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The turnover of staff whilst this idea had lots of momentum hasn't helped and its lost its way. Game didn't have much identity, or wow factor. They can save Bungie by doing a U-turn and really redefining the Destiny roadmap. It still is a huge moneymaker and doesn't take much to bring people into the game. Marathon won't be for many casuals and that kills it immediately.

So I picked this game up about a year ago, and it's somewhat usurped Minecraft as my go to game when bored at work.
 
The basic premise is you are a convicted criminal thats exiled to a planet and you need to terraform it in order to survive.
 
You have to gather ore's in order to build drills, shelters, generators, food growers, etc...
 
Starting off you need to increase pressure, heat, and oxygen. This will in turn melt the ice that is everywhere and start the water cycle, from there you gather materials to start getting moss and grass to grow and spread. From there Tree's, eventually you hit insects and then animals.
 
The thing that I love about the game is that it runs in the background, and based on how many of each type of machine you have, you get a real time countdown to when the next planetary phase unlocks. The more machines the faster it is, the less machines, the slower. So I can fire it up, sit in my shelter, and work, but the game just runs along happily, and as long as I have food, water, and oxygen in my pack my convict jsut hangs out.
 
It was made by a small indie dev team, and it shows with some weird clipping when you get close to map edges, but other than that, its one of the best games I have played in the last year.
 
Latest update Trailer
 
 
Release Trailer
 
 
 
Its 23.99$ right now on steam, and honestly if any of you need a fun PC game, and like to build things, this will be your jam.

Still got 2 races to go yet possibly more if I book them.
My last race came 702nd out of 5300 so not to shabby.
Yeah been running in this heat which inmake sure I'm fully hydrated and have water with me.
Reached my 100km goal on the 22nd of this month so definitely been putting the miles in.
Definitely need to drag my self online soon and stop this running malarkey 😆 

Exactly what the game needed, a new engine. Siege is already a great game and esport so this only improves it. Going the CS:GO route was what should have happened years ago.

I've never played Project Zero 🙄. Maybe I'll try on an emulator or I just saw that there are some episodes on Steam, I just wishlisted them.

The medals are very hard to collect if you’re a casual gamer/don’t have a large Club. My brother and I have been playing a lot lately and are still yet to get any. We did however win a 2s tournament which I thought would give us something towards the club but it did not.

Rocket League have overhauled their club feature for the first time since launch and its well overdue I reckon. Some nice, cool additions to the area, including badges to obtain as a club now - all obtained just by playing in your club name with teammates.
 
A brand new stadium with new arena announcements was a nice surprise and well received.
 
Key Club Updates:
Club Career Stats will keep track of Club statistics earned over the course of the Club’s lifetime. Club Seasonal milestones will be tracked in the form of Club Medals, a new concept in Rocket League. Clubs accumulate Medals by making progress in three main categories: Goals, Saves, and Assists. Each one of these categories includes three Medal milestones in order of accomplishment: Prospect, Signature, and Premier. Reaching a milestone rewards a Club the associated Medal. This Medal is displayed in the Club profile, viewable in the Club menu and within Club matches (against any opponent, not just other Clubs).   
Medals will be shown publicly in the intro sequence of matches where all members of at least one team are in the same Club (these are called “Club matches”). If a Club receives the highest-tier Medal (Premier Medal) in all three stat categories, their Club profile icon will have a special look visible in intro sequences and the Club menu. While public Medals help Clubs show off their progress and prestige, they might deter Clubs who enjoy playing more non-competitively.  Club Owners and Managers will be able to toggle public Medals on or off within the Club Customization menu, to prevent their Medals from being shown in Club match intro sequences.  By default, Club Medals will be shown in the Club match intro sequence. Club Medals will always be viewable in the Club menu, regardless of toggle status. General Club Stats and Milestone Rules: Club milestones will reset every Season. This gives Clubs opportunities to improve Season over Season, as well as earn new Club Titles every Season. Once a Club earns a Medal, Club members will receive a notification that the Medal has been earned.  The Medal will immediately be shown on the Club profile. Additionally, members will receive a notification when the Club earns a Club Title. Stats towards Medal milestones are only recorded during matches with more than one player on each team, including Club matches. There are three earnable Club Titles based on Club Medal progression. New Titles are available per Season, and linked to the tier of the Medal (Prospect, Signature, Premier).   
Link to full Patch Notes:
 
Just a moment...
WWW.ROCKETLEAGUE.COM  
What do you think? Personally, it feels a good Quality of Life update to prompt you to play more games with friends. Resets every season, so depends on how hard these medals are to collect.
 

That might be the one 

Yeah...reminds of how clunky Project Zero came out as a release game on the 360 I believe and the horrible controls ruined it.

Love it. One on the watch list for me soon then. I'd mainly be buying it for the PvE operations but I'm sure taking a look at PvP is worth a few tries at the very least.

@Sennex I appreciate Gran Turismo 7 isn't really an open world racing game - however, it can be quite therapeutic to drive around a few different tracks just in time trial mode (so essentially free play) and mastering the turns, braking points, etc.
 
Elsewhere, you could arguably try Mafia 2? As plenty of time to do open world stuff. Just stick the limiter on and play in easy mode and cops aren't a concern.

Mafia 2 is actually a really good shout. Driving around, listening to the radio, and just soaking up the atmosphere is my favourite part of the Mafia series...and 2 does it best imo 

Rocket League have overhauled their club feature for the first time since launch and its well overdue I reckon. Some nice, cool additions to the area, including badges to obtain as a club now - all obtained just by playing in your club name with teammates.
 
A brand new stadium with new arena announcements was a nice surprise and well received.
 
Key Club Updates:
Club Career Stats will keep track of Club statistics earned over the course of the Club’s lifetime. Club Seasonal milestones will be tracked in the form of Club Medals, a new concept in Rocket League. Clubs accumulate Medals by making progress in three main categories: Goals, Saves, and Assists. Each one of these categories includes three Medal milestones in order of accomplishment: Prospect, Signature, and Premier. Reaching a milestone rewards a Club the associated Medal. This Medal is displayed in the Club profile, viewable in the Club menu and within Club matches (against any opponent, not just other Clubs).   
Medals will be shown publicly in the intro sequence of matches where all members of at least one team are in the same Club (these are called “Club matches”). If a Club receives the highest-tier Medal (Premier Medal) in all three stat categories, their Club profile icon will have a special look visible in intro sequences and the Club menu. While public Medals help Clubs show off their progress and prestige, they might deter Clubs who enjoy playing more non-competitively.  Club Owners and Managers will be able to toggle public Medals on or off within the Club Customization menu, to prevent their Medals from being shown in Club match intro sequences.  By default, Club Medals will be shown in the Club match intro sequence. Club Medals will always be viewable in the Club menu, regardless of toggle status. General Club Stats and Milestone Rules: Club milestones will reset every Season. This gives Clubs opportunities to improve Season over Season, as well as earn new Club Titles every Season. Once a Club earns a Medal, Club members will receive a notification that the Medal has been earned.  The Medal will immediately be shown on the Club profile. Additionally, members will receive a notification when the Club earns a Club Title. Stats towards Medal milestones are only recorded during matches with more than one player on each team, including Club matches. There are three earnable Club Titles based on Club Medal progression. New Titles are available per Season, and linked to the tier of the Medal (Prospect, Signature, Premier).   
Link to full Patch Notes:
 
Just a moment...
WWW.ROCKETLEAGUE.COM  
What do you think? Personally, it feels a good Quality of Life update to prompt you to play more games with friends. Resets every season, so depends on how hard these medals are to collect.
 

Releasing for consoles in August. 

Forza Horizon 4 or 5
 
You can do stuff if you choose, missions, challenges etc but you can also just cruise around. Both  are great games 🙂
 
4 is set in the UK and 5 is Mexico.
 
Think they're on PS5 now as of quite recently 

Are there any games where you can just drive around and not have to worry about missions, or police, or any thing else. Just explore cities and countrysides?
 
Every now and again I play Microsoft Flight Sim, and just being able to explore is pretty cool. I was hoping there was something like that but driving.

The game is due to officially launch later this year.
 
It's pretty much all I'm playing at the moment after a break to play Stalker 2 and Oblivion.
 
Latest patch has more improvements including a much needed rework of the audio.
 
 

Me too :/. I saw this dino crisis like but...it didn't attract me at the moment

I picked this up last weekend, and WOW is it good. The storytelling is actually really solid, and seriously creative. I need to do a deep dive on Creole mythology and cryptids. I don't want to give anything away, so this review will be short.
 
The color and animation in the game turned me off at first, but it soon grew on me, the controls are really tight, but tend to loosen the faster you move. Which is a good thing as there are a lot of wall running sections, and running away from larger enemies and spirits.
 
The enemies are creative but repetitive. Its okay for the most part because it makes sense that they would be. 
 
The main story, and the side stories were great, and really sad in most parts, which is also the point.
 
All that said, the game was short, it took me about 10 hours to beat. That being said I think the $30 - $40 price tag works well for it. If they tried to sell it for $60+ it wouldn't be worth it at all.
 
Or just get gamepass and play it for free
 
 
 

Premier League Winner, Nations League Champion, got married 5 days ago and now this. Absolute tragedy. 

I loaded a save where I still needed to investigate a few areas off "map". I am sitting there and just letting my population build. I am back up to 7 teams now, but I want 10 because of the swarms and animal life. 
 
Once I have that, and I have a few more walls and towers built, I will start messing with the objectives. Currently I have 2 rings of towers and walls, with 106 guards, but I want at least double that. I also need more cars!

Everything is researched that I can possible research, except a cure, and the Turning prevention. 

28 years later.
Went in with high hopes as loved the previous two first half pretty solid second half utter dog shit plus couldn't see the point of the Jimmy Saville wanna be at the end.

I still can't believe that was Danny Dyer!
 

It's amazing how these companies who continue to make massive profits manage to persuade people that this behaviour is normal.