I'm not really into much Blizzard stuff, but I hope the Starcraft shooter is good. Open world gives me concern though. I just hope it doesn't do generic open world stuff like a Ubisoft game.

@CasualGamerFatigue I'm 34, and you write like a miserable 4channer ignoring responses just to claim victory

I'm jumping between South of Midnight and Terminator: Resistance.

SoM looks great, the story and voice acting both are really good, but the gameplay is just... passable. It's kind of a chore to play because of how safe and formulaic it is.

Terminator Resistance is super low budget but actually pretty fun for the most part, it reminds me of an Xbox 360 era game, though the lack of enemy variety does make it tedious in the latter half of the campaign where plasma weapons are the only viable choice and there's only a few, of which none are really that interesting.

I think the biggest issue is that Game Pass is just on Xbox. Netflix is on everything. Everything. Sure, the cloud streaming app is on smart TVs, and the Meta Quest, but those are still pretty small numbers as Xbox has recently said. You can't reach Netflix numbers if you're only on a fraction of devices.

@txpistolpete Nope, for whatever reason Microsoft had this "meh, we don't care" brief era where games released around that time weren't Play Anywhere. Minecraft Dungeons 1, for whatever reason, also does not support Play Anywhere which is incredibly stupid.

@themightyant A year ago it would be a fair concern, but the Sony of today only cares about milquetoast single player games and live service, hellbent on killing their entire empire just to force one big hit.

Now, counter argument, could still be an absolutely bad game or wasn't shaping up well, or pulling a Double Fine and being consistent only in missing deadlines... but it's hard to give Sony the benefit of the doubt lately after the numerous blunders. Still can't believe they shuttered Bluepoint.

Oh wow, that's amazing. I'm so glad DQ is getting more western attention. Looks like I'll be buying Mystery Dungeon soon...

@CasualGamerFatigue A few, yes. I have no interest in collecting every single delisted game, just ones I actually have wanted to play but haven't had an opportunity to do so. With my preference for digital, that means I wouldn't have bothered to buy these physical copies otherwise.

@ReverendKeyrlis (I'm comboing these replies together so I don't spam replies.) — I already do this, up to what my lease allows. This is my point, not to make assumptions based on a single statement. I have cats, and I already have maximized plenty of space, a great portion which goes to them to give them quality of life and make sure they're happy, verticality play space included. They're a priority over placing more plastic boxes somewhere. A lot of storage space has also been taken up by family keepsakes of passing family members and the like. Again, with this topic veering out of bounds I'm trying to wrap it up, it's not just as simple as you think it might be.

@ReverendKeyrlis Huh? I have a small apartment. Why does everyone jump to absurd conclusions on these topics?

Edit: Since this conversation is veering off topic, I'm gonna end it with this: if you like physical, great. Never said it's bad. There are plenty of pros and cons for both sides, I just lean towards the digital side for various reasons. This initiative benefits my digital preference.

@CasualGamerFatigue I've never once said that or implied it. I'm only looking to some physical games now as there are benefits to some I can't access digitally otherwise, in the case of delisted games. I will happily continue to buy digital a majority of the time, but Xbox has made some physical games worth it for people like me that have-and will continue- to ignore physical outside of special exceptions like this. In my case, I don't have much storage space for physical, and I've never had a Microsoft console which hasn't had a crappy disc drive that eventually gave out.

Don't throw passive aggressive garbage blanket statements out at people based on (1) one comment.

I just bought my first physical disk in... 14 years?.. today, TMNT Mutants in Manhattan, since it gets a digital copy. I'm eyeballing GI Joe and a couple others.. I'd pay for Deadpool but it's been at scalper prices for ages, I'm not biting for that much. If i ever found a copy for $20-30, sure, but im not holding my breath.

I might grab some of the Transformers games before they skyrocket further, because let's be honest, scum sucking scalpers will prey on this for sure.

I'm actually going to buy some physical games that have been delisted, thanks to this. It's nice that they are getting a second life.

Oh wow. Is it weird that the 'brown and bloom' style from the 360/PS3 era is making me nostalgic? I like the look of this.

@badboidre ...I don't know any of what you just said or what it's supposed to mean, it was a word salad of not liking popular things? You seemed to be upset because... I play games with friends? This is what I was talking about, don't do these 'blanket statement' kind of claims inferring something about me because of two games I mention playing.

The only thing I see happening is Asha handing over the rights, if they do still own it. If they let all the studios they set free retain their IP (a GOOD thing) then I imagine modern Xbox would be happy to do the same here. Or keep on as usual but with a seriously scaled back budget, but this one I really don't see happening.

I like Kamiya, even though at the time I wasn't super into this game. If he's still carrying love for it, I hope to see it finished. I'd buy it.

This is actually a decent price. I don't know if it'll help turn things around but this is a smart first move by them.

@Nall3k Hands off to a point. There's creative meddling and there's seeing an easy mark and wasting money on his watch for 6+ years, which is what I believe most of these studios did. The damage Phil let happen under his watch is still yet to finish.

@badboidre Meh, don't blanket statement the use of it. I used it to play games with friends that I wouldn't play enough to justify downloading, like Sea of Thieves and Warzone. Games are so overbloated and devs are so indifferent to optimization that only a few games fill an SSD entirely now. It was useful in situations like that, or if I stayed with my brother while he's sick and just streamed it off his TV.

Cloud gaming should never be the future, but the option was great, so long as it remained an optional choice.

Well there goes that appeal. Good thing I bought that 2TB. I stream some games that I don't play super often but are huge downloads, like SOT and Warzone.

Looks like Xbox's cloud streaming initiative is going to curl up and die if they think having a higher tier cloud streaming version will rake more money in. It was a nice accompaniment, but not necessary in any way.

This made me think low of them. When they had the best chance, they squandered it with two of the most bland projects that took years. NOW they want to do what fans want?

Good luck. Lost my support, and I'm a Brutal Legend diehard.

Ah, Aggelos 2. That's why the first one just got an update in the last week to fix a broken achievement.

Very happy to see MGS4 escape the PS3. There are starting to be so many good looking games that I don't think I can keep track, and that's going to get worse over the next two months.

Sounds like a bad idea to do this 'bulk' concept, all that will mean is that while a couple of the 'big' ones will get huge effort, the studio will likely just pump out low effort junk for the less valuable ones since they're included (and the studio paid for them) anyways. Would probably end up like the Golden Axe series from Paramount (ugh..)

Ignoring the big ones as there's only so many ways you can say 'wow those look great', Terrible Lizards looks like it might be something pretty fun. Gravhounds looks dumb, in a good way, and I hope that'll be something fun to come back to as well.

@ZeD oh god okay yeah I see it now, for some reason I assumed they didnt mention 360 because it would just be grandfathered in which is a stupid assumption on my part. Welp that's muted my hype for this, but this is still a great feature.

@BacklogBrad Considering they've ported RCT Classic, I think they will.

I might have to join Insiders just to get this early. I have a lot of 360 games still in my closet, and I might have to dig some out that were either never made BC without the disc, or I didn't buy digitally before delisting.

If I can just pop the disc in for L4D1&2, Blood on the Sand, and a couple others and put them back in the closet.. well I'll be very happy.

I do wonder though, this most certainly won't be flawless. Eventually you'll likely have to 're-confirm' the disc even if it's never used again, due to either a licensing check hiccup or something else.

edit: stupid assumption on my part when it never said 360 anywhere in the press release blurbs, rip my sub-preschool reading comprehension.

Some of these I missed! I like the look of Elta, even if it's just for the punch-happy knight befriending the baby dragon to go on adventures. Curious about Aniimo, I hope it's fun.

IMO Mariachi Legends was my pre-show.. uh.. pre-show-stealer, it's visually stunning.

@Mr-Cage So I bought Atomic Heart several months ago, backlog still, but I've never heard anything about its funding. What is wrong with it?

Terranigma, Alien Breed, and He-Man are definitely on my radar. Sanitarium is possible, just need to see more.

I just hope Skeletor eventually becomes an unlockable character in Dragon Pearl... even if it breaks lore. He's the main star of the series, of course!

I've been doing this, but my dilemma is.. do I use this on E-Day or GTA 6? Probably GTA 6, I'm still really torn on whether or not I'm going to buy the premium edition of E-Day.

I've been 50/50 about this game so it being delayed isn't a huge issue. With any luck, when it launches it'll follow SH2 and have a 50% discount at release, so it's fine with me. It's not something I was going to buy at full price regardless.

@Titntin I appreciate the long response I actually like the insight! I do agree about digital games, the space you free up from not having to arrange physical space is amazing. I still have a decently big 360 collection stored in my closet for sentimentality more than anything else.. combined with my slowly growing collection of omnibus/"graphic novels", the little space I have is already growing alarmingly more closed in. Different conversation entirely though!

@Titntin Yeah I understand perfectly, and I wasn't trying to come off hostile so I am sorry if it came off that way. I play a lot of new and old, and I often go back to replay older games myself. At least once a year I'll replay Super Mario 64, and I've got the OG Resi 4 reinstalled to do my umpteenth replay through it eventually.

Do you consider any older games that you haven't played, I'll just name a random game and hope you havent played it for this example lol, like the 2010 reboot of Splatterhouse "new to you" if you haven't played it before or do you strictly just drop games from a prior gen if you never got to them?

I hope that didn't come off mean, I'm just genuinely curious how you feel about games from older gens you may have missed or overlooked.

@Titntin It's twofold... one, it's a sign that your library is still going to be with you, so they won't jettison your old purchases and games just because of a new generation. The second is that games deserve to still be around and played/celebrated regardless of how old they are.

They can both keep the past and look to the future. And a good chunk of gaming nowadays is just old games being remade.. I'd honestly prefer just getting the old games playable rather than remakes.

@Mr-Cage Disney likes money, Activision likes money. Xbox owns Activision, and they're also a big fan of money. Acti published 9 out of the 10 games on this list, so I already don't see it being impossible.

Sony has no involvement with any of these. They're publishing/developing those newer games but those are not at all related to these, and they have no say. This is why Spider-Man was in Ultimate Alliance 3 on Switch, those Lego Marvel games, and Midnight Suns.

So these ARE possible. It could also coincide with the games getting re-released on Steam if the two parties discussed/negotiated these getting backwards comp, which would be a win/win.

edit: still waking up, edited a word I butchered RIP

This is one I'm certain I haven't seen before this article, so I'm glad it exists. Not sure if it'll be a day one buy but I'm wishlisting!

I just bought a 2TB from Seagate last week. 1TB really can't cut it these days. I'm dreading the file size for GTA6. I feel like it'll be 300gb, minimum.

Mortal Kombat 1 is at an eye watering 200gb download size, so I can't imagine what an open world behemoth is gonna be. Not made by the same studios but comparison holds up, I think, due to how detailed and expansive GTA 6 will be.

Some E Day, for sure. I'm not in love with it but I don't hate it. For all the changes made, the map designs don't take use of them. There's maybe two points where you can clamber up on shelves on the supermarket versus map but it doesn't do a whole lot for you. The aiming also feels... different? It's hard to put into words but the camera doesn't really go where I expect it to when hard aiming with the gnasher, and the point blank kill range feels wildly random unless it's the servers getting hammered which could be the case.

Otherwise, playing Summer in Mara, might start a replay of RE Requiem.

@oopsiezz If it means anything, there's a Classic control style that puts running and some other things back on the A button. It's not perfect but it's closer if you don't like the changes.

I might grab one of these just to support it... but what a weird combo!

Rip and guh-huh!

Here I was thinking, or hoping, Wolfenstein 3D (or 09 if lucky!) was gonna get a modern touched up port as a best case scenario. The fact Quake continues to live on is a beautiful thing.

@HelloCraigo Add Lou's Lagoon and we essentially have the same list!

The original NMRIH is a fun Half-Life 2 mod, free!, on Steam for those unaware. Very good, very difficult, very dark and bleak. Sometimes you may be infected and need to turn your own gun towards yourself if you can't find medical supplies. It's very brutal but you can stop yourself before you turn and harm your allies...

Or do it when someone makes a terrible joke if your humor is on the darker side lol

Resident Evil Requiem, and might jump back into Shantae: Half Genie Hero since the DLC was put on sale for this Ultimate Add-On sale.

My biggest concern is the lack of Boomer Lady. Where is she!? Surely not in the campaign, but she better be a multiplayer character!

@Tasuki Uh not disagreeing means you agree with me, just to clarify. I'm just saying that I think we have two very different opinions on how things are going.

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of roadie run being slapped on left stick click. The Xbox controllers are so poorly built that every time I have to do that I always get paranoia that this'll be the one that causes inevitable stick drift.

@Ghostdemon13 remakes are a great idea on paper.. the problem is only good games are being remade when many really don't need it. Bad games would do so well and benefit from remakes.. that's the remake trend we truly need. Epic Mickey Rebrushed fits that I think, the original wasn't bad (but not that great either) but the remake is vastly improved in every way.

@Tasuki She stated that they would honor already existing announcements, and on top of that it would almost certainly hurt Bethesda and Activision's relationship with Sony if Xbox put out a half baked port. Though even ignoring that, Asha has only been in for six months roughly. A lions share of the development will have been done well before that, with just the last few months really tightening things up, which was when she was in a much more hands off role learning things.

With all of that said, I don't think Asha is a savior just based off these last six months. I'm cautiously optimistic because previous leadership kept repeatedly swerving the ship into rocks and asking themselves why they kept crashing and taking on water. Asha could very well end up being the Xbox Reaper, but yes, I want her to succeed. It means Xbox lives on.

We will have to agree to disagree overall I think

@Tasuki Absolutely not. Asha had nothing to do with Halo being greenlit for PS5. It was announced in October of 2025. This is all Phil.

But I will say it was good on Phil to greenlight the OG xbox achievements/BC stuff. At least one last good thing on his way out.

Nice work Phil, your legacy is capstoned with your flagship IP running better on the rival console.

Uncensored? Nice, I was worried it would get the Nintendo version censorship. Will pick this up soon if it really has been untouched.