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Oh go fuck yourselves Ubisoft! Tom Clancy must be turning in his grave seeing his name used in such a tacky and tasteless way. XDefiant is basically Ubisoft's answer to Call of Duty being a 6v6 deathmatch-based game. It's free to play and looks absolute trash. If this is a sign of things to come with Ubisoft's new 'Originals' strategy of free games then it'll be the death of them and good riddance. Their last F2P shooter Hyper Scape was dead after a couple of weeks and this will probably go the same way. Meanwhile the community are gagging for a new Splinter Cell and have been for over a decade now..

Newcastle fans have started already - they lost 1-0 to Conference North side York City with their first team in a friendly and already 'Bruce out' chants and relegation talk have begun😂

Chelsea with a full season under Tuchel will be very interesting - they were 2nd in the form table for the second half of the season since he took over bang on the midway point. I think City will win it but I think Liverpool may have a mediocre top 4 finish that possibly sees Klopp leave and the ageing squad split.

140,000 at Silverstone today and people being pinged so much that companies and critical local services are being forced to shut down because they don't have the staff to operate. Oh well, at least people got to watch noisy cars whiz past them in the unbearable heat after paying £385... It's amazing how sports have suddenly become immune to Covid yet if I walk past someone who was recently in contact with someone who suspected to have covid, I have to stay insidee for 10 days.

What an embarrassment PM and chancellor U-turn: They now say they will isolate after uproar over 'stupid' plan to avoid staying home NEWS.SKY.COM Downing Street had said Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak will be taking in a pilot scheme whereby they will be tested daily and so do not have to quarantine - but that plan has now been scrapped. Basically Johnson and Sunak tried to get out of mandatory Isolation by creating this seemingly overnight 'pilot scheme' where they didn't have to isolate for 10 days because of regular internal testing yet the normal public have to isolate for 10 days no matter what. Another example of one rule for them as and when they please and another for everyone else. Third wave peak expected in late August and there doesn't exactly seem to be much fanfare regarding freedom day tomorrow or any concrete information regarding that either. They are basically just making up shit as they go along whereas other countries are now making moves on bringing back some restrictions and curfews.

UK health secretary Sajid Javid tests positive for Covid-19 and has mild symptoms despite being double-jabbed. Hardly a good advert for ‘freedom day’ on Monday! You can’t make this shit up really!

Users who were eligible to place an order couldn't because it said they weren't allowed and when instructed to refresh the client, they could then place the reservation but it would then say they made too many purchase attempts and get kicked out😅 Valve's retail operations are so outdated and unreliable it's horrendous. They will sell out of the Deck so they wont care about these issues but they really should hire a proper distributor with a credible purchase framework because this in-house regime they have makes me so uneasy.

Game delayed until January 2022. This is definitely a tactical move because it would've got buried in the fall release window. This will also give them a bit more time to try and turn opinions but I can't see that happening.

Heads up, $5 Steam Deck reservations are now live on Steam | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM You don't want to be late to the party.

This one Dave Automobilista 2 on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Automobilista 2 once again puts you in the driving seat of an advanced and diverse racing simulator - now with incredible graphical quality, high-profile cars and tracks, advanced dynamic track condition...

A free PC client is in the works combining all the classic CODs and everything within in them. This has gathered some serious traction in recent months but it also puts itself at risk of being struck down by Activision but if they can pull it off and keep the publishers at arms length, we could literally have the perfect all-round Call of Duty experience possible. It basically mimics COD Online but has everything without microtransactions and a much better connection.

Yeah the old gen is basically stuck with 32v32 on watered-down maps. Although not much has been said, it seems like it'll be a hugely inferior experience.

Hard to believe this is just a game

After over a year away and the game being seemingly forgotten, it looks like it's gone through a major overhaul and will likely be free to play when it does fully release once more. Never played it back in the day and the devs got some flak for some bad decisions in which the player base evaporated but it looks like they've worked hard. It wont come close to Battlefield and it's extremely risky releasing months before BF2042 but it'll be interesting to see how it does.

You can install Windows on a Steam Deck and possibly other game storefronts too | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Unlike the Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck will be an open platform that lets you do whatever you want.

Basically a £349/$400 starting handheld gaming PC. 64-512gb models available with the highest capacity one £569 Valve announces Steam Deck handheld, starts at $400 | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The devices will ship in December 2021. Steam Deck WWW.STEAMDECK.COM Steam Deck is a powerful handheld gaming PC that delivers the Steam games and features you love.

Battlefield is one of the cleanest games out there especially on high-end and high capacity protected dedicated servers on PC. It's by far the most spectacular multiplayer experiences available. The only reason I wouldn't crossplay is due keyboard/mouse vs gamepad plus there are way too many cheaters on console now after Warzone and Apex running hardware cheats which could bypass any server-side AC's. Cheating could very well be a bigger problem on console now and there's no way it can be combated and most of the time it has gone unnoticed and undetected. The old PS4/XB1 gen cannot crossplay with the PS5/XBSX either.

This is pretty funny https://screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-cd-projekt-red-statistics-features/

Syberia 1+2 FREE on GOG Syberia I & II on GOG.com WWW.GOG.COM Syberia I & II is a pack of two award-winning classic adventure games that combine elabor

Firstly, congratulations for making it to 50 hours. I lasted barely 20 hours in Origins before it became absolute torture to play. This latest breed of AC games are basically way too big with the story spread thin across a huge landscape in which the map has to be bloated with mundane tasks for filler. Not only that, Ubisoft introduced RPG level-gating which meant players had to endure these side missions to be able to play the story....or pay them £10 for boosters where you didn't have to play parts of the game instead. The gameplay is also dumbed-down to the extremes with x-ray vision, no fall damage, being able to scale huge climbs in seconds and also really basic combat. Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are basically the same game with slightly different skins. The developers could've easily reduced the game by two thirds, removed any level gating or given the player a choice on XP scaling. There are so many users who are being alienated by this game design who would love to play it and experience DLC in the future but they are being held back by the exhausting and nauseating gameplay format. If Ubisoft scrapped boosters and scaled the games down then they would be much better experiences. The series is basically a live service and Ubisoft last week confirmed that this is how it will be going forward for all future AC titles so expect more of the same. It's a shame because AC2 and Black Flag were superb titles. The series is perfect for players who don't mind the same monotonous grind every day for two months straight but for me, the AC games have become some of the most painful out there and the devs don't seem to understand that bigger doesn't always mean better. Aside from any narrative, what you see in these games within the first 20 minutes is what you get throughout.