I think the best part of Gwen being trans is that it has virtually nothing to do with the story being told, aside from the subtext underlying her speech to her dad. If she is trans, then that battle was already fought before we meet her, and she’s now stronger for it. Shitheads are always talking about how the woke…

So what engine would you use? What engine allows for that much interactivity with objects on such a large scale? Genuinely interested. Because, yeah, they own ID software. You’d think they could come up with something.

Yeah so many folks are SO SURE they know what they’re talking about and yet the things they’re saying make no goddamn sense.

I always love it when developers explain the reasons behind decisions because its both very informative, and listening to capital ‘G’ Gamer accusations is exhausting. If you ask Twitter, 30fps is becase devs just need to move the FPS slider on the Engine Screen up to ‘60', and refusing to do so are Devs being LAZY.

Ruin it will  probably be the answer tbh

I continue to be perplexed by Senua sequel. I mean, I absolutely loved the first game, but can’t figure out what more could they exactly do with that story and character?

However this is about games not what other things Microsoft is making ........... They are buying a game publisher/ maker. I know it's hard to understand what's being talked about

$3500.

They’ve actually been pretty forward about their real intentions which is mobile growth. King, the makers of candy crush are the real target. I believe apple and google both smoke console gaming revenue. They’ve said they want to break up the duopoloy of the Apple and Google game stores and offer an Xbox gamestore on…

When you’re planning on a merger, you’re required to report it to the FTC and to inform your shareholders. It would be illegal if you kept it a secret. I obviously don’t know the exact law, but it’s like once you come to an agreement you have so many days to announce publicly your intentions to acquire. But yes they…

You mean the present day business practices where they are by a wide margin the most pro consumer console manufacturer, and have been for nearly a decade?

Eh They Were able to fit Witcher 3 on the switch so, it’s possible.

Workers’ unions are for the merger, but why would Sony fanatics care about that

Actually IIRC it was in the Decoder podcast interview for Verge that Phil said that the CoD deal for Switch and Playstation was day one locally installed feature parity version of the games. He definitely said that for Playstation, I’m fairly certain Nintendo was included in that. Because I remember thinking up till…

Very much this. MS is the only company seriously investing in cloud gaming right now. For the cloud gaming market to grow beyond its currently niche status, it needs that kind of investment. CMA is basically saying that MS shouldn’t be allowed to invest any more into it because that would increase their market share.…

I guess I’m in the minority here, but I thought that the Great Sky Island was a genius section of game design. It flowed naturally and felt like it trusted the player to figure it out, and left multiple paths forward for quite a few areas (including that last shrine, which I do admit was a doozy). But all of that was…

This is the right ruling. The CMA is a joke, and “cloud gaming monopoly” is so transparently made up as an arbitrary reason to block the acquisition, it was insulting for people to tell me it was some expertly reasoned conclusion.

The CMA’s reasoning is silly. The cloud gaming market is tiny and MS is the only company that’s actively putting a lot of money into it. Nintendo, Sony, Nvidia, etc, treat it like an afterthought. Even if MS makes its games (including Activision’s) exclusive to xCloud, Sony and Nintendo could do the same with their…

And it won’t be dead.

At this point it’s almost guaranteed that the acquisition will go forward in US (sorry, but FTC has no case here, any lawyer will tell you that) and once that happens, the CMA’s decision might turn out to be way more problematic for the UK than for Microsoft. That’s the harsh reality.

Not even gonna lie, I gave my switch lite to my ex's daughter and I have a big boy switch that I rarely use on tv. I have a series x and to be honest, this is the bungled console generation. It came out during COVID and right now, both the PS5 and series x in my opinion are in their true year one. Sony has their…