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What is this? An expansion? A standalone?

Hell yeah. Finally, some more Gears! Probably going to be a 2026 game, but it is what it is.

This looks really cool. A little James Bond (gadgets), a little Mirror’s Edge (1st person parkour), and then some classically wired Perfect Dark sci-fi-ish story. And it never hurts to be on Game Pass day one.

This didn’t even look like an Assassin’s Creed game when I first saw the trailer during the showcase today. That’s a good thing, btw. This almost feels like an actual fresh approach.

I’m a huge Halo fanboy and even I don’t need this.

What a shit measure. A key idea is to fail fast and fail often, as this leads to faster growth through more frequent (re)assessment.

SW companies only care about profit. If failure rate is 268% higher but profit is simultaneously 10% higher, then Agile is the better choice.

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FTFY

I really want to get back into this, but I fucking having to buy old, partially-sunset/vaulted to DLC packs on other to have full characters and locations.

I would buy Final Shape on day 1 if that purchase included all the old DLC packs. I need my stasis back, damn it.

I went the route of a physical collection, but man do they make it difficult unless you get a commercial player that is likely to have ads and doesn’t integrate well into a home theater setup.

What? Where are you seeing this issue?

I grabbed a Panasonic UHD player and it’s been a dream. Zero ads, HDMI control so I can use the same remote that works with my TV and receiver, it has full Atmos and Dolby Vision support so the quality is amazing… truly the whole package. And it’s available everywhere you’d expect.

For a median salary of $112k/yr. Just sayin’.

I’m pumped for this game but I will never pay $30 to beta test anything.

Wow, this is a really horrible graph. Ars has no clue how to visually convey information.

A boomerang is a short video that runs forwards, then backwards, then repeats. The post was already a boomerang, so you just needed to click share.

Sooooo… Ultraviolet?

This game will be $40 in 6 weeks and discounted to $25 during a summer sale.

Physical media FTW once again.

That said, I still feel bad for the people who got fucked over here. There are a lot of options Sony could have pursued in order to do right by their customers, but instead Sony chose to be shit bags about it.

Let this be a lesson to all those people who don’t want to go to the gym because they’re afraid people will look at them in a judgingly negative way. The reality is, no one at the gym looks at you at all. Everyone else is just there to get their shit done, flex a little bit, and go home.

Also, please don’t die at the gym because I really need to use those mats.

The absolute worst is when you want to go home and play video games, but you only have time to do the bare minimum chores required for continued existence and then sleep.

Man, I feel like this is just an awful time to buy a Switch. The games are still good and fun, but the console itself is getting pretty long in the teeth. It’s really due for a refresh or the more likely Switch 2 / successor console.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-quadra-vigilante-pre-order-bonus/9P2279PT21N0/0017