The title makes this sound like it’s going to be less common that they’ll be releasing games on PC, but in case anyone skips the article it’s actually in regards to PC-exclusive content

Totilo points out to Spencer that three of Microsoft’s nine releases in this period are PC-only (The War Within, Towerborne in early access, and Ara: History Untold), and asks whether this is a new norm for Microsoft.

“No,” says Spencer. “This is historical. There might always be some anomalies, but I look at those three as an anomaly. We want our games playable across as many screens as possible. We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want all the games playable across all of those. We want them to be Play Anywhere.”

Fair enough, I’m being overly pedantic

Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as “embrace, extend, and exterminate”, is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Microsoft sucks but the phrase doesn’t really apply to company acquisitions

From Bloomberg

“We definitely want to be in the market, and when we can find teams and technology and capability that add to what we’re trying to do in gaming at Microsoft, absolutely we will keep our heads up,” Spencer said. Still, there’s nothing “imminent” and very large deals are probably off the table at present as the company is spending a lot of time absorbing Activision Blizzard employees, he said.

I thought that seemed odd as well. Solid chance it’s AI

Archived version (skip sign-up wall): https://archive.is/dxL65

Thanks a lot! Just sent you a request.

Has anyone bought Arkham Shadow yet? If so I’d love a referral link (15% off for me, $2(?) for referrer)

Congrats! I’ve been stuck in Black Ops 6 lately, but I’ll need to get around to finishing the final draft soon. I look forward to reading your full thoughts then.

As a side note, there isn’t a community for Alan Wake and remedy games, is there? I feel like they have enough to discuss that it could merit one.

• no touchpads

and assuming it’s like their other handhelds…

• no back buttons
• runs windows

I really like how today’s commentary mirrors what you’re doing by starting the final draft. Deja-vu.

Congrats! I’m not at all surprised, but I’m glad you enjoyed it so much. Excellent game.

If you want a small break before playing The Final Draft, you could check out the DLC? It all takes place before/during AW2

What content would people like to see on this platform? I would think the fediverse audience would be a bit different from your average tiktok or instagram reels user

AW2 baby 🙌

This game is pretty demanding on steam deck, and I never got it to run in a way that was satisfying. If you have a more powerful PC, I’d try using moonlight to stream it instead

KDE Plasma

It was what came on the steam deck lol

Definitely toned down from Titanfall, but if you liked that game you’ll probably like Apex too!

I would say stress about the character selection too much, you’ll find characters that you enjoy more over time but abilities don’t overshadow good gunplay in the game.

A few small tips:

• heal your shields before your health (most of the time). Shield items are slightly faster to use than their HP equivalents but provide the same amount of healing (e.g. shield cell = 25shields ~2 seconds to use, health pack = 25hp ~3 seconds to use)
• when you kill an enemy and they drop their death box, you can loot their shield from the box to instantly recharge some or all of your shields. It can be really helpful even in the middle of a fight or if you know another squad is coming to third-party you
• don’t get too caught up looting, you’ll get good stuff a lot more quickly by taking out other teams who have already looted for you
• always be aware of where your squad mates are and make sure you’re close enough that you can get over and help them if need be

Best way to learn ofc is to just jump in and play some matches. Have fun!

I recommend giving Apex a shot. It has some really nice movement and gunplay.

Oh damn didn’t realize this was out. Thanks!

I’m guessing you’re referring to Vampire Survivors, which does have the Bullet Hell tag on Steam.

I agree that it’s not a traditional Bullet Hell, but there are also three other games listed in this post. Seems like OP is just excited, no need to be rude.

I have no problem with the in-game “jump scares”, but the popup ones were a bit much. I was glad when they added a setting to reduce the intensity of those, makes it much more tolerable.

Side note: I am playing through and loving the new Lake House DLC. Night Springs was fun, but this is the kind of continued AW2 experience I’ve been hoping for. A highlight was reaching the Floor -3 with