SmileyTheReaper😁🌑

I am the angel of the Abyss. Within the darkness shall you see the light.

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@LindzRiot @CradleofFilth do you approve my Dani Filth drawing?

[Ben @benkenobi2020]

To celebrate Gears of War E-DAY we are giving away 10 Gears of War/Xbox collector coins!

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[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@xvoltsy @CabooseEK We’ll be getting more Batman games in the future on console. Rocksteady is moving on from SS & focusing back to their old roots while they have a small crew finishing up the remainder of SS. So hopefully we’ll see it all done this summer

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@JayShockblast From what I’ve read, we’ll get seasons 2-4 & it will end with 5. But they’ll be compressed so they can move on from SS

[Miller Ross @mmmmmmmmiller]

Great read. Excellent reporting. Just want to add on to this and toss in a few extra nuggets I'd heard. Sorry if this tweet is flow of thought, it's too early to edit it into something more readable.

At its core, this is another example of why Destiny-likes have so consistently failed: Nobody wants to spend the money. Just like with Avengers, they wanna make Destiny with 1/3 of the developers, and it simply can't be done. One source told me an anecdote about SSKTJL's Photo Mode. Apparently it was left unfinished and cut because there just weren't any more graphics programmers left at the studio to work on it. Corners get cut and "suggestions" get made (for example, guns over Arkham-style melee,) over and over until what you have doesn't resemble what you set out to make.

But the show must go on, so you polish up specific elements of the game, chop that slice of it off, show it to executives who don't play games or understand what makes one a success, and they see something that resembles Destiny enough to justify their cost-cutting. "We pulled it off! Cha ching!" And then they don't cheap out on the advertising, because they're convinced they've got a hit, and all of that money goes straight down the toilet. And the advertising itself was a misadventure, but that's a story for another day.

So yes, the story was Sefton Hill's baby. The broad strokes (including post-launch) were nailed down between Infinity War and Endgame at a time when they dominated pop culture, and it takes clear inspiration from those films. The heroes lose, the credits roll... only for them to come back and get their revenge. That's really it. It's not the boogeyman so many people have blown it up to be. I've heard that Hill was a hardliner for leaving the audience shocked at the end of the game at the heroes seemingly having all died, and multiple Rocksteady developers I've spoken to characterized themselves as "begging" him to leave more clues regarding the Justice League's inevitable return to help stymie some of the predictable backlash.

As far as I understand and as I've stated before, season 5 episode 10 ("Finality") was structured to function as either a season or series finale depending on the game's success. From digging into the episode 2 patch, it seems like season 5 might have been folded into season 4 and otherwise axed. The episodes are quite short, so this isn't a herculean effort, to be frank. I can't say this definitively, but that's how it looks. And it's kinda funny, because I think people had a hard time understanding the season 5 finale structure with them having specifically announced seasons 1-4 as "year 1" in that roadmap, so a lot of people already assumed season 4 would be the end of this storyline.

To be clear, I'm not saying the game will end with season 4 as that was originally intended to end (setting up season 5,) but rather that seasons 2-5 are being compressed a bit so that the game can wrap at the end of season 4. At least, that's how it's looking from what I can see.

With that in mind, I have to imagine that anyone at Rocksteady whose contribution to SSKTJL through season 5 has concluded will have already been moved to their next project, and that this number will grow as they chip away at what's left. The dream is dead. This is probably why the weekly shop update promise was quietly killed, as were the developer updates. There's just nothing left there. They're wrapping up what's already in progress and it's on to the next. The roadmap will happen as promised (albeit consistently late) and then The End. God, I hope they haven't cancelled QVK.

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@ArkhamVideos @jasonschreier Still hope we get Deathstroke at least. I kinda wonder if they’ll just start popping out dlc

[Dean Cain @RealDeanCain]

Twenty years ago today we lost a giant of a man.
So honored to have met #RonaldReagan
Thank you, sir - for your eloquence, grace, strength, kindness, and sense of humor. We are all better off because of you.
🙏🇺🇸

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@hodgetwins All of the above

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

Never forget when these clowns lied to all of us

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@RinoTheBouncer @KitandKrysta Please be Lost Planet

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@JayShockblast Oh boy

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@JayShockblast Hopefully you get the Clayface redeemed right away lol

[Eren | Caboose @CabooseEK]

I had an amazing opportunity to sit down with @ryanpayton, Studio Head of the team working on Batman: Arkham Shadow, to discuss some Easter Eggs EVERYONE missed in the reveal trailer. I also got some BIG teases for the new #SummerGameFest trailer!

➡️https://t.co/aIO63nD3Qi

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@xvoltsy

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Watch as people erupt in cheers as Donald Trump makes his entrance at UFC 302 just days after being convicted in New York

📌#Newark | #NewJersey

Watch as crowds erupt in cheer as former President Donald Trump makes his first public appearance since becoming a convicted felon. He enters UFC 302 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, just days after his conviction in New York, and is escorted to his cageside seat in grand fashion by UFC CEO Dana White. Each of the 34 counts Trump was convicted of carries a maximum sentence of four years, which can be imposed consecutively. However, New York has a 20-year cap on such sentences. This appearance follows his fiery press conference at Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan, where he vowed, “We’re going to fight.”

[Digital Cybercherries @DCyberCherries]

Okay. I'm really emotional right now.

We've just sold over 25,000 copies of Hypercharge on Xbox, in less than 24 hours!!!

WHAT IS HAPPENING? 😭💚

Thank you so much to everybody who is playing our indie game!

[SmileyTheReaper😁🌑 @AnarchyMarcus]

@HyperchargeGame @Xbox HyperchargeXboxed

[Digital Cybercherries @DCyberCherries]

I believe success should be shared. I understand life isn't always easy. Video games can uplift and bring us together. And that's why I am gifting someone an Xbox Series X and a copy of our game.

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- Comment #HyperchargeXboxed below

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[Dauntless @PlayDauntless]

It's time for another The Shattered Isles dev blog!

We are sharing more details on goals for the Hunting Grounds, our new Public Events, and more for Legend Hunts.

Let's hunt! https://t.co/yx24ZU322D

[Benj @Benjjjyy]

THE FINAL SHAPE GIVEAWAY:

Courtesy of Bungie and Gamesight, I am giving away ONE copy of The Final Shape + Annual Pass. (ALL platforms).

To enter simply FOLLOW + RT this tweet. You have 48 hours until a winner is chosen. Good luck! 🤝