throat but Xbox hardware is already dead.

Edit: I say this as an Xbox fan from the UK.

@MasterChiefWiggum seemed absolutely fine. Runs like a dream.

@Totheteeth I hear you too. Just finished Mafia: Definitive on PC. Playing COD WW2 too. 😂

I like a simple linear game.

Not sure. Defo interested but can’t shake the ‘Saints Low’ remake vibe… I hope I’m wrong.

In true over the top internet fashion:

PLAYSTATION IS DEAD

Games can be very expensive to make and well worth the £70 at times. Don’t like it, don’t buy and wait for a sale. But no need to insult fans/the consumer. Some people can’t afford the price but still love games. Geezer is an out of touch fat-cat clown.

Real fans likely don’t like 2K’s £70 + microtransactions just to play the full game. Clown.

@PlatinumMikey tell me about it!

@PlatinumMikey PS handheld could be incredible if it plays proper games (not Temu versions like back in the day) native with cross progression and at least 40fps. Really would get me interested. Problem would be that anything on it would be a come-down from the Pro. But I’d be interested and would sell big.
I’m not interested in the portal partly because I can’t leave the house with it and I’m not sold on cloud and worry it would not be smooth. It’s too expensive to try out as well! Shame I can’t borrow one from someone.

@nitraM no doubt that has already been done by too many…

@PlatinumMikey Fallout 76? Fallout 4 is verified on it. Verified games are ones Steam claim run well out the box on the deck. Sometimes! Websites like Steam Deck HQ give reviews and recommended settings. You do have to be a PC geek sometimes to work it out. I’m not that but have really enjoyed getting into PC gaming.
A game like Prey at 40fps on deck is amazing and RDR2 and Mafia at 60fps on PC is next level. It’s criminal these games are 30fps on console. I won’t play. I’m not a forensic digital foundry type gamer but it’s so poor and sluggish. I can’t go back.

What is incredible now is the choice - Xbox Game Pass, PC, Deck, PS5 and Pro. So many amazing platforms and games.

@PlatinumMikey I won’t play 30fps on console or PC (monitor) as it is awful. I will do 40 on small deck screen if needed.
30fps on console is unacceptable in 2025.

@PlatinumMikey that’s fair. I wanted to get into PC gaming so that was a cheap option for me to do that rather than go heavy on a £1000 rig. I have built up a large library on Steam where older games can cost peanuts. Wolfenstein, Sniper Elite, Doom, Vampyr, Two Point Hospital and lots and lots of others. Some will do 60 and most can run well at 40 as a compromise. I’ve now got a rig too so it gave me a taste!
You are right though - if you are expecting new AAA or PS5 games on it, I’d say don’t it’s not for you imo. Although I’ve heard Spider-Man, Miles Morales and Hogwarts Legacy are decent enough on it but not what I would buy tbh.

@PlatinumMikey I’ve a deck and 40fps is the new 60fps on there for more demanding games and plays well.
I don’t play new AAA on there though because I don’t think it’s really for that but great for indie or older games. Dishonored, Arkham, Bioshock, Wreckfest and some Resident Evil are great on there along with Balatro, Disco Elysium and Broken Sword. It’s a good entry into or a compliment to, PC gaming.

@RubyCarbuncle well this seems to have become a Game Pass thread so don’t buy on that! Rent it 😂

Just looks like a win. A new Mafia on PS5 hardware, a linear story focus and £45 day one. What is not to like.
2025 has been good thus far and keeps getting better.

@TheArt true. I suppose the ‘free drive’ mode is showing its age from the original game? It’s an illusion of open world without being so.
What are the other Mafias like? Any good?

@TheArt I’m playing on Mafia remake on PC and I don’t mind that its linear. It’s a good game and good story with good characters and looks great. TBH I don’t want everything to be huge open worlds.

@Foxhound an offer you can’t refuse?

@Flaming_Kaiser I almost fully agree with you except the value part. I don’t care about discs, or trade-ins. Plenty of digital sales on Steam, CD Keys, PS Store and/or gift cards with sometimes nearly 15% off. I feel I get value with what I buy.
I’m in the UK where there are very few actual physical game stores. I can’t be bothered to have something posted and then have to store the discs and change them each game. Steam been like this for ages.
I genuinely think the idea of physical game ownership is an illusion now - few gig on a disc, endless patches and updates… just a waste of plastic.
Does it make me a little sad to see physical die? Yes, but I’m OK with it. I don’t need a disc and box to last my lifetime really and I don’t care if I don’t really ‘own’ it. I can easily transfer my library on PS/Steam between PCs and new consoles and I’m good with that. PS6 will charge extra for a legacy disc player I am certain. No thanks.
To be honest, I am more bothered about the actual games rather than the medium I play on/with.

@GADG3Tx87 I’ve gone even further…

Started this gen with a Series S before going Series X and PS5…

Series XS now gone (like most people?!) and now it’s PS5 and Steam.

Sold all my PS4 discs on eBay and bought gift cards on CDKeys and bought digital versions of them all. Worked out surprisingly well during sales.

100% digital all in. I’m not a collector and don’t like clutter and physical is going the way of the dodo whether we like it or not. A few gig on a disc with patch after patch is just an illusion of physical imo.

@BAMozzy 100% agree.

Capcom just make incredibly well made, old-fashion, great games.

@Lup there is always something 😢

That trailer was serious Ammu-Nation.

Take our money. Gaming at its finest. One of the few gaming franchises that no one really complains about…
Love the look, the characters, what we know of the story, everything. ❤️

“it’s just 4 games.”

@ShogunRok I’d like Infinite. Breathe new life into an underrated game.

@neoxmahi serious question… what are you going to do when disc games are a thing of the past in the near future? Do getting updates and patches over the life of the game count as the ‘full game on the disc?’ Do you game on Steam?
I do understand the ideal of owning games on discs but let’s be honest that has gone.

I’m a busy working dad and just care about actually playing the games mate.