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Its impressive they went with xbox instead of The Copilot Bowl or something. It is a smart place to advertise xbox though.

Everytime I hear the title i think it is related to the wreckfest franchise which is one of my favorites. I still want to pick it up eventually, probably once it gets a decent discount.

I prefer the skill based matchmaking to the free for all open matches. I dont see the appeal of having players of the lowest skill level and esport level talent in the same matches.

Nightdive is awesome. No one else nails the balance of staying true to the original but also making improvements like they do.

They all sound pretty great. I will definitely try them out. I want the post game analytics to tell me all kinds of wierd stats like my shots per reload ratio.

We will probably see both at the January dev direct and might get a better release window then.

Wasn't expecting much of a celebration considering the bigger xbox anniversary is next year.

I dont really know what they could have done to excite me for the milestone. Held the gears 1 release back? But I would rather have it earlier and that still wouldnt make me feel anything for the 360.

I have a gift card that I want to use before I forget about it but haven't got a clue what I will buy with it.

Its hard to believe there are 14 games ahead of Minecraft. Even with the late in console life release I thought what has gone on to be the best selling game of all time would easily beat out all other 360 games.

If you want more people to play and talk about your game then exclusivity is a bad choice. Its not surprising that the people making the games want to put them everywhere. This is most likely true for the majority of employees at every studio. Not many people on consumer or developer side actually want exclusivity.

If its not play anywhere then I am most likely buying the game on Steam.

For all xbox sales, I filter for play anywhere and as far as I'm concerned those are the only games on sale.

They market the steam deck as a pc instead of a console as well. I wouldnt take their statement as confirmation that it is like $1000. Im guessing this comes in around the highest steam deck price, $600-700.

Even if it is substantially more expensive than a console, it will have a larger library of games and those games will have much better discounts. There will be no monthly online charge. It will be cheaper in the long run.

Back when ea, ubisoft, and Activision were all simultaneously on some of the best hot streaks of all time.

The best software on the worst piece of hardware the industry has ever seen.

One of my favorite fps of the last decade. What a gem!

I almost exclusively buy games at the deep discount phase. Games that do not ever go to those levels of discount, I am much more likely to just skip.

Most gamers probably have a substantial backlog built up. Just play those until the current new releases drop in price. It forms a never ending cycle of games to play and your gaming budget goes 2-3 times further or more.

People will still try to say they arent making hardware.

Im glad 007 is going to be a play anywhere title. I dont really consider buying xbox games that are not compatible.

Its good to hear paradox is not abandoning the game or franchise. I like both cities skylines games.

@DarkTron yes they pay me copious amounts of money to not give a crap if the icon on my call of duty profile was generated by AI or not.

I will defend the call of duty use of AI. Marketing images, Calling cards and other player icons are a great use case for AI. It has no impact on in game experience and even if "human created" they will not enrich my time with the game in any way.

The most appealing part of the steam machine might be the portability of the form factor. That thing is just begging to be in my luggage for trips to hotels or the cabin.

Nascar 25 and forza motorsport mostly. I would like to get around to finishing spiderman 2 at some point. It has been jamming up the backlog for way too long.

Steam benefits greatly from the xbox ally. People will use steam and buy games.

Xbox also benefits from steam machine/steam deck. Its another place to buy xbox games.

These arent really "competitors."

Music rhythm games seem like a natural fit for AI. Im optimistic about this pairing.

84 on metacritic after 14 critic reviews seems pretty decent especially for cod.

Fan boys have been brainwashed too well to think of anything other than "winning" or "losing."

Rock n roll racing is great but like most of these games, I have it on dozens of emulation devices.

Wreckfest is an awesome game (also in gamepass). Highly recommend.

All this really means for xbox is that low specs are here to stay. Developers will continue to target the switch 2 and modest pc builds like this. Hopefully they (or a 3rd party) release a series S successor next gen alongside the unnecessarily expensive one.

I couldnt disagree with this take more.

Xbox one released about 13 months after GTA5 was released on 360. Xbox really doesn't care that much about getting you off current gen and onto the next gen as long as you are still actively engaging in their ecosystem.

Gta is no doubt a massive release but people put way too much stock in how much it affects the entire industry. Xbox can still celebrate its anniversary, studios can release games the same month. The world won't stop when this game releases.

I don't think xbox is concerned at all. Yet another place to buy and play their games. Get gamepass working on steam and they should be all good.

The real victory is the death of the term "console exclusive." That era is truly behind us. Good riddance.

Im definitely getting one of these. Probably going to tinker around with it and try windows on it.

I dont think steam will need to work with xbox to put steam on the next xbox. If it really is an open pc then the user will be able to get steam on it.

Kind of like Gabe's response when asked if steam deck would be able to have windows. He basically said yes of course, its a pc so you can do whatever you want.

The steam machine has been heavily rumored for a long time. Its not like xbox is caught off guard by this.

I will probably be putting windows on the steam machine if/when I get one. Steam os is great for steam gaming but everything else is kind of a hassle.

Pc console is about to be a market. There will be a lot of these. Xbox will probably work to get a few of them branded as xboxs.

I do hate when reviews get outside the game itself. They arent even really giving an opinion on the in game ai voice gen itself and just using the practice as a whole as the basis of their low score.

I also agree with nexus and assume every new game uses AI in some form. It would be stupid not to.

I will probably be going with standard skill based if I play this game. I dont understand the desire to play with people who are vastly better or worse than you.

Skill based match making hasn't been perfected by anyone but I dont think we should give up on it. Ideally it would work well enough where we dont need filter options for things like input devices.

Its not surprising that the company that struggles with fps multiplayers couldn't fix a struggling fps multiplayer studio.

Im at premium but considering going back to ultimate for the winter.

From this "active user" perspective, ps4/xb1 is still going strong. This is kind of a nothing burger. It certainly doesn't mean the ps6 is any further away than we thought.

I always preferred the Dave mirra games to Tony hawk. I might have to check this one out and see if it hild a candle to the legendary DM games.

Series S paired with the xscreen is awesome. I have gotten a ton of milage out of that system for also having the Series x and a powerful pc to play xbox games on.

I would mostly ignore it and celebrate as planned. They can include GTA's long history on xbox in their celebration but they should still do whatever they were going do and release whatever they were going to release (if the hypothetical game is ready for release).

You cant skip such an important 25 year anniversary because another gaming event is happening around the same time.

I imagine they will go back to the outer worlds 3 before too long.

I always liked halo 4. Excellent game, 9/10.

This plus the past data mines referencing a pc launcher and leakers claiming that sources within sony say a pc launcher is being made with cross entitlements, I think we can assume one is at least being worked on. Getting new symbols ready to release suggests they really are going down this route (and soon!). Plans can change but this bodes well for pc and possibly future xbox devices. Very exciting prospect to not have Playstation games locked to their console.

@Fiendish-Beaver at this point, I think its safe to say sony is working on a pc launcher and cross entitlement. Its just a matter of if they see it through to the finish line or change plans.

@Fiendish-Beaver a lot of twitter accounts are talking about a datamined "crossbuy" icon next to ps5 and pc icons but treating it as a rumor.

https://x.com/xMBGx/status/1985809174413131785?t=F_krFJd8c4qff2OWaA3NMQ&s=19

Here is push square picking it up

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/11/leaked-cross-buy-icon-on-ps5-hints-at-mysterious-pro-consumer-move-from-sony

More rumors of sonys cross entitlements with pc have been surfacing. This would almost surely mean day 1 pc releases. If this is true and the next xbox really is a pc hybrid then all these games would be playable day 1. A lot of ifs but each one has substantial smoke surrounding them.

Ever notice how many xbox games are available in Amazon Luna at the standard level subscription? All you need is a prime account. Indiana Jones is available to play with just a prime sub.

Not much for me this week. Dark diety 2 and Siberia remastered will probably get my money down the line when they are cheap. But nascar 25 finally hits steam this week so I will be pulling the trigger on that.

Alan wake 1, halo infinite, burnout 3, and south park: the fractured but whole.