Total shame about this. The game looks very similar to SEGA's Hatsune Miku games which are good rhythm games not present on Xbox. Rhythm games in general is something that Xbox is not getting at all tbh, so it would have been a nice addition to get this game in Xbox library.

I liked it more than Automata overall and totally agree with @DeusXmachina 's opinion - one of the best games ever made. I'm definitely getting the updated version at launch and it is my most anticipated game at the moment. On the other hand, as I see, this updated version is being made quite cheap and unfortunately I have a bad feeling that it might look and play even worse than original. But we will see.

What a lovely feeling.. every single Minecraft achievement unlocked by playing legit. Pre-made achievement worlds? Gtfo..

Trading for 1000 emeralds took a while but it was quite fun actually. Hope they'll bring the next update soon.

Rumors that Microsoft has bought the publishing rights for Payday 3 from Starbreeze and will be exclusive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/lon52g/payday_3_looking_for_a_publisher_reports_say_xbox/

Starbreeze has had major money trouble these past few years due to crap management.

I agree with you on Playtonic as I had the same reaction, Things started to fall apart for Starbreeze after Syndicate bombed and then they made a string of baffling dumb decisions. I hear that at least they are almost done paying off their debt.

I didn’t know that Fatshark actually self published Vermintide 1 & 2 and are self publishing Darktide too. With the working relationship that they currently have with MS they could be a realistic acquisition because they are a private company that is small and they don’t own any big IP, I’m surprised that Embracer haven’t gobbled them up yet.

They would also be a perfect partner to make a Halo Flood L4D type game.

Grrr... 

I don't care about potential backlash from SJWs, Phil needs to stop the bleeding in terms of censorship. 

I could never understand what made Nier so good. It's like Persona to me: big games I couldn't really get or like because everything is, in many ways, stuff I hate. 

Having been part of a few companies either being bought or purchasing a company, I can definitely state that until the deal is done and all the red tape is out of the way, you will not see anything as far as MS strategy towards Bethesda until then. Even the company I work for now was bought out by another company and we did not do any work until the sale was final.

The big wigs do plan out what is going to happen and especially with certain products but the work cannot happen until final sale. I really would not expect to see anything happen right away as I am sure there will be tons of work just integrating Bethesda within MS and MS probably will most likely not change up anything within the short term. Getting Bethesda into gamepass probably will be something done right away, expecting any games in production now to suddenly be first party only probably going to be more wishful thinking. Those games, the cost of development and so forth and their sales projection probably were all included within the price and MS as a company probably not really set to just throw any project out the window if they already been in production for a long time.

Also MS deal may be to still let Bethesda operate independently but make sure all their games are day one release on gamepass. Do not forget that all of these purchase is to further gamepass and get more subs. Stopping those games from selling at retail actually isn't a very smart move. The value of gamepass becomes much better if you can show that if there are 2 games from Bethesda you would play which cost 70 bones but then you get Gamepass and you get them all well price advantage becomes huge.

I really do not believe that MS will make Bethesda games that are already multiplatform exclusive so that means your Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls etc. Instead any new game under development is fair game and I can definitely see MS asking for a few high quality maybe AAA or AA games exclusive to the PC and Xbox platform.

Avalanche actually has 2 AAA teams one in New York and the other in Sweden and two subsidiaries that are AA in size.

It just mean that Ed from Era was wrong he explained his reasoning and to be fair to him he only said that he believes that ACG was referring to Techland because he asked around and some of his sources told him that ACG has friends or connections in Techland so he just assumed, this means that we can rule out Techland right now and it’s another Studio.