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Very stylish trailer that oozes Dishonored, No One Lives Forever and James Bond. Made by Arkane and published by Bethesda so definitely one to watch:-

Glad they cancelled it - literally the BioWare team left are largely ones that didn't even make the game so it would be asking a lot of them to reboot it when not even the original experienced staff knew what they were doing. The game was essentially dead after a month anyway. Hard to believe this was in development for as long as Red Dead Redemption 2 but Anthem clearly had no concise identity of what it wanted to be - it probably started off as an RPG and then they chased a multitude of trends through development and what ultimately dropped was a half-baked concoction in what was then a saturated genre where better alternatives existed that were built as intended from the ground up. I hate EA but I don't think they were even the ones to blame here - they gave BioWare a lot of funding and a lot of time too but the devs just made a meal of it. They didn't even have anything other than a few ideas on paper after 2 years. The only thing the publishers were guilty of was not keeping a closer eye on the project. Nice to see EA get partly ridiculed thanks to their existing reputation though. BioWare should now focus on Dragon Age 4 solely and I hear that they are dropping all live service features (why the fuck would these be in the game anyway) and keeping it single player which is good. Another studio completely ruined by a failed game but this was so poor on many levels, it was inevitable. It's practically a new team now so let's see what they do with DA4.

If your budget is £800-1000 right now I would probably leave it for the time being. For around £1400 you will likely be able to land a high-end 1440p build that could easily support 4K when 3070's are back in stock. Where you are positioned right now, it's like having £250 at hand and then toying with buying a PS4 Slim when the PS5 is out but you can't quite afford that - it's just not viable or worth spending that money on especially for just a bit more you can get something that will keep you going for 5-7 years rather than getting something dated right off the bat. A £1000 1440p build could probably play most pre-2018 titles to a decent standard but you give yourself no scope moving forward and every new release will be a strain. Within 2 years you'll have to buy an entirely new device or downgrade to 1080p to maintain a satisfactory experience as upgrading would replace everything in the system. If you opt for 1080p, you'll need a new monitor as your current one will make things intolerably blurry so that would be a further cost. I'd definitely see if you can scrape together some extra funds over the course of the year and once the GPU's get restocked, the market should settle down.

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I see they're still drip-feeding scorestreaks that have been in the franchise for over a decade🤣 Just imagine when Black Ops 12 comes out and we have to wait until Season 3 before the main menu drops😎

I got given a PS5 for free last week as a belated Christmas present. Still haven’t taken it out the box - probably open it in 6 months to find its full of bricks and books😂

Yeah I mentioned that in the third post.

Looks good https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RipeThisAdouri-mobile.mp4

Napster - now that's a name I haven't heard in about 20 years😂 I suppose Metallica are seen as the OG's of DMCA's as that was probably the first notable lawsuit filed of this nature - prior to that it was burning discs and copying tapes pretty much! The performance went fine on YouTube so I wonder if this was one of Twitch's automated triggers where any music that isn't in a recommended free playlist is detected and censored. Either that or someone pulled the plug deliberately or with some nostalgic irony. You would've thought Activision Blizzard, Twitch and Metallica themselves would've possibly anticipated this or planned better. Definitely shows Twitch's no nonsense approach and why stremers are treading on eggshells. You can literally get DMCA'd if music is detected playing on a TV, outside or even via your ringtone - it's crazy! You have to stream in absolute silence pretty much.

..to avoid being copyright struck by Metallica!? Another absolute comedy shit show from Twitch🤣

Resurrected will cost £34.99/$39.99 https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo_ii_resurrected

Codemasters aren't quite as prominent as they used to be in the industry so this move may help in that respect whilst also taking the sting out of the cost of licences. These official racing games aren't cheap to produce so if they fail to sell well like a few of their recent games then it's a big problem. Hopefully EA will keep their money-grabbing mitts out of the gameplay by trying to monetize aspects of it and let the games run themselves as designed by the developers.

Liverpool's title defence is the worst ever and Klopp must be on thin ice. Cannot believe it really! They'll have to win the Champions League again else they may not even make the Europa League. Is that 4 defeats in a row at home too?

In contrast, here's some Diablo 4. Not gonna lie, I am more interested in Diablo 2 Does look decent though. Hopefully Blizzard can start salvaging their reputation.

They have made the obligation by allowing for all news media to be published unrestricted. Banning news rather than just not allowing monetisation would then put the onus on Australia to withdraw or continue as is. An outright ban the main issue here. Facebook could have left it until legislation hit and then Australia would've had to walk to comply with the laws they approved. To censor the whole country and put livelihoods at risk is an astonishing action motivated more by money and politics rather than ethics. It also contradicts the concept after they have been negotiating a news platform for months which has already been executed but just because Australia turned it into legally-binding legislation, it becomes a democracy grab where rules are different between countries even though the fundamentals are the same. It would be like Activision suddenly charging EU countries £249.99 to play Warzone because there was a draft legislation in Belgium that would put restrictions on in-game purchases by 2027 or YouTube suddenly taking 100% of revenue from content creators because they can as it's their platform. Or even Twitch suddenly wanting 100% of donations and ad revenue. Just completely unreasonable and if such frameworks are in place then this should be extended globally without punishing countries that want to protect people and companies against corporate greed or power grabs. Facebook should have put the ball in Australia's court because no matter how scummy, as you and Dave have said, they are under no obligation to pay for the content but once they start blocking content without a basis or through other media's that have no say then it opens up more ethical doors. Their obligation is to allow for news to be published as per their fair use policy and if Australian law wants to see shared income on 3rd party publications then they will have to find a platform willing to do so or remain contained within its own business.

Looks half decent to be fair which is impressive considering it’s built from the ground up as the original source code was unavailable. They’ve also got a good developer making it in Vicarious Visions as opposed to Blizzarrd doing it in-house. Bit more optimistic about it now

Hopefully this wont get the Warcraft 3 Reforged treatment but then again Blizzard cannot be trusted at all these days

The support for Gina is insane right now and the amount of pronouns having meltdowns on social media is pretty epic! Kathleen Kennedy got pooed on pretty bad yesterday too in this glorious dumpster fire Star Wars Fans Revolt: Oscars Remove Kathleen Kennedy YouTube Comments COSMICBOOK.NEWS There is a disturbance in The Force. Again.

😅The law being enforced must be from 1361

It sure is business but banning all news output from the country is an insane action to take and not even willing to negotiate because of potential legislation is a pretty tasteless move especially when the likes of the UK have successfully negotiated an balanced framework between all parties. I think it's a very unethical thing to do and goes against the alleged core values that Facebook has banded around over the years. Canada and the EU are also drawing up legislation that will fall in-line with Australia so it will be interesting to see what Facebook do when more is at stake especially if existing competition laws are stacked into consideration.

The problem is Facebook taking money for the free media. These news pages are in the hundreds of thousands each week globally and Facebook takes the whole share rather than publish the pages for free or offers a commission back. Several deals have already been struck with publications so this should also be the standard applied to other counties irrespective of a deal being set in stone. Facebook News launches in UK following deals with publishers | Media | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Stories from the Guardian, Daily Mail, Economist and more will appear in a dedicated feed

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Reusing as many assets as possible I imagine. It's the only reason I can think of as to why they wouldn't do something totally original from scratch. The studio has been in complete disarray for the last few years and was close to being disbanded so I think we'll get another Cold War situation where the game is rushed and things are recycled. They were working on a Vietnam game many years ago that never came to fruition so maybe they'll lean on that as their reasoning but I think it's a really lackluster move if the leaks are true.