We've played Showdown Effect with my son yesterday and yep: the game is still amazing and FREE!

But you need at least one person, since there are no other people online.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2242420/The_Showdown_Effect_Reloaded/
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You have been Rematched!

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Battlefield 6 trailer will be released in 48 hours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNCgJG0vnY
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Only in Battlefield

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The official Battlefield 6 gameplay leaks

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If this turns out to be a flop, I certainly won’t fall for it again in five years... right?

https://www.youtube.com/live/c_BRbvYxgOY
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There's something unbelievable going on and all polls are nearly identical even among CoD fans:

No one gives a damn about the upcoming Black Ops, but people are generally hyped about Battlefield 6.

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The open beta reached over 330K CCU and gained fairly positive feedback. Battlefield 6 is surprisingly fast, intense, and more focused on ground forces and tight combat.

The vehicles oriented maps are yet to be revealed. And some players believe it is intentionally competing against Call of Duty.

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If you want to play BF6 now (and not wait for Open Open Beta), you can just launch your EA App, open Twitch, open ANY BF6 stream of a big streamer and get a key from his chat to activate in EA app.

Yes, it gives you early access for free.
Users also drop some extra they have.
Bots drop them every few minues.

Wait, is the game good?
Feels like BF4 + Insurgency Sandstorm!
(And I like it)

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Bros, Halo is alive!

Also, the remaster of original games is indeed amazing (when login works)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_0rAndYjo
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An interesting take on SBMM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW_uLr2HGNk
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Wargaming is switching to modern tanks? The game used to be called Project Cold War as working title is how WoT Heat.

IMO: don't make so much blur, bloom, and aberrations. It's a multiplayer game, we need to SEE ENEMIES. Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VXeTK3-lMA
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Oddly enough, BF6 campaign, according to insights and appeared footages, is not reaching the glory of the multiplayer:

It's stiff and rough, the NPCs are too scripted, the events are too narrow most of the time. And even a few epic moments that look good, are more like “as good as some multiplayer events can be”.

The team should've tried to make it more organic and natural, IMO. The stakes are too high for BF as a whole.

(Via: Bigfrytv on youtube)

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Yeah, if you missed the point: the recent "COD lost $300m because of GamePass" isn't true in my opinion.

They lost it because the series is getting worse for what was supposed to be their target audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7M4_KZL2U
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Firebreak? More like fired and broke: the new multiplayer game from Remedy struggles to find the audience.

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How to show everyone that you've never played Battlefield before...

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Meanwhile, Arc Raiders, a paid extraction shooter by Embark Studio (ex-Dice team, created The Finals), is getting over 300K CCU on Steam!

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Both gamers and critics are disappointed in Black Ops 7.

The campaign is messy surreal and pointless. It may find the audience later, same as it happened with Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare.

But the story is online only, which means, the campaign will only live while servers are up. The campaign doesn't even allow you to pause it, since it's technically a Warzone-like instance running, so escape just shows the menu, while the bots are still fighting.

And the multiplayer is just a digested mix of all previous games and has no personality. They are making it all look and feel like a reference to the series and not the new game in the series.

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Tarkov is also not doing great on Steam... thanks to their launcher that simply doesn't work for like half of the people.

Even so, 20K CCU for a relatively niche game is OK. But not absolutely fine, since Duckov (a parody, dammit) has six times more.

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