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To understand where Microsoft wants to steer its customers, we need to look at the different value propositions it offers. In the old Xbox Live Gold pricing scheme, this was fairly clear: you could pay $10 for a month, $25 for three months, or $60 for 12 months. By providing such a large price break on a yearly subscription compared to the monthly or quarterly ones, Microsoft was gently pushing its users to subscribe on an annual basis for the "best value." Eating some of the cost was worthwhile to have a steady base of devoted Gold members, many with the annual bill re-upped automatically. … [Read more...] about Xbox Live Gold’s Price Is Increasing For One Reason: To Shove You Toward Game Pass

In either case, it doesn’t feel like a Resident Evil 4 remake developed today would do anything that the original doesn’t already do on GameCube, other than buffing the graphics. Fans itching to revisit Leon Kennedy’s journey can do so at any time. Instead, let’s allow Capcom to create the kinds of new games that future generations will view with the same reverence 20 years from now. … [Read more...] about No, Resident Evil 4 shouldn’t get a remake — at least not right now

While overshadowed by Team Ico's sophomore effort Shadow of the Colossus, ICO remains a cult classic from the PlayStation 2 era. You play as a young boy with horns who was banished to an abandoned fortress and must find his way out while escorting a princess and avoiding a shadow monster. It's a minimalistic adventure with few words that uses its atmosphere to tell its somber, moving story. The roughly 25-minute soundtrack is filled with soft melodies created mainly by piano, acoustic guitar, and synths. Officially titled "Melodies in the Mist," the soundtrack is a prime example of how powerful music doesn't have to be complicated. A number of its best tracks use three-chord structures with ambient background noise that quickly sweep you up in their simplistic beauty. … [Read more...] about Best Video Game Soundtracks: Where To Stream Them

iRacing, PC It's race week! Well, it's race month, really - the season kicks off proper with the 24 Hours of Daytona at the tail-end of January, and before that we get its virtual counterpart run in iRacing. Prepping for one of these things is serious business, and my team's been running test sessions and fine-tuning our set-up since the festive break, and with only a handful of days to go until lights out things have started to get really serious. We're currently in the process of getting the livery down for Scuderia Chickenhouse's Dallara LMP2, and it's perhaps the most important task of the lot. … [Read more...] about What we’ve been playing

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