Also I am guessing with GamePass there are a lot of people not buying Hi-Fi Rush and Penitent... so it makes sense to make money from them by selling them on other platforms. 

Completely agree! 

“Finally, Xbox gets its own Pokémon game." - It already has Cassette Beasts. 

What amazes me is that it is surprisingly cheap at £7.99 (compared to other AAA that charge £10-25 for story DLC). So much so I am just tempted to pick it up rather then waiting for a sale. 

It would probably be perfect for you. Personally, it is the other way round for me. I have played pretty much every Mario platformer and it all begins to blur into one. 

Damn! It was on my playlist but haven’t got round to playing it yet (went through the Yakuza series first).

Stand sold separately? I have a PS5 and it came with a stand, which you need to use whether you put it horizontally or vertically. 

I’m so glad this point was made. Because of GamePass Xbox is my main console for gaming.

Not that I disagree, but the main difference that this isn’t a new take on Peter Parker. This is changing him in the same universe. Personally, it was one my favourite non-comic versions of Spider-Man so to get that invested and have the main protagonist visably change is jarring.

The only issue for me would be if there is a game/gameplay option that for whatever reason cannot be done on anything else but the Series X or PS5.

Same here about Beacon Pines. I won’t speed through it unless I really get invested, but I will at least play it for 30 mins a day to get an achievement and more if I really enjoy it.

For anyone who likes Lovecraftian wild west horror atmosphere - definitely play Weird West before it goes. Great little ambitious indie game.

I thought this was the reason. Still going to buy and play Spider-Man 2 and wait for Mirage to go on sale (or at least reviews about whether it is a mess or not). 

Star Trek!? With the exception of Picard S3 and Discovery S1-2.5 most of NuTrek has felt horrendous and low quality and risk averse driven by diversifying to make money.

That confused me for a moment. I thought you were randomly talking about time travel and that you would have date the older version yourself if you were not distracted by PlayStation. 

If this was “Look we didn’t want to do this, but Netflix forced us to simplify the story” then I would understand the point. However, doing it preemptively is like shooting yourself in the foot. Also with the success of season 1 they probably had full creative control to do what they like.

I know! When you search for Zeebo on YouTube they are the first videos with 400k+ views. I think they definitely deserve credit for at least raising awareness.

I completely agree and it is great to have an RPG with so many interactable elements being used in creative ways to problem solve, but... it feels like a click bait headline with this example not being the “most D&D way”. I just feel the framing of the article is wrong.

This is using a game’s environment in an unintended way. 

Visually is Jedi Survivor so far above Cyberpunk, Horizon, Ragnorok?