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Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: Yakuza Remastered Collection, The Medium, and More - Xbox Wire

Remember so long ago, way back in December during The Game Awards when we gave you a preview of what games were coming soon? That soon is sooner now than it was then, and we have more games now than we had then, which means we have even more games coming soon now… make sense? […]

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Pretty good Game Pass lineup this time around. I'm happy I held off on Desperados 3 during the Steam holiday sale.

Donut County, cool. still no sign of EA Play or even Phogs PC though

since this isn't Control Ultimate Edition, is the DLC worth playing?

 

[fantomena]

Donut County, cool. still no sign of EA Play or even Phogs PC though

since this isn't Control Ultimate Edition, is the DLC worth playing?

Yeah wonder what's up with Phogs. EA Play probably has difficulty being integrated as the windows store backend is shit.

 

[LEANIJA]

Hitman 3 reviewing well. Shame its tied to the eggs for a year

and Stadia

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Yeah wonder what's up with Phogs. EA Play probably has difficulty being integrated as the windows store backend is shit.

the Phogs devs said the delay was due to issues with online multiplayer on PC IIRC, figured that'd have been sorted out by now though

I suspect that the EA Play delay has more to do with the EA Desktop app being a broken piece of shit, but who knows

 

[Kal1m3r0]

Also Cyber Shadow on Game Pass and it looks promising [UWSL][/UWSL]

 

[manchego obfuscator]

will definitely play The Medium at some point on Game Pass but will wait for some patches; Bloober Team is good at designing spooky reality-altering haunted-house stuff but not so great at actual gameplay mechanics

 

[fantomena]

I really liked Layers of Fear and Observer. Blair Witch was sorta good, but not as good as goos as the first 2 games. Have hopes for The Medium, already pre-ordered.

 

[madjoki]

and Stadia

and psvr

 

[fantomena]

oh my

 

[Guilty of Being]

While trying to peel myself away from Rocket League this weekend, I played the now-removed Super Rad Raygun, a GB-esque Mega Man-lite; I actually enjoy it. I guess I'm very easy to please. Furthermore, payday is tomorrow. While not playing on my PC last year, I missed Super Mega Baseball 3; I need to change that. Also, you fellows and filets have me wanting to try EVERSPACE and Enderal: Forgotten Stories. Heck, I might own the space shooter, I'm not sure. Honestly, I don't need to spend with my backlog, but I will buy SMB3. In conclusion, debt sucks. Not having time, well, that sucks a lot!

 

[manchego obfuscator]

I really liked Layers of Fear and Observer. Blair Witch was sorta good, but not as good as goos as the first 2 games. Have hopes for The Medium, already pre-ordered.

I haven't played LoF2 yet (I know it didn't get a great reception at launch and that some of the issues with enemy encounters and such were addressed in subsequent patches), but the parts of Observer and Blair Witch I found most enjoyable were the parts that stuck the closest to LoF1's reality-altering haunted-house walking simulator formula, instead of those that attempted to introduce other gameplay mechanics. I guess the video puzzles in Blair Witch were alright, but in Observer in particular, the stealth sequences were absolutely godawful and the investigative segments had far too much pixel hunting for whatever minute piece of evidence you need to ID to trigger story progression.

 

[fantomena]

I haven't played LoF2 yet (I know it didn't get a great reception at launch and that some of the issues with enemy encounters and such were addressed in subsequent patches), but the parts of Observer and Blair Witch I found most enjoyable were the parts that stuck the closest to LoF1's reality-altering haunted-house walking simulator formula, instead of those that attempted to introduce other gameplay mechanics. I guess the video puzzles in Blair Witch were alright, but in Observer in particular, the stealth sequences were absolutely godawful and the investigative segments had far too much pixel hunting for whatever minute piece of evidence you need to ID to trigger story progression.

Afaik, LoF 2 isn't made by Bloober.

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Afaik, LoF 2 isn't made by Bloober.

hmm, I looked up the credits and while an American studio called Gun Interactive did work on the game, it looks like Bloober Team handled the bulk of actual development duties

also, hope this is good, the world needs more good 3D platformers and I like the Saturn/Dreamcast-era vibe of this one

 

[Alexandros]

2 - yes, there's a category called "others PC" that includes EGS and WinStore, it represents 2%

 

[fantomena]

Poor EGS.

 

[Guilty of Being]

For those that don't have the first EVERSPACE, this bundle has 3 for $9.99.

 

[Firewithin]

Control maxed out looks so good its crazy

 

[fantomena]

299 cards to drop.

Sending all my vibes to idle master extended,

 

[Deku]

For those that don't have the first EVERSPACE, this bundle has 3 for $9.99.

It's tempting, but I rather want the ultimate edition than only the base game. Fanatical usually have it for 7-8 euros. But since the base game is in the bundle we won't see the deal for now...

 

[Wok]

I will post the links in the open and see if anything happens.

Neat little tool, thanks for sharing! A little suggestion: It would be nice if clicking on the image takes you to its Steam page.

There are two endpoints now:
- one with links which generate new queries,

https://damp-brushlands-51855.herokuapp.com/render/YOUR_APP_ID/

Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (appID: 1121560)

- one with links to the Steam store:

https://damp-brushlands-51855.herokuapp.com/store/YOUR_APP_ID/

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy (appID: 1257290)

Same as before: the query image is in the top left corner, and the rest of the images are similar according to an image model by OpenAI.

 

[texhnolyze]

Holy shieeeeeeeeeet I wasn't ready for this random side quest. AT ALL.

If I didn't bring a companion with me and turn on the radio, I might have pissed on my pants. Damn.



If you're still on the fence about The Frontier, give it a watch.

 

[dex3108]

 

[Shahem]

Glad to see this game still exists.

 

[fantomena]

Scourgebringer is actually out on Steam, EGS, GOG and Windows Store on PC, so those 2% includes EGS, GOG and WinStore. Jesus.

 

[Mor]

PLEASE BE FUCKING REAL AND NOT AN SCAM!

 

[fantomena]

So huh a Hitman 3 code came in from PR for EGS, didn't expect it. Might as well try it, but I don't expect myself play much of the EGS version. I competed against a friends of mine when it came to achievements and scores, but cheevos are not publicly visible like Steam cheevos and that friends is also not buying it on EGS.

EGS fucking up competition between friends too.

 

[madjoki]

Is Hitman 3 leaderboards available online? Just to see how many players on EGS & other platforms.

 

[fantomena]

Is Hitman 3 leaderboards available online? Just to see how many players on EGS & other platforms.

Not installable for me until it releases, but I'll report back.

 

[Kyougar]

Auto Chess, the Dota 2 spin-off, is getting its own MOBA

Auto Chess MOBA is a MOBA version of Auto Chess, the the auto chess game that spun off from a MOBA

www.pcgamesn.com

woah, blast from the past, that was a thing a year or two ago. Completely fell of the face of earth, or am I overlooking some big niche audience? All the content creators I follow (normal ones, not dota or auto-chess specific) didn't play it after the devs made the standalone.

 

[Ge0force]

Scourgebringer is actually out on Steam, EGS, GOG and Windows Store on PC, so those 2% includes EGS, GOG and WinStore. Jesus.

Glad to see EGS and Winstore fail. But sad to see GoG fail as well. I hoped they would become more popular with the galaxy 2.0 client.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

Holy shieeeeeeeeeet I wasn't ready for this random side quest. AT ALL.

If I didn't bring a companion with me and turn on the radio, I might have pissed on my pants. Damn.



If you're still on the fence about The Frontier, give it a watch.

 

[NarohDethan]

The last nodes of SuperHot Mind Control Delete are fucking bullshitttttttt

 

[yuraya]

Wasn't expecting Control to hit GP so soon. Gonna try it to beat it b4 Nioh2 release. GP really is great.

Also Medium looks interesting but doesn't look action horror at all. Looks more Silenthillish....2spooky4me

 

[Tomasety]

ENDLESS™ Legend - Amplified 2021: Turning Endless Day up to 11 - Steam News

Hey all, The new year has rolled around, and that means it is time again at last! “Time? Time for what?” some of you might ask, especially those who joined us over the past few months to talk about or maybe even try out Humankind. The answer is simple: Amplitude’s birthday! Every year in...

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As always for our anniversary, we’re adding more rewards to Games2Gether as well, available to be claimed [UWSL]on your rewards page on G2G:[/UWSL]

• Virtua Fighter 2 (Mega Drive/Genesis version), courtesy of our friends at Sega. Available to be claimed only during Amplified, until January from January 20th at 11:00 CET to January 25th at 17:00 CET
• TGA Teaser Art Wallpapers, the Endless Humankind crossover nobody expected, available starting Wednesday, January 20th, 17:00 CET
• Endless Space 2 Artbook, long in the making, it will be available for download starting Thursday, January 21st, 17:00 CET
• Humankind Wallpaper Pack, including 6 pieces of art from the first OpenDev in convenient wallpaper and banner formats, available Friday, January 22nd, 17:00 CET
• An Amplified player icon for Humankind for anybody who logs into G2G during Amplified. (No need to claim this by hand.)

 

[fantomena]

My GTX 1080 after seeing this:

 

[lashman]

here, have a good laugh:

 

[Stevey]

Crowbcat returns

 

[Arsene]

here, have a good laugh:

"Microsoft is paying us so we dont want to make the Series X look bad"

 

[Swenhir]

here, have a good laugh:

You have got to be kidding, this is golden. We haven't had such dishonesty and "cinematic" used to defend 30fps as a so-called art direction decision since the 7th gen! Ah, the nostalgia .

 

[Routa]

here, have a good laugh:

 

[Le Pertti]

Speaking of non cinematic, man i'm so glad I waited with Jedi Fallen Order until the nextgen patch, its seems both sharper AND 60fps right now.

 

[Readher]

here, have a good laugh:

The cinematic argument is obviously stupid in the first place, but doubly so when you're playing with mouse and keyboard, since mouse acts like absolute shit at 30 FPS (even 40 is a vast improvement in that regard) and it feels like you're fighting controls the whole time you're playing.

Listing 30 FPS as the target for PC specs can only mean two things:
1. Complete ignorance of PC crowd and its standards.
2. Attempt to hide very bad performance/framerate scaling.

 

[Knurek]

The cinematic argument is obviously stupid in the first place, but doubly so when you're playing with mouse and keyboard, since mouse acts like absolute shit at 30 FPS (even 40 is a vast improvement in that regard) and it feels like you're fighting controls the whole time you're playing.

Listing 30 FPS as the target for PC specs can only mean two things:
1. Complete ignorance of PC crowd and its standards.
2. Attempt to hide very bad performance/framerate scaling.

You forgot 3. Total, complete incompetence.
This is Bloober Team we're talking about.

 

[Wildebeet]

Remember, FPS comes from coal. If we, as a society, cut our frames per second in half we will save over 11 billion tons of atmospheric carbon annually by not using so much electricity. We need to conserve our non-renewable frames per second for future generations. Everybody needs to do their part. Thank you and god bless.

 

[Kyougar]

This looks interesting

• Factorio type gameplay.
• you are a robot (with his own tech tree) who can traverse the universe and gather resources for your Dyson-Sphere-in-construction at home.
• you need the ressources/energy so that the humans can live in their Virtual reality Supercomputer
• goal is to set up an automatic construction complex on every planet that sends resources home

takes out the nitpicking glasses

• why are they building an unrealistic/unstable sphere instead of a swarm
• why are they traversing the Universe when there is enough resources to make several spheres/swarms in the solar system just from the material laying around (asteroids)

 

[QFNS]

Sega....where is my ability to pay you for Yakuza games?
[UWSL][/UWSL]

 

[Parsnip]

With all this talk lately I was interested in actually playing the Hitman 2 game that I somehow have in my library, but now I'm kind of reconsidering.

This is me telling you to play the game.

 

[toxicitizen]

Sega....where is my ability to pay you for Yakuza games?
[UWSL][/UWSL]

Hell, just being able to wishlist them would be enough for me. Seriously, they're like a week away. Where the hell are those store pages?!

 

[Valdien]

here, have a good laugh:

Yeah, sure, whatever you say, buddy. These guys are supposed to developers... comments like these are just going to give you a bad image of the company Especially so in the PC community.

 

[Cacher]

With all this talk lately I was interested in actually playing the Hitman 2 game that I somehow have in my library, but now I'm kind of reconsidering.

Play it.