Bo Moore and I sit down with a list of the top-selling U.S. videogames for the month of October, and engage in a spirited discussion of the gaming industry based on said list.
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Everyone knows that things got bad in the Fallout universe when the bombs dropped. But even before that, it's been said that something... wrong was stirring. It all started with this book.
Max and I were fighting to stay awake through the beginning of Assassin's Creed Unity , and Max posited a theory that many Ubisoft published games exist in the same universe. Then we saw a fancy boy and a pig and at least had something to joke about for a while.
Big-budget, blockbuster games had a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day on Tuesday. An unfortunate fluke? Or the beginning of the end?
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Joylancer recently hit Steam Early Access, and we've got 10 codes to give away to celebrate!
To win, we want you to submit a piece of original art inspired by Joylancer! ("Art" is completely subjective, so let your mind go wild.) Once you've completed your masterpiece, post it in the comments below, and also tweet it @_a6productions or email it to contact[@]a6productions[.]com so that you can be considered for a code by the game's creator himself, TJ Thomas!
You have until next Friday, November 21 at 11:59pm Pacific to enter, and the contest is open to anyone in the world! Good luck, and have fun!
You know how chickens can live without their heads? Same thing with orcs, apparently.
If I owned an Xbox One, I'd be digging into Halo: The Master Chief Collection right about now. Well, attempting to, anyway: the compilation has issues with multiplayer matchmaking taking forever or otherwise not working as intended, and 343 Industries is scrambling to push out fixes.
The studio has temporarily consolidated playlists which should "allow players to get into matches faster, and improve overall match times," and suggests this one weird trick (no, really!) to improve your odds. Also: "When searching, if you do not find a match within 5 minutes, please return to lobby and restart the search, as this will reset the search parameters and increase the likelihood of finding a match within the [usual 2- to 4-minute] range."
343 is releasing a game update today for campaign, user interface, and matchmaking party issues. Expect a "larger matchmaking performance-focused content update" to hit next week.
"I'd like to personally apologize to you all for the current situation," wrote executive producer Dan Ayoub. "I can assure you we're attacking this from all directions from 343 Industries to the Xbox platform, and we won't rest until it's what it should be. People are reporting improvements across the board, which is great, but we're not backing down until we finish this fight."
Given these widespread issues, 343 has postponed the first Halo Championship Series pre-season online cup from November 16 to November 23.
Saying a game isn't actually a "game" has become the quick and easy way to deride games we don't like or understand. It's easy to boil down the key concepts of a game and make them sound bad.
