Game News Thread

Yippee! Smalland is finally out on Consoles! (With a 15% launch discount for PS+ / XbGold members!)

Now to see if later today we get some confirmation that Grounded is gonna make the jump to PS5… :smirk:

3PM EST for that Xbox Podcast Business Update!

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This looks even dumber than I expected but yeah they released shadow Pajamas for sonic superstars also despite the text saying otherwise it is also available for ps4

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So:

  • Four Xbox games going multiplatform, not named yet. Not Starfield, nor Indiana Jones. After one year exclusivity, and “community driven”. So basically to serve as envoy/ambassador if more appropriate for the brand
  • Diablo IV first Activision Blizzard game to arrive on Game Pass March 28, more to come
  • 2023 saw a lack of “grow”, which led to both lay-off and the new strategy
  • Hardware still part of the flagship strategy, more announcement at the end of the year
  • Reassurance toward anyone that have a library
  • 34 million game pass subscribers

Nothing big, seems to just be natural evolutions.
So another case study on how gaming discourse on social media is hilariously incompetent.

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I can’t tell if I should feel sorry for the people that watched that whole thing or be thankful I never watch these sorts of things also I hope one of those games is sea of thieves

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Interesting. I guess we can already assume the titles based on some of the rumors and reports that have come out in the past few weeks,

  • Hi-Fi Rush is a given, due to some file leaks
  • Pentiment is another “smaller, one year exclusive” title that a lot of people expect to go multiplatform
  • Sea of Thieves has been rumoured a LOT to be going multiplat, and it is community-driven definitely. (It may also be a move to cut into Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones release, if Xbox puts out their very successful, multi-year running pirate game on Playstation vs. The Looooong wait, little fanfare S&B)
  • and potentially Grounded? Im not so sure what the 4th would be, but I’ve heard it floated around and no one pulled back on those statements for that game…

EDIT: also lol, saw someone say “That could have been an email”
Yeah lol no reason to wait a whole week just to say “yeah we vaguely have 4 games coming, but not the big ones everyone says”

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Is it really competition when everyone and their mom lost interest awhile ago.

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Phil, may I at least have some fries with my big nothingburger?

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Definitely not, but I’d imagine even if Skull and Bones were to take 2% of the playerbase from Sea of Thieves, Microsoft would still love to cut in and try to keep that 2% no matter what.

Business gotta business or something fml
(At least that’s my view on a potential Sea of Thieves multiplatform.)

Ah, also, it was said by Phil that “the announcements will be left up to our publisher/developer partners” for whenever they’re ready to do that…
So, yeah, great, what a great marketing build-up to… almost nothing.

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No, Phil sacked the cafeteria workers to fund Bobby Kotick’s retirement party…

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Can’t wait to watch hollow knight fans cry again as they still don’t get news for silksong ( I am also a hollow knight fan


https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1759699512195461595

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Yaaaaay!

Hi-Fi Rush multiplatform announcement hopefully?? :kissing_closed_eyes:
I wasn’t so impressed by the 2020 Partner Showcases, hope this is a better turning point since we’re not under pandemic lockdowns

IDK what else could be there… maybe Level 5 has some Layton remaster collection? That’d be cool for the Switch.

Edit: 9am ET /6am PT by the way!

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they really need to port the rest of the layton games to mobile. i havent played them in over 10 years and the trilogy mobile ports are amazing

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Oh!

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“I hear management has been getting a shipment of knee pads in fancy that“ these might be my new favourite DRG armours February 28th can’t come sooner

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June 21st

Looks massive

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It seems Hi-Fi RUSH is coming to PS5!!!

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1760335033590489447

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YEEEESSSS 18th of MARCH!! CAN’T WAIT :tada: :tada:

I’m very surprised that it wasn’t revealed in the recent Nintendo Partner Showcase (though maybe that just means plans for it were really shut down/couldn’t work), since today revealed Grounded goes multiplatform in April and Pentiment comes out Tomorrow (Feb 22)
No word on Sea of Thieves though.


Also alongside the New Game Plus update for Spider-Man 2 next month, you’ll be able to support a charitable organization that shows low-income students behind-the-scenes looks at game development and teaches them various tools used in the business, with a 2-suit DLC designed by the organization Gameheads.
It will cost 4.99$ and 100% of proceeds bought in the USA will be donated to the org for the first financial quarter of this year…
It will eventually become free at a later vague date. Since I am in Canada, am uneligible for my proceeds to be donated, and honestly I don’t like the suits, I’ll wait until it’s free thank you

…Honestly the suits look overdesigned and WEIRD. Why are they wearing 80’s neon purple parachute pants??
I honeslty like the tease of the suit underneath the clothing, Miles with the lightning-type design and Peter too. But just… gosh ugh why…

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Those suits remind me of these from crash bandicoot 4 and that makes me like them even less

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HERE WE GO BABYYY WOOOOOO

Also there’s going to be Limited Run Physical Editions for Xbox and Playstation!

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