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The S.E.A.F. denies allegations of testing new equipment under live fire conditions.

@XenonKnight plus, Steam users can't be that miffed about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2; it currently sits at 76% positive in user reviews. If the Steam audience at large isn't happy with a game, you can be sure the user score will plummet. Case in point: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is currently at 20% positive.

@XenonKnight that's better 👍

@XenonKnight I love it. "The Steam forums are not happy"... but the link just goes to a thread where the only replies are from people clowning on "I'm voting with my wallet". 🤣 I'd have picked a better example, to be honest.

There's not enough salt in the world when it comes to Nick Baker (I'm not calling him that; it's stupid).

Black Myth: Wukong will win, provided China's cheque clears in time 😏

Put Doop in, you cowards.

@Dominator2885 *grammar.

@Tecinthebrain maybe they did, maybe they didn't. I did say probably, because I'm on the outside looking in. But the buck doesn't stop at GSG whatever the truth is.

@colonelkilgore then explain to me what you actually meant. Explain to me what subtle, clever and insightful subtext I'm not getting from your original comment.

@colonelkilgore no you didn't. GSG probably did the best they could with the time and resources they were given. Then they spent years fixing the game that Rockstar decided to put out when it wasn't ready and had their name removed from the game as thanks. Pinning the blame on GSG while proclaiming that Rockstar was "returning the favour" is one of the most idiotic things I've ever read.

Groan.

@colonelkilgore if Rockstar wasn't happy with Grove Street Games' work, they shouldn't have shipped it in the state it was in.

@Blauwe_Chimay a new Midtown Madness? Now you're speaking my language.

@Icey664 he's making a joke that he misunderstood the word "niggle" as "n****r". Not exactly comedy gold.

I mean, if any Sonic game legitimately needs a remake, it's Sonic '06.

I'm glad social media didn't exist in my formative teenage years. If it had, I probably wouldn't have made it this far.

@Lofty1985 come on now. I told you a few days ago: just scroll on by. Use your loaf.

Edit: oh no, wait! That was someone else who didn't understand the concept of not clicking on things. You people seem to be multiplying.

Cool. I haven't had a PlayStation for a good few years now and I've been catching up on Sony's first-party games as they've been coming to PC. Rift Apart, Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Sackboy, Ghost of Tsushima; they're all excellent. The only one I didn't like was God of War. Keep them coming at a steady pace - even if it's only one or two a year - and I think everyone's happy.

I thought that the main problem with Helldivers 2 requiring a PSN account was that, prior to the planned mandatory account linking, it was being sold in countries where you can't (without breaching Sony's terms of service) make a PSN account, which would've made the game unplayable in those countries.

@LiamCroft

Death Stranding: Director's Cut also launches today on PC and Amazon Luna via third-party publisher 505 Games.

Death Stranding and the director's cut have been on PC for a long time. It's even been on PC Game Pass.

@GeeForce but will it literally figuratively melt my face off?

Does anybody legitimately take any notice of user reviews on Metacritic? 99% of the people who post "scores" and "reviews" there are absolute melts who couldn't think objectively or critically if their lives depended on it.

Is that screenshot from the PS5 Pro enhanced version?

@Waitinonpsvr2 so many articles are about the PS5 Pro because it's coming out this week, so naturally there will be a lot of interest in it and Push Square is catering to that interest. As time goes on, you'll see fewer articles about it. I personally have no interest in getting a PS5 Pro (I'm on PC and Switch), but I still find it interesting to read about. And if I didn't find it interesting, I would just scroll on by. 🤷

It's PSSSR, Sony, and you know it.

@nomither6 January can't come quickly enough. I swear, as a gamer I wish my life away 🤣

@Matroska yeah, that confused me as well.

@Atreus97 playing Arkham Knight in 60fps is heaven.

Well thank God that Empire of Ants is PS5 Pro enhanced.

@zupertramp I know, what a moron 🙄🙄

@Frmknst Ok. I didn't know that. Sorry about that 🙄 Not sure how that contributes to remasters being useless though. I'm pretty sure faulty thermal paste and the existence of remasters aren't related in any way 🤷

The PS5 remaster definitely looks better, but man, Sony first-party devs were squeezing the PS4 for all it was worth towards the end. No wonder mine always sounded like a jet taking off.

What marketing expenses? 🤔

Herman's doing a lot of thanking and showing a lot of gratitude to a lot of people today. Just not enough gratitude to, y'know, keep them employed.

Also, side note: referring to Sony as "the Japanese giant" makes me cringe every time. It sounds like an 80s wrestler. IT'S THE JAPANESE GIANT WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!

They should port Helldivers 2 to Xbox. Not just because it's a live service game and therefore benefits from being in as many places as possible, but also just because it's a damn good game and more people should be able to play it. Like someone said above, if Xbox and PlayStation want to keep some exclusives to maintain a brand identity, cool, fill your boots, but games that're multiplayer focused and the people who play them surely benefit from being available across multiple formats?

Yooka-Laylee was kind of rough when it came out, but having replayed it fairly recently, Playtonic improved upon it leaps and bounds, although the further improvements mentioned in the article wouldn't go amiss. I'll be playing this.

@rusty82 The Impossible Lair was great, though I barely scraped through the end even with a full Bee-tallion 🤣

@IamJT yeah, I always got the impression that Killzone was never a sales juggernaut. Good games but if you have one series that does ~9m across 7 games and another that does ~30m across 2, it's clear why Sony had Guerilla focus on Horizon.

@Max_the_German it was technically impressive at the time, but it was my least favourite in the series. Not that I remember much about any of the games anymore, it was so long ago.

Look, I liked Killzone, but is it really the beloved IP these fans are making it out to be?

Oh Fntastic, you scamps. Please never change.

@PuppetMaster yeah, you're right. I suppose it does have to be addressed. If a game they made loses a few hundred million dollars, they can't just sweep that under the rug.

The big takeaway is it outsold Madden. Madden! IN 'MERICA!!!

@PuppetMaster you included Concord there as a joke, right?

@get2sammyb

Nixxes might actually be the best studio Sony acquired haha.

Having played the PC ports for Rift Apart, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man and Miles Morales in the last 18 months, I'm inclined to agree.

@JokerBoy322 get your eyes tested. I'm visually impaired and can see the difference 🤣

The DLC for the first game wasn't that good. I'd rather they concentrate on Wolverine and whatever other games they have in the works.

@Member_the_game yet they're releasing Sonic X Shadow Generations on the same day as Black Ops 6 🤣

Playing games on launch or 72 hours early doesn't interest me in the slightest anymore. At launch, games are expensive (although, adjusting for inflation, they're actually cheaper than they've ever been) and oftentimes buggy or unbalanced.

If you pre-order a game nowadays just so you can be part of the conversation, then you're paying through the nose for the privilege of being able to complain with everyone else about how borked the game is.

@Member_the_game I used to do my share of floor mopping in Tetris 99. Apologies if I ever ruined your day 🤣

Helldivers II is definitely my favourite game I've played this year (followed closely by Thank Goodness You're Here) and long may Super Earth's fight for freedom, liberty and managed democracy continue. My crew on the SES Elected Representative of Family Values is ready.

@Bionic-Spencer I would argue that combat in Sea of Thieves was never fun.

@Americansamurai1 if this new faction messes with the construction of our shiny new Democracy Space Station, we riot.

I enjoy Atlus games, but I enjoy Atlus games when they're finished; re-released 18 months later with more voice acting, content, balancing, etc.

Your game is designed for and marketed towards kids and has no monetary barrier to entry. If you don't think it's infested with paedophiles, you're deluded.