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This is an old but very fascinating video comparing the development style and ethos of Bungie working on the Halo games compared to the less experienced and more modern 343's approach. Well worth a watch and you can really see how the quality translates into the games just by how development is approached and the games are made

This has been on the cards for a long time sadly. By having a new COD every year, it's saturated the traditional deathmatch-type games and these just don't make the money Activision desire even with massive unit sales. The series has failed pathetically as an eSport but Warzone is raking in the money - literally well over $1bn a quarter on just cosmetic shite alone. Insane money really. COD mobile can also generate way more than its console version counterparts even being FREE which just shows what the gaming landscape has become from a business standpoint. Why bother selling 25m copies of a game when you can sell coloured guns and make even more money without spending a penny in the process? For me, COD has been dead since Black Ops 2 anyway so it's no big loss. I don't like the brand anymore and its filled with cancerous business practices and dickhead community members. It's barely recognisable to what it used to be. Things have actually gotten worse since supply drops which is crazy to think about. Warzone is laden with cheaters - some even notable streamers/content creators and Activision hasn't bothered about eradicating that problem until this week and even then it was a lame effort. Post launch support for these games now is shockingly bad especially with no season passes. Even zombies players have been well and truly fucked over. Even Treyarch don't give a fuck about the community now. Call of Duty is well and truly dead in its traditional sense. They'll milk the battle royale until 2025 and then I'm sure that will become unbearably saturated and something else will come to fruition. What's killed MP for me is SBMM along with fabricated factors impacting gameplay - it doesn't feel like a fair and genuine game. Old COD's had connection-based matchmaking and then lobby balancing and everything felt good. Now you can't trust anything and the sweaty mechanics just further kill the fun. There's just so many elements that have killed it for me and many veterans of the franchise. DICE have a big opportunity with Battlefield 6 so they'd better not fuck it up.

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Despite it's visuals and combat mechanics, it looks pretty intriguing, and the crafting along with building seems absolutely solid. May take a put on it!

Nice Phil! I'll try and have a look at that later. Love seeing modders do better jobs than real developers😅

This is so British

As it stands, Man City have done a 20 point swing on Tottenham in just 10 games. Spurs were 6 points clear of City and now they are 14 behind if the Chelsea result remains as it is. 70mins gone and Spurs have had two shots compared to Chelsea's 13 with just one on target. Didn't realise Jose parked the bus even when his team was losing..

Even Digital Foundry are covering it😂

Incredibly easy to get running and what a fine experience. Such a tragedy that this never made it to the market because of petty financial squabbles. If you press R1 on the controller, you can also have the classic visuals which is a nice touch. Not sure what happened with the Alec Trevelyan character model (maybe a placeholder) but everything else looks pretty spot on and nicely crafted.

GoldenEye 007 XBLA (unreleased)

Anfield is such a fortress, even Liverpool can't win there😎

Game has leaked online and can be ran through a 360 emulator 😎 GoldenEye Is Out! - The Xbox Live Arcade HD remake of GoldenEye 007 has been released online - James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond WWW.MI6-HQ.COM The Xbox Live Arcade HD remake of GoldenEye 007 has been released online

It’s amazing what modders can do

Considering there were only 4 games, it was a bloody entertaining night of football in the end. Arsenal were cruising and could've been 3-0 up but one mistake deep into first half injury time changed the game. Leno's red card was funny as he slapped the ball out for a thrown in whilst 30 yards off his line. Southampton will have no complaints with the red as it was a shocking challenge on top of them already missing 9 players and having only won 1 in 8 prior. WBA and Big Sam look like they are down and just when Newcastle think they've turned a corner they go and lose at home to Palace. Southampton losing 9-0 two years in a row is hilarious though!

Wish we got Bad Company 3 instead of 5 or Hardline! Battlefield 4 is my personal favourite however that was only after 18 months of post-launch bug fixing and support - the game was a mess at launch and it took a lot of work to get right. The end result with the game fixed, all the maps and the wealth of weapons was a truly amazing experience. Had it been that good on release, it may have shit Call of Duty up for the rest of the decade. Battlefield 5 was a mistake.

I think the one blessing with this being a remaster more than a remake is that BioWare can't screw it up spectacularly. There can't be many OG members of the studio still there, so the current batch working from the ground up on such a classic series would ring alarm bells.

Battlefield 6 Reveal Coming This Spring, Will Support More Players Than Ever - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM The next Battlefield game is coming in Holiday 2021. Anything less than a modern military shooter would be a tragedy. It has to be that and nothing else.

Man Utd 9-0 Southampton😂

Apparently the original is getting slightly more attention whereas 2 and 3 are just getting visual upgrades. Any excuse for EA to charge another £50! A few press have seen the game in action and the non-shills don't seem too impressed by it. I probably would've got the original if it was a £15 standalone.

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I hope one day it gets released as this would be a travesty. GoldenEye 007: Footage of Cancelled Xbox 360 Remaster Discovered - IGN WWW.IGN.COM A full playthrough and thirty minutes of multiplayer have surfaced for the cancelled Xbox Live Arcade remaster of the N64 classic GoldenEye 007.

I saw it on GamesplanetUK for £6.99 the other week but still didn't get it. If it goes that deep again then I may take the plunge. The original game was an absolute embarrassment but I hear they've overhauled many aspects since Crowbcat obliterated it. Still a huge step backwards form Wildlands by the sounds of it.

For me, it's probably the last traditional AC game and a good one at that. It was given away for free on PC a couple of years back so I grabbed it again after originally getting it for PS4. It's a bargain bin title now but still a great purchase. The game isn't bloated with generic quests like you get with Origins and Odyssey and the world isn't needlessly over-sized. There were no XP boosters back in those days either so the gameplay framework Ubisoft provide is much more satisfying and not designed around greed.

Yeah, he doesn't want his golf sessions ruined😂