Game News 2.0

New Xbox Partner broadcast on Wednesday at 6pm.

No doubt it will be branched and continue under a different name.

Definitely need to know more about this Highwater.. Actually, looks like it released almost a year ago exclusive to Netflix games and now releasing on PS and Steam in March. Has xcom like combat, wonder if the mobile version is any good.

It's games like this and Spirtfarer which make you realise why the money in gaming is with mobile. You can imagine playing Dave the Diver on mobile one day.

Casual gaming like this on your phone when you have some spare time (public transport, lunch break, at home on the couch etc) versus the shyte show of AAA and maintaining/upgrading a PC, investing in a console ecosystem. You can see why the majority of people opt for mobile gaming.

Netflix is a real dark horse. Maybe not even a dark horse anymore and more like in the game killing it. Xbox would kill to have a mobile game pass as good as this. None of this streaming nonsense with latency and tiny text you can't read.

I'm one of the few so who just can't take to mobile gaming because why would I want to play it on a tiny screen when I've a 55" OLED at home. Part of the reason I don't have a Switch either. Hopefully the Switch 2 will come in a docked only 60fps version this time. There's a grand back catalogue waiting for that. But I just can't warm, even in the slightest, to gaming on my phone.

Well, it comes with an OLED screen so yes? But I'm waiting until I don't have to pay a premium for a screen I'll never use. I just want docked only, 60fps. Not much to ask in 2024 in fairness. But I'm sure the excuses will come for our Overlords Nintendo, and I don't want to start another Nintendo are better/different/blah/blah/blah. They're probably the worst of the 3, they just get away with it because they also produce good games. Unless the Switch 2 is a mind blowing piece of kit (recent reports are less powerful than a Series S?) I won't be getting one unless there's a docked only version and games run at 60fps, so they will be playable on my OLED. But that also doesn't guarantee it would be its best while docked, because they have to sell the screen now don't they... It's like MS and their Series, one held back by the other, a docked only Switch would be held back by the normal Switch because docked can't look better than it's selling point.

I'd even go so far as to say I'd prefer if Nintendo got back to keeping their mobile and docked separate, go back to having a handheld and a normal console. I'd buy the normal one, at least then it may come with the expectation of not having to suit a mobile platform.

Did you buy the playstation handheld thing?

Considering the Switch is currently the third best selling console of all time (behind PS2 and DS), I think Nintendo will be sticking with a hybrid for the time being. You'd imagine they also like not having to split development resources between a handheld and a home system.

WB being the worst game devs/publishers of them all?? I'm shocked! Shocked i tell ya ..... I'm not that shocked. It's crazy how little they actually care about games or films for that matter. They wouldn't even put Bat Woman on their streaming service, instead deleting it forever and now Coyote vs Acme for the same reason to get a tax break. They couldn't give a **** about art. Still fuming they patented the nemesis system and did nothing with it.