How dare they make use of something (the cloud) that they spent an insane amount of money and effort on and always said would be a huge part of their system from day one.

Yeah, no. There's probably been twice where I've been unable to get on XBL. Individual games, on the other hand, are a different story — they all don't run on Microsoft's servers.

Have you tried unplugging your modem and plugging it back it.

Have you seen the demo the company was working on that was the base for this game?
They show a destruction demo that uses just a PC and then one that uses a PC with the physics outsourced to a cloud computing thing.

1. SimCity was completely different from the application going on here.

I know that this is Luke and all, but no love for Microsoft's presser? It was what I thought gamers wanted in a console: games upon games.

How about everything else they showed? Sunset Overdrive, Phantom Dust, Crackdown 3...

I am actually having a lot of fun with it, however am not taking it very serious. The Multiplayer (as he pointed out) is amazing, the cat and mouse aspect is hilariously awesome at times, have not got my adrenaline flowing like that in quite awhile.

It's a great marketing strategy and true.

It's a video game populated by imaginary characters, so it's not all that messed up, or at least no more messed up than anyone playing pure Renegade.

Killing innocent virtual people acceptable. Killing specific innocent virtual people not acceptable. The landscape of perception about popular video games today.

So, random murder sprees in game are no big deal, but profiled murder is "disgusting"?

I'm noticing a lot of Microsoft Studios unannounced titles in that list and far less than I'd hoped to see from Sony in the same vein... I have a feeling that MS is about to bring the thunder to underscore the Xbox One going Kinect free. Hell, if the rumours about Halo 1 - 4 are correct, I'll likely be grabbing one by…

Umm, I stopped reading after Forza because they've already said the game is not based in the US, but in southern Europe.... unless your list was a joke, in which case, carry on...

Forza Horizon was awesome, and feels somewhat underrated. This is great news.

Despite what the Loud minority on the internet say, Ryse is actually a really great game. It has things wrong with it... But then again no game is perfect

This seems like a good precedent to set...

Oh, so that's "sharing" revenue now? Let me go down to the bank and share some of my money with them (by leaving some of what's currently in the vault), then share some of my money with people on the street (I'll only take half of what's in their wallets).

...Or they could just enjoy all the people buying their games after watching Let's Plays of them on youtube!

It is unbelievable to you that over 100 million people like to play games on consoles instead of PC? A lot of common shit must be unbelievable to you then...