Different voice actor too.

I’m surprised Aaron Greenberg didn’t fight for it, since according to him their last game smashed every metric and exceeded all expectations.

Me too. The writing is on the wall, especially if you’re at a small studio working on “small” games like Ninja Theory or Double Fine.

Give it a year. Thankfully Toys for Bob was able to buy themselves out, otherwise surely they would have either been shut down or put to work in the Call of Duty mines.

Shutting down entire studios should not be a part of normal cost saving.

No one’s asking you to trust them.

I heard they were basically forced into that situation after Bethesda canceled their Prey sequel (which looked great BTW.)

There have been rumors and speculation, but that’s not what MS is saying.

"More interestingly, [Xbox President Sarah] Bond teased a roadmap focused on next-generation hardware.

“'And what we’re focused on there is delivering the largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation, which makes it better for players and better for creators and the visions they’re building,” Bond explained in the recent episode of the Official Xbox Podcast.'"

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-next-gen-console-confirmed-business-update

I hope everyone who plays Call of Duty next year on Game Pass takes a moment of silence for the ~2000 people that had to lose their jobs to make it possible.

How is that ironic?

Supposedly the whole Fall Guys team at Mediatonic, who Epic just acquired, were let go. Including the game director.

For real? Where, when?

Makes sense, there are some big Cyberpunk Easter eggs in Death Stranding so he must get along with CDPR.

Some people believe he showed up briefly in one scene in the background but it was never substantiated.

I assume it happened at a recording or mo-cap studio in the states.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. That’s MS’s strategy, by their own words.

I am interested in a Series X some day, but no disc drive is a deal breaker. My only hope is the regular Series X will some day see a price cut.

It’s honestly hard to look at and one of the reasons I stopped going years ago (one of the guys’ repeated transphobic social media posts was the other.)

I think my friend Mike Zimmerman and I may have beaten it… But it’s been so long it’s impossible to say for sure. All I know it was one of the hardest games out there back then, and hard games were not in short supply in the 80’s.

Yep and a lot of times, we won’t even hear about it. It’ll just be another game that happens to be on Playstation and not Xbox, a defacto exclusive of sorts.

Holy shit I had no idea. The Xbox One X really is more powerful, at least in some regards, than a system that came out 3 years later.