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It’s rare to see a week where all three console platform holders win this big.
My Spider-Man 2 review:
My Assassin’s Creed Mirage review:
Austin’s Lords of the Fallen review:
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kozak potezny
27.10.2023TWO IS THE BEST METAL GEAR SOLID WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT !!!!!!!!! (in my opinion)
kyuchu
27.10.2023censes designated by jane remover drops tomorrow. y'all should listen to that while playing mario wonder or spiderman2
Captain Maverick
27.10.2023Disney can't afford to make acquisitions. For now. Mark my words, ALL of these mega merges will be very bad for gamers in the long term.
Seven7swords
27.10.2023Disney can not afford to purchase EA. They owe Comcast Millions for their part of Hulu. None of their recent movies turned a major profit except Avatar 2. Captain Marvel 2 and Snow White had numerous reshoots and delays. Lucas Films is floundering. Disney+ is still not profitable. The writers and actors strike pushed back their movies and cut into promotion.
In what world is Disney in a position to purchase anything? There are rumors Disney will sell out to Apple.
Tim Todaro
27.10.2023great vid
therangersgrouchreturns
27.10.2023I like Diablo 4. I am having a good time playing it with my mrs.
Iraq Lobster
27.10.2023This move towards no physical copies of games is bullshit and spells really bad news for game preservation in the future. Seems like publishers don't want us to own anything anymore… just licensing.
Phenyl Ethylamine
27.10.2023Oh man Max Payne remake is big
None
27.10.2023Haven’t read the ‘Cities 2’ statement yet so hopefully this is an overreaction, but damn I’m getting tired of watching the business side of gaming destroy the games themselves (while frequently simultaneously failing at the business side). This just went from the top of my wishlist to the garbage bin. Kudos to the devs for at least being honest? I guess?
syncr0
27.10.2023I was interested in Lamplighter league but it was too expensive. To me it just looked like Pathway but 3x as expensive
Zood9
26.10.2023Joke aside, I can bet in 5 years Starfield have more active players than Spider Man 2.
ShadowOfNoc
26.10.2023As much as I love me some Blizzard games, there is no denying that they are way past their prime as a development studio and gaming icon. Almost ALL OG talent at Blizzard that gave them their "magic" are either LONG gone, or in "advisor" (half retired) roles.
I know CoD is a juggernaut, but with no exclusivity to it, is it wrong to think that MS paid a TON of money for developers way past their prime? Unless they are planning on resurrecting A LOT of dormant IPs that AV/Blizz owns, I really don't see how this 69 BILLION pays off anytime even remotely soon.
Kaoru Sugimura
26.10.2023I will never see the word "diverse" in a positive light again given its usage in destroying beloved franchises to push political narratives. So, hearing it Microsoft's announcement makes me wince at the thought of 'potentially' what's to come. :/
TheKaiju Complex
26.10.2023Xbox tryna rob us of our individual ownership yippeee
All Black Everything
26.10.2023I’m glad Spider-Man 2 is out and it’s incredible. Games meeting expectations this day and age are rare. Good games seem to be those that come out of no where and exceed expectations. Good to have a safe game to buy into.
zip2kx
26.10.2023remember when shillup said EA should just kill Battlefield and move on :p.
this is why you instead force companies to save products and not abandoned them.
Gellister
26.10.2023I think people underpredict how much of King means in the ABK/Xbox deal. King makes hyper successful mobile games which are basically money printing machines; high yield with low investment. I honestly think the IPs are the chief part of the deal but the fact King's mobile offerings and CoD create essentially a constant high revenue stream is likely what sealed the deal in terms of Xbox interests in acquiring ABK. Those two alone will likely make this acquisition long term profitable so long as they don't get nuked or otherwise messed up. This means Xbox's revenue numbers will look way better to shareholders in reports from Microsoft, which in turn will make Xbox as a brand look far more stable and capable to those shareholders. This could have positive implications for Xbox on a broader scope because if they have consistent quarter over quarter software revenue, shareholders will be less likely to be ravenous about having Xbox push undercooked games out the door.
Puuk_the_fetish_fly
26.10.2023E D F
SplitFoyer
26.10.2023EDF! EDF! EDF!
Anders Hass
26.10.2023It is only in the EU Microsoft got the streaming rights to Activision Blizzard King games
James Smith
24.10.2023Mr. Skill-up is wrong about the size of Best Buy. It's a tiny company compared to Walmart (around 30x's bigger) or Amazon (around 150x's bigger).
Z1pZ1p3r
24.10.2023With have Matt yes. But what about Brennan?
Anders Hass
24.10.2023Eh, it is not like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 cannot run on Series S. But with the lower power it can be tough to keep feature parity in regards to splitscreen and framerate. It will have to be really CPU demanding game to be a major issue but then it might still run, just at a really low framerate, lol.
Unless a game has to run at 480p on series X I dont see graphics being an issue either other than it might not be able to hit same framerates even with lower graphics and at worst the game looks horrible on series S because of the lower graphics settings.
I would suspect the next gen won’t have a low end console but a cheap streaming console instead.
Kazokadas
24.10.2023I don't know man. I'm playing Lords of the Fallen and it's a pretty damn good time, but it certainly has some frustrating elements. I'd put it above Lies of P.
John Snow
24.10.2023"Xbox wins big?" XD I'm not so sure that acquiering Activision Blizzard is a Win
Austin wright
24.10.2023Bro halo needs to be given to another developer because 343 has continued to fail repeatedly.
TeslaChad
24.10.2023That’s such a shame about no physical copy of Alan Wake 2. I wanna play it so freaking bad but I can’t justify spending $60 on something digitally. I was gonna pick it up the day it got a physical release but now I guess not 🙁
Tome
24.10.2023Dude I am f*cking hyped for that podcast episode! Bryan Intihar is the man.
TheLamppost444
24.10.2023Lamplighter's League launched at a rather high asking price for what it was in many people's eyes, and put an entire character behind a deluxe edition paywall. It's not surprising it didn't sell well. Which is unfortunate because it looked rather fun.
Earthslastlegend
24.10.2023Not Disney has no idea what they're doing period!
Organic Starship
23.10.2023I hope that WoW retail and Wow Classic are brought to Gamepass – Gamepass will be a breath of fresh air for WoW and will introduce thousands, if not millions, of new players into the game. Also, I want to play for a few hours without dropping $15… lol
ThisandThat
23.10.2023As much as we hate Bobby K. The guy won.
Campfiresong
23.10.2023EDF!!!
Gregory James
23.10.2023I honestly really like Lords of the Fallen. The combat looks meh but feels really good. The world is closest to DS1. Not perfect and has performance issues but as a souls vet I think it does compare to some of the best souls likes.. if you are interested try it for yourself
Christopher
23.10.2023Calls 74 “fair” and 75 “strong”. Alright buddy. Carry on with the nonsense. A “strong” critics’ score would be 85+ as they generally over score games.
Matt Johnston
23.10.2023why are gamers so obsessed with having physical copies of games? They’re getting phased out. it’s fine. games are easier to buy and access. And future backwards compatibility tech is looking great. Stop trying to make early 2000 disk drive tech happen!
Road to Dawn
23.10.2023I’m just saying, I’ve never seen Mario and Spider-Man in the same room together.
Lordfiend
23.10.2023Lords of fallen has improved quite a bit since release. I am not seeing any perf issues at this point. However there are som janky bugs here and there, hope they fix those over time. Other than that, I ended up liking the first half a bit more than Lies of P. The exploration was a lot of fun, whereas Lies of P felt very linear.
Inyoure LilSistersass
23.10.2023Phill spencer is the worst thing that happened to xbox all we've gotten is mediocre games im a series x owner by the way
Inyoure LilSistersass
23.10.2023I still havent seen a game that comes close to how good it feels to shoot in max pain 3 everything about the slowy cam kills just feels outta this world crazy that.. games from like 2012/2013
DannyJoe08
20.10.2023You have the absolute worst taste in games bro.
DannyJoe08
20.10.2023Mercer isn't even a good a good voice actor.
Justin Davis
20.10.2023Dude, Metal Gear Solid 2 is my favorite. A mind blowing game if you go in blind
R S
20.10.2023It's really hard hearing you swoon like an anime girl any time you bring up Phil Spencer, the guy that is so greedy he bought off the devil(BK), the whole thing is a tragedy for gaming and it will only be bad for gamers, and honestly it's fucked that you frame it as anything else
Adam West
20.10.2023Alan Wake 2 was my most anticipated game of the year but when I learned the Full game costs $80 had no disc, I refuse to buy it. I will literally wait years to see if it comes out on disc or the cost is less than 40$. It’s part of the Control universe, I have to eventually get it.
Void6
20.10.2023The Triple A industry is looking like late stage capitalism alright. Big companies acquiring other big companies spending billions of dollars, CEOs getting massive bonuses or parachute payments when they fuck up and get fired. Developers getting fired left and right as sub par, overpayed management cuts losses to everything but themselves.
While the consumer, with nothing to show for any of this stuff, except more predatory microtransactions, bumps on service fees and shitty dissapointing games keep buying into them because we love to numb ourselves and say "everything is fucked anyway".
Thank god we have a few players in the market still bringing us some gems and of course, the indie scene always pulling us in with accesible, affordable bangers.
Thanks for covering all of this guys, love the channel!
The Phenix
20.10.2023Physical media would have disappeared years ago and if it wasn't for control, data collection and other scammy business it would have for environmental reasons alone. Unfortunately it's still an act of self-defense to own stuff. Fair business is key to progress.
Lucifer
20.10.2023" people " that are actually hyped for any " new " nintendo game, is delusional and probably just a kid that doesn't know any better.
Ryan Frappier
20.10.2023In other news, Rocket League is getting rid of player to player trading in December while immediately proceeding to promote new premium content
Skill Up
20.10.2023Australians, try GeForce Now for free at this link: https://bit.ly/GeForceNOW5, or sign up to the new Ultra Membership for RTX 3080 servers supporting 4k/60FPS, ray tracing and more. Thanks to GeForce Now Powered by CloudGG for sponsoring the video.