Patrick Dane
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Gaming Editor @Dexerto . 11 year game journalist. Ex-Editor @TechRadarGaming . Bylines at @MetroUK , @IGN , @Eurogamer , @PCGamer , @GamesRadar + more.
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Hi. I'm Patrick Dane, the Gaming Editor at Dexerto. If you are looking to contact me, be it to tell me about games, enquire about something about the site, or send me nice messages about my work, you can contact me at Patrick.Dane
@dexerto
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You know, it's my job to obsessively look over release calendars and create content plans for upcoming games for our writers.
I mean this sincerely when I say - the what?
The Will Smith-fronted zombie survival video game Undawn has bombed, according to a new report.
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This is some reverse Mandela Effect thing, I'm certain. This thing just dropped into our timeline from another. I have to believe this.
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The longer time has gone on, the more I think this might be one of the great game trailers of all time.
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In seriousness - I feel for the devs and marketing. I'm sure everyone did their best, but it's so hard to break through the noise.
I feel like this kinda thing is a casualty of E3 + more going away. You know Will Smith would have turned up on some E3 stage to announce this.
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We loved him not because he loved us, but because he was one of us. He did not need to embrace the world of Destiny so completely. It could have just been a job for a big actor in a game - but it seemed he did it because he cared. That was special. Per Audacia Ad Astra.
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Pour one out for this guy, claiming politics has no place in video games while sporting a Bioshock avatar.
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This is my approach to management. "Shit happens, shit will happen again" is a key understanding. The important part is trusting your team to learn from mistakes. IMO, allowing that is imperative to being a good manager, but more importantly, encourages them to be better writers.
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I can't get into specifics but Overwatch reached Dex's top 2 most successful games last week.
Anyone saying the Overwatch playerbase is dying just doesn't see the numbers I'm privy to. Believe it or not, it's one of the best-managed communities in live service by the numbers.
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Decided to write today since it's been a second since something I've done published. Today, it's about how everyone talking in terms of a 'console war' is out of touch with what is happening in this upcoming generation.
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It's here. I was somehow allowed to interview
@pparsons
. I asked a lot, and he gave more. We covered things from Destiny during a pandemic, the culture at Bungie, crunch, the company's split from Activision, losing support studios and new projects. Enjoy.
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@NYExcelsior
While mistakes happen, this is an enormous one. Being in on a visa in a foriegn country and finding out you've lost your job, and therefore your security via social media before it's been communicated to you directly is such an awful situation.
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Next award:
@Dexerto
's Best Live Service game of 2023 is
@Blizzard_Ent
's
@PlayOverwatch
. This was voted on collectively by our writing team, who spend most days covering these games.
Overwatch 2 has quietly, yet impressively, been building its return. The future looks bright.
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@Glinner
You should be ashamed of yourself. It feels like you live with such hate in your heart. If you had any self-awareness you'd be sickened by saying shit like this, and not seeing the actual harm this movement you are a part of does.
(Deleted Tweet for context)
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The thing people get fundamentally wrong about Overwatch 2 is they lay the blame for PvE and the sequel announcement at the feet of the current devs, when they are the ones doing a hell of good a job trying to rescue it from a black hole.
NEW: Behind the scenes on Overwatch 2:
- Devs got a stunning 0% of profit-sharing bonuses this month
- No more PvE
- But there's optimism for the game's competitive future
This week's newsletter:
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MFW I point a glock at my computer, but it steals it and points it at me.
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@TheRalphRetort
@bioware
It's okay to be wrong as a journalist Ralph. Just say, "I didn't look into this enough". Doubling down looks worse.
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Just saw over 40 minutes of Alan Wake 2. Worry not - this game is a hard survival horror and the definition of spooky. It's confusing but by design and it's clear this is a game Remedy has poured itself into. The interweaving of rewriting reality is super neat. Very into it.
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I'm happy to announce that
@Dexerto
's Game of the Year, as voted on by 23 of our international writers is
@larianstudios
'
@baldursgate3
.
Putting together this list of the top 10 games of the year, showcasing what our writers loved was a real joy, and I think we have a strong 10.
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@EskayOW
Yeah she's actually busted.
Tell you someone who isn't busted though - Sombra. Please don't touch Sombra, Blizzard. She is fair and balanced and don't look at my win rate with her.
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This is the last thing that will ever happen to me on the Tangled Shore. Nice moment with a stranger.
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@_TechJess
@fuckedupfoods
Pickles are literally one of the highlights. People who don't eat pickles are literally just wrong.
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Having distance, I think the Overwatch 2 PvE news has been wildly overblown. I think it's a product of people catastrophizing, and think what is actually coming from PvE has been really lost in the noise.
Feel bad for devs putting out work, only to be told it doesn't matter.
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Thank you so much
@Soembie
for your words.
Thank you
@overwatchleague
.
I cried. I'm so grateful for this product. I don't know what I'd be without it. Roundabout, but it gave me my career back for reigniting my passion for gaming coverage.
I owe you all the world.
#OWLForever
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Evolve is having an unlikely resurgence in 2022, and it holds up great. More so, 2K Games allowing players to have peer-to-peer games for a 'dead game' could prove a road map for live-service game preservation in the future. This could be massive.
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Finished Legendary campaign. It's easy to say, this is the best campaign in Destiny 2's history, but that doesn't even give it justice. It's a hell of an experience, and three person legendary felt like the *chef's kiss* diffculty. Astounder work.
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I wrote about Overwatch 2 canceling PvE and why this is the best direction for the game. It was a compelling idea but it didn't come together, and Blizzard should focus on the game they have instead - because what they have right now is great.
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Snowflake students claim the Colosus were innocent - and the protagonist is the BAD GUY.
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no where is he
STEPHEN KING FUN FACT OF THE DAY:
In Andy Muschietti's IT: CHAPTER TWO (2019), Stephen King has a fleeting cameo as a Derry shopkeeper who overcharges James McAvoy's Bill Denbrough for a bicycle. Can you spot him in this picture?
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@MckKirk
@cleaverslips
@IrregularDave
@AdamRhysMase
@lucyjamesgames
@tamoorh
Right, I'm actually done now. This is the topper to my trilogy.
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Sony Press conference prediction:
Every game will be a third-person action game about a dad.
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@BostonUprising
@LeeJaeGon_OW
@smurf_ow
@STRIKER_OW
@DecayOW
@Birdring
@Izayaki_ow
@Dongsu_ow
@PRE_owl
@overwatchleague
This team is stacked, but man, it has the chance to go thermal nuclear.
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He made everything he touched better, and he touched Destiny so much. What a gift to have so much of him tied into us. It's hard to put into words how much this universe means to so many, and Lance was such a huge part of it. It's why so many are genuinely, genuinely sad tonight.
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@TheRalphRetort
@bioware
Cool. Might have been better to figure out what's going on here before saying she was 'Lead' in your article.
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I just found these years old clip of
@TrincaJamie
and
@SimonMiller316
losing their shit at a reply to an old VideoGamer video and it made me smile so I thought I shared it.
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@GeorgeCGed
@PlayVALORANT
Should probably think about things for like two seconds before you post.
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Man, these are Destiny 2 comms. Overwatch 2 team seems to have done an excellent job on higher difficulties with Invasion. This looks like a ton of fun.
(via
@jakeow
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@FroggerOW
You hunted down my translocator every time and it was the most terrifying time I've ever had as a Sombra.
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Honestly, Sony's biggest crime is convincing the entire industry that third-person, narrative-driven action RPGs are the pinnacle of gaming, and nothing else can compete when it comes to being 'great'.
Here they are.
Your six nominees for GAME OF THE YEAR at
#TheGameAwards
:
🔸 A Plague Tale: Requiem
🔸 Elden Ring
🔸 God of War Ragnarok
🔸 Horizon Forbidden West
🔸 Stray
🔸 Xenoblade Chronicles 3
🗳️ Vote Now:
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Just want to add a small bit of context to the sentiment that the game is being left to die or it's "dying", when in reality, it has one of the biggest, most hungry audiences in the world.
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Holy shit can you imagine being stuck as a third wheel conversation with James Corden and Bobby Kotick?
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Is it petty to lurk on a QAnon board and read them dismantling in real-time?
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You, a self-proclaimed intellectual: Haha look at all these liberal triggered by politics.
Also you: *tweets furiously about female Doctor*
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@b0gur
It's honestly my favorite thing when I see content creators talking about speculation about the new hero when I know for a fact they've played them. Really get to rate their acting skills.
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So, this has been a long time coming but we hit it, boys and girls. 100lbs down since February. 7.1 stone. I went from my heaviest ever to the lightest I've been in my 20s. It's been a weird road, but a steady one. Appreciate support out there, I hope to give it back. ♥️
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@Rainmustfall_
@HoshizoraOW
Did someone say…peanut butter?
Did someone say…peanut butter?
Did someone say…peanut butter?
Did someone say…peanut butter?
Did someone say…peanut butter?
Did someone say…peanut butter?
*all said over each other*
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@FLMayhem
Please do not feed Igunana bug. They're herbivores. They can technically eat bugs, but it should'nt be the basis of their diet. They won't get a lot out of it.
I'm sorry Iguana, but the Mayhem staff have to get you a new diet, and one with calcium sprinkled on your food.
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Yo stocks, your shit seems to be broken, susceptible, as seemingly everything is, to internet trolls.
One trader on Reddit turned $53,566 into more than $11 million.
This is the story of how WallStreetBets pushed GameStop shares to the moon
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@Flats_OW
I remember watching one of your games and my jaw dropping when I saw what her ult did to Whole Hog.
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@EeveeA
They've definitely not done a great job of giving this information. It's a big problem.
I am also convinced there is a lot of people who want the game to fail and are deliberately muddying the water and confusing people in twitter comments. I see it everywhere.
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@SaltagreppoD2
I think this is the kind of developer communicaiton that a community of players isn't versed enough in to understand the context of in terms of development. They don't have developers sitting around doing nothing, but is more about the reality of complex content thresholds.
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I was lucky enough to sit down with General Manager on Destiny 2,
@BobSugar
last week. It was right before the State of Destiny came out (I've provided extra context that's now available) but we went into where the game is and what's coming in the future.
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One thing I will say for Hades, is no one can seem to agree on what's the best weapon in the game. I feel like everyone has wildly different opinions because of how they play and that's geniuinely interesting as someone who plays games that chase metas.
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@LaurinofEarth
We keep having the same issue with Necrotic Grip on Warlock side. My kingdom for one Dawn Chorus ornament. We didn't even get it in the solar season -_-.
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@tha_rami
"Look, I just think it's unfair that developers are accepting deals that massively benefit them and allow them to make games they wouldn't be able to and I'm expected to download a second launcher."
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@Benjjjyy
The dude had some super suspect behavior previously too, right? I remember
@Sweatcicle
warning everyone about the guy a year or two ago.
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This is quite possibly, my favourite interview I've ever done and we talked on the record about a lot of stuff that basically hasn't been talked about on the record before. I'll go into more detail about what's in here after work, but go read it. There's loads in here.
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@PaulTassi
@Forbes
I don't think it really has a place in the conclusion of the Light and Dark saga. Rasputin is kinda resolved, and it's hard to see how it comes into play in the war of the light vs the dark. Be cool to see an armor ornament for cosmetics, but... ehh otherwise.
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The grown man sat back in his chair. He had toiled on this for days, perfecting his masterwork. He marvelled at what he'd written. What was about to be wrought. He hit send on his tweet. "The Last Jedi was bad. It ruined Star Wars."
"Yes. I am very smart" he said to no one.
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Was prompted to watch Love, Death and Robots by a couple friends. I'm into it, but it feels like someone has been adapting old graphics card box art into short films.
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@BadPachimari
I mean this in all sincerity. The benefits for sunsetting open queue far out weighs the mode. I think it's time to sail the mode down the stream.
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The Game Awards were also ad spots ahead of awards, but they weren't always like *this*. There was a time people were allowed to talk for a couple minutes and say things that were nice, and mattered. I really feel like this is the year it really began breaking at the seams.
More than 6,000 people lost their jobs making video games this year.
My
#TheGameAwards
speech might be eight years old, but it still sums up everything I’d want to say to those who were laid off and made our games this year.
Your work is worth it. Thank you.
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You know, the two party system is flawed in the States, but the Conservatives are so lucky they live in a world with two liberal leaning opponents who have to fight one another and virtually no opponent on their side of the spectrum.
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@Outlaws
@danteh
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@UberShouts
They've had an uncanny ability to spend a ton of money and turn it into total mediocrity. They spun gold into silver.
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The game is great right now. It gets better every season. Overwatch 2 is currently in a better state than the first game ever was when it comes to updates, releases, and community interaction. But it feels like they'll continue to pay for the crimes of those not there anymore.
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Ramattra, a familiar face to many Overwatch fans, is hero 36. He's the leader of Null Sector, a main antagonist but one with a sympathetic cause, bringing the political thrust of the lore to the forefront. He has two forms in game and it's all about managing when to transform.
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@OW_SVB
This is a good take. People are theorizing what if you come up against Joats and you don't have JQ unlocked, but if you're playing in ELOs with a coordinated Joats team, you're likely invested enough to buy or are playing enough to have unlocked every hero.
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@EeveeA
Was thinking about this last night. I think a lot of people forget this splash screen, but tbf, I do feel like Blizzard has stopped using it to market the game. I think they should have leaned harder into it tbh.
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Lifeweaver has one of the most unique kits in all of Overwatch 2. He promotes creativity and has exciting hero design. And I wrote about all that.
But is he good? I'm no expert – so I thought I'd get one. Here's what the excellent
@mL7support
told me.
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@ModernzRDM
Sir, this is the feds. I'm confiscating your rose-tinted glasses because they have infected your brain.
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@tallanxiousguy
@EskayOW
I'm joking. Sombra is busted, but I do think Sojourn and Genji are stronger picks right now. I think Sombra just has a distinct 'feel badness' as being hacked isn't fun for the other player. That said, new Sombra is perfect for my playstyle, so I'll play her regardless of nerfs.
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@SaltagreppoD2
This is a conversation meant for other developers about the reality of live service content creation and having it be sustainable in the long term.
I think it's easy to say, 'I'd wait 3 years', but would you feel that way 34 months in without content? Would the community?
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Did you listen to podtoid during the
@JimSterling
@ConradZimmerman
@NonTrotski
era and still think about it daily, or are you normal?
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A year after Lightfall's launch, Destiny 2 went from its highest high to its lowest low. Here's my reflection on the legacy of Lightfall, one mired by fumbled execution, layoffs, managerial issues, the cost of live service, and the audience's part in it.
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This really is every NFT launch by a major brand.
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@SkillUpYT
It's not only egregious to the workers, it's potentially compromising to reviewers if we begin to believe our scores affect pay-outs for workers.
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