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I got the Amazon Fire HD 8 or summat. Does the job and great value from a decent company. Better than splashing out hundreds more on an Apple iPad.

Sunless Sea is free with PC Gamer magazine this month.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-blizzards-new-cfo-is-getting-awards-worth-dollar15-million-for-taking-the-job/ That's where our microtransaction money is going. Fuck the games - it's all about bonuses.

Jeez, they'll be streaming food next! I prefer having games owned physically or at least have the licence bound to an online account. Streaming is unreliable, expensive and pretty needless in all honesty. I get that companies want to be trendy and all that shit but streaming games in their entirety is stupid.

If Man Utd win today, they'll certainly be closing in on a Europa League place😎

LOL have they seriously not put leaderboards in yet? Having said that though, I remember Infinite Warfare's didn't get put in until very late January - the game was unfinished and missing some key features too. The leaderboards were also crafted to disguise the player counts by only showing top 10k players. Either Treyarch are being lazy or they don't know how to implement them without raising too many eyebrows.

Demo was great!

That's an incredible game. I don't like the Epic Store but they are really pumping out some great deals for gamers.

It will be interesting to see how Bungie do on their own although I suspect they may get snapped up by the Epic Store as I can't see them being sustainable long-term without substantial outsider backing. I'm surprised they managed to stump up the cash to be bought out - either Activision let them go cheap or they had external help. The fact Activision let them walk suggests Destiny 3 is shaping up badly or it wont make revenues to justify the development and upkeep costs and to keep shareholders happy. I loathe Activision but they aren't entirely to blame in this situation if at all. They funded Bungie for nearly a decade and gave them reasonable development time yet Bungie twice delivered undercooked products that needed substantial extra work which ultimately affected the quality of the next title. Destiny 2 was threadbare and only until Forsaken did it improve and by then, most players had departed and unwilling to pay £35 to buy themselves back in. 3 years and they still delivered a shell of a game. I can only assume that Destiny 3 was struggling which is why Activision called it a day. Bungie are definitely a shadow of their former selves. - Bungie by name but not by nature and very few staff that worked on Halo still represent the company. It's Infinity Ward 2.0 pretty much. They pissed off a lot of the community on so many occasions and Activision just took a backseat because for once, they were largely not to blame for the problems within these games. I wish Bungie well and hope they can salvage something of the glory days but they will certainly need to re-evaluate as a studio because lightning has struck twice with them now and they are largely to blame for the issues rather than the people backing them.

A Story About My Uncle is free on Humble Right now for a limited time https://www.humblebundle.com/store/a-story-about-my-uncle

Was inevitable really especially with the tension between the developer and publisher. Kinda mimics exactly what happened when left split from Microsoft a decade ago. Almost deja vu to a tee. Bungie are probably in a in a worse situation now that what they were back then and they are expected to make a new game (probably mobile) with NetEase’s $100m investment from last summer. Doesn’t leave much left for Activision aside from CoD and even that’s on the ropes. Not sure how viable Bungie will be as a standalone but I hope they make something fresh and original instead.

It's all about Artifact now baby yeah!

Valve received a blow today after Ubisoft withdrew The Division 2 from the Steam Store meaning Valve wont receive their 30% starting cut for every copy sold, and instead it will appear on the Epic Store instead for around 12%. Valve also missed out on big grossing games like Destiny 2 and Black Ops 4 which went went to Battlenet. EA also have long left the platform. https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/9/18174375/division-2-pc-epic-games-store-steam What's worse for Valve is that this comes soon after they ammeded their revenue tiers were amended to be more favourable towards developers and big earners https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks#announcements/detail/1697191267930157838 Does serve Valve right IMO - they got very comfortable sitting on 30% as the games wheeled in and now the store is a bloated mess and publishers finding better deals elsewhere on less cluttered storefronts, they are going to miss out on possibly $billions in the long run.

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/