Your favorite a-holes are back. This week we have to address our missed weeks. Apologies but it was Christmas. Do you hate baby Jesus? Cause I don't. The following week we got drunk. Which isn't really news but it happened. Deal with it! Tony gets a vagina, Matt has pleasant things to say about the new year, and Basher witnesses another stabbing. Merry times indeed.
Ubisoft did announce that they are heavily involved in Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell (you like that render of Tom Hardy above, right?) movies. One of those could work and be great. The other has a lot of competition in the genre. We talk about what makes a video game movie work and why we think they have been getting shafted by Hollywood.
Also, Microsoft may be teasing the new Xbox. That really ruffles our jimmies. A new Xbox makes us more angry than Sony's new patent blocking the play of used games. Fret not, you insignificant worms, theMulticast will take Sony and Microsoft to task. Hell hath no fury like a podcast scorned. Did I mention that Tony had a sex change operation and there will totally be a three way?
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…