This game keeps peeling back but and more as I play. Really cool how they tied the story and the mode evolutions together so well.

Will this also be held up by Little Tommy Tuberville?

Hades for sure has a story. Probably the best implementation of story in the whole genre.

Another “perfect for Game Pass” game. I’ve been enjoying it, but I wouldn’t have spent $60.

Could you help me understand here?

I know you can make a Spotify playlist of content hosted via Spotify. You can also add your own locally-provided (e.g. mp3) content to this playlist. But can you also add content from a different streaming service to your Spotify playlist?

Could you merge Spotify tracks with, say, Bandcamp tracks on a single playlist?

Doesn’t Winamp already do this?

I used to keep the portable version on a flash drive with a few dozen of my favorite tracks. Such a fantastic player.

One word: Bonnie Ross

343 was plagued by just awful leadership for ages. They’ve always have talented devs (just look at the latest MCC update!) but their “follow the leader” approach to the series’ growth, coupled with a pattern of putting making cash over releasing a great game, was a losing strategy from the start. Good riddance to those folks.

Corporate profits are hitting record highs but yet we, the customer, are expected to prop up wages? Nah, I’m with this guy.

I used to fall asleep watching Twister on VHS. Something about the substandard quality and tracking sound really sealed the deal when I needed to catch some Zzz’s.

I watched it so many times that I wore out the tape.

Any good TV will be a smart TV. Just don’t connect it to the internet and it’ll effectively be another basic TV.

Really not a great article. Okay, there’s tension and challenge that exists today. But what tools and approaches are working? Which companies, frameworks, or postures are effective?

Does this one allow you to share lists with friends, by chance?

I played for about two hours today. It’s fun, though not spectacular. Feels a lot like Destiny 2’s Gambit game mode (but no buttery-smooth announcer).

I’m not too invested in the story personally. It seems like there’s a decent amount of depth here for those who are.

The game really needs per-class tutorials, or at least in-game descriptions of class abilities. I’ve been paying as the grenade dude and I have no clue what exactly my RB ability does.

There’s enough here to keep my interest for a few weekends at minimum. Glad to see it’s on Game Pass!

He was probably one of the best community managers for any company ever. He did a ton to connect Xbox as a brand with gamers, communicating as a two-way process and (seemingly) bringing about change with Xbox as a result of this process.

Whereas most community managers start strong with a couple of good blog posts and a promise to “listen more”, Major Nelson actually kept this up… for the better part of two decades.

These firefight changes are crazy! It’s amazing what they’ve been able to dig up from all that old code.

Halo 3 Escalation sounds super well done and way more in line with the Halo Infinite mode.

I’m more excited for the home screen selector than I should be.

This is the right way to play the game, IMO. There’s even an achievement for it.

Imagine if Bayonetta and Gears of War had a baby, and then that baby devoted an entire button solely to smoking a cigarette during a gunfight.

Hybrid Heaven on N64. Great game with a super interesting battle mechanic. I’ve never played anything else quite like it. Maybe The Surge would be the closest system, wherein you can target specific body parts for interesting effects. But you can’t suplex an alligator in The Surge.