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The last game was a huge disappointment and a rather needless sequel but this one looks much better.

Shocking result from Spurs and another hugely missed opportunity to close in on the teams above and apply pressure. This on top of a bad defeat in Europe during the week too. Rest your players to lose to a team near the bottom and lose is not very good at all. Full credit to Ipswich though - last time they won in the Premier League I think The Office was on TV in its first series🤣

I met Dane after the West Brom game and he seems a top bloke. Scored a crucial last minute equaliser! He's had a few loans here and there and really struggled to get going, but with us I think he'll really kick on and his goals against Derby and Swansea were also good finishes. He did well against Tuesday against Hull and started over Mark Harris once again but we have about 5 key midfielders out injured right now including Brannagan, Matty Phillips, Placheta, Dembele and Edwards so service is more limited than we hoped but he's really getting stuck in and making things happen. Hopefully he wont get recalled and will get to finish the season here.

The screenshot you've taken is from a Google keyword cookie-enhanced search which shows a Steam Community discussions entry based on your own browsing behaviour for a priority result. The actual original source which generated thousands of these discussions and results is the same one that provided the Concord information which were 100% correct and verified by the usual suspects like Schreier and co. It's also a pretty credible figure for a triple A game of this nature which has been in development since long before the pandemic so there's no reason not to believe it. Whether it costed $50m or $500m, the numbers are really low especially for such a massive brand. I couldn't care how much it sells though - the game and developers have totally alienated me along with many other longstanding fans with their shambolic out of place writing and obscene online conduct. Ultimately they need the Dragon Age IP to leech off of else they'll end up being another Forspoken, Unknown 9 and Dustborn. That's the sad thing these days - too many iconic brands are being infested by low quality writers who openly hate the people they are supposed to be catering for and in some cases have huge disregard for even the source material and aren't scared to announce it. The OG's left at BioWare who are responsible for the engine have done a superb job with Veilguard but that's all been undone by having such abysmal writers on board.

I played through GTA 4 again back in June and it's still excellent! I'd say it's aged better than Red Dead. Probably the best story in the entire GTA series with a level of seriousness and some tough decisions to make. Vehicle handling also felt pretty authentic and the missions are great fun! Gonna do the expansions sometime too - they add on another 30+ hours of content. GTA V was completely neglected and wasted in that respect.

Skyrim has sold over 60m copies and cost £45m to make. It will also have more players in January and throughout 2025 playing than Veilguard will most likely and it's the reason Bethesda existed for the following decade. A game that cost $250,000,000 needs a substantial population not just to make a profit but to remain sustainable especially in today's ruthless climate. I absolutely guarantee that in a few months we will hear that the game failed to meet expectations from EA despite having X amount of players and how it was BioWare's 'biggest' game in years blady blah. Hogwarts Legacy last year had almost 900,000 at peak concurrent and that's where this game could and should've been really. Black Myth achieved 2.4m and that's after the developers had several western left wing smear campaigns thrown at them on top of being blackmailed. Alan Wake 2 last year has been deemed a 'catastrophic failure' despite being an excellent game. It has failed to make a single penny profit even for Epic resulting in Remedy to secure an emergency loan from their minority shareholders in China just to remain in business for the next two years. Failures can happen for several reasons and the entry player counts for the biggest AAA game of the year is very light and that's because it was justifiably bashed on social media for its approach and the conduct of staff that worked on the game. When you alienate longstanding fans online and appeal exclusively to the modern audience then you're gonna get criticised and it will affect sales and wider interest.

I haven't played it but I've watched several hours of gameplay. I do like the mechanics and it seems fairly polished but the writing is absolutely pitiful and unforgivable. Player counts are also quite low especially considering how massive this brand is and the reach it has. Anything shy of 750,000 concurrent is poor and that barely achieved 10% of on launch. Not sure if it'll even break even at this rate. If the writing was better and it actually resembled a D&D fantasy with some degree of spirit and authenticity then it probably would be a solid game.

A potentially good game ruined with some of the most amateur, inappropriate and laughable writing ever witnessed. It will join Concord, Dustborn and Unknown 9 as catastrophic failures. The characters look like partial cartoons with shocking lip-sync and animations. The tone is just hideous for a game of this nature and I wish writers wouldn't insert their personal problems and squabbles from Twitter into the story as they think they are the star of the show. Reviews from the mainstream media are also suspicious as hell with several word-for-word sentences strategically inserted into their body of context.

Currently revisiting Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Some more Red Dead

Studio permanently shut down and there will be no relaunch Sony shuts down Concord developer Firewalk Studios, game will remain permanently offline WWW.EUROGAMER.NET Firewalk Studios, the Sony-owned developer behind ill-fated PlayStation shooter Concord, has been shut down... The most costliest fuck up in gaming history.

Yep, it's been a culmination of the board signing inappropriate players, wasting big money and not giving managers a chance. It all started with Moyes and over a decade later and it's the same old story. Some of these managers probably haven't even heard of half the signings made by the club and I think it was Ole that had to play players even if he didn't want them in his starting line-up. Jose once even had to ask a player what his name was at the training ground or something ridiculous.

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A year on and Fntastic are back and up to their usual shit The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM What an offer. Sadly a load of dumbasses will fall for it.

Still won more than Arteta😎

I just stick with the official pad received with the console. Some of these 'pro/elite' iterations which cost 2-3x the price of the already expensive standard ones actually have vastly inferior build quality too. The current DS5 is also probably the poorest official standard one to date. Not sure about the existing XBSX one but the previous standard Xbox Controllers have been remarkably reliable although the Elites have been iffy at best. There are some decent third party feature-laden pads but those cost about half the price of the consoles themselves. Most of that is down to the hefty licencing fees but peripherals tend to be an absolute goldmine. I still use an Xbox One pad on PC which I've had for 8 years now and it still functions flawlessly. The stick is so robust whereas Sony's feel far more fragile and also end up busting through minimal wear. Maybe if Sony put more effort into into that than their shitty touchpad then maybe they wouldn't have a graveyard of returns and warranties coming out of their ass.

Everyone should be getting the same audio output for the same product. If Activision want to embed enhanced audio from a third party then they should licence it themselves and absorb the cost for a game they are already charging £70 for and offer it to all. People are angry because it's another internal charge that can provide an advantage and Activision could further utilise this down the line by artificially degrading the standard output and forcing people to buy into this. Peripherals should be the only thing to dictate the end-quality of audio and as Activision have yet to get their house in order with the basic environmental sounds in any of these COD games with so many inconsistencies, so it just looks a ludicrous inclusion. If they want to offer this then it should be open to all advanced audio providers in the market and shouldn't be integrated exclusively, because all it looks like is an easy money grab for two money-grabbing companies. That would be like Activision saying you can only perform certain in-game movements if you have a SCUF controller.

The beginning of pay2win audio? Black Ops 6 Has An Option To Pay For Better Audio - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM For $20 you can unlock a personalized audio profile to use with Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. Total gimmick waste of money but I can see Activision taking advantage of this down the line.

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I'm pleased with the Tuchel appointment. It is rare you have a manager of this calibre at international level because most of the top ones are forever tied to clubs and that's where they usually want to be. This is definitely a huge name for a big role. Southgate did a fantastic job in his tenure and restored faith and belief in English football for the first time in well over a decade and this time we actually got close to achieving things. Sadly he just couldn't get us over the line and I think bad game management in both finals will forever haunt his opinion for many frustrated fans. I do think we had some fortunate routes through and were certainly lucky to get to the final this year but it's a results business and we did come incredibly close. Tuchel is proven and I think he will bring even more out of the players and be able to manage games far better.

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Anyone got any good retro recommendations they are currently playing, looking to play or have played recently? Anything that is easily accessible i.e available on PC or on the current consoles, would be ideal. I've recently finished Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for the first time since the late 90's and also the Smoking Mirror sequel which I never got around to playing back in the day. Two excellent games and they've recently released a remaster of sorts called Broken Sword Reforged which preserves the original game but upscales everything. It's £24.99 but as I had the original in my Steam library, I opted to just play that. I have also just started the OG Resident Evil trilogy from GOG and playing the second one first as it's practically 25 years since I last played it way back on the PS1 and it's my personal favourite of those games. Actually played the original, RE2, RE3 and Code Veronica all in 1999 and the difference from the 1996 original to CV on the Dreamcast at the time was absolutely insane! After those, I am tempted to finally get around to playing the Tomb Raider Remastered titles as they are incredibly faithful versions and currently 50% off on Steam. Had the original on PC around 1997 time and picked up Tomb Raider II for the PS1. They seem to be really solid ports so I'll have to definitely check them out. After all them, I will likely be gagging for an FPS title so instead of wasting £70 on Black Ops 6, I need to complete the Half Life trilogy by finishing Opposing Force for the first time in 25 years. I did Blue Shift last year but didn't have a chance to to this one.

Modernised N64 console with pre-orders going live this month with a cost of $250. Uses the OG cartridges but can play games in up to 4K with lots of display customisation available. Kinda makes me wish Nintendo released a mini N64 instead as that would've been a monumental success. This does look good though but I can't see me dusting off my collection and spending that sort of money. Analogue Fully Unveils Its Modernized N64 - Preorders Go Live October 21 - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM The Analogue 3D is 100% compatible with the entire N64 library of games and is designed to replicate the look of CRT TVs in 4K resolution.

I'm not really hyped for anything and I'll just take each half-decent release as it comes. Only GTA 6 truly stands out as a potential generation-defining title and whilst there is a few other ones that should be received well, there's nothing really ground-breaking. We are 4 years into this generation and there's not been much at all worth talking about - most of it has been negatives surrounding pricing, unfinished games, disappointing releases and a lack of any ambition. I really hope we see some top releases like we did towards the end of the PS4 era but right now, I am more happy about playing classics. Right now, Japan are the only ones delivering.

I don't think we should bother with the likes of COD or FIFA because those change annually plus the historic games in those series have already been played to death and likely aren't going to be revisited regardless of how iconic some of them were. The list should be 'must play' rather than some sort of GOAT one consisting of games people are all too familiar with. Also the games should be easily accessible so no fancy obscure shit from the Megadrive😎 I throw in 5 games worth checking out for starters:- 1. The Witcher III 2. Dark Souls (Remastered) 3. Mafia II 4. Metal Gear Solid 3 5. Resident Evil 4 (2005)