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PS+ Collection was a great entry incentive especially considering how convoluted and poor value PS+ has proved to be and it should remain or there be a base-level updated alternative. There are some brilliant games here especially to fill any voids but I'm guessing Sony don't want to pay up any more and some of these game services are somewhat dead in the water now and wouldn't be a viable showcase to Sony's current online services. Anyone that ain't got it yet, I'd grab them all ASAP because there's still a good amount of value here and offline content. Batman: Arkham Knight Battlefield 1 Bloodborne Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (Zombie Chronicles Edition) Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Days Gone Detroit: Become Human Fallout 4 Final Fantasy 15 God of War Infamous Second Son Monster Hunter World Mortal Kombat X Ratchet and Clank Resident Evil 7: Biohazard The Last Guardian The Last of Us Remastered Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Until Dawn

So if they are intending to release Museum and brand it a 'new' map as widely rumoured, this means there will be one 'new' map. It's apparently not Castle either. Warzone 2 meanwhile is getting an absolute boatload of content and improvements plus an entire new (small) map which looks half decent - not sure if it will be incorporated into DMZ though. Raven really pulling out all the stops so what the hell are IW doing with themselves!? https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2023/02/call-of-duty-warzone-2-0-ashika-island-resurgence-map-deep-dive

Jesus, what an absolute dumpsterfire of a situation! Streamer Atroic accidentally exposes himself live on stream paying for a membership of a site that specalises in deepfakes of fellow streamers and celebrities. Not only that, the victims are known to him personally including his best friend's girlfriend. Awkward AF. None of the victims were aware of this site and it has since ceased business. Atroic has since issued a rather cringeworthy apology on stream with his wife but the circumstances of how he ended up doing this aren't easy to believe especially with sites like Prawnhub not endorsing such material at all and this would further stretch to adverts. Seems he made a conscious decision to source and pay for such content. It definitely wouldn't be such a damning situation if it didn't involve his close friends behind his wife's back. Twitch streamer Atrioc gives tearful apology after paying for deepfakes of female streamers - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM Atrioc broke down in tears as he issued an apology for looking at deepfake content of female streamers including Pokimane and MayaHiga. It's quite scary how some of these deepfakes have advanced not just for this purpose plus there are also literally voice-perfect replication software. Combine the two and it can be a very dangerous thing. But in terms of Atroic, what a naughty boy!

10 minute 'gameplay' coming today apparently after another bizarre u-turn. Will probably be another scripted video with more bought assets from Unreal but it'll be interesting to see what they've concocted. So much for the trademark dispute too! Even if this is somehow genuine gameplay irrespective of quality, the way the developers have handled this entire charade has been the worst I have ever seen in entertainment media history.

That's a shocking thing to admit. Everyone and their grandma had Brian Lara Cricket in their PS1 library🤣 I even had two copies just in case I misplaced one.

Rather have that than watch bloody Spurs right now😎

I think most people thought it was a fake game at first especially when we saw no original gameplay footage for a very long period and the devs were silent for months upon months at a time. However it looks like they've done a very good job overall with a truly unique setting and not only that, this is a rare game that actually seems to represent the gameplay trailers we've seen previous.

Out in a couple of weeks and looks pretty interesting. Quite like the look of the mechanics with its mix of melee and gun plus the overall fluidity. The game is also reminiscent of many classics we used to get in the PS2/OG Xbox era. Way more appealing than these generic/safe titles that have come out in recent years with bland cover elements or The Division-type basic shooting.

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Can't blame them - the amount of work EA have allocated them is absolutely nuts. Pity every other EA studio is hot garbage. They are working on this, another couple of upcoming Star Wars titles and still supporting Apex Legends massively and trying to salvage Battlefield 2042. The first one was decent and this one should be equally good!

Anyone used these in the US before? They've really blown up on social media but mostly for the wrong reasons. They primarily specialise in the selling of retro consoles which they claim to have cleaned, restored and tested. However their prices are usually 3x what you'd pay on the likes of eBay and in many cases, the consoles have not been touched at all. The words 'ripoff' and 'scam' seem to be most associated with them and some of the goods they've even issued to content creators have been of abysmal standard. Some examples:- Yet what they put out on the likes of TikTok shows them dealing with each order with precise care and attention. Most of the time you can't even get a real controller with the machine either because they are selling those separately at an insane rate and then instead give you some crappy 3rd party one with your $400+ purchase.

No show for all the big names Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo give E3 the brush off | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Gaming's biggest publishers aren't coming back for E3's first in-person event since 2019. No doubt they'd rather run their own events which gives them a lot more control and they don't have to share the space with rivals. Pity because it was a nice tradition but hopefully this will see more independent devs and smaller publishers have the spotlight instead of the usual suspects paying for it.

If anything, it does bode well for the next title at least especially with fresh developers working on the game. So many stupid and unnecessary changes made in 2042 to start with along with the utterly lousy execution. It somewhat resembles a BF title now but still a bit to go before they can say job done. Need to go back to A to F singular sectors on new maps too IMO as opposed to C1/C2 etc.. After playing MW2, guns really look like they lack punch though even when compared to previous games and I'm not too keen on the engine currently but if they can start the next game where this is finishing then maybe there is some hope for the future.

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Ah good to know! The screen froze and then it shot to the end screen. Not sure what happened but I'll have another crack

I got to question 8 and then it crashed and I couldn't continue. I was doing crap anyway🤣

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Interesting info about how the ports were done and how they differ. It really is a travesty that the original XBLA version wasn't resurrected and used especially for the Xbox version as that was a gamechanger. I've still got that on my PC because it'll get lost in history otherwise.

Well there was Halo, Gears of War, Battlefield etc. Competition may be greater now but these games have a far greater reach globally and are more accessible plus the likes of Warzone can be played for free. Overwatch, PUBG, Halo are all dead in the water now so really COD should be back up there yet it's MP player counts are less than Goose Goose Duck. It's not like people aren't buying COD now - they still mostly achieve the same figures they did back then but when the population nosedives after a month and never recovers then it tells a big story no matter how much you seek answers elsewhere as a factor. Sony are fighting MS because the acquisition could severely damage Sony's system sales going forward especially if Microsoft are to lock all the games to their consoles now and til the end of time which they will. COD is also never consistently at the top of Steam - it's barely cracked the top 5 once in 7 years and currently sits in 11th based on current but even the peak wont see it get into 5th. So sales, engagement and popularity isn't the issue but a game losing this much players so soon especially when it was two years to run is a worry. A lack of content and ongoing strategy plus the game releasing in an unrefined state certainly are the biggest factors in these huge declines. The market is there, they have their captive audience yet they persistently blow it.

Well they certainly can’t hide from Steam’s tracked data (showing a decline of over 75%) plus Activision have so many open API’s running, it isn’t too hard to compile such information even if it has to come from a string of data compositions. IW and CI can brand it ‘not official’ but that doesn’t mean it’s not accurate, so at the risk of digging a hole for themselves, this is probably as far as their debunking will go rather than moving towards outright denials. Not the first time they’ve played the ‘this information didn’t come from us so it’s wrong’ card only to get embarrassed when it turns out to be correct😂

I had this back in the day and tempted to get the Royal version on either PS5 or PC. I didn't get a chance to finish it back then and I think I may be struggling to find the time to do it now even with it being a 100 hour+ game but the production value is just insane even though games like this aren't for everybody. Persona 3 just released on PC+consoles and unfortunately it's the Portable version in an ISO format which is a pretty surprising and poor move by the devs. It's missing a lot of the 3D gameplay and cutscenes plus the audio remains heavily compressed which shows the devs didn't do much at all on this version. Would've been better of porting FES via an ISO on an internal emulator or something.

This was taken on a regular Monday, one month after the First Strike map pack (Berlin Wall, Kowloon, Stadium and Discovery) was released. 2.9m online on just the Xbox 360 alone! Map packs really bolstered consistent retention plus with the games being finished, there was no need for them to go back to the drawing board and relentlessly balance or redo the interface. The focus was new content and maintaining the excellent foundation already in place. Although COD games were more fresh and original back in these days, even today, they still sell on the same levels yet every game after BO3 has been teetering on the brink after 3 months rather than holding a steady population or even growing.

Activision have supposedly revealed the exact worldwide current player counts for COD at an event in Spain covering all systems. Not sure why they’ve done this as they have done their utmost hardest to censor such information when possible for many years previous but it was captured by a few content creators and it does not look good. 184,000 playing core MP is remarkably low - you’d rarely see MW2 2009 slip below 275,000 even off-peak more than halfway through its existence and that’s just on the PS3 system alone. Xbox 360 would rarely sink below 350,000 at any given time even at the end of the games run. Considering how many copies were sold of MW2022, you’d anticipate at least 1m concurrent players across platforms for multiplayer. 424,000 for Warzone is about right and steady enough but definitely not the growth expected like Fortnite gets every chapter. Between 1 and 3m were playing Verdansk daily with over 100m accounts created. Considering the state of Warzone 2, that’s probably not as disastrous as it could’ve been but I reckon Actvision were likely targeting up to 3m online at peak per day based on hype and other games within the genre. COD Mobile figures I can’t really determine but looking at other titles, it’s probably less than expected. Although this is just one day at a time when content is dry, the 75% drop of players on PC has likely correlated similarly on consoles too and these figures back that up. I doubt there is a radical difference any other day of the week either. If you split it 70/70/40 between the systems, those numbers are really unsustainable and with two years to run on this game, I can see why there is concern. It’s not quite as tragic as Battlefield 2042 struggling to keep 12,500 players at a time but it’s disappointing all the same

It depends what your prior target objective is going in and how many runs you want to take in that session IMO. If I'm just experimenting or playing risky, I'll just go in with junk or even barebones especially if I intend to have another couple of cracks. That way you don't lose your weapon out of the gate and are then feeding on scraps for more major runs after or having to do dud runs just to accumulate gear. My tip is don't bother grinding too much close-season because it seems like they are doing the seasonal wipe format. CoD: Warzone 2 Will Wipe DMZ In Season 2, And Some Players Aren't Excited - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM A seasonal wipe is coming to DMZ mode, and not everyone is happy about it. Just grab persistent gear you can use elsewhere and then don't worry too much about grinding out everything else because it wont matter.