I think they’re different animals.

The... game they spun off from the single player game, specifically to be a multiplayer pirate game.

You are surprised that they didn’t consider making it into a single player game, like.... Assassins Creed Black flag, for example?

This is a nice longform article in the vein of Jason’s Schreier’s reporting of behind-the-scenes game development. Glad to see this article type again. Great job!

He Who Remains really intrigued me with just how malevolent he’s meant to be. His goal to stop a multiversal war is obviously worthy, but it’s hard to know what the consequences of that action really is, and Majors’ performance suggests that HWR may very well be hiding something with regards to that.

I loved Richard Grant’s version.

Eh, I’ve played Destiny 2 via Xbox Cloud Streaming on my phone and it mostly works fine. Sure, there’s the occasional hiccup but it’s perfectly fine for doing a mission or two or grinding gear. I can’t imagine playing a game like Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck would be worse than that.

A common failing of a lot of shows these days (especially streaming shows) is that what they call the first season is really just the first half season. They end on a “cliffhanger” that lets you know that everything you have been watching was just set up for the story they really mean to tell.

Given that a second season is coming, and it ended on something of a cliffhanger, I’m more inclined to treat it as an individual episode rather than a “finale” (even if it is, technically, the season finale). And while Majors was great, I was also disappointed (as others have said) that Loki and Sylvie got so little…

With Proton, most games should work regardless of native linux support. 

I mean the $5 preorder (which goes towards the purchase) is the best way to do this in the time of console and GPU shortages. Plop down your $5, get on the waiting list and get your console when your number comes up in the queue. I wish Nvidia or Sony took this approach.

Just saw and personally love this anti-scalping measure:

They claim to have revamped Proton so that the majority of Steam games should work without the developer having to do anything.

There’s actually zero mention of streaming on their site, as far as I could see. I expect it will have it, but that’s not the stated purpose. The hardware is overpowered for streaming - it’s basically ~25% the power of current-gen consoles. I also don’t think it has any cellular internet, which you’d need to stream…

With this and Solo, I think Marvel overrates how much the public wants a feel good prequel about a character they just killed off.

Using the Xbox cloud service to play through Control at the moment. No lag or stutters for me at all. I can even watch Twitch streams at the same time. But on the other hand the imagine isn’t quite as sharp as installed games, looks slightly washed.

I’ll add a third use case, and the one I use most: gaming on your phone. Most of what I’ve been playing on xCloud are low-intensity indie games that work perfectly on the phone, but that don’t include the typical mobile gaming pitfalls like microtransactions and energy timers and whatnot.

One of the benefits is that there is no additional SKU someone has to purchase, assuming that they are buying Microsoft published titles, or are playing GamePass rentals. Something like Stadia had you double dipping if you just wanted to play something that you already own but on the go or somewhere were easy access…

I got a clip, and it sucked. It was not a comfortable experience, and the razer controller is way better.

I got one of the Razer controllers for my phone, and it makes GamePass work super well on wifi. I haven't checked it out on PC yet, but I saw previously that GamePass requires a controller? That is disappointing.

Yes definitely seeing this in theatres. It does suck that Johansson’s character was fucked around the most out of anyone in the movies, it kind of makes the torch passing to Pugh more impactful in a weird way though.