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AOM Retold is out soon so get back on it people!

Half hour of leaked gameplay (re-upped)

Basically they will make a 'really good lasting mouse and give you free updates'. That's literally every mouse that's ever existed🤣

Seems Logitech are exploring making a 'forever mouse' which will have a subscription. Trying to turn peripherals into services is so needlessly stupid, I really hope it doesn't take off in any capacity. It's bad enough seeing people hilariously being unable to open fridges during the recent Microsoft outage because they required an internet connection to a cloud service but producing a quality product that is lasting under the guise of a subscription is another stupid cash grab. I get they want to make cheaper products so people will have to replace them more frequently now but they'd be far better off just making more premium and higher quality ones instead of going down a subscription route. My Logitech mouse has actually lasted years and whilst that's great for me, it's bad for them but that's how it should be. Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Could a mouse ever be timeless?

First one was excellent so this should be a great sequel

After almost two decades! Surprised it still was going on but it was a revolutionary platform for extra content, surprise game releases and low level microtransactions that were fun and original. Nowadays you're paying £30+ for cosmetic garbage and £110 'deluxe' editions. Xbox Fans Wave Goodbye to 360 Marketplace as Microsoft Shuts Down 19-Year-Old Storefront - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Xbox fans are waving goodbye to the Xbox 360 Marketplace, which shuts down today nearly 19 years after it launched.

I'd probably say Black Ops 1. I'd often get 32+ kills in TDM, went on a 50 game winning streak playing solo when I had horrendous flu, memorised every spawn imaginable and could read every match really well. It was a fun game to learn and couple of times I even manged 48 kills in TDM out of the 75 available. It feels like nothing now compared to what some gamers can achieve but back then I felt unstoppable on it.

Current build looks like a PS3 game in places

Out today finally! Can't be picked up free on GOG Fallout: London on GOG.com WWW.GOG.COM

I am giving that as an example - where users can pay up to $200 on the likes of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and not get a good return in titles for that value. The Pass has also been stale for about 8 months now and its growth has stalled once again. After a strong summer line up of games, they then put the price up with no real justification. Users are also being pushed into higher tier passes on all platforms as the likes of Microsoft deliberately make the the lower-end is so unattractive, it's hardly worth considering these days. Any fringe titles I am remotely interested in, I'd rather buy in the sale - at least the developers will get paid a proper cut rather than an install fee. Also having to pay to play online using external content services is absolutely insane in itself. £60 for a basic PSN is ridiculous. All platforms on PC are free to play online and that's how it should be for console. I actually think it's the other way around. If I were a developer who worked on a game for 3 years and found out that the publisher wanted it on a pass dwarfed by AAA games and a diminished install cut of the revenue, I'd feel really demoralised especially as the games 'success' could not be measured. The game could sell 1m copies at £10 a pop but instead the publisher accepted 75p an install rate and only 100,000 people played the game. Old established games don't really matter as it's just a tiny extra bit of revenue but when new in-house games go on and they bomb, then it's fatal and Microsoft already butchered 4 studios last year who's games were successful enough. Ones that don't perform in the future will just get culled especially if they are turning the Pass more premium with AAA games and slashing revenue potential for fringe titles. Developers who's games go onto such passes certainly aren't sitting comfortably and many wont have a chance to make another game after that if their already income-squeezed product doesn't get monumental traction.

Subscriptions are only good for short term value on consumable games but they are terrible in terms of ownership, plus the prices and tiers are so expensive and convoluted now, it's actually better to buy a game out right down the line in the sale. I get a headache just looking at the PS+/Now entitlement spreadsheet and the Microsoft Pass is becoming more unattractive by the month as they push people towards higher and more expensive tiers. You can spend £200 a year on a pass and ultimately not play £200's worth of games and come out of it at the end with nothing to show for it. I'd only say it's worth it if you wanted to jump into the likes of COD, play the campaign and hammer the MP for a month. Personally, I feel these passes are terrible for the industry anyway and shouldn't be encouraged. It's not even a successful model right now for mainline developers let alone third party ones and revenue cuts are only going to reduce further once Microsoft puts AAA games on their Game Pass. The average cut per install is about a dollar but if you have a pass with BO6 on it and 90% of people are playing that, then other games may be lucky to see 50 cents an install and that even goes for Microsoft's in-house developers who they've been throwing under the bus for years now. MS, Ubisoft and some others I think are trying to turn heads to ultimately revoke ownership and make things all digital, all streaming and all subscription. Fuck that.

Spain 2-1 England Very disappointing once again. Lucky to not be 3-0 down and when we do get back into the game, we sit back and let them get a later winner. I don’t know what it is about us gradually sitting back and inviting pressure but it happens every bloody time and costs us dear. Subs did well again but maybe Palmer and Watkins should’ve started as Kane get again just chased shadow largely and he was spent by 60. Don’t know why we have to fall behind before we start playing either. Best team won overall but Spain were there for the taking after we equalised and we were lucky to get to the final. Their run was significantly harder. Another monumental missed opportunity and despite another strong tournament; nothing to show for it apart from regret.

New hero shooter coming out next month on PS5 and PC. Looks a bit like Overwatch with the pace of Halo. Seems fairly polished but I think it's a bit too slow paced and I'm not sure if there is room for another new shooter IP limited to multiplayer. I'd probably give it a couple of months tops.

This only happened the other day but he actually fell off long before then with some other shocking incidents. Surprised he lasted as long as he did to be able to go on to fake cancer.

Another once-legendary YouTube OG turned degenerate scammer and pathological liar is Boogie - he was a humble creator back in the day with his Francis alter-ego and now he's just been caught lying about having cancer after trying to crypto scam his fans for fake medical bills. He's even too far despicable for Kick

Fantastic performance last night especially in the first half. Got the subs right once again. Penalty was a bit harsh but as soon as you lift your leg studs up then you risk drawing contact so it's a penalty based on that. One more big performance needed!

The Saboteur (2009)

Great DOCumentary

Better performance from England although we rode our luck a couple of times. Did well to get back into the game once again. Outstanding penalties under real pressure to seal the win!

Battlefield 1

Battlefield V

I can't believe England got through after delivering possibility their worst ever performance at a major tournament even more dire than Iceland 2016. I didn't even celebrate because it felt more embarrassing than anything. Southgate lives to fight another day but if it carries on like this he and England will come badly unstuck. Foden needs to be dropped seriously - has never had a good game for England ever and it has a terrible knock-on effect to the midfield and forwards. Great to see Palmer and Toney make some sort of impact but we should've been 2-0 down by then and should've conceded the most humiliating goal ever from the halfway line but got lucky once again.

In other words, 'we'll wait for the dust to settle before giving him a contract' Kick houses some of the biggest scumbags from scammers, public nuisances, convicted criminals, junkies and fraudsters so Doc is ideal for them. That platform pretty much picks up all the big names that have been banned on YouTube and Twitch and doesn't enforce what few safety terms they have in place. I agree if he does come back it'll have to be under a new persona and he'll probably just be himself as that Doc image is tainted and will be forever ridiculed.

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