The Enshittification Of Game Pass Is Here

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Spacer's mascot stands on the new Game Pass tagline.

Microsoft is ready to put the screws to its most loyal fans

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Guild Wars 2 is smooshing strikes into the raid system… and yes it’s getting quickplay grouping mode

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Back in July’s Visions of Eternity preview, the Guild Wars 2 team announced that it was going to smoosh strikes and raids down into just one game mode called, well, raids. This week, ArenaNet combat systems lead Brian Yarrow is explaining why. Yarrow says that strikes were originally meant to help players transition from the […]
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Yes, Ghost of Yotei has brought back the hot springs, causing the exact reaction you’d expect: "Jin’s butt is still unsurpassed"

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Ghost of Yotei, Sucker Punch's blockbuster sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, has finally arrived. As players dig into the samurai open-world game, they’ve been quick to see what features of the first make a return in the second.

Among what's made the cut, it's been confirmed that you can visit a hot spring for a nice relaxing soak. This raised some questions over how Sucker Punch would depict the lead character, as you’re now a female protagonist, Atsu, instead of a man, Jin, who led Ghost of Tsushima.

Though this shouldn't change much of anything, depictions of nudity across genders can be a touchy subject that leads to odd design choices. Well, there aren't any here, because the process is near-identical between Atsu and Jin.

Hitting up a hot spring shows Atsu fully nude, from behind, getting into the balmy natural bath, before getting back up rejuvenated. Simple and straightforward, with no particular attention given to her beyond what Jin got.

Players are impressed by this, expecting the worst from a largely male development team. "I'm just happy they didn't treat female nudity differently than male nudity," says one commenter on Reddit. "It seems very matter of fact and not objectifying," adds another.

Discussions of objectification aside, the real conversation is over whose behind looks better, and there’s a frontrunner. "Jin ass better," one Redditor states. "I see Jin's butt is still unsurpassed."

Both their behinds look fine as far as I'm concerned. Yes, this fence is comfortable. Just in case you were wondering, reminiscing is still part of these sequences as well, giving them a narrative purpose. Sucker Punch really has made the sequel everyone wanted.

For more, check out our Ghost of Yotei review and then consult our list of Ghost of Yotei tips.



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Dungeons and Dragons Online starts ‘ghost world’ transfers and this year’s Halloween event

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Missed the boat to move all of your Dungeons and Dragons Online characters to the new 64-bit servers before SSG shut down the old 32-bit ones at the end of August? The good news is that the studio’s activated free transfers from the so-called “ghost worlds” to the new realms — and will keep the […]
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Halo TV Show Hits Netflix, Quickly Becomes One Of The Most Popular Shows On The Platform

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The Halo TV series didn't work out and was canceled after two seasons, but if you're curious and have a Netflix subscription, you're in luck. Both seasons of the sci-fi series are out now on Netflix.

The debut of the Halo series on Netflix seems to be proving popular, as the show has reached No. 4 on the most-popular TV show chart in the US today, October 2. The Top 10 list is ranked by views, and you can read more about how the data is calculated on Netflix's blog.

Season 1 had nine episodes, with Season 2 delivering eight, for a total of 17. The show stars Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, Natascha McElhone as Halsey, and Jen Taylor as Cortana.

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Goblin Cleanup manages to nail the art of unintentional yet hilarious co-op hijinks, making it a must-play for anyone looking for a new reason to yell at their friends

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There is no better feeling in this world than completing little tasks. I swear I could've been a worker ant in a previous life with how much I enjoy ferrying something from point A to point B. I wouldn't say it's the trait that I have the most pride in, but I know myself well enough to acknowledge that there's no changing what I like at this point, so I might as well lean into it.

With this in mind, I'm always looking out for the next game where I can turn my brain off and quietly get on with tasks, which is where Goblin Cleanup's early access comes in. At first, I went about completing tasks by myself. The whole point is to tidy up a dungeon, cleaning the blood from unlucky adventurers, placing tables and chairs back in their proper place, and feeding any leftover chunks of meat to the lively bin that is a mimic chest.

Using the dragon helper to light fires.

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There are already several locations for you to play through in early access, with each one having around 15 levels to check out and play individually. All of this can take a while if you're playing by yourself, but I didn't mind; it was just nice sorting the dungeon out in my own time. Although all this peace and tranquillity came to an abrupt end when I decided to check out what the co-op was like.

Inviting one of my friends into play, we quickly jumped into a match with absolutely no explanations or plans shared between the two of us; a great start. We soon got to work tidying the Library in the Dark Tower.

You'd think that more hands make light work, and while increasing the workforce did come in handy for getting tasks done faster, it also presented new problems, most of which were deadly.

As the Dark Tower is a dungeon, designed to outsmart even the keenest-eyed adventurers, there are tons of booby traps lying around the place. In one corner, there's a sleeping necromancer who gets super angry if you wake him up, meaning there's no jumping or running around him; although I did drop a table on his head, and it didn't stir him too much, so maybe he's a deep sleeper.

Then there's an evil laser eye which will lock onto you and blow you up with just one shot, which makes cleaning the room it's in almost impossible without unplugging the trap. All it took was for one of us to trigger the eye, and it would send both of us to an ashy grave as we tried and failed to hide behind the same pillar.

This is where the friendslop hijinks come in. Goblin Cleanup is full of ways you can accidentally or knowingly kill your friends, or the more likely version: your friends to kill you. Whether that be accidentally stepping on a booby trapped tile that shoots a bunch of spikes up from the ground and turns your friends into shish kebabs, or running around with a mimic chest in your arms threatening anyone that comes close with a gruesome chomped-up death, there are a multitude of ways for things to go wrong (or right, as the case may be).

At one point, my friend unwittingly created a new death trap by placing the mimic chest between two swinging axes, so to follow them to the next area, I had to somehow avoid getting sliced up while dodging around the mimic. Needless to say, I couldn't complete the obstacle course and ended up as a desert for the mimic.

It may make ticking off little tasks from the checklist slightly harder, but playing through Goblin Cleanup with friends is still great fun, thanks in no small part to all that can go wrong when playing co-op.

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