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Oh snap, I just realised that this would be a game breaking softlock if it happened! Since you absolutely need Falchion to kill Medeaus... I mean, it's not like Fire Emblem games aren't absolutely filled with potential game ending softlocks... ... but that's a REALLY easy (and pretty likely!) one to actually happen, come to think of it! Anyway! Congrats on completing your journey (You finished it quite a bit quicker than me in terms of turn count; yes most of that was bloody inventory management). Now Marth can enjoy necrophillia to his heart's content

Well, Nintendo did the Vans collection a little while back... Sony does what Nintendoes. As usual

Ahh, nice morning! God I was busy yesterday, let's see what I missed from yesterda... OH GOD! Ps "Moonshot" and "Unspeakable Games" are absolutely hilarious.

Well would you speak of the devil... https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sonic-kart-3dx-appears-to-have-been-discovered.40264/ Sonic Kart 3Dx has just resurfaced! Apparantly this person seems to have managed to archive every single Sonic Cafe title and looks like they might well be making them available to the public soon!

Uh oh... https://www.resetera.com/threads/epicgames-com-has-suffered-a-possible-data-breach-exposure-that-could-include-106353275-emails-password-and-usernames.421691/ Apparently Epic just had a huge data breach... thousands of emails and passwords exposed... Well this just aged like milk!

These sales are just monstrous!! I think the biggest shocker for me though is 51 Worldwide Classics. 3.41 million for that game is just bonkers! It actually managed to outsell the DS original! (Which did 2.62 million I believe). Absolutely nuts! Just goes to show that not everything has to be a AAA HD mega budget game to succeed on Switch. There is absolutely room for smaller scale titles and they can succeed in huge numbers

Well Minions are basically a huge ripoff of the Rabbids, so... yeah. It’s work really well.

So they've basically taken the Game Maker part of Labo VR, fleshed it out, and spun it off as its own game? Cool! Edit: USB mouse support!? Well that's a first for Nintendo! (Ok, not talking about Mario Paint/Artist here, smart arse!)

LOL!

Hmmm.... We'll see how long that plays out for until Gamepass reaches critical mass... Also this... Xbox made between $2.2 Billion in profit (unknown if gross or net) throughout 2019 (previously hidden info!). Tencent's numbers are fucking frightening though!!

2 minute+ loading times were not abnormal on PS4/Xbone & their mid-gen refreshes. PC was, of course, much better though; as is PS5/SeriesS|X.

Oh yeah, the current major media outlets are absolutely on life support right now. Youtube & Twitch have basically decimated the podcast, and long-form editorials & critique have basically been fully absorbed by the Youtube influencer culture. But this is how media always goes. First we had magazines, then they were killed by website media, now website media is being killed by Youtube & Twitch. The outlets that are able to adapt & re-invent themselves will survive, while the rest will inevitably get left behind in the dust. Take Eurogamer for example. Digital Foundry on Youtube is now FAR more popular than the website that it spawned from; hence why they're now starting to introduce the DF Direct video series. Ironically though, even the likes of IGN & Gamespot (despite being pioneers with video content; and currently sitting at a whopping 15.4 million and 4.61 million subscribers respectively!) are struggling to keep up with the new wave of Influencer material now. We might hate the clickbait, fake, attention seeking content that Influencers are putting out? But this is unfortunately what the market wants right now. Problem is that the Youtube/Twitch market is basically fully saturated now; it's basically a racket, where newcomers don't stand the smallest of chances now, and even mid-sized channels with 500k-1 million subscribers are struggling to stay relevant (and on top of that? You're at the mercy of Google/Amazon if you want to survive). Giant Bomb are, unfortunately, lucky to have survived for as long as they did. There just isn't room for you as a media outlet on Youtube/Twitch unless you're already operating above a certain subscriber threshold. Tough world.

With this being from Nike? The prices will probably match the PS5 as well when they get scalped. Perfect match!

Epic just released the Itch.io app on EGS last night... Yes, really. A store within a store; that they're not taking commissions from. Now I wonder why they would bother doing something so pointless and stup... ... oh.

You're even branching into the mobile junkware? You are doing God's work @Cube I salute you!

Ironically, this multi-store approach is apparantly what Nintendo were actually considering for the Wii U... until EA tried to pull a fast one on Nintendo and take over with Origin. You can still see the ramifications of this planned approach with the very few 3rd party retail games that actually got released for it (almost exclusively at the start of its life). All of Ubisoft's games utilise the U-Play store for their achievements and stuff; while EA's games all require an Origin login (Can't remember, but I think Activision also had some sort of similar login requirement & achievement tracking with COD Black Ops Wii U). 3rd parties were already inserting their own APIs and store hooks into their Wii U games. If Epic wins? We'll be getting the planned Wii U concept taken to its logical extreme.

Agreed... but there's no way would we EVER get any sort of officially sanctioned documentary from a company as secretive as Nintendo... (I mean, did you SEE the ridiculously redacted document in the Epic vs Apple thread!?) Closest we're ever getting to that is the Ask Iwata book (Speaking of which, not long to go until it actually gets released in Europe now; May 27th! )

You could just point out that the already existing Pokemon MD OVA is WAY better than anything that has come out of the regular anime series... Game. Set. Match.

More newly uploaded documents... (Tim Cook's response to Tim Sweeney in the second email document is hilarious)

Oh 100%! I LOVE playing bad games as a pallette cleanser! In fact, I recently just slogged through Perfect Dark Zero for this exact reason. Sometimes you're just really in the mood for some absolute, pure & undiluted shite! And it's true. It really does make you appreciate the great games that much more. It's the same thing with movies, sometimes you're just really in the mood for a crappy B-movie; but it makes you appreciate the good stuff all the more!

LOL! Certainly explains a lot about him and his company! Double LOL! Sick burn right there!

Think that's the first time we've gotten actual confirmation (rather than pure rumour) of Microsoft's plan to put X-Cloud out on Playstation 4/5 & Switch... Also shows that Microsoft dropping the XBL Gold requirement for F2P games has been in the works since at least August 2020 (Around 5 months before it was announced; meaning that it was NOT done in response to the backlash over the XBL Gold price hike!). This is also probably why Microsoft are dropping their revenue share on the Windows Store (and soon to be Xbox console store too) to 12% to match EGS. They're in on Epic's plan. All to get Xbox Gamepass/X-Cloud on Playstation & Nintendo platforms.

Paradox Interactive published Cities Skylines BTW; so this unannounced exclusive would likely be pretty major as far as PC games go (Probably Cities Skylines 2 I reckon). And yeah... EGS isn't about making money within any reasonable timeframe; it's about mindshare and console platform control. The real end goal is to wrestle control away from Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo and commandeer control of their console platforms.

Day 2 hearings have just started, and (thank God!) the audio is much better this time around. Off to a fun start!