Jon Lindemann

What game is that?

I can hear Pitfall.

Boring but not riddled with ads either

360 was great, now? Most boring Live Tiles UI ever.

Just tiring. It'll still have a terrible UI.

Shaggy is the final insult here. That's just kicking us while we're down (and can't get back up)

Needed to be even less qualified.

Oh it's not that bad. It's just very straightforward.

Might actually go FireRed because there is no way in hell I'm asking another human being to trade me a Wooper.

Or actually, how you didn't feel about it. As in, felt nothing. Dead inside. A soulless husk

Glad to hear it's really good. Also, no MP4 slander you son of a bitch.

"It's okay. Too big."

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Hmm, this seems like speaking truth to power...time to get the lawyers! Can't have that.

Somebody accidentally sent notifications to production. Whoops

Same. I hate it.

Microsoft, do us all a favor and exit the gaming business. Stop pretending like you give a shit. You never really did, and never really will. It's not in your DNA. Never was.

She's qualified in the sense of any corporate upper level being able to run any random division in any random corporation. But customers want Xbox to be special, and this appointment is Microsoft saying, with its full chest, that it's not. It might as well be Microsoft Office for all they care.

"I like Mario and Fortnite" cool cool cool totally legit

Somebody above her ultimately signed off on that marketing campaign, so...

"Return of Xbox". So they admit "Xbox" was gone? And what is it supposed to "return" to, seeing as recently the company itself has had no idea what it even is any more? It's a console. No, it's streaming. No wait, it's branded partner hardware. But hey, "great games" or something. 🙄

USA hockey gold to me means that they are very even with Canada now, with a goaltending edge for USA at the moment. It took the USA 45 years to get here, but fair play to them.

I took a quick glance at this and saw Tales of Arse.

It was great catching you on the Union game Derek. Thanks as always.

I wonder if people will just stop buying consoles and the whole market contracts. I never really bought the cloud-streaming future. Good for some games but not all.

I think Machine Games has enough cachet to stick around, for more Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones. Bethesda for Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Beyond that, good luck.

Bingo. But hey, corpo monolith gonna corpo monolith. Fortunately both Blizzard and Bethesda can just sit there, not do too much experimental, and make a bunch of money.

It's awful. Xbox used to be great, and thriving. Now it's just a hollow corporate shell. I guess it was always destined to be this way. Microsoft never belonged in gaming in the first place, sad to say.

I think it was neutered at an upper level after the $69B Blizzard acquisition. Put the spotlight squarely on its lack on money-making.

I look forward to a bunch more 7.5/10 games in Xbox's future. I also look forward to the best of them being on PlayStation, and never touching Xbox consoles again.