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Has anyone seen much coverage of this game from anywhere but the developers themselves? It’s making me a little nervous that no one’s really talking about this game, I was kind of looking forward to it. I don’t know if it’s a bit of a stinker, if everyone’s preoccupied with E3, or some combo of the two.

Can anyone remember the name of this PS4 game I’m thinking of? First person, very dark/neon aesthetic, you played a wizard or something. I think I remember seeing trailers for it a couple years back. I want to say it didn’t seem very combat-heavy; more puzzle focused. Thanks in advance for any guidance!!

This post is amazing!

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This is great!

Here's the reveal trailer.

I was a manager at GameStop for a few years, and on more than one occasion, the preorder price in the system was just a placeholder that was later changed. And if a customer paid off the entire preorder before the price was finalized, we would just refund them the extra cash/credit/whatever they used to pay. Or, like Heroes of the Storm, there could be a boxed retail copy that has a certain price that differs from the downloadable version.

I echo the sentiment of really not wanting a $60, multiplayer-only game.

I can't imagine the gameplay between these two will be extremely different, but everything else aside, I'm very interested to see how the fanbase for these two games grows over the next few months based on the openness of the developers. It could be just me, but it seems like more people (at the moment) are interested in Overwatch, but Blizzard is keeping that beta veeerryy closed and has not announced a release date. Not as many people seem interested in Battleborn, but 2K is inviting more people to play their beta, which starts tomorrow, and has announced a release date of February 9, 2016.

So I wonder if the sheer act of allowing lots of people to play, rather than allowing lots of people to watch select streamers and journalists play, will garner Battleborn some good will simply by being in the right place at the right time.

With Hearthstone and Heroes o' the Storm previously, and now Overwatch, Blizzard has taken to promoting games during their beta and alpha tests crazy hard. Huge foci are placed on community involvement, but with no way to go buy the games at that time and no release date to count down to, that relentless promotion only serves to frustrate a large part of the fanbase. Blizzard even had a huge Heroes tournament, "Heroes of the Dorm," that was covered on ESPN, while the game was still in closed beta.

Testing games that have heavy online pvp elements is absolutely crucial, but unyielding promotion for games that neither the RNG gods nor Blizzard selected you to play makes it hard to want to engage with what's happening. It's fine to not be invited to beta test a game like this, but don't stuff it down my throat that there are tournaments, community events, and a bunch of streamers getting to play, while I can't.

While we're all obsessively checking our battle.net accounts to see if we got beta invites on Tuesday, here are the videos from earlier this month when Blizzard invited streamers HayliNic and Ellohime to their HQ to play Overwatch. It's the same set of matches, but from their two perspectives on opposing teams.

Ellohime's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41dDmvkdTbM

HayliNic's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWF6R08kCI

Good luck getting an invite!

I feel punished by Nintendo for having bought a Wii U.