Jez Corden from Windows Central released his preview for the game The Ascent:
I have been looking forward to that game since last year (the May Inside Xbox I believe?), and it sounds like it’s going to be as good as it looks. What do you think?
It seems it’s launching July 29th. Great timing in my opinion, hopefully we’ll get Psychonauts 2 in June.
IGN’s (Ryan McCaffrey) preview:
Playing this Day 1 on GPPC for sure, hyped as hell.
Having said that, it’s just absolutely insane that this game costs more than Biomutant (an actual AAA 60 dollar game) where I live, seems like the regional pricing isn’t done well for this, too bad. Would probably have not checked out if the game wasn’t coming to Gamepass PC too, so I’m glad there’s at least that.
Same, day 1 install for sure.
What’s the price? There’s no price on Xbox Canada yet.
For context, I am talking about Steam (checked on MS Store and it’s the same)
Biomutant costs INR 1889 which is 25.86 USD (no discount available)
The Ascent costs INR 2099 which is 28.74 USD, but there’s a 10% pre-order discount bringing it down the same as Biomutant at 25.86 USD.
Ohh you’re in India?
And Biomutant is $26usd?? It’s freakin $77cad in Canada lol It looks cool but no way I’m paying that price.
Yes, Indian here 
And yeah lol Biomutant has great pricing, no idea why this one doesn’t, most games do have good regional pricing here. Like FH4 during a recent sale on steam came down to around 10 dollars while I was hearing Europe had it at 70 Euros base price which is just insane to me. Ain’t no way I’m paying that kinda money for these games lol
Yeah and Game Pass has completely spoiled me… Last game I paid full price was RDR2. I ended up not playing for a while because it ran like crap on my One S. Much better on my Series X now.
oh, man with today’s news on GTA V next gen upgrade, looks like Rockstar gonna charge again for a next gen patch, it’s fucking annoying that console folks still gotta deal with this nonsense.
Never been a big GTA guy, but it’s pretty incredible to see GTA V going. I don’t think we’re getting GTA VI anytime soon.
Lmao, I love how self-aware this account always is.
Alright it’s $40 in Canada, with a 10% discount ($36). Makes sense!
Decent pricing yeah, but still weird to see such disparities in regional pricing from out here hehe
Yes, I have no idea how these things work in the background! For example, the PS5 is $30 more here in Canada, but both $500usd.
Yeah, it looks pretty damn deep, it’s definitely not just a twin stick shooter, far from it.
Looking good
Happy to have a release date - feels like we’ve been waiting a long time! It’s one of my most hyped games for this year so I’m happy to see really positive previews.
