Because they probably got tired of leak-based rumours and speculation, and then decided to rebrand and restyle the probable-remake/reboot of Dino Crisis into something else. All just to have the last laugh. It’s what I would do whenever I’m in charge of direction or management of a project (although I don’t work in…

It’s also not not a whataboutism. If Putin’s defenders wanted to bring up hypocrisy, they’d have to single out the champs of every party sanctioning Russia, separately, and point out direct involvement in previous or current affairs that are comparable to this war.

First, that is not true. And second, this isn’t a political issue taking place WITHIN THE GAME ITSELF.

Cyberpunk has never not been political, lol. Sci-fi often says something about the larger social issues.

I think the main difference is actually two fold, beyond what you’ve listed here:

There’s not supposed to be an upside. We civilians and businesses are pawns or tools in this new unconventional form of the first salvos of modern war: socioeconomic politics & cyber-warfare.

The idea is to punish FUTURE revenue of Russian suppliers, like in the alcohol business example you describe. This has “tangible” effects on economic indexes, stocks and investment. I put that in quotes because people should know half of that financial/macroeconomic stuff is arbitrary anyway..... So when something…

Name every game with a swamp that you can think of, off the top of your head. Go!

The throne world gives me the same awe I had when stepping into Oryx’s dreadnought, or certain areas of the raids (chiefly VoG and Levi). Definitely the Dreaming City, too.

I’d omit the “these” from “... these roguelike games..." because there could be the implication that Elden Ring is a roguelike.

Reportedly smoother, lol. It IS on the consoles, and it isn’t very great there either.

Nah warlock exotics are good. Controverse Hold was great on all voidwalker trees, especially bottom tree Devour spam; the solar boots that help spawn empowered + healing rifts everywhere and charge your rift energy faster made me a heckuva tank, and even retains some use with Well; several of the helmets were…

Ya hunters have been so popular in Crucible, with some of the best exotics, that I think it’s about time the seesaw is leveling out.

I know all that. I brought it up because, as usual, there’s a tad bit too much ambiguity in article writing. Get. Specific. To. The. Letter. And cover all similar cases, authors.

There are stipulations for game base price increases? I don’t recall that ever happening — new editions of games withstanding.

U+ is coming to Xbox as another service. It is not confirmed if it’ll be integrated with or tacked onto Game Pass (Ultimate) as an extra perk; this also doesn’t necessarily mean any of that’ll be the plan.

All the excess lore and expansions of Star Wars for those same four dozen (mostly human) main characters didn’t result in that universe shrinking to a few planets; the universe COULD feel more *stale* because it’s the same people (or their ideological successors) going everywhere doing the same things (light side vs…

I agree, bc the "show don't tell" philosophy doesn't always work for world building -- or rather, doesn't HAVE to be the only go-to rule of thumb.

Are you figuring their cut based on physical sales through a retailer? Or is it in general? What about digital ones sold through their store or a marketplace platform like Steam, or third-party games sold through their stores?

No, they need more QUALITY *products* (“content”) than their competition in every aspect of this industry (they don’t just compete with the other two console first parties). Quantity isn’t their problem anymore, not even wrt first and second-party games over the last 6 years since their dearth started.