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Sadly I can't see Sega ever making a comeback in mainstream console terms. The company just doesn't have anywhere near enough money required to even fulfil global hardware production and distribution let alone produce an array of new games. They've been acting as a publisher for way too long whilst the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have been capitalising on massive revenues along with research and development. If Sega were to throw together a machine, it would likely be off-the-shelf hardware and all a bit desperate. They are however looking to revive a few classic franchises so that's worth keeping an eye on. 
 
With Nintendo adopting a lot of bad modern day practices, I've kinda lost a lot of hope and things like DLC, subscriptions, live services and DRM is pretty much engrained in the industry. If Microsoft and Ubisoft keep pushing, the next generation of consoles could see us not even being able to buy or own games outright - it'll all be subscriptions and other bullshit. 

Some more of Bioshock

Episode 76 is LIVE!!!  E3 is dead but lasted longer than the day before.  We also talk about valve trolling cheaters, and our favs and not favs from 2023.
 
 

Episode 77 is LIVE!!!  It's our 2023 Dice to Pixels awards, and What were the favorites we played throughout the year.
 
  

Episode 78 is LIVE!!  What; 's in store for 2024, and some last-minute discussion on GoTY selections.
 
 

Triple post this week.  We've decided to do shorter episodes, and release a Wednesday show, so here's a bunch of new ones LIVE!!
 
 

I'm curious about this one.  I was never a fan of the Pokemon series, but I've watched some streamers play this, and Sarah has shown an interest in it.  Maybe I'll give it a go.  Maybe?  Hmm....

Just been released in early access and has garnered a significant 370,000 concurrent players. Released in early access on Steam at 10% off costing £22.49; it appears to be an open world multiplayer pokemon-style game. Could be the new Valheim 
 

Sadly I can't see Sega ever making a comeback in mainstream console terms. The company just doesn't have anywhere near enough money required to even fulfil global hardware production and distribution let alone produce an array of new games. They've been acting as a publisher for way too long whilst the likes of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have been capitalising on massive revenues along with research and development. If Sega were to throw together a machine, it would likely be off-the-shelf hardware and all a bit desperate. They are however looking to revive a few classic franchises so that's worth keeping an eye on. 
 
With Nintendo adopting a lot of bad modern day practices, I've kinda lost a lot of hope and things like DLC, subscriptions, live services and DRM is pretty much engrained in the industry. If Microsoft and Ubisoft keep pushing, the next generation of consoles could see us not even being able to buy or own games outright - it'll all be subscriptions and other bullshit. 

Opposing Force and Blue Shift are being remade with Valve's approval similarly to how Black Mesa was done.
Operation: Black Mesa on Steam
STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Experience the Half-Life™ expansion packs like never before. Operation: Black Mesa features reimaginings of both Half-Life™ Opposing Force and Half-Life™ Blue Shift through two unique campaigns. How will you...  

Thanks for the submissions so far! Quite interesting how different some of our scores are! 
 
Now that we’ve seen the Indiana Jones gameplay trailer, I’m pretty happy with my prediction! I think I have gone too high on Avowed though! 

Rather than choosing my favourite and most iconic classic, I'm gonna select ones that would benefit and warrant more of a remaster. I'll also avoid games where I wouldn't be confident in finding a developer that could do the original justice. 
 
I'd firstly say Command and Conquer: Generals. Shocked this hasn't been remastered or remade to a degree as it's a rare RTS that combines real world elements and is still immensely popular. EA gave us a solid remastering of the original and Red Alert almost 4 years ago but nothing since. Even a basic remaster with QoL changes and modern support would be huge and a massive win for the genre. 
 
Lastly I will choose Resident Evil Code Veronica. I am confident this will be announced soon and it's the next logical one in Capcom's largely successful reboots. CV was a great game back on the Dreamcast and a huge step up visually compared to the likes of RE2 on the PS1. It had some massive flaws but these could easily be rectified. 
 
Those two I would be very happy with and that's about it off the top of my head. Max Payne 1 & 2 are confirmed in development by Remedy now which is absolutely huge as the series is coming home to a developer who is getting better and better. I would've said that otherwise as long as Rockstar had no business in it but they are in the works it seems. 
 

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 60
Foamstars - 71
Helldivers 2 - 82
Skull and Bones - 56
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 84
Alone in the Dark - 69
Dragons Dogma 2 - 87
Princess Peach: Showtime - 86
Rise of the Ronin - 78
South Park: Snow Day - 80
Black Myth: Wukong - 87
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 73
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 81
Star Wars Outlaws - 89
Little Nightmares 3 - 84
Avowed - 78
Towerborne - 75
Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89
Indiana Jones - 73

Interesting that with all the financial fair play chat I see that Spurs are the only Premier league club where the wage bill is less than half of their revenue.

Ocarina of Time
Any decent PES from 20-25 years ago 
Timesplitters 2
GTA San Andreas (we're already pretty much getting Vice City, kind of) but SA is my personal favourite 
 

Starfield for certain 🤪

Rather than choosing my favourite and most iconic classic, I'm gonna select ones that would benefit and warrant more of a remaster. I'll also avoid games where I wouldn't be confident in finding a developer that could do the original justice. 
 
I'd firstly say Command and Conquer: Generals. Shocked this hasn't been remastered or remade to a degree as it's a rare RTS that combines real world elements and is still immensely popular. EA gave us a solid remastering of the original and Red Alert almost 4 years ago but nothing since. Even a basic remaster with QoL changes and modern support would be huge and a massive win for the genre. 
 
Lastly I will choose Resident Evil Code Veronica. I am confident this will be announced soon and it's the next logical one in Capcom's largely successful reboots. CV was a great game back on the Dreamcast and a huge step up visually compared to the likes of RE2 on the PS1. It had some massive flaws but these could easily be rectified. 
 
Those two I would be very happy with and that's about it off the top of my head. Max Payne 1 & 2 are confirmed in development by Remedy now which is absolutely huge as the series is coming home to a developer who is getting better and better. I would've said that otherwise as long as Rockstar had no business in it but they are in the works it seems. 
 

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 60
Foamstars - 71
Helldivers 2 - 82
Skull and Bones - 56
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 84
Alone in the Dark - 69
Dragons Dogma 2 - 87
Princess Peach: Showtime - 86
Rise of the Ronin - 78
South Park: Snow Day - 80
Black Myth: Wukong - 87
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 73
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 81
Star Wars Outlaws - 89
Little Nightmares 3 - 84
Avowed - 78
Towerborne - 75
Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89
Indiana Jones - 73

Rather than choosing my favourite and most iconic classic, I'm gonna select ones that would benefit and warrant more of a remaster. I'll also avoid games where I wouldn't be confident in finding a developer that could do the original justice. 
 
I'd firstly say Command and Conquer: Generals. Shocked this hasn't been remastered or remade to a degree as it's a rare RTS that combines real world elements and is still immensely popular. EA gave us a solid remastering of the original and Red Alert almost 4 years ago but nothing since. Even a basic remaster with QoL changes and modern support would be huge and a massive win for the genre. 
 
Lastly I will choose Resident Evil Code Veronica. I am confident this will be announced soon and it's the next logical one in Capcom's largely successful reboots. CV was a great game back on the Dreamcast and a huge step up visually compared to the likes of RE2 on the PS1. It had some massive flaws but these could easily be rectified. 
 
Those two I would be very happy with and that's about it off the top of my head. Max Payne 1 & 2 are confirmed in development by Remedy now which is absolutely huge as the series is coming home to a developer who is getting better and better. I would've said that otherwise as long as Rockstar had no business in it but they are in the works it seems. 
 

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 60
Foamstars - 71
Helldivers 2 - 82
Skull and Bones - 56
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 84
Alone in the Dark - 69
Dragons Dogma 2 - 87
Princess Peach: Showtime - 86
Rise of the Ronin - 78
South Park: Snow Day - 80
Black Myth: Wukong - 87
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 73
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 81
Star Wars Outlaws - 89
Little Nightmares 3 - 84
Avowed - 78
Towerborne - 75
Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89
Indiana Jones - 73

Made a thread about this last year but not much new information has come to light since.
It's nice that Embracer have decided not to hold all their IP's they bought off Square Enix under ransom but the interest in this seems quite dry and games like Uncharted have far surpassed in narrative and mechanics. You can also buy the original Tomb Raider trilogy in the Steam sales for £2.49 so this will probably be a hard sell and lots of users already emulate these via Duckstation. It really depends on how well the games are modernised without losing the original feel but I dunno if the OG mechanics will translate well. 

So, out of curiosity and with remakes and remasters being front and centre of most new releases. If you could have a true remake of any video game (and it has yet to be done) what would it be?
 
There are 2 for me, Final Fantasy IX (and there are rumours of this) and Skull Caps, the latter being a strategy game that I loved for a spell when I was younger. It was simple and great fun to play!

Here are my predictions! 
 
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 71
Foamstars - 81
Helldivers 2 - 77
Skull and Bones - 68
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 91
Alone in the Dark - 76
Dragons Dogma 2 - 83
Princess Peach: Showtime - 82
Rise of the Ronin - 83
South Park: Snow Day - 80
Black Myth: Wukong - 87
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 79
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 75
Star Wars Outlaws - 84
Little Nightmares 3 - 83
Avowed - 81
Towerborne - 83
Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 89
Indiana Jones - 85

This could be fun, I wonder if @GazzaGarratt could do this as a prediction league through the FG site as well?
 
I think mine would be -
 
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League - 64
Foamstars - 72
Helldivers 2 - 86 - I think this will be a surprise hit
Skull and Bones - 74
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 86 It will do well but I feel like the series is riding on it's highs of yesteryear still.
Alone in the Dark - 68
Dragons Dogma 2 - 84
Princess Peach: Showtime - 88 (Again it will do well cuz nintendo fanboys I think)
Rise of the Ronin - 78
South Park: Snow Day - 72
Black Myth: Wukong - 82
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl - 80
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - 75
Star Wars Outlaws - 90
Little Nightmares 3 - 80
Avowed - 78
Towerborne - 76
Hellblade 2: Senuas Saga - 88
Indiana Jones - 78