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  1. There's a lot of people across various social platforms saying this is the end of Xbox in the hardware sector, and that they are going full-on 3rd party.

    I don't see that happening, well at least not this generation anyway.  How many consoles have they sold, something like 23-24 million or so.  Gamepass subs, approx. 20 million.  It's near enough a sub per console, so abandoning hardware may tank Gamepass subs here.  Have heard rumours of a Gamepass refresh, with games possibly not coming to Gamepass Day 1 (well, at least not AAA titles).  

    2013 E3 wasn't a good year for Xbox, and 11 years later, they are still feeling the sting from that.  However, what they revealed then is how this generation (and future generations) are heading.  Gamepass is a sub service with no real ownership of titles, you need to be online now and again for Gamepass to check if you can play what you've downloaded.

    Best guess is next week, the rumours of some Xbox exclusives coming to other platforms is confirmed.  They confirm the Series X all digital is coming around summertime, and emphasis Gamepass is their forefront on Xbox platforms.  You can still purchase games, but only digitally going forward.  You only have to read various media outlets to find that places in America are clearing Xbox games from shelves, only a matter of time before what's left of GAME does the same (and maybe online stores such as ShopTo).  Xbox wants their games on as many platforms as they can, which is always a good thing.  They're stance will change, could go more the Surface route of "works best on our platform" and have 6 months to a year of exclusivity before games are considered for release on other platforms.

    If Xbox was to leave hardware and focus on being software and sub first, that would potentially allow Sony to go full throttle in this area.  They could do basically what they want (could charge £100 a game if they wanted) and that could be dangerous.


  2. Spoiler

    I stayed up to watch the event live for a change.  Women's Rumble was probably the better of the two, few returns and an impressive debut from Jade Cargill.  Followed her from her start in AEW, to becoming the longest reigning TBS Champion (and undefeated streak) to now featuring in WWE.  She's put in the work at the Performance Centre (she needed it tbf, see if she can cut a decent promo wherever she ends up).

    Was kind of hoping the Fatal Four way would mean the end to the Reigns title era, but i guess WWE are really pushing for him to go even longer.  Maybe he'll lose at Mania, maybe he'll retire as Champion.  Who knows.

    US title was kind of a throwaway match, but maybe Logan might go full-time.  Having two titles (WWE and US) on two part-time Superstars doesn't make sense.

    They have something golden with R-Truth here, especially with him mistaking the Women's Rumble for the Men's.  Then getting the "hot tag" in the Men's Rumble.

    With Cody winning the Men's, maybe this time he'll finish his story and win the big one.  No way WWE would have him win the Rumble back to back, and not win the title each time.  Wasted if that becomes reality.  Kind of disappointed he won, the announcers gave it away a bit by mentioning "Cody could be the first back to back winner in 26 years" over and over again.

     


  3. Started my 2024 off with a complete playthrough of Life is Strange Remastered and Before the Storm Remastered on Series X.  For remastered, boy there's some audio and visual jank with it (and a few bugs).  Had a few occasions where the audio would cut out (which included voices, not limited to music).  I did think it was my speakers, but pressing pause and the menu music played no problem.  Visual issues, think playing Assassin's Creed Syndicate on PS5 before they fixed things.

    But still, taking them out of the picture and there's the same games we love with a pretty solid and emotional story.

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  4. This leak was different, this one not only leaked out the next 10 years of Insomniac games but also leaked out personal information about their employees.  So for some journalism outlets not reporting on it, i respect it.  As Hero of Time said, people are just getting obsessed with leaks these days.  Look at the GTA VI leak a couple of weeks ago, people were desperate for information on the game.  People will look anywhere for information these days

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  5. I'll give WWE credit for keeping Punk coming back pretty quiet.  But looking at his recent AEW run, he caused a lot of issues with talent there.  To the point he had to have a separate show created just for him and those willing to work with him on his last run.

    There are certainly talent and backstage personnel not happy to see Punk back on the roster, we know Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre are two such talents who have issues with CM Punk, and no doubt there's plenty of others.  Will be interesting to see how things pan out over the weeks and months.  Hopefully WWE can keep Punk under control, i'm guessing he's on a "one last chance" kind of deal.

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  6. Superman 64.  I mean, i can't find a single thing that is good about this game.  Except one, which is the cartridge made a good stencil for something i was making at one point.

    Perfect Dark Zero.  Bought it pre-loved, still have yet to get off the 1st area/mission.  The original Perfect Dark took the GoldenEye formula and made it better, this felt like it was pulled through dog mess.


  7. 4 hours ago, V. Amoleo said:

    Is there a good reason to get this if I already have the second one?

    Not really.  As Ashley mentioned, the 1st and 2nd games are very similar.  Just the music between both is different, so you may as well dig into the 2nd.

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  8. 5 hours ago, EEVILMURRAY said:

    They're getting penalised and their response is to give more responsibility to those causing the issue?! Originally I just thought the company were telling them to go fuck themselves and teaching them a lesson, but if they're losing money from it, that's suicide.

    I just don't understand their logic at times.

    I just chuckle when i see things coming out about issues i've raised, but they deny it's happening until it is too late.  It's quite funny seeing management running around in a frizz, when if they acted upon issues earlier it would have been much better.


  9. On 01/08/2023 at 6:26 PM, Sheikah said:
    On 31/07/2023 at 9:08 AM, Jimbob said:
    We have this new policy on the team.
    "Screw up everything, get even more work to do.  Work well to a degree, get your work taken off you"
    It's happened on a element of a project i do.  Two others have not been doing their parts (at all or correctly), so i raised my concerns about it and asked if their part of it could be transferred over to me.  Resulted in those who screw up their part getting the whole lot.
    Great.

    You know as they say, snitches get stitches.

    That's true.

    Most of the screw-ups are happening on cases worth half a million in revenue, which in turn is costing us through fines and penalties for not completing on-time.


  10. We have this new policy on the team.

    "Screw up everything, get even more work to do.  Work well to a degree, get your work taken off you"

    It's happened on a element of a project i do.  Two others have not been doing their parts (at all or correctly), so i raised my concerns about it and asked if their part of it could be transferred over to me.  Resulted in those who screw up their part getting the whole lot.

    Great.

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