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#ACDAY SPECIAL: Who were the ones who came before? what brought them here? how long ago?". Explore the complete First Civilization history throughout the #AssassinsCreed franchise (including #AssassinsCreedValhalla) in this prototype episode of #THEGREY: https://t.co/Lp9qGt2vOs

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RT @RinoTheBouncer: Sony is reportedly forcing players to update their system software in order to play some physical games discs🚀

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RUMOR: XBOX COO Helen Chiang was allegedly terminated for “policy violations”, according to a source who spoke to Eurogamer🚀

XBOX commented on the matter to Eurogamer: “We don't discuss individual personnel matters. We're grateful for Helen's years of service and wish her well”

Eurogamer was not able to verify the original claim regarding policy violation🤔

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Updates on Final Fantasy franchise future coming from @nhamaguc from MisterMV stream🚀

✅Hamaguchi wishes the team would stick together for another project after FFVII: Revelation launches

✅Options for the future include Final Fantasy XVII, another remake series for another numbered title, or a new AAA IP

✅Hamaguchi believes future remakes should be handed to other teams

✅Creative Studio 1 is in charge of development of major AAA titles

✅Hamaguchi isn’t attached to a new Final Fantasy or a new IP, and emphasizes on attracting new audiences long term, despite the fact that Final Fantasy games like VII, VIII, IX and X are hugely popular (he’s likely referring to potential future remakes needing to win over new audiences rather than just selling based on existing ones)

What should come next in your opinion? What’s your dream FF remake or concept for FFXVII?😎

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Mass Effect trilogy lead voice actors Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale (male and female Shepard) are both supporting #SaveMassEffect🚀

Much respect for sticking with the legendary trilogy and the fans after all these year, and thank you for giving us the best RPG, the best space game and the best trilogy ever🫡

@jhaletweets @Mark_Meer

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Amplifying this because it’s still relevant🚀

If you can’t keep it, you don’t own it
If you don’t own it, then don’t pay for it

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

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Cyberpunk 2077 soars with a new peak of over 162,000 concurrent players on Steam, following the release of Update 2.5🚀

What an achievement, and this is a 6 year old single player game, when games don’t even see half that number on their launch day😎

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Elden Ring movie adaptation reportedly has a budget of over $200 million🚀

✅A24 is adapting the video game Elden Ring for a 2028 release with a record-breaking $200 million budget, far surpassing their previous $70 million high for Marty Supreme.

✅The studio spent three years secretly developing You Can See Everything, a documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.

✅Following a surprise, phone-free premiere at Telluride, the documentary opened to $15 million domestically, marking the biggest box office debut for a non-music documentary since 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11.

✅Driven by massive cultural buzz and 3,000 sold-out showings, A24 plans to mount a Best Picture Academy Award campaign for the film, aiming for the first-ever documentary nomination in that category.

✅Now valued at $3.5 billion, A24's successful indie playbook and talent-magnet status have major studios aggressively mimicking their strategies to secure viral properties, even as A24 absorbs the occasional box-office flop.

Source: @WSJ

The IP is big enough to warrant a big budget, especially given how fantastical the world is, that it needs that much to make, and with Alex Garland involved and A24 producing, it’s quite exciting to see how they’re willing to adapt it, in terms of storytelling and lore handling, given the game didn’t have a straightforward narrative

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Amidst major outrage over the shut down of BioWare and the cancellation of the next Mass Effect, a petition that manages gain more than 100,000 signatures in ~48 hours🚀

I endorse this petition and the movement to restore BioWare and saving the next Mass Effect.

Yesterday, we learned that Canadian politician Avi Lewis is calling for the government to aid and support keeping BioWare open, and go independent with their IPs.

Many are also calling for big entities like Microsoft to step and purchase BioWare and/or Mass Effect.

So let’s #SaveMassEffect!
Let’s support that and NO DISC 💿 NO BUY🫡

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REPORT: NVIIDA is getting accused of artificially manufacturing the current gaming GPU shortage by prioritizing enterprise AI chip production and forcing tech giants to stockpile unused hardware🚀

✅NVIDIA is allegedly leveraging enterprise FOMO to force companies like Amazon and Microsoft into upfront orders for AI chips they lack the immediate power and data center infrastructure to operate.

✅By routing TSMC silicon wafer allocations away from consumer electronics to fulfill massive enterprise orders, Nvidia has starved the retail gaming market and kept prices artificially high.

✅This aggressive strategy allows Nvidia to immediately book record-breaking data center revenues and shift storage and depreciation burdens onto buyers, keeping earnings pristine.

✅Analysts warn this creates an unsustainable hardware bubble that could lead to a massive supply correction and oversupply crisis once hyperscalers hit their capital expenditure limits.

Source: aindustry analyst Ed Zitron, and a separate claim made by Bloomberg and Business Insider, via @RespawnF1rst

If this is true, it shows another example of the rampant greedy, manipulation and corruption within the industry, from NVIDIA orchestrating the memory crisis to Sony falsely manufacturing a narrative that physical media don’t sell, just so they can goad players into an all digital future with no ownership, and prices that can be raised on a whim and eventually tying you up to subscriptions where you fund their games forever.

It truly is disgusting at this point💿

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RUMOR: Saber Interactive St. Petersburg (Space Marine 2) is reportedly working on an unannounced AAA First-Person Shooter🚀

✅Built in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) and is set within a “well-known universe”

✅Russian job listing for a Senior Narrative Designer reveals the game will feature PvPvE (Player vs. Player vs. Environment) multiplayer mechanics.

✅Highly suspected that this project is tied to a recent partnership between Saber Interactive and Hasbro to develop a game based on a major “tentpole IP”

✅YouTubers like RoboGamer1HD suggest this well-known universe could be Transformers, given the Hasbro partnership and Saber's proven success handling established sci-fi IPs

(Thanks to “Jasonvsfreddyvs” for the info)

Transformers would be quite an interesting choice of world, and a fitting one, for a studio that is highly regarded for handling Warhammer universe which involves gameplay in big mech suits, with impressive detail and intense action😎

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake gets new gameplay footage🚀

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Arkan’s Lyon’s BLADE is reportedly nearing end of production, and it would be a “monumental waste” if they cancel it now that it’s so close to being finished🚀

This is according to a union representative who spoke with Le Monde France🤔

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REPORT: Helen Chiang has departed Microsoft after 21 years, stepping down just three months after being appointed as Xbox's first Chief Operating Officer🚀

✅Prior to her July promotion to COO to manage profits and losses, Chiang served as the head of Minecraft.

✅Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the departure in a brief Friday memo, stating: "Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today. I'm grateful for her years of service and wish her well,"

✅Chiang's immediate responsibilities are being divided among other Xbox leaders for the time being.

✅Sharma stated that they’ll update on the future of the COO position soon

Source: @verge

This comes after reports regarding Gears of War E-Day costing $500 million to make and barely selling around 250K in its first few days, which is not good for game of such magnitude.

Which brings us back to the conversation of exclusivity vs. multi-platform vs. Game Pass, that the industry keeps going back and forth on the merits of each and the impact of each of them on game making and profitability.

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What cancelled game(s), what would you choose to rescue/revive if you could?🚀

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RUMOR: Grand Theft Auto VI is rumored to be working on a big marketing deal with free digital swag with Discord🚀

✅According to people who look through Discord's hidden code, Discord and Rockstar Games are launching a massive advertising partnership codenamed “Hexagon”

✅The promotion features a GTA-styled Custom App Icon, a Display Name Font mimicking the game's logo, and a pink/purple Vice City-style Client Theme.

✅The promotion begins November 16–17, 2026. Standard users will lose the custom themes on December 8, while Nitro subscribers can keep them until February 15, 2027.

✅The code reveals a secret "Quest" that will likely require users to stream gameplay to a friend to unlock special rewards.

(Many thanks to “ithepunisher” on GamingLeaksAndRumors sub)

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Okay, hear me out…🚀

Either Capcom or Bloober Team should buy Dead Space IP, and make more remakes and new games.

They are the perfect candidates, since EA’s mediocre a** doesn’t wanna make games like these and focus on their god-awful shooters and sports games.

What do you think?😎

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Fallout Shelter: The Experiment, an all-new competition series for Fallout is arrives January 13, on Prime Video🚀

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Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier says that he’s be “surprise” if Arkane Lyon shuts down, as multiple paths are being explored to save it🚀

“Let me share some positive news for a change: Despite all the gloomy headlines today, my understanding is that there are multiple paths actively being explored that would save Arkane Lyon.

Anything can happen during negotiations, but at this point I'd be surprised if the studio is shut down.”

Source: Jason on BSKY

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REPORT: Mass Effect 5 detailed information from the cancelled BioWare game, according to @DanticsOfficial🚀

📜Story & Setting:

✅Takes place 600+ years post-Reaper War during a galactic Cold War, connecting the Milky Way and Andromeda while preserving Shepard's legacy.

✅The galaxy is divided into three superpowers: a Human/Krogan/Batarian alliance, the Council races, and the Geth.

✅Liara returns as a highly powerful Asari Matriarch among new Geth-built megastructures.

🕹️Gameplay & Combat:

✅Players control a customizable N7 agent with experimental implants, adopting an espionage style comparable to James Bond and John Wick.

✅Mechanics emphasize environmental hacking, x-ray vision, remote hazard triggers, and brutal close-range executions.

✅Missions remain handcrafted like the original trilogy but offer Hitman-style tactical freedom to approach objectives.

👩‍❤️‍👨Companions & Relationships:

✅Squad dynamics include naturally clashing teammates and fully retained, unsanitized romance options.

SAVE MASS EFFECT
SAVE BIOWARE

💿🪐

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REPORT: RTX 5080 is reportedly getting a $300 price increase in China, and it is expected to apply in global markets as well🚀

✅ASUS & Gigabyte increased their prices

✅Price increase reports in China focus on wholesale markets

✅Thus means price increases in the US or European markets may not be 1:1 with China's price hike

Source: @harukaze5719