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For me, this is the most wonderful time of the year to be a video game journalist. I mean, it’s actually very busy and stressful. There’s no way you can play everything, and you catch yourself wishing you could hit pause on new releases just for a week or two.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

But I always get a kick out of this part of the fall, because for a six- to eight-week period, all there is to think about and write about is new games. Often pretty exciting ones. It’s just a great buzz, and a welcome refocusing on what really matters, what unites us all in this crazy business\/hobby\/obsession. It’s like playing a particularly dopamine-addled mobile game: ooh, shiny new thing! Ooh, another one!<\/p>\n

I’m juggling two good review games and the World of Warcraft: Forever<\/em> beta and having the time of my life. The Polygon team has yet to find any limit to its appetite for writing about Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave<\/em>. And did you hear that Ace Combat 8<\/em> is actually amazing? Yes, that’s right \u2014 Ace Combat 8<\/em>! One of the year\u2019s highest-rated AAA games, a bona fide must-play.<\/p>\n

A month ago, I welcomed this season with open arms as the end of a long summer of depressing news and messy discourse. At last, it would all be about the games. And the early fall has mostly delivered, give or take a Wolverine<\/em>. So of course, this week, Xbox decided to ruin our lovely time with one of its periodical bad news bombs.<\/p>\n