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As @PartyMarty says, it now seems to be working.

Surviving Mars: Relaunched has limited support, as in it works as long as the controller remains powered on. If the controller turns off, it stops recognising the K&M too.

I’ll definitely give Total Chaos a spin

I’m about to lose so many hours to Surviving Mars again.

They’d pretty much sold out by the time I looked. Would have considered one on interest free credit, but there was nothing for the X, and I refused to pay full price in one swoop.

All this could be cleared up instantly if Microsoft knew how to communicate information clearly who Xbox owners.

Unfortunately, Microsoft seem absolutely incapable of clearly explaining anything recently, and when they do come out and try to explain things, they often leave more questions than answers.

Got the deluxe edition through CDKeys for £41.99. Base version is only £34.99.

I loved the original Metal Gear Solid, but struggled to get into the second one. MGS5 was okay but repetitive and massively overrated. Still can’t decide if I like Death Stranding or not.

@Kaloudz if I wasn’t cursed with work tomorrow I would be there day one. The original was pretty good in game preview, with a lot of the basics there and mechanically in a good place. The jump to version 1.0 was huge though, with a massive expansion to the garden setting, and other features, like the ability to travel up zip lines, added fairly quickly afterwards.

Psychonauts 2 has been my favourite platformer of this generation so I’m excited to see what Double Fine do next

Played three games, remembered that I am absolutely crap at Gears multiplayer and promptly uninstalled it. I’ll definitely play through the campaign again when it’s released, but I just can’t get into the run, roll, shotgun gameplay of the multiplayer at all.

It’s showing as being available on Game Pass, but is trying to force me to pay full price for it.
I’ll wait a few hours and see if the store sorts itself out.

@Aniscape Usually I don’t spend too much time on the digital extras that come with pre-orders (this one was only £10 so decided to jump in) but on this occasion it’s been on whenever I’m not playing the game. The full soundtrack is on there, including the song about poor Benji

@Simu001 the brother and the tree, and the song that played when you had to climb to the top was pretty heartbreaking and dark as hell.

Really enjoying it, but wasn’t expecting to be hit in the feels quite so hard.

So far I’ve played the first hour, and I love what I’ve seen so far. It looks gorgeous, with a weird, Tim Burnton-like Deep South setting. Don’t want to post any spoilers, so I’ll just say the open sequence got me immediately hooked, and the music and sound really pulled me in.

I used to buy all the games I wanted at full price and on the day of release, both for single-player and multiplayer games.

Over the past five years or so I’ve been less and less inclined to play online multiplayer, which has led a marked change in my purchasing habits.

On the rare occasion a multiplayer game takes my fancy I’ll likely buy it close to release in order to play before the player base dwindles , but I’ll make use of CDKeys or similar sites to get large discounts. For single-player, I’m more than happy to wait a month, six months, a year or even longer to get it dirt cheap.

As for £80 for a game? Not a chance!! As much as I’ve loved Mario Kart since the original, I just can’t see where £80 of value comes in, especially since Nintendo’s online infrastructure is so poor, and the Switch 2 presentation has done nothing to make me think online play will be any better than it currently is. That leaves me look at the best part of £100 for a game I’ll only ever play solo. Absolutely struggling to justify that to myself.

I regularly jump back in just to blast around at ridiculous speeds and have a few races. Being a Scot I prefer blasting through mini Edinburgh in FH4, but only have enough hard drive space free for one of them, so 5 has been my go to.

I haven’t really been all that interested if truth be told. What I liked about earlier Assassin’s Creed games was going to time periods rarely touch in video games, such as the Middle-East during the Crusades, Renaissance Italy, the American and French Revolutions.

Another game set in feudal Japan, a time dozens of other games have featured, just isn’t as interesting to me.

@themightyant yep, I’m pretty sure that the Xbox One had 8GB of RAM in total, and Snap, other background apps and the dashboard continually hogged 3GB of that, so the console lost a tonne of power that could have been used on games. That and it used DDR3 instead of GDDR5 (which the PS4 used) which is why things like Dark Souls 3 were much lower resolution on the XB1

@Ricky-Spanish Got my code at 01:38am. Too bad the email notification woke me five hours early for the day shift, I’ll see if I can keep my eyes open long enough after work to give it a try.

@Ricky-Spanish no joy either unfortunately. Did get an email apologising and saying they were still working on delivering the correct key. Given it’s now the weekend I’ve zero expectation that a code will be forthcoming.

Enjoying it so far. Just finished the opening island area, not run into any bugs and the game runs very smoothly in performance mode (haven’t tried quality mode, and rarely do if there is a performance option). Looks gorgeous too.

@Ricky-Spanish I’ll update you if I hear anything too

@Ricky-Spanish still waiting too. Even went to the website we originally signed up on to see if a new code was somewhere under My Account (or whatever they call it) but couldn’t find anything.

@Kaloudz Dark Souls 3 is awesome (as are the other two) but can be quite tricky at some points. There is a summon system which is similar to Elden Ring, so if you have a co-op partner you can play through together. Only issue with random summons at boss fights is that there are far less people playing now, so chances of a decent partner will have decreased since launch.

@Ricky-Spanish same here. Took one look at the code and realised there’d been a mistake, then got the email to confirm that they were aware of the issue and working on it. Still no new code yet though.

The original NG:2 was one of the first games I remember preordering online for the 360. This version brings back many fond memories, even if it is a fair bit easier!

@Kaloudz the version you currently have from Game Pass is Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma, which is an updated port of the PS3 version of NG:2 which was originally an Xbox 360 game. From the trailer, this new Black version appears to be a complete remake of NG:2, judging by the fact it’s got the Unreal 5 engine mentioned in the trailer.

Shut up and take my money!!! Game Pass you say? Awesome!!

Vapourware at this point.

Pretty sure I read that GTAVI is projected to make over $1 billion in pre-orders alone, and that’s before anyone mentioned these possible price rises. If these price hikes turn out to be true they can take a run and jump. I’ve no interest in GTA Online, so can wait for a massive sale before I play the single-player, and that’s if I even bother at that point.

@Millionski you forgot to tell me you were typing all that and making the same point I was, but making it so much more clearly than I managed!

It must be a hell of a gamble to invest in Ubisoft right now. Assassin’s Creed still sells, but Far Cry, Star Wars, Avatar, Splinter Cell and all the other Tom Clancy games, The Crew etc etc have either been dormant so long they no longer have the selling power they once did, or have been meh at best.

@Ricky-Spanish same here. Everything has ground to a halt.

This is why I keep a list of my game purchases, wishlists, and owned DLC for Game Pass games on Deku Deals.

I’d be more excited if it was remastered by Nightdive. Being that this is made by Aspyr I think I’ll pass or wait for a sale.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Digital Deluxe edition is currently showing as £4.99. So glad I didn’t spent the RRP £99.99 just a few months back.

@awp69 I’ve used CDKeys for a number of years. Never had an issue, and saved an absolute fortune.

The first one (haven’t really bothered with the second so can’t comment) is definitely worth a download. Great game.

What I don’t understand is that on iOS in the UK I can access the full store on the PlayStation app, buy games and install them remotely to my PS5, but I can’t do the same with the Xbox app.
Anyone know the reason for this?

I’ve played a fair bit of C:S2 on PC, and despite a year having passed since launch it’s still as rough as a badgers rear end. Not as bad as launch, but still not where it needs to be.
On the plus-side, the French, German and UK creator content packs have just launched and are awesome, so hopefully if they can get the game ported to consoles they can add them ASAP as they are game-changers.

It’s the first COD I’ve played since the original Modern Warfare 2 way back in 2009.
Thoroughly enjoying it. Had a great time with the beta, and I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit getting trampled in the multiplayer and zombies since launch. Ive only done a few single player missions, but I already like the variety between stealth and all-out carnage.
Already have GPU stacked for a few years to come, so laid the extra £30 to get the all-bells-and-whistles edition (or whatever it’s called) and haven’t regretted it for a second.

Remember to use the new update preload feature to download the patch.

Head to manage game, and open the updates tile. The actual patch is about 121gb, so make sure you’ve got plenty of free hard drive space!

@Hydralicmonkey totally agree. Last COD I bought was the original MW2, but I though the COD6 beta was great fun, so me and my son are looking forward to playing on day one!

Toss up between 4 and Infinite.
I played a lot of 5 when it came out, and while parts of it are okay, the awful companion AI and awful plot make it by far the weakest entry in the series.

@liam_doolan I can confirm it is available and can be purchased on the Xbox store.

I haven’t been able to stream from my Xbox for ages now, so hopefully the combined app fixes that.
Can’t stream to my PC either though, so it’s more likely my Xbox console is the issue.

Aspyr. I’ll pass.