I don't mind delays if it's in the same year, that being said I can see Starfield being pushed back to September of this year.

No internal date means they will ship it when it's ready. Clearly they want to achieve a certain level of polish before shipment that none of their previous games had, and they also may be waiting on the rest of the publishers to announce their Q2 release dates before they decide on which week exactly they want to release, to avoid releasing too close to a tough competitor.

Kami said:

Finished off Sonic Frontiers just now with 1000 GS. My thoughts:

The Good

• Best storyline in a Sonic game to date, by quite some margin. Lots of touching moments and some big moments of character development for side characters, coupled with a fascinating backstory about the alien race who brought the chaos emeralds to Earth
• Best combat in a Sonic game to date, the action RPG like combat upgrades are a big step forward for the series
• The open world design is great, a nice mix of open world games that came before coupled with very Sonic like small platforming challenges and puzzles scattered throughout
• Fantastic soundtrack, as is usual of Sonic games
• Great performances by the voice cast, their best work to date imo
• Boss fights were tons of fun
• Fun Nier Automata like bullet hell hacking minigame
• Tons of nostalgic nods to earlier games in the series, including a pinball minigames loosely based on Sonic Spinball
• I encountered no bugs of noteworthiness

The Not So Good

• There are a few minigames that gate you off from main story progression which can be a tad difficult at times
• The speed/ring upgrades are painfully slow, you lose nearly an hour getting all 99 levels of each, as each point is spent one at a time, with a slow little animation that plays on each upgrade, in addition to a poorly designed UI here that makes backing out the top option, meaning you need to D-pad back down to your upgrade after spending each point. Sonic Team could easily patch in an option to spend points 10 or 20 at a time and fixing the UI, but so far haven't after 2 months on the market.
• Speed upgrades only change your boost speed when not at max ring count, would have been nice if speed upgrades improved your base, non-boost speed, as well as some small boosts to your supercharged, max ring count boost speed
• A few of the open world platforming challenges have frustrating camera locks, which you can accidentally enter, and then have to backtrack to exit
• The rather meh jumping physics haven't really been improved now after several games in a row, jumps still feel overly floaty with poor in air direction changing and landing aiming. The 2D platforming sections in particularly feel way too floaty at times

Overall score: 9.1/10

Definitely the best 2022 game I have played so far, only TMNT comes close.

Jez has spoken to some playtesters: "Some of the stuff I've heard about Starfield is spectacular" 😰🥵

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2022 Xbox Empire Game Awards

It's that time of the year again folks, time to vote on our favorite games of the year. 

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1. Copy and paste the below table fill it in with your answers.
2. Feel free to vote on as many or as few categories as you want. If a category doesn't receive enough total votes to post a worthwhile result, the whole category will be removed from the final results. If you have only played one game in a category then leave the runner-up space blank.
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I'll have to skip, the only 2022 title I played was Dying Light 2

But technically Tinykin as well which is a very charming platformer, I recommend it, and coming to the end of Skywalker Saga, I just started them both in 2023 but I don't think 3 games are enough to fill it out enough, Lol. I was going to play Plague Tale 1 & 2 but I want to split my months between games and shows so I won't be able to finish Plague 2 before it closes.

This year though will be a lot better.

Can anyone answer. Playing DEstroy all humans 2 and after extended play in the open world sections, the frame rate drops and then the game crashes. Anyone have this issue for other games? Really hoping it's not an Xbox issue and just a game issue.. No issue with FC 6 when i played it. Maybe Xbox is telling me to touch grass.