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@jFug The devs confirmed they're doing an interview during China Joy. No idea what that will entail, but that's the only info we have, so far.

Microsoft on publisher acquisitions: "no worries, Phil. Here's $75 billion."

Microsoft on marketing Xbox: "best we can do is five bucks and a few tweets, Mr. Greenberg"

This beta convinced me that Firewalk was a panic acquisition by Sony. Unless their M&A managers are complete dodos, there is no way they saw something unique in this that convinced Sony to buy the developer outright.

@Vivisapprentice Lack of full voice-acting in some activities, smart asset re-usage, and a ton of talent.

Even with its content bloat issues, Rebirth is extraordinary. I can only realistically see Astro Bot besting it as my GOTY.

This has got to be some of the most flavorless writing I have ever heard. Other than the green guy saying or doing the occasional "silly" thing, there is no personality or wit to this at all. If this is the kind of quality we can expect from these weekly cutscenes, yeesh.....

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"...Concord swaggers up with all the graphical and musical bombast you'd expect from a Sony first-party experience."

Ummmmm.... I very respectfully disagree with that after playing the beta.

That's a clear sign their pre-order numbers are not good. 😬

At least I'll get to try it this weekend to see what this thing is like for myself.

Wow, this looks stunning.

66 GB of pure joy

I wish Garvin and Ross would let it go with talking publicly about Days Gone 2.

@Dragon83 The paltry enemy variety was one of the more egregious parts for me, especially for a game of this length. I think I groaned out loud every time that fat guy with an ax or a color-swapped dragon showed up as a boss.

If it had been a tight 15-20 hour game, I would have liked it much more than I did. As it is, I never want to play it again simply because there is an insane amount of excruciating bloat to slog through to get to the good stuff.

As a longtime Kingdom Hearts fan, I empathize with the pain of Silksong's followers.

Astro Bot and Ace Attorney on the same day is wild.

Please make more weird family games like this, PlayStation. I need more things like Aloy in a bee costume throwing sharks at robot dinosaurs.

Xbox's show was the only good one these last few weeks. There were a lot of games that grabbed my attention, but the shows themselves were mostly weak.

As much as I make fun of Phil Spencer's annoying PR "good guy gamer" answers, I will apply the same brush here. This is utter nonsense. The real reason is that they need more money to pay the licensing fees and Lego more than likely demanded a Switch release as part of the deal.

I would have picked it up if it was releasing next month, but end of August is not good timing for me. Plus, it's too close to Astro Bot, which is the top priority game for me for the remainder of the year.

@colonelkilgore Good God, the rise of that narrative after Phil Spencer's hypocritical prattling is so irritating.

Looks leagues ahead of that garish CG trailer, but I was mostly whelmed by what I saw.

It was bizarre watching this and Fable in the same showcase. It's like the two series swapped color palettes and art directions.

I'm still waiting for a detailed breakdown from someone at Xbox of how they measure "success" regarding a first or second-party title release on Game Pass. If Hi-Fi Rush surpassed all metrics of success for them and Tango STILL got shut down, how does Xbox define "success" now? Revenue? New Game Pass subscribers? Downloads? Hours played?

Someone at one of these media outlets needs to ask Spencer about it.

I was going to try it out on Game Pass, but after learning I still had to download the stupid CoD HQ app AND BO6 on top of it, I'll pass.

This is the second year in a row they have failed to deliver something half as good as what Xbox gave its fans. Try harder, Sony.

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This was easily one of the best games shown. LOVED the look of it.

God, that art direction is so crap. What the hell is BioWare doing?

@Zenszulu LOL I saw that too. One comment under Tom Warren from The Verge's tweet about it was tagging all the big people at Xbox and declaring that they "must cease all PS5 ports of Microsoft game immediately". Funny stuff.

Davey Wreden's name is enough to sell me on a game.

This looks so much weirder than I expected it to. I'm in.

I LOVE the creature designs. The gameplay though? Eh.....

Regarding that Batman question, the question is already a "yes" since they're showing off that VR game there.

Dragon Age: Bioware's Deathmarch

I feel like I'm the only person in my circle of friends who is into this idea and sees why it exists. And it being on PC day one makes sense since it has multiplayer.

Hayley Atwell is perfect casting.

Good morning, pain.

There is not much I can add to these highly positive comments either. This is the most excited I've been about a game in years.

It looked oddly charming, so I'm willing to give it a chance despite its gacha nonsense.

"We have Guardians of the Galaxy at home, honey."

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This looks like everything I had hoped it would be and more. I'm ECSTATIC right now.

There is no way Kingdom Hearts IV will be here.

10/10 State of Play if they show a non-VR Astro Bot game.

A full-bown non-VR Astro Bot platformer has been a dream game of mine since Playroom. I'm so ready for this.

I was playing this morning and got the midsummer redhood costume. That was a....ummm...pleasant surprise.

First week of June, maybe? I like imagining someone at PlayStation delays the showcase by another week out of spite whenever a morsel of info leaks.

Let's maybe lay off the hyperbole, Neil...

Chances are we'll (officially) see gameplay next year or 2026.