This is why I was really hoping they’d actually fork off campaign into its own app. Not only would it prevent this issue, but it’d mean you could leave campaign suspended while playing multiplayer, and hop back in quickly.

I don’t think it’s possible, period. Or at least it’s way, way harder to do for Sony than it was for Microsoft. Xbox games run in a virtual machine - it’s something they did with the Xbox One that has been paying big dividends for them this gen with respect to what they are able to do in terms of QOL and back compat.…

It still speeds up getting back into the game, as you skip the initial cold boot. It doesn’t feel like it because Destiny is slow as hell to log in, but it’s still something. The only reason this is really a problem is because Destiny could end up booting a game you’d prefer to keep. A deeper pin queue might solve…

FWIW, Exoprimal and Gundam (and perhaps more of these games) are also coming to Xbox. At first I thought the article was just focusing on the Sony side of things, but some of the descriptions mention Xbox, so you may want to update for consistency.

He was bad in Suicide Squad, although I feel like none of that is Leto’s fault - art direction was rough and rumor is they cut some of his best scenes. But I really felt like his scene at the end of the Snyder Cut redeemed his take on the character. I now think if they gave him a go at it in a movie where he was the…

Eh, I’d say The Batman takes a fair number of risks. Even just the most recent superhero movie released seems to contradict this statement.

There are at least 10 on this list ahead of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker (probably more like 20) that don’t even come close to belonging ahead of him. The whole list feels so contrarian that I suspect the first draft had Heath Ledger’s Joker at 20 or something like that.

Some observations of my own:

Ok, cool - that makes more sense. Basically, Sony paid to offer GTA Online for free, so the net result is that the bundle that includes online + single player (which happens to be the only way to get single player) is $10 cheaper. 

So the PS5 version is $10 cheaper during the sale because the online component is being “paid for” by PS Plus subscription - but what if they don’t have PS Plus? They get the $10 discount anyway? Or does the $10 PS5 version actually not include GTA Online at all while the Xbox version does?

I don’t see it happening. I think we’ll continue to see the Xbox look more and more like a PC, but I don’t see Microsoft giving up on dedicated gaming machines for the house until streaming becomes so good that nobody bothers to buy consoles anymore (i.e. until the console itself as a concept is dead, IF that ever…

I’d go so far as to say that Europa would feel like a net loss even if only one of those destinations was vaulted alongside it (pick any one, really). Which is kind of a shame because there are actually some great portions of Europa - primarily the braytech area - that are woefully underutilized. 

I was very worried that we’d be losing a decent environment (tangled shore) and in return getting a really bland, one-note “oh no Hive all scary and green and sauron’s tower” place. Not that I didn’t trust that Bungie understood that it’d be bad to do that, I guess I just wasn’t creative enough to imagine what they…

Hmm - yea, I guess that may be true. I’d think that if anyone knows how to structure a licensing deal so as to be immune to Hollywood accounting, it’d be notorious Hollywood accounting offender Disney, but presumably everyone is always trying and failing to guard against this so I’m sure it’s harder than it sounds. 

I’m sure that any sales targets any exec is being held to is measured in dollars and not units. That’d be an insane way to set performance targets.

Somehow I’m not convinced that the amalgamation of all the worst things about live service games that is The Avengers (the whole concept was so nonsensical that the “loot” for the hulk is literally his own bones) is a result of Crystal Dynamics making the game they really wanted to make, and not Square Enix making…

I’m not sure why they’d be doing Hollywood accounting on this game. They own the developer. Hollywood accounting is what it is because there are many stakeholders involved in a movie who are not employees of the distributor (in fact, often the movie as a whole isn’t even financed by the distributor), and who have…

I think that this might be evidence that, despite so many publishers trying to push the price of games to $70, consumers are starting to decide that many games are not even worth $60. My guess is that that especially includes grind-y, MTX-filled, “live service” games. Which, notably, Guardians of the Galaxy was not. Bu…

I’m talking triple-A stuff here, but with a focus not on combat, nor ticking off icons, but on just exploring

Depends on what you mean by “games industry”. It’s an industry, like any other, that exists to make money. It cannot do that under the NMS model. If everyone operated like NMS, almost nobody would make games, and as a whole we’d be much worse off than we are today. Would it be great if there were enough companies that…