All of the Dark Pictures games have a pass-the-controller mode where each person takes responsibility for not getting a few characters killed. 

All of the Dark Pictures games have a pass-the-controller mode where each person takes responsibility for not…

The one credible leak that I’ve heard for the show (Grubb) is that Stray will be there with a late June 2022 release date. 

Given that it drops you off before the ending when you save, I expect this will be more of a Hearts of Stone kinda thing and takes place mid-game. Then you just need one, “you’re being pretty quiet, Johnny” like and a hand wave.

No, the math reported is just incorrect. GamePass at the base level is $120 a year, and Ultimate is $180 a year. At that rate, it’s either 1 every six months for regular, or one every four months for ultimate (three games a year). This also ignores the fact that some AAA games releasing on the platform are now $70…

Surprising that they’d scrap the last Gen version given the size of the install base for current Gen, but also it’ll be two years into the life cycle of the new consoles and they have to make the development switch at some point. 

Here, mostly a decade later, and Microsoft just announced Xbox Everywhere.

Is there anything that says OW2 PVP is still scheduled to release next year? I thought the whole point of the decoupling was to speed up the release of the sequel and effectively turn the PVE into a $60 DLC. 

I wonder if it’s perhaps an effect of the update to bleed animations being sped up as well? I think the heal is tied to her bleed damage. 

He doesn’t delineate between the early- and late-month releases in the titles, so they always conflict. But I suppose if he did, it would look pretty whiny to be complaining about the seven games you’re getting in a 15 day period. 

Ari: Xbox Game Pass’ April Lineup is Kind of a Letdown

I don’t have a problem with this as long as the intrusiveness is low. Running past a billboard in a game, or seeing an ad on an in-game web browser doesn’t impact gameplay and isn’t really bothersome. But if it’s something like an anime that plays trying to sell me an Acura every time I log in, then that would be a…

Getting serious KHII Roxas Intro vibes here

I wonder what the calculus is on exclusivity windows. I better there are some pretty large coefficients separating people who rush out to get a game day one and people who are willing to wait any amount of time for it to come to another console. Even one year exclusivity is probably more than enough to leech whatever…

At level 217 I was still scared of the Wide Bears.

After about 50 shots, getting him down to 1/10th his final bar, I just turned on No Fail mode and slaughtered him. That fight is garbage. Like with the Seige Tank, you are actively impeded by the environment, but he is not, and he has attacks that require you to stand behind the environment or have perfect dodges, but…

The book hints that Ciri’s children will be of major importance. I think they could do that and jump forward about fifty years in the universe and start telling new stories. 

Look up the Mogwhyn Palace farm path. 

Personally I thought the final (final) boss fight was a thousand times worse. 

There is a difference between knowing the outcome and knowing the ending. You may know the Titanic sinks, but you don’t know if Jack and Rose survive, so there is tension. The problem with something like the Star Wars Prequels is that you know the outcome of every character, who dies, who changes, who is outcast. This …

Jeff Grubb reported a while back that Microsoft was looking into acquiring Crystal Dynamics from SE. Given that CD was brought into SE via the Eidos purchase in the first place, I don’t think it’s impossible that MS would just want to pick up that whole beach if Square was willing to sell. That said, this was all…