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VRChat was the metaverse before it was cool. 

There is no extent to the amount of money companies can drain from gamers. All that's needed is new ways to do it!

After a week of watching GamesDoneQuick, I've been doing nothing but playing games quickly. Neon White dropped at just the right time. The game constantly asks to be played faster and faster and, oh boy, did it grab me real hard. I've gotten an Ace on every level I've played so far and I think I might actually try to 100% the game. It's the first time I've actively sought to play, effectively, a platformer on PC. There's some tricks I've landed that I am sure I would not have been able to get if I played on Switch.

Oh, and here's the news.

When was the last time a remade game needed to be remade? I was thinking the Master Chief Collection, although that's more along the lines of the game being fundamentally broken at launch and needing to be progressively reworked. Some studios simply invest in re-remaking failed titles, like the recent Warcraft 3 remaster. Tweet @8BitsGG with your thoughts of re-remade games.

I don't think about it very often, but the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series was really foundational to me early in my gaming career. It was pure gaming bliss in the 3D age, which wasn't as popular in the 3D era outside of Sega arcade ports like Crazy Taxi. It's partially why I still love pure games like arcadey mobile games. Not everything needs to have some groundbreaking story to it as long it's fun, and oh boy, Tony Hawk is fun. 

At some point with a franchise you have so many entries that you completely forgo numbers and just start adding colons and subtitles. Assassin's Creed hit that point a long time ago, to the point that they are now completely skipping numbers and just doing all of them. 1, 2, subtitles, 3, 4, subtitles, every single number ever (infinity.) Do you think there will be another one after Infinity? Or will Ubisoft change the name after the leak last year. I'm banking on Assassin's Creed: Monetization. 

It's here! Every June, thousands of gamers across the globe tune into their video platform of choice to watch hours of marketing presented as some sort of capitalistic holiday. This year, with the cartel of industry leaders putting their own show to pasture, only one man could crawl out of the rubble, Mountain Dew cans, and mountains of Doritos Dust to bring gamers the marketing menagerie they crave, and his name is Geoff Keighley. 

LeChonk better evolve into LeChungus or we riot.

Hell yeah, unions. 

With Starfield and Redfall both delayed out of this year, Microsoft has no more first party for the rest of 2022. The Xbox and Bethesda presentation are coming up in about a month, so maybe more games will be revealed there? Perhaps the long-coming Forza Motorsport reboot? Fable? We'll have to wait and see. 

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