Yep. I’ve literally never heard of this until right now. Looks like we’ve got another Among Us situation on our hands.

I remember Small Soldiers because I had a crush on Kirsten Dunst back in the day thanks to Jumanji.

I’m very upset I’m now just hearing about this. Steam’s algorithm failed me here as I’ve been searching for coop games to play with my friend, and this game never appeared. I hope it’s good.

Sure.  You might miss a lot of references.  Yakuza 0 was my first Yakuza, and I found it an incredibly experience.  I’m sure it rewards you for playing the other games, but Yakuza 0 is absolutely made as an introduction for people into the world of Yakuza.

I’m gonna be honest Edelgard makes more and more sense to me as time goes on. I could whine about her methods a few years ago but an entire continent being dominated by a militant theocracy based on a false sense of genetic privilege is, well...

This is an excellent take - the type of person who can be driven to make tweets in this tone seems diametrically opposed to the type of person who would do so recklessly.

Yeah. I mean, I can’t go back and play Destiny 2 or Mists of Pandaria or any of a million other live games anymore because development has moved on and built over those launch experiences.

Plans change

Overwatch: Retribution Part 1: This Time It’s Personal

No, Overwatch 2 is F2P.  That’s likely going to be a lot more expensive that what I paid for Overwatch if I keep playing. 

Maybe “Overwatch U” would be a better title for the upcoming expan- I mean game.

Because Blizzard has pivoted away from “OW1 and OW2 will coexist for folks that like each respective game.” to “Remember how we deleted the old WCIII and replaced it with WCIII: Reforged? We’re doing that again, but at least the game will probably be pretty good this time.”

It definitely feels kind of arbitrary at times, like a post can’t just be ‘here are the games coming to GamePass in the next couple of weeks’: it has to be either ‘the best week GamePass has ever seen!’ or ‘that’s it, cancel your subscription, GamePass is worthless now’. And it’s a coin flip which one of those…

Same; Elden Ring was actually a big ‘revelation’ for me, because I realized I just... wasn’t willing to pay sixty bucks for it on release, even though I was (and still am) looking forward to it quite a bit. There’s so much other stuff to play, I just can’t justify spending the money when I know I’ll be able to pick it…

Came down to find this exact comment and support it. This narrative that Kotaku has had about Game Pass the last few months is really, really strange and does not line up with reality at all. Has Microsoft had a ton of first party games? No, but that’s a different conversation than saying Game Pass has had “no marquee…

For real, what rocky months? TMNT is great, Sniper Elite 5 is great, Bugsnax was great, Tunic is one of the best games to come out this year.  And that isn’t even coming close to covering everything that came to the service over the past few months.

the only times I buy games at this point are when they are either super cheap or becoming harder to find (delisted for instance).

Not to mention there are hundreds of games there at any given time. Its been this narrative here for a while with the anti-game pass takes. But I’ve been playing tons of games pass games. I rarely even buy a game these days. I feel like Ari forgets that normal people don’t play every single game that hits and just…

Xbox Game Pass has had a rocky few months

Sadly she was immediately sued by Nintendo and lost all her income.