To be honest, as a huge Halo fan, I was surprised when seeing those studios closed that 343 wasn't one of them. The studio is just cursed, even a leadership change isn't going to save them.

Either make Halo games from all the studios under Microsoft or start a new one with people who are actual fans of the franchise

Seems kind of strange to announce this way I wonder if they're expecting a big leak to come out so they're getting ahead of it? Otherwise, why not just mention at the end of that June direct that you'll talk more about this in the coming months

Full backward compatibility is definitely great to see, if it didn't have it I probably wouldn't pick it up for a few years

I would say Outer Wilds is very good. You have the ability to beat the game as soon as you start, but you don't have the knowledge to beat it.

Without spoiling it as it's a very spoiler sensitive game, you can spend as long as you want gathering all of the knowledge to beat the game, you aren't punished for taking your time. And all the knowledge you collect is stored in the games computer as long as you save so you can play for 22 minutes if you want, or multiple hours.

I beat the game over the course of a few weeks playing for various amounts of time. Recently played the DLC too and that went the same.

Really hope the next 3D Mario is a launch title, very much looking forward to what comes after Odyssey. Bowsers Fury was good, but didn't have the replayability of the other 3D titles

Especially in light of recent events from Niji, it's really nice to know that Cover treat their members better and allow them to take the time off they need

Letter from Mel

In fairness I haven't played any of these spin off games as they didn't interest me, but it seems like they keep trying to make other games using the Minecraft name but they just aren't working as Minecraft is only really popular for the actual main game, if I wanted to play a strategy game I'd play an actual one not a Minecraft one

Yes, that's why RGB is recommended so much

Lmao they literally posted on Twitter "Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube"

Sucks it was leaked just hours before the planned release but at least they handled it well.

Really hope this game will be good, not going in with high expectations as too many games have released in poor states recently but given how long this has been in development more, maybe it won't be a rushed mess and they've still got all of 2024 + some amount of 2025 to continue work.

https://lemmy.world/comment/5267353

I've already started working on it. It will not take too long.

That was 6 days ago.

Huh, clicking the link doesn't seem to show the comment

I can't believe it, loved watching Vesper's streams especially since they were usually EU friendly. Was really hoping it was just an extended break but a graduation after hearing nothing for weeks really sucks.

Will miss both of them, Tempus won't be the same without them