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Oh, absolutely agree, it's very backwards. It's the same with how PlayStation took it away not too long ago, and likely for the same, kind of understandable reason, but now it's such a pain to share things from that platform. I wonder what the workaround is here? Especially with how important social media is for word of mouth on games these days; I've lost count of the number of times friends will come to me with Game X or Game Y (thankfully not the Pokémon games with those titles ) after seeing them on their feeds and asking if it's worth looking into. There's also just kind of something special about a feed being flooded with Zelda or BG3 or a surprise game like Balatro shortly after it's release, and I do think it's especially important for the indie scene that a platform to share footage of a game is easily accessible. Social media platforms besides Twitter, currently known as X, just don't seem suitable for throwing up clips and screenshots in such a haphazard way, nor are they as simple and reliable to share and embed, I find. Anyways, whatever the solution may be, I wonder if it's part of the general Switch and Switch 2 experience or if it's going to be bundled into NSO (or if they're just going to pull a PlayStation and do sod all)

SONOS have just rolled out one of the worst app updates I've ever been subject to – removing a number of key features and remixing the layout of their app, including removing the alarm function (which I use on a daily basis!) and volume control being a bit of a mess. Just...why?

Elon can get bent. Thanks for this, going to give it a test run later

And another hit to add to the seemingly neverending list: here's Matt Booty saying that Xbox needs more smaller games which give them prestige, just a day after Tango Gameworks shut up shop despite the immense success of a small, prestigious game going by the name of Hi-Fi Rush. Per The Verge: This just in, Tango's response in the form of a GIF: There's no question anymore, the heads of Xbox are certifiable idiots, right? Did they confuse Tango with someone else before signing the paperwork to shut up shop? Confuse Hi-Fi for Halo? What on Earth is happening over there?

La decimoquinta is so on. It's like watching Fergie Time but it doesn't matter who is in charge or who's playin, it's wild. A scattering of superstars but no crazy second bench like the likes of City, just experience and people ready to bleed for the badge and who knows how to manage the game late on. Vazquez's penalty last time out is a perfect example of this. Going to be a lot of pressure on Mbappé now no matter what happens, as if there wouldn't have been anyways. Tuchel did the smart, coaching thing to shut up shop with little time left. But you're against Real, and suddenly needing a goal, and Kane and Sane are off. Feel for him. Good luck to Dortmund. They're going to need it, because as much as I want to see Reus lift it in his final season with them, it's hard to see anyone but Real coming out on top. It's their sixth UCL final in eleven seasons for crying out loud, and they've won all five previous.

OH. MY. WORDDDDDDD. Who could've seen this coming? (me, I saw this coming ) So anyway...Kylian who?

Lol this is going to be a looooooooong 9 minutes for Bayern Very lucky that "fine wine" Joselu looked VERY marginally offside, but they're checking...

And there it is (again, for real this time)

Chalked off, and rightly so Nacho what were you thinking

Lol There it is

Screamer by Davies after Real were seemingly set to run rampant but couldn't stick it in the back of the net Bit over 20 minutes to go. Time for Real to score, I guess.

What a save by Neuer

UK prices are as follows: The digital edition of the game will be £24.99 (per the game's eShop page). The physical Deluxe Set will be £49.99 (per the generic email I just received from the My Nintendo Store asking me to register my interest):

VaatiVidya is release a 5½ - no, that is not a typo: FIVE AND A HALF - hour long lore video for Fires of Rubicon later this week: As someone who LOVED ACVI...GIVE IT TO MEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh I'm super in for this, have heard and read so much about this over the years but haven't ever looked into how to try it out myself! Link to register interest via the UK Store Deluxe Set looks great: But - as is par for the course with Ninty - nowhere near as nice as the Japanese equivalent from my POV, which includes a pair of Famicom Joy-Cons: (obligatory: Pyoro is never wrong)

Well freaking done Dortmund! What a team performance tonight from them, even if fortune clearly favoured them after the number of times PSG hit the woodwork tonight. Mbappe's last chance to bring the Champions League to PSG seemingly slipped through his fingers without having much of a say about it, but I think that was less down to him and much more down to the elite performance Dortmund put in. Would love to see Dortmund win it all this season. So, who's it going to be? A grudge match against their biggest domestic rivals and the team to knock them out at the death in the final at Wembley in 12/13, or a match against one of their former stars playing in the best club to grace the competition? Going to be fun to see how it all plays out looking forward to tomorrow night's match!

Dragon Quest's anniversary at the end of the month though, right? So it won't be too long until he's saying something about it

I just...wow. The crazy part for me is that it's been nearly a decade since this video and the landscape for Xbox hasn't much changed. I'm not sure why any developer at this moment in time would be willing to hand over their studio unless for a quick payday, because odds are increasingly low that that studio makes it particularly long. Don't mind me, just going to update the studio names in the Series X | S thread (someone should keep an eye on Schreier's original post too...)

Game Informer with the reputation scooooooop Sounds like they're going to be riffing off WB's Nemesis System to some extent, though obviously not to far because, well, those pigs patented a mechanic and should go to hell for it. This brings an end to their cover story coverage of the game, which included an interview weighing in at nearly 40 minutes long: I still need to check that one out myself!

Oh my word they've just announced a new controller variant: I know it's probably unfortunate timing but read the room Xbox COME ONNNNNN

This is genuinely disgusting stuff to see from Xbox. To @Dcubed's point, yep, Hi-Fi Rush was inarguably the most positive reception we saw for an Xbox published game last year and I'd go so far as to say their most original in years, too. Remember Mikami leaving last year? I wonder if this is a case of the overseer not being around and then shutting up shop because they saw value in the name more than anything else because of him. He might've also left seeing the writing on the cards, but I struggle to see that being the case - it's a huge assumption on my part, but Mikami seemed genuinely interested in pursuing and instilling confidence in future talent with Tango, so I'd be shocked if he left them in the lurch. I imagine he'd be seething right about now. Between Xbox and PlayStation that now means only PlayStation has a foothold left in Japan of the major console manufacturers besides Nintendo, right? Being Team Asobi (Astro Bot), Polyphony Digital and XDev? Shocking. I think that's totally warranted. The way they've marketed that game to me has been bonkers; I mean, here's your reminder that between announcement (TGAs in Dec 2019) and its planned release (May 2024) are 4½ years...we're talking a marketing cycle nearly as long as Final Fantasy VII Remake's for crying out loud (E3 2015 in June to April 2020), which was just shy of 5 years. Like, no pressure, guys. Nearly half a decade for a game which isn't going to be sizeable and at this point I've seen draw unfair comparisons to God of War is wild. While true, Xbox is well beyond the point of being a problem child for them at this point and with them seemingly transitioning into publishers over console manufacturers - regardless of what Phil said a few months back, we've since seen several releases on other platforms come and go, and I imagine many more are on the way - I imagine they're consolidating their gaming plans with surefire hits to shore up their roster of game on Game Pass. Which I'm sure all of us here and many gaming fans all over the world would agree is a terrible idea, but then, well, when was the last time they had - and executed on - a good one? Backwards compatibility and the adaptive controller are great initiatives but target such niche markets that it doesn't exactly move the needle for Xbox as a whole. Which is hilarious to me because of how poorly they handled the Fallout TV show's launch – I mean no game released in the last year or coming in the next six months to capitalise on its success, I mean, really? Fallout 4 has basically ridden that high in another game's absence, but has done so at a heavily discounted price. Speaks volumes about Xbox's poor planning, really. I've got a lot of strong opinions about The Last of Us Part I Remake, but given the show's success some six months after launch and that game and Part II both getting noticeable bumps in sales figures as a result, it made perfect sense.

I know it's been posted in the Developer Massacre thread, but for posterity's sake given how it reshapes a pretty decent chunk of their Zenimax acquisition: Arkane Austin, Tagon Game works, Alpha Dog Games (not Studios) and Roundhouse Studios (not Games; they'll be merging with Zenimax Online Studios) are being shut down by Xbox. Shocking.

And if we want to push it even further, we technically had the implication of an announcement of this announcement of an announcement back in February during the Q3 earnings report Just saying Yeah, I've mentioned the same thing before, so I'm glad someone else is thinking along the same lines. They totally could copy the Switch's answer sheet and give us an October reveal trailer, January presentation, etc., but that comes with the risk of scuppering the legs on the original Switch this Christmas. Now, you could lessen that blow with steep price drops if you really wanted to (if there was ever a time to do it, I think it'd be this Christmas), but I just think it could muddy the waters too much for a casual consumer. I've said it before but a reveal at The Game Awards in early December would be big but late enough in the holiday period that I don't think it would permeate the mainstream consciousness (especially if you don't start up with ads), heck, you could even just drop a teaser trailer there with a console silhouette and some game footage. January presentation after that to give us the full list of details like price, release date, launch lineup, etc., and release between March and May ~ I do genuinely think Nintendo could get away with an extremely lean 2-3 month marketing blast starting properly in Jan IF this thing is simply a Switch 2 and doesn't go too ham on the gimmicks, because it'd market itself, and wouldn't need the 6 months that the Switch had. You throw some second screen in there, some tectonic plate detection or some other wacky Nintendo nonsense and yeah, it'll need longer, for sure. I just find it a bit surprising that some feel that it's a foregone conclusion that they're copying the Switch rulebook here, especially with them only saying they will make an announcement within this fiscal year ending March 2025 – they're giving themselves all the wiggle room in the world to delay news as much as possible. It's Nintendo, the Kings of Left Field that we're talking about here. I mean, using Nintendo's own words in that tweet here – they don't consider this the announcement, but like others have said, rather, the announcement of an announcement [within the next 12 months]. For me, September is the absolute earliest that we learn anything, but the Switch reveal trailer released in October 2016 and so if anything a September reveal would be more aligned to the idea of it replacing a September Direct, and as we all know, predicting Directs and their replacements is a fool's errand. After Gamescom and before the last quarter kicks off makes it the earliest we'd get anything. October right now, I think, is where I'd place my money if we were going to assume that they're following the Switch rulebook of marketing and release. But, as has been said, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that they do follow that rulebook. They don't need 6 months from unveiling to release if this thing is simply "the successor to the Nintendo Switch" and so I wouldn't be surprised if that window was narrowed this time around.

Genuinely though, I think us qualifying for any European competition in our current state and management would be a death knell. A season without Europe where we can find our footing and some consistency would be much more beneficial to us in the long run than the cluster of games EL/ECL football provides.

Aye, that night and then running riot at West Ham yesterday. Bald fraud variant Jackson hits different. If we make Europe after this season we have to be in contention as one of the worst teams to do so in the last decade or two I feel, we've been absolutely horrendous and it's been horrible to watch how inconsistent and confused we seem to be on the pitch. I'd love a culling of the team this summer but that's not exactly possible when you've tied everyone down until they're pensioners, is it?