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Not to put too much of a damper on anyone's excitement, but several of these previews mention that the game's performance can be somewhat...uhhhh..."dire" on occasion:

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The art design for the in-game version of Paris is pretty much entirely from Viktor Antonov who created City 17 for Half-Life 2.

To the best of my knowledge, only GFW Magazine covered The Crossing - I really don't recall PC Gamer doing so or at least to the extent GFW Magazine did.

So these morally complex issues that are legitimately impacting the lives of others are a source of amusement for you? Well, in that case, I guess it would be a good time to remind you that my sense of humor is now practically non-existent by giving you a vacation from here for a few days. Consider it a favor as it'll give you a few days to play Jedi: Survivor without distraction.

The bottomline is this: a pro-life person had better be willing to unreservedly support the significantly higher social spending which will lead to the economic conditions that would be required to truly implement a "culture of life" (whatever the hell that is) AND the necessarily higher taxes that would be required to pay for that state of affairs, otherwise they have absolutely no moral leg to stand on and I don't want to hear a word out of their goddamned mouth.

What race are they? Do they have special needs? Would your parents have made those truly, genuinely selfless actions if they weren't in an economic position to do so?

And what if that was a special needs baby that would require significant care for the rest of their lives?

Yes, because subjecting a child to the underfunded, understaffed, neglected hellhole that is the American foster care/adoption system is a fate worse than death. Your idea might have some degree of very minor merit if a certain group of politicians didn't keep cutting the budgets of the social services that would enable mothers to give birth who would otherwise be considering abortions due to economic circumstances. But because we don't live in that world, I guess I'll keep supporting murder.

I'll post the hands-on previews (and there are a LOT of 'em!) later this evening.

I've updated @Keyser_Soze's OpenCritic reviews post:

I really, really have serious reservations about the ultimate effectiveness of this now near-mythical UAF counteroffensive operation.

No issue from me!

Methinks the SEC should ask a few questions as to why ATVI started to slide 30+ minutes BEFORE the CMA publicly made the announcement of the block.

The cloud-based reasoning does make it seem like the CMA had made up its mind to block and then crafted a post-hoc justification that contains just enough "reasonable" theoretical assumptions about the future of cloud gaming to pass the "rationality" standard upon appeal. If anything, the CMA smartly tossed Sony's console-based SLC arguments to the curb in order to avoid the appearance of partiality to the market leader.

I'm really quite the complete opposite - I'm ALL about the procedural aspects of this and largely indifferent to the fallout (was that a pun on your part?)! LET ME SEE THE SAUSAGE-MAKING IN ITS FULL GLORY!

After some discussion on ResetERA, it would seem that the only vehicle for MS/ABK to get this case into the actual UK civil court system would be to file a lawsuit against the UK government/CMA. The actual CAT/CMA ruling itself CANNOT be appealed into the UK civil court system. Edit - further information from ResetERA:

Man, this is practically the ONLY thing that CNBC is talking about today. I guess they're just not used to a regulatory body just saying "LOL no LOL"

The legal route in the UK is MUCH less viable than the US where the FTC gets routinely laughed out of court (unsure about the EU). MS/ABK will now appeal the decision to the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) who will determine the validity of the appeal based on these grounds: If the MS/ABK appeal to the CAT is successful, the case goes BACK to the CMA for re-adjudication. My understanding is that there is an appeal process to the actual UK judicial system itself, but the specifics of how that gets executed are very murky to me.

And I'm REALLY getting sick and tired of it.

MSFT: +8.3% ATVI: -10.96%

Yes, I genuinely believe this deal is now effectively DOA.

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Sure, and MS could shift those operations to other markets if the economic incentive existed to do so (i.e., other markets providing significant tax incentives). But that's really the only condition that I see that would cause that to happen. It would be business malpractice to shift operations from the UK -- which does offer economic incentives for game development -- to another location that doesn't offer the same or greater economic incentives simply out of spite.

It's really quite laughable on the face of it.