Keep in mind, yes, they showed a lot of really cool stuff that seems really far along, but the big selling point here that really puts the game over the top in terms of making it unique is the way you can alter the timeline. This idea of your choices affecting not only things like relationships with characters you meet, or fairly binary story outcomes, but literally the whole structure and state of the world. It's one thing to show that in a trailer with some quick visual cuts of different aesthetics, and another to fully build that out in terms of the amount of work you have to do. Level design work goes through the roof, you have to write way more dialogue for all the different scenarios, QA testing all these branching levels to make sure one of them (or some potential combination you choose) doesn't cause something in the chain of reactivity to break...that's just off the top of my head as a non dev. 

If the game was a much more static world, say if we just took a snapshot of the first minute or so that they showed off...then yea, it would probably be ready to go pretty soon. But when you take the full scope of what they're trying to do into account, it's hard to say how much work they still have ahead of them.

Blood of the Dawnwalker 15?!

A cool ass looking vampire RPG from a bunch of people who worked on Witcher 3? Dafuq?

I feel fairly confident that both this, and FF7 remake will be on GP within a year of their Xbox release. They're gonna get what money/sales they can off the people who have been desperately waiting and willing to shell out full price despite said wait, and then once those sales stagnate they're gonna look to start building more fandom on the platform by putting them in GP.

Well, all the games above it are Game Pass titles you don't need to buy to play so that it's a much easier decision if you will play them day one.

I really hope that's the reason lol. And if it is, then the game is Nr. 1 of 2 games!

Yeah, I'm not ruling out stuff releasing in February-March and maybe April but I don't know how much they'll pack in those 3 months, in fairness they did have Avowed, South of Midnight and Oblivion Remastered in those 3 months for 2025 but Oblivion Remastered was kind of an out of the blue shadow-drop. Doom was May which they're going to avoid like the plague and they'll also avoid June.

January can only be a shadow drop, so maybe that Kiln from Double Fine.

Given GTA 6 is at the end of May, then April is probably safe but I do think it depends on the type of game, I can't see them releasing any really lengthy videogames or big GaaS at the end of April - into May even before GTA 6's release because the GaaS will have their vital legs cleaved off by GTA 6 and the lengthy games will be dropped like a bag of bricks, plus people may take that into account; "Well, I want to play Fable but there's no way I'd finish it before GTA 6 so I'll just wait for GTA 6" and for those buying, save $80, Lol.

If I'm a publisher I'm probably going to put a month between me and GTA 6 in either direction for my big AAAs. But January (Shadow-Drop), February and March are perfectly safe Imo, and early April should be too, any later, like late April into May, I would only risk a smaller project but even then, the month leading up to GTA 6, ain't nobody going to be reporting on or caring about anything other than GTA 6. You will not be able to compete with the marketing and socials leading up to GTA 6, anything releasing in May even before GTA 6 will be drowned out.

It's not in order, Lol. It was mostly just the order of the trailers I watched on the Xbox Wire article, I did originally have it broken down a little but then I gave up when I couldn't decide where to place things, if it was in order though then Black Ops 7 would be at the bottom, Lol.

Call of Duty fucked this guys wife and killed his dog, JFC. LMAO.

There are only two possible explanations here and neither make him look good.

• Scenario 1 - "I, the CEO, don't have a fucking clue what is happening inside of my own company."
• Scenario 2 - "I'm lying out of my ass, to push the backlash away from myself, I'm going to blame a former employee"

Also...You're the CEO...You hired the former Activision/Call of Duty person to lead your monetization efforts, despite the fact that you're using bashing Call of Duty and saying how terrible it is and how much it has ruined the industry as a core part of your marketing campaign, but then you hire former Activision employees, then blame them for issues in your game, then make a Battle Royale.

Randy Pitchford has competition! Dude is probably relieved that another tool is taking the spotlight off him, Lmao.

Ninja Gaiden 4 First Hands-On Impressions: It’s Faster and Bloodier Than Ever

Late to the party but just got the Gold Edition of Saints Row and holy shit are the controls atrocious. It's like the devs and playtesters never had a controller in their hands.
No wonder Volition closed down. Didn't even bother to fix them even though the game is on version 1.6.1 etc.
Tried to use some community settings and they do make it better but still way worse than any shooter I've played in the past 20 years.
There's some weird acceleration going on and there's no setting to turn it off.

Sounds like Call of Duty's fault.

Circana Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly Active Users (Not Concurrent) - W/E May 31, 2025

- Star Wars: Battlefront II was in top 15 on both PS and XBX.
- Elden Ring: Nightrein debuted in top 5 across Steam (was 17 on US PS, 24 on US XBX).
- Rematch beta in Steam top 10.

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— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) 10 June 2025 at 14:44

Doom: The Dark Ages is doing damn good on Xbox for engagement to still manage to stay in the Top 10.