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Her FB post is beautiful to read.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/07/11/playstation-store-junes-top-downloads-3/ PS4 PSVR F2P PS Classics Vita Europe https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018/07/11/fifa-18-was-the-best-selling-game-on-playstation-store-last-month/#sf193500194 PSVR The Last of Us charts so often; Part 2 is going to be huge. God of Legs continues to... have legs.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-11-playstation-4-is-doing-so-well-we-dont-forget-why-were-here-now On the PS1's success, the move to PS2 and the shift in Sony's types of games: On the PS3's development troubles. The shift to Vita/PS4:

'Trump is ours!': Russian state TV celebrates Trump's suggestion that Crimea is part of Russia

You already saw what he was up to in 2, so suck it up.

I'd be interested in Dead Rising 4.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/us/puerto-rico-woman-harassed.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nintendos-newest-smash-bros-game-showcases-its-odd-relationship-with-esports/2018/07/05/ad8632fe-7568-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?

*bookmarks*

The OP, dude.

I beat the whole game without purchasing one loot box with real money. You can use in-game currency to hire captains, but that's not really a bad thing. The sieges are a ton of fun. They probably could have removed a couple stages during the end game, but sieges as a whole feel great, especially when you're losing and enemies are breaking down walls.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-07-02-2018-hurricane-season-forecast-csu-twc-july

It comes from the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and actually seems pretty accurate. I think it's not how left or right the judge is but how left or right they are compared to the current court in 2016 (and how Kavanaugh fits in). For example, in terms of actual scores, Kennedy is to the right:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/pregnant-migrant-women-miscarriage-cpb-ice-detention-trump

Here's the special report on it.

The whole article is good, so read more than just the picture, which shows how much more liberal/conservative the justices are compared to the court (not how liberal/conservative they are in general).

I made the palico look like my cat. It was so awesome. I started messing around with the palico's voice pitch to get it to sound like my cat and my actual cat perked up when he heard them.

Didn't you say they were gonna lose elections last year and then remained silent after Republicans got their teeth kicked in Virginia and New Jersey and Washington and Alabama? Didn't you say nothing and avoid the boards during the dozens of special elections in deep red districts that voted Trump 2-1 yet voted Democratic? Is that what not sticking looks like? Let's hope @SomeRandomNecro doesn't bookmark your post.

I think with Pokemon, it's the two SKUs that prevent it from reaching Top 10. With Smash, I think it's the December release.

https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/blog/2018/video-game-industry-predictions-for-holiday-2018/ First, a summary of the bustling video game market: Now the predictions: Driven by the launches of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo Switch will be the best-selling console of the fourth quarter and year in unit sales. By year’s end, the time aligned installed base of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will exceed that of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox by 6 percent and will be ahead of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by at least 30 percent. All three current generation consoles will each generate at least 4m units sold in 2018. Headset and gamepad sales will continue to show very strong growth rates through the rest of 2018, with high double-digit growth shown in the fourth quarter for both accessory types. Physical video game title release count will exceed 400 unique titles, finishing the year up at least 15 percent when compared to 2017. Physical video game software dollar sales will finish the year with growth of at least 8 percent when compared to a year ago, while digital full-game sales will continue to grow at double digit percentage rates.

I loved Timesplitters 2 and spent a lot of time creating maps; I just don't remember the single-player "story" being more than what seemed like disconnected stories. It's funny; I actually get your point somewhat because games like Halo and Half-Life 2 were so hugely influential in the 2000s. Those genres, in terms of popularity, really flourished to the point where even Sony was trying to get in on it with their own FPS franchises, Killzone and Resistance. But I don't know if I've noticed a decline necessarily? Among the other games mentioned, plus the Deus Ex games Human Revolution and Mankind Divided (which are definitely more hybrid since they're more RPGs with FPS elements), there's been quite a bit. I think some of the bigger, more popular genres have shifted, though, so while Overwatch is very popular, battle royale games like Fortnite are taking over the public conscience at the moment.

Some of those are first-person games, but I'd question if they're FPS games (Prime and Fallout 3 in particular). I guess it's fair to say they have some elements of that even if they're not in the classic vein like the original Doom or Quake. Timesplitters 2 I don't remember having a memorable campaign; its strength was making a map yourself (and again, the lack of jump felt a bit strange just a couple years after its release). Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, and Bioshock: Infinite were all released in the 2010s. And since I think FPS is being stretched just a bit on this, Portal 2 and Fallout: New Vegas were released this decade, along with Titanfall 1/2 and DOOM. Personally, I prefer third person anyway, so I'm happy to see some shift in that direction (I prefer something like Horizon Zero Dawn over the Killzone series, to the shift is all the better for me).

You said success in regards to Overwatch, so I brought up the sales. Also, 8th for the year and only being out for two months is pretty fantastic. I don't really look at Metacritic as a good comparison since reviewers used to hand out 100s like hot cakes. Many of the high-scoring FPSs of yesteryear, like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, are slideshow games now with their horrid frame rate, and have weird decisions nowadays like auto-aim and a lack of jumping. So you can cite their Metacritic scores, but I wouldn't put too much stock into them if you did.

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