Yes, I'm sure every developer will jump at the chance to develop something for a dying platform.

Nice try, NSA.

Suits me. I have a ton of movies and TV shows to catch up to.

So, business as usual for Bethesda.

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I'm too embarrassed to tell you. I'll give you a freebie, though: I bought Mega Man X7 for the PlayStation 2. Unironically. On purpose. Having enjoyed the previous Mega Man X games, I didn't think for a second it would be bad.

It was bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

Gee, wonder why.

Mat Piscatella, executive director of analysis firm Circana, said that monthly, non-mobile, video-game subscription spending in the US “has been flat to low single-digit growth” since the middle of 2021.

Good. Now that we've established that the subscription-based videogame market is pretty much saturated with very little potential for growth, can we please stop shoveling out all this live service crap? It didn't work for Bioware, it didn't work for Rocksteady Studios and it didn't work for Arkane Austin. Stop it.

Very nicely explained, I find myself in agreement with you. This makes a lot of sense and would explain their current behaviour. So, with this in mind, if I look at Microsoft's statement from the article, it now reads slightly differently. Before, it was just their statement verbatim: "we need games like Hi-Fi rush", but now it's "we need games like Hi-Fi Rush, but a hell of a lot cheaper". All because of GamePass. Dude, I am so sick of subscription services.

I'm frankly astounded by the sheer ineptitude on display here. I don't know what's happening at Microsoft, but whatever it is, it's insanity. How tone deaf can you be? And this is only days after the gamepad fiasco.

All that talk about how Xbox is investing in the Japanese market and then they close the one prominent Japanese studio that they own. The same one that, as the article points out, made Hi-Fi Rush which was "a break out hit". What the hell, Microsoft.

I like how the OP's name was censored for their privacy, but not the name of the person responding. Also, what the hell are these people huffing?

How about the Swiitch? You get the roman numeral 2 in there and the name's similar enough to the original Switch, so customers will be confused as to whether this is a new console or an iteration of the current one. Just like the Wii U!

So, it's an announcement for an announcement? We don't know anything about it, other than that it's in development.

Oh wow, Razer was selling masks? Seriously? That's wild, I must've missed that completely. What's even wilder is that a bunch of people apparently decided that their best option for respiratory filters is, of all things, a gaming company. And one with a shaky QC history at that.

And it couldn't have happened to a nicer website.

That... doesn't look easy. Or at least, I imagine this video would look intimidating to non-tech savvy users. I consider myself at least a little tech savvy and I'm like 80% sure I would forget to insert that transparent sheet thingy under the battery. I'm guessing it's insulation?

Anyway, what used to be the norm was pulling off the back cover and then remove the battery with your fingernail. No tools required. Now a vast majority of phones are glued together, all under the pretext of making the phone more thin.

What irks me is that companies still make removable batteries, but they are getting harder and harder to find. In fact, Samsung itself has XCover line of phones that have easily accessible batteries. How easy? This easy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7N60P51q4

(Actual battery removal at around 0:11)

It's going to be funny to watch their Pikachu face reaction when this decision chases off a good chunk of their users.

So glad this is gaining traction. I like playing older games from time to time and I am NOT down with capricious companies killing games just because they decided it doesn't make financial sense to patch out their DRM. The Crew was sold as a good, not a service. They should either patch out the online requirement or give users their money back.

I can imagine the prospect not being attractive to Ubisoft, but who cares about Ubisoft anyway.

On the contrary! I absolutely loathe how bloated webpages have become over the last few decades, so it's very refreshing and laudable to see a webpage that tries to keep itself as small as possible.