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Demo arriving Jan 11th - it's a timed demo lasting 30 minutes https://www.gamespot.com/articles/resident-evil-2-remake-1-shot-demo-coming-soon-and/1100-6464244/

Newport 2-1 Leicester Great day of football upsets!

Man City 7-0 Rotherham Fulham 1-2 Oldham Sheff Utd 0-1 Barnet

Accrington 1-0 Ipswich. Looks like Accy avoided a cup upset then (sorry Dave!)

Tranmere 0-7 Tottenham. Spurs got lucky tonight - could easily have been 8-7.

Still looks pretty generic to me. Looks like a fuse of Destiny, Titanfall and Mass Effect Andromeda bundled into a live service. Probably wouldn't even bother if I got it free with Origin Access Premier. The Division 2 looks more tempting a month later and is already proven and established.

Yep, he sold his soul to Twitch so he has no choice but to do all that PR with them or via sponsorships. Other streamers were raging because his adverts for that event were appearing on their streams! He's another one that has nothing about them in the real world and it shows just like all these bent YouTuber's cashing in at any given opportunity.

This was insane https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/11598280/john-stones-makes-remarkable-goal-line-clearance-for-man-city-against-liverpool I think they should probably change the rules to say that if 75% of the ball has crossed it's a goal. 11mm is nuts!

I think more and more non e-celebs will join YouTube because it's guaranteed money for doing very little and Google will love it because it's what advertisers want to see. Will Smith did it last year and he managed to make a mint and get into the YouTube Rewind video for his 'efforts'! Shame all this comes at the expense of genuine independent honest creators but then again when the top earners on the site are all crooks, it don't surprise me!

The first guy belonged to Activision Blizzard and the other person was Blizzard. Wonder if there's a 3rd that works for Blizzvision?😎

Another one gone https://www.gamespot.com/articles/more-shakeup-at-activision-blizzard-as-blizzard-cf/1100-6464156/

Too late now IMO. This should've happened in the early 2010's like we saw with Frostbite. The dated technology has really held the franchise back as has the dated multiplayer format. BO4 was a big overhaul for the series but despite poaching all ideas from other hugely successful titles, they still manged to screw it up somehow. COD used to be the lead innovator and now its languishing. Activision have very little to fall back on with Destiny, Rockband and Tony Hawk as their key brands and with 3 major studios to fund; they need the income that COD delivers just to remain sustainable. They'd probably be better off selling the brand altogether and probably IW, SHG and 3arc with it. I can see someone buying COD but certainly not wanting the studios on top. Activision have taken it as far as they can and they are paying the ultimate price for their lack of investment and greed. I think they'll milk it until they kill it if they don't look to sell up. It's failed as an eSport, it's failing on Twitch even with Blackout, the sales are 'disappointing' and the only thing keeping it in the green is in-game purchases and even that's fading. Activision's lack of foresight and grasp of the market compared to Epic, Ubisoft and even scum like EA is truly shocking. They got so comfortable with supply drops and people buying COD and season passes every year that they didn't plan an exit or the possibility of a decline.

Already-millionaire YouTubers are now promoting an illegal gambling scam website with real life lootboxes. No surprise to see one of the Paul cunts involved - wouldn't be a new year without one of them fucking up. Last year we had YouTubers like Phil De Franco and Boogie28898 shilling for an online metal health program - funny how suddenly 50+ big YouTubers all got depressed and cured overnight by a digital clinic and now we have this scam pop up. Never ceases to amaze me the sheer greed of these fuckwits and the sheer disregard they have to their subscriber base. It's like CSGO Lotto 2.0. The latest:- It's amazing how the majority of big YouTubers are all just narcissistic sociopaths.

I've seen a handful of games at the Emirates over the years and it's a horrible experience. My first trip there was actually 10 years ago today with my mate to see them against Plymouth in the cup and the atmosphere was dead and we were surrounded by the prawn sandwich brigade. I went again a few months later to see them against Stoke in the Prem and it was even more quiet. I got whacked in the head with a handbag with some tart trying to locate her seat and if you remotely raised your voice, people looked round at you like you were talking too loud in a library! Ironically there's probably less legit home fans in there than there was squeezed into Highbury. A huge chunk is given away to sponsors and other community people whilst real fans get get tickets and when they do, they get ripped off. If Spurs don't price people out and can retain the classic Lane atmosphere, it will be amazing. However, even back at the old Lane tickets were bloody expensive - I paid £54 for a Bolton Ticket, £38 against Blackburn, £67 (i think) against Chelsea and Arsenal and £35 against Wigan and that was about a decade ago. Category C should be no more than £25-30, B £35-40 and A £45-50 but I bet the big games could be closer to £80-90. Wish ticket prices were capped for all teams but the more these prick players get paid, fans will continue to be paying close to £1 a minute.

They've been a solid developer for 20 years and Activision have ruined them in a matter of months. If they do re-surge, it'll be a brand new team, in a new country working in a completely new market most likely mobile. Wont be the same at all. It is incomprehensible that Activision would sacrifice all their long-serving developers and the likes of Diablo, Overwatch, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, HoS and Heartsone to make Chinese knock-off games loaded with microtransactions.

That money adds up tho - £50 game £40 season pass and then £1 here and £10 there. £40 more on face paint you can't see and then £500 on empty tiers just to unlock a 'RARE' costume. Soon you've spent £1000 on an annual title. COD is also the only game left with an old season pass format. Like BF5 and most other games, it should be scrapped to the community doesn't become split. That is the absolute post-xmas killer. Rainbow Six Siege done it right and that's still buzzing going into its 4 year and growing. Microtransactions have to be expected and the reason they aren't in games at launch is no review scores aren't impacted. Ironically they'd probably make more money if they didn't have microtranasctions and applied some business sense like Epic did with Fornite. They tried to do it both ways by having a full priced F2P business model plus a dated season pass element and then incorporate a battle pass format on top and all 3 revenue avenues failed. These microtransactions shouldn't been seen as 'crowdfunding' - the money goes straight to shareholders and Activisions stock value. It doesn't affect how the game is supported or what content is produced. They are billionaires and Treyarch are on the payroll regardless. The material gets produced whether the game is dead or its the best game ever. The game probably has a preset fixed budget regardless and any profits are straight into the pocket. The franchise performed better when MT's weren't even in the game and developers were on even 2 year cycles. If they truly cared about investing in the franchise, we would still be playing on games using an engine from 1998.

If you think about it also; the red dot reticle costs more than Warframe which is an entire game. That's how fucking stupid Call of Duty and this industry has become.

Resident Evil 2 Remastered and TLOU2 are the only ones currently on my list for this year. Last year was a terrible year for gaming but God of War and RDR2 really stood out as some of the best we've ever had. Dying to see more of Death Stranding though but otherwise there isn't much on the horizon. PS5 announcement in the summer though so that should be interesting.

The core game is fine but it has a limited presence on Twitch and most YouTuber's have long gone back to Fortnite. Microtransactions seem to have driven a huge amount away and the Black Ops pass content will drive another wedge. Then there was this released a couple of weeks ago COD games have struggled after Christmas since Ghosts. Even Blackout seems to be getting tiresome for many and that's because it had no forwarding strategy in place unlike Fortnite. The whole product is rushed and re-releasing old maps and then re-releasing them again with different weather or time of day isn't going to keep people on board doing the same things they've been doing for over a decade. If a COD is doing badly, they start hyping up the next one and monetizing the hell out of the current one before the shareholder payout - both boxes have been ticked so my guess is BO4 ain't doing all that good.

Looks to be pretty badly widely received https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46742057 Jimmy Carr as host was the big problem on the night as was no Charlotte big tits😎

Black Ops 4 bombing so badly they're having to hype the next COD already🤣 Ghosts was the beginning of the end and a terrible brand. There was more people still playing BO2 than on the 1st weekend that Ghosts was released and it was the game which made Activision start covering up player counts. after that. The maps were dreadful or simply far too big - Siege, Chasm, Stonehaven and Freefall remain some of the worst ever in the franchise plus things like the dog, IED's and other things just made it a horrible experience. I'd rather they left Modern Warfare alone too as I don't want that brand having its memory tarnished any more. I do think it'll probably be MW4 though and the 'leak' is more of a red-herring. A lot of the staff that worked on COD 4 and MW2 who left for Respawn have returned to the studio so it would be ideal if they jumped back into a brand in the series they knew rather than try and salvage something out of Ghosts. *Just read that Jason Schreier from Kotaku who has sources in the industry says it's not Ghosts 2 so that's a relief and logical. Franchise is a joke now though so no matter what they do, as soon as microtransactions are added, the game is done for and the honeymoon is over.

Steve Bruce to Sheff Wed is a great appointment. Looks like Leeds will bottle it as per usual😀

CFO been fired, users down 10% and growing, key development staff being paid to leave for cost-cutting purposes with only Diablo Immortal and Warcraft 3 Remastered on the horizon. Activision have basically killed the studio in a matter of months. Paying talented staff severance and allowing them to walk to save money suggests they want to satisfy shareholders with immediate effect and then the future of the studio will be a small team producing shitty mobile games of their classic brands. I can't see many of the long-serving staff wanting to work on mobile gaming either and with a severance package on the hip and plenty of external opportunities; it wouldn't surprise me if most walked and the studio was then moved exclusively to Asia. It'll probably be Overwatch Mobile and a Starcraft card game next. Way to kill a iconic studio.

It already has but thankfully just like lootboxes, this craze is drying up. In a quirk of fate, Activision's desperation in resorting to selling thin air ranks and red dot reticles is to mitigate people not spending as much on microtransactions last year. Activision, EA, Bethesda and 2K have all lost major value and these are companies that are reliant on annual shareholder injections to remain in growth. They wont exactly go bankrupt soon but it's a huge knock and reality check that they can't remain sustainable with just microtransactions and dying brands. Activision even admitted that because of lower income than expected from BO4 and Destiny 2 Forsaken, they'd basically monetize the fuck out of what they currently have and this sheer desperation and shame didn't go unnoticed from the community.

Pretty disappointing show in the end. Was great to see most of the cast return but the whole format was a bit of a shambles. The show was probably an hour too long, filled with cheap filler moments and the amount of cringe at times was painful to watch including the end segment where everyone looked embarrassed by it all. Dunno why they just didn't do a documentary without an audience format talking about how the show was made, what were the best moments and what's happened to all the cast since. I'd rather watch structured interviews than improvised cheesy rubbish.