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I feel like this game is a good candidate for xcloud if you have game pass. Don't have to worry about high specs or downloading, and if you have a decent connection there's some lag but not as necessary for this type of game. Thoughts?

The title makes this sound like it's going to be less common that they'll be releasing games on PC, but in case anyone skips the article it's actually in regards to PC-exclusive content

Totilo points out to Spencer that three of Microsoft's nine releases in this period are PC-only (The War Within, Towerborne in early access, and Ara: History Untold), and asks whether this is a new norm for Microsoft.

"No," says Spencer. "This is historical. There might always be some anomalies, but I look at those three as an anomaly. We want our games playable across as many screens as possible. We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want all the games playable across all of those. We want them to be Play Anywhere."

Fair enough, I'm being overly pedantic

Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Microsoft sucks but the phrase doesn't really apply to company acquisitions

From Bloomberg

“We definitely want to be in the market, and when we can find teams and technology and capability that add to what we’re trying to do in gaming at Microsoft, absolutely we will keep our heads up,” Spencer said. Still, there’s nothing “imminent” and very large deals are probably off the table at present as the company is spending a lot of time absorbing Activision Blizzard employees, he said.

I thought that seemed odd as well. Solid chance it's AI

Archived version (skip sign-up wall): https://archive.is/dxL65

Thanks a lot! Just sent you a request.

Has anyone bought Arkham Shadow yet? If so I'd love a referral link (15% off for me, $2(?) for referrer)

Congrats! I've been stuck in Black Ops 6 lately, but I'll need to get around to finishing the final draft soon. I look forward to reading your full thoughts then.

As a side note, there isn't a community for Alan Wake and remedy games, is there? I feel like they have enough to discuss that it could merit one.

• no touchpads

and assuming it's like their other handhelds...

• no back buttons
• runs windows

I really like how today's commentary mirrors what you're doing by starting the final draft. Deja-vu.