Love or hate the song, Rockstar reached out to the songs creators because it's an instantly recognizable 80's track, so they definitely wanted it on their list. Having said that, the 80's were crammed full of classic songs, so there wouldn't have been much problem finding a replacement track, which I'll assume they're gonna do. Interestingly, top songs played by radio stations can earn the artist around £80:00 per play, so that can really mount up to a pretty massive figure.

Spotify pays on average £0.006 per stream, which may sound small but that can also add up to a massive income over time, so suddenly, £7500:00 doesn't really sound a whole lot when you sell hundreds of million of game copies rotating your song, each & every time the game is played, suddenly, you might feel a bit ripped off. Depends on how you look at it. Bottom line, is how much is that track worth, as a stand alone product?

I honestly can't remember the last time I paid full price for a game. I almost exclusively buy steam games under £10:00 & even then, I'm incredibly selective about what I buy.

I actually get bored of playing games these days very quickly & nothing really impresses me any more. Time has a lot to do with it but even when I'm off on vacation, I just don't want to sit around playing games.

I've refunded quite a lot of games through steam, even when I've paid very little for them because the games didn't really live up to my expectations. I have a stack of unfinished & brand new games not even installed on my steam library, never really sure when I'll get around to playing them, if ever actually. These are just impulse buys, or something that's been sat a long time on my wish list.

As for paying the current full price for a game at around £70:00, you have got to be joking. There's no way I'd put down that kind of money for ANY game & I've never EVER pre-ordered. Most I've ever paid for a game is something like £25:00 but I can't remember what game that was. It was quite a long time ago though. If you're paying full price for games these days, you probably want to re-assess your spending habits, unless of course you're the type of person that has more money than sense, has no kids or even a girlfriend. I dunno but I work full time & have a large disposable income but I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay £70:00+ for ANY game - period. If you can't find decent games to activate that itch for less than £30:00/£40:00, then you've got a problem. Paying £100:00 for a game is insane. I understand the economics behind it but there's just a psychological barrier to paying that much for, what is essentially, an unfinished product, with no way of knowing if 1) You actually own the game. If it's a digital copy, you don't really & 2) If the game will actually be continually supported by the developers down the road. £5:00 games on a sale isn't worth crying about but shelling out a £100:00 for a game I think I might like, is kinda crazy. Any game costing that much should by law, come with a decent demo, or at the very minimum, a very cheap early access entry point.

Looking at where the Alien franchise is right now, it was always going to be a tall order to put it back on track, so my guess is the review score is pretty accurate. Generally, GameSpot film review scores match my own pretty closely, so I'm not surprised. Trailers just looked kinda meh, so it follows that the film is shallow. You need someone like Cameron or Nolan running the show but I think at this point in time, the Alien franchise is well & truly dead.

The fact that Lone Echo 1 & 2 isn't on this list, is kinda insane.

Isn't that what employee bonuses are for?

@Bahamagamer: Yeah, let's not try & put a massive religious spin on this....m'kay?

Any franchise re-imagining will cost an absolute fortune.

It's basically a complete re-design of game mechanics & brand new assets. That will chew up massive amounts of money & resources, with no guarantee that it'll be a hit at the end of it. The stakes are huge at this level of game development, even for a company like EA.

Trying to predict what the trend in gaming will be in 3 or 4 years time is tricky & the smallest shifts in gaming patterns by the consumer can make or break a games success. It's all about the timing.

Catering to everyone's tastes is also impossible. Some people just want Battlefield 1, some want 2, 3 or Bad Company etc etc. I can't see that happening.

@wolfpup7: Nope. Steam OS is absolutely perfect for this device out of the box, unless you're absolutely desperate to play windows based games that can't get by the anti cheat mechanisms in place for those titles.

I don't lose sleep over that, given the thousands of other verified games available to play.

But yeah, this is a pretty amazing discount for a behemoth device that's already great hardware for the price. What are you waiting for?

Yeah, again, the Steam Deck really paves the way for how this stuff should be done, especially with the end user being able to replace pretty much every component the hardware is constructed of. You might be able to switch parts out but I doubt access into the device will be simple or straight forwards. Also, the replacement parts, if there are any, will be prohibitively expensive.

On top of that, it's pretty much tied to streaming only from games purchased from the PS store, which is really limiting, when you consider what else is out there.

It's a good question though. What is the point of this?

Very much a walled garden experience, which I absolutely do not want these days.

Steam Deck has really spoiled me in that regard & anything less than what Valves hardware offers me can just walk on by.