Not sure if it passed here but matthew Ball Presentation of the state of videogaming in 25 was published online a few days ago with a ton of information

https://www.matthewball.co/all/stateofvideogaming2025

Honestly a ton of information really recommend to take your time (maybe should have started a thread ^^)

These slides in particular.

This is by far the most interesting read you'll have about the state of the video games today: www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

It explains a lot of the changes in the past decade, especially the post-COVID crisis. And things will keep changing, we need to move past worldviews still stuck in 2012

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— Felipe Pepe (@felipepepe.bsky.social) 15 January 2025 at 13:26

AC Shadows is looking great in all the recent showings, I'm increasingly looking forward to it.

Yep, seems they have put those extra months of development to good use, will be playing it for sure. 

Probably my first AC since Brotherhood :P

The parkour and exploration videos are awesome, the marketing is fucking baffling though, why did they clip this shit and post it in an article, I had to find someone else who put all the clips together in a YouTube video, Lol. It looks beautiful though and the parkour is looking great, I'm excited for it and it looks a lot better than Valhalla at least.

Damn, play Black Flag at the very least, Lol. I also thought Origins and Odyssey were great.

Yeah, AC Black Flag is great (minus the shoddy PC port having some things broken) - I should play it on one of my consoles cause the PC version's DLC was broken.

I was having an anxiety attack and needed a calm game, though I could've reached for my story of seasons game on my desk lol

Might be time for me to play Death's Door (no pun intended) been had my eye on that one.