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Italy 0-1 North Macedonia🤣 It's mad that Italy have one just one World Cup game since 2006 and for the second time running they wont be in it. I didn't think they were that good even winning the Euros - relied on easy home games, were lucky to beat Austria after nearly going 2-0 down, got outplayed by Spain and had to rely on penalties and then England really let them off the hook in the final.

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I'm just waiting for the 'I BORT EVERY CAR IN THE GAEM AND NOW I WINE EVERY RACE' videos. Doesn't seem like GT has much of a corksocking shill culture though unlike the likes of Call of Duty but Polyphony Digital may have to look at getting some recognised content creators onside. If they really wanted to attach a further monetisation model on their $70 live service then they could've done it very differently. It's made worse by the fact the model they've chosen stinks of EA, 2K and Square Penix. They could've easily released car packs as DLC with new tracks for starters or simply exclusive standalone cards for between £1 and £5. Monetising credit just doesn't sit well with me and this is not what you'd expect from a Playstation exclusive.

I was going to pick up the game the other day for a low of £56 but I've been hearing some major controversies regarding microtranasctions and their predatory implementation. There was apparently an update that slashed prize money by 50% and a host of cars that not only cost 8x as much as they did in GT Sport, but they are timed offers and priced where users essentially have to pay real money and in many cases, have to make two or more transactions leaving a reserve because there isn't enough credits to buy a car outright i.e a car may cost 3.1m CR so you have to pay $20 for 2m CR and then make up the rest either with grinded funds banked or more payments. I also hear you cannot sell second hand cars which is absolutely ridiculous. Although it's mostly high-end vehicles affected, the whole point of Gran Turismo was to go on a journey to be able to buy such things with credits outright whilst not under constraints or having resort to real money purchases. The game is now getting review-bombed which is a shame and the media are angry because this framework wasn't in the review copies, nor was it ever mentioned until after launch. I also heard there was a major outage of around 30 hours the other day too which is bloody unacceptable really especially if offline options are limited. I'm really having second thoughts about picking this up now which is a shame because the driving element seems absolutely fantastic as does the visuals but if they are going to implement such crafty microtransactions on an unreliable live service then that is a personal concern that I just can't overlook and something unnecessary for a game of this nature.

Oxford 1-1 Ipswich today - two in-form sides with highest scorers against the clean sheet specialists. We shaded the first half but Ipswich dominated the second and probably deserved to win in the end. We were missing two key players at either end of the pitch which was really telling today but didn’t play well at all and were fortunate to get a late equaliser out of nothing. New Ipswich manager looks like he’s done a good job and if it doesn’t happen this season, I can see them doing well next year.

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Bundle has raised $6.3m in total which is amazing! Great package and fair play to the developers for making their games available DRM free for this.

Looks very impressive - some fabulous environments. Just hope the gameplay can hold up but it does look promising

I've never got these games which is a shame because the developer is based just up the road from me. This one looks pretty interesting

Tom Clancy's name has thankfully be dropped from the brand

Elden Ring sells 12m copies in 3 weeks! What was EA saying about single player games being dead again....?😅

If you couldn't stand this bellend before... Dr Disrespect is selling NFT beta access to his game that does not exist yet | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The initial round of 10,000 Founders Access Passes will sell for $50 each. What a return to game development where you essentially scam your fans. It's always the millionaires too because getting $10m a year isn't enough right?

Can't believe this is a game - looks like real life

I'm tempted to grab this game as some of the reviews have been very good. It's not a bad price either. I'm kinda looking for something new and refreshing and this may be it.

Paris St-Germain 3-0 Bordeaux: Home fans boo players despite win - BBC Sport WWW.BBC.CO.UK Paris St-Germain fans boo their players despite cruising to victory over Bordeaux in Ligue 1. This was pretty mad. Looks like Neymar, Messi and Mbappe will all depart in the summer. PSG really thought they'd be able to steamroll the Champions League after the biggest transfer window ever on paper but they are full of big egos and ageing players as well as carrying the bottlers tag in the competition. An overhaul is needed top to bottom down there and back to reality they go. No sympathy really with all their money and scummy fans who always go to visiting teams hotels and set off fire alarms, fireworks and play loud music through the night just to keep them awake.

I'll probably just grab it on the PS6 instead when that comes out😎

Jussie saves his worst acting performance for his sentencing🤣

This was an interesting saga that ended almost as soon as it begun - Artesian Builds is a fairly large and widely recognised custom PC building company with links to Intel and some of the biggest streamers. They ran a giveaway in which a small streamer won but they decided to go back on giving away the prize because the winner was deemed not big enough for advertising/exposure purposes that the competition would bring. This generated a massive backlash from customers, the community and even Intel themselves resulting in some spectacular negative publicity globally. The CEO who seems to be an absolute dick gave the most shambolic 'apology' and has since been placed under investigation for tax evasion. Not only this, the company has essentially suspended its operations and will likely collapse with around 50 employees affected. What an absolute shit show - refuse to give someone a PC worth $2,000 that they won legitimately because it wont give your company wider exposure and then have the organisation nuked a couple of weeks later whilst also drawing attention to some internal corruption on top which could lead to federal charges. How hard is it these days to not screw up so spectacularly!? Artesian Builds Shuts Down Indefinitely After Backlash From Twitch Streamers WWW.TECHTIMES.COM Artesian Builds has now shut down after intense backlash for criticizing a small-scale Twitch streamer's following.

This is absolutely hilarious - a few developers have been showing their bitterness at the success of Elden Ring including a Ubisoft one who specialises in user interfaces. Someone made a mock-up of the game as if it was made by them and this is the legendary result... This is absolutely savage and spot-on! Here is the original Tweets

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I did a few times simply because of BS moments rather than playing badly. I always love the difficulty that these games bring and I have never been left angry or frustrated by any of them aside from DS2 but Elden Ring has some really annoying occurrences that can screw the player unfairly. There's many instances particularly with big bosses where if they go into a major animation, you can't hit them and the hitbox proximity they have to execute such moves can be ridiculous. For example, one of the earlier bosses in his second phase has a grab attack and if its animation begins just as you are attacking at the same time then your hit(s) wont register and the AI is free to complete its grab move. In previous games, you can break grab moves and inflict poise damage in the process as a reward for tight engagements but in this game, you can't disrupt such moves because it's an animation that has to be completed. I've seen many content creators rage at things like this and the no-hit players are having to model their skill around avoiding the bullshit rather than mastering the movesets.