❌ The government has rejected calls to change the law to protect gamers against the shutdown - sorry, "sunsetting" - of live service games. If gamers want to show publishers this practice is unacceptable, they'll need to vote with their wallets instead. ⬇️ Read more below.

@WorkTheSpace What’s the green stadium? Looks a lot like Austin FC’s place in the MLS.

RT @DoesItPlay1: There are reports of PSN services slowly coming back to life for some. Now would be a good time to let Sony/PS support kno…

The provider of a service you pay for is failing to provide that service. You should be holding them to account, not trying to prove that Microsoft and Xbox have more downtime than PSN.

Xbox games come to PS5 and the fanboys are tallying up exclusives and player counts. PSN goes down and the fanboys are digging out their rivals’ service uptime statistics. What an exhausting life that must be.

@Toadsanime If you have a PS5 with a detachable drive, you might never have moments like when you drag your old Nintendo 64 out of the attic and reminisce. If the disc drive fails after the servers are offline, it'll be an unrepairable brick.

@TheRealEnate Thank you! I called this out in the replies and got nothing but hostility.

@Keeganator08 @Troydan I just dislike conjecture/fear-mongering on social media and wanted to remind people that while it *could* be a cyber attack, it could also just be an intern who unplugged the wrong cable. Your tone is a lot nastier than mine was.

@bearded_blerdd1 @Troydan I don’t, that’s the point. Until Sony says something or some other proof emerges this is just speculation.

I'm realising that my goal with my blog is recapture the feel of the best 2000s video game magazines - written out of love for the sector and the games themselves, not as an outlet for frustrations and unfulfilled ambitions elsewhere in life.

@DoesItPlay1 Given where Microsoft have gone with their PC software, just wait until your console dashboard is a glorifed web browser and is effectively useless unless you're online...

RT @DoesItPlay1: Snapshot from the future. Shows exactly why online dependency will become a problem. Just a temporary outage today, but it…

@WorkTheSpace That... seems a sensible stance? I can't imagine why somebody would abuse you for that, but this is the internet.

@ObsoleteSony 🫡

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more respect I have for Sports Interactive and Sega for cancelling Football Manager 2025. Some of the comms could have been handled better, but there are many companies that would release a broken game for the sales. #FM25

@Terrythepin @FootballManager Honestly have a lot of respect for them for canning it. A lot of companies would have pushed it out regardless of quality for the sales.

@lordofthedarts1 Yes - there are a lot of companies (EA included) that would have just released the game anyway, regardless of its quality. If it really is in such a bad state, cancellation is probably the right call.

@_R3w1nd_ Even if it did release, it's not as though they would run out of copies of a downloadable product anyway! I never understand preorders these days.

@LagerTyke @FootballManager As long as this doesn't mark the move to the rumoured subscription model... 😬

@_cryptomoron @SteveSmithG @nocontextfm1 Yep - there are a lot of companies that would have done so.