Seems like Karate Survivors is a free download to any of us that bought it last year & it now has achievements

Anyone know what's the story with Karate Survivors?
I bought it about a year ago, but it didn't have any achievements; is this a re-release or a new one that now supports achievements?

Anyone know what's going on with the New Add Ons section of the marketplace ?
I haven't seen the new releases section for the last week & it only shows the Selected for You section & nothing else

@dreadful for info SiN on XBox does have LOCAL multiplayer enabled, but no online play

Worthwhile pre-ordering this one, as this is the only way to get the separate, stand alone release of Ace Combat Zero

Hopefully the ability to manage local saves will allow you to delete Reserved Space allocated to games - I went through a tidying up exercise a while back and got back over 100gigs from deleting Reserved Space on games I wasn't playing - CoD is the worst - 12+ gigs for each game

Bought a spare 2Tb Galaxy Black off the Microsoft website on Wednesday, just in case my launch model packs in & it was delivered yesterday - crazy that it's cheaper to buy than the 1Tb version
Seems to be going in & out of stock - I had problems checking out my cart & gave them a call. Hats off to the sales guy as it took a few days of him calling me back but he eventually got my payment to go through & got it delivered yesterday. Better than paying the scalpers prices on ebay

Strange the Seagate 4Tb version doesn't seem to have been released outside of the US and it now seems to be hard to source. Got mine last August when it was pricey, even then

I have made this comment before, but wonder how import games will work
I have the Japanese only Puyo Puyo Tetris and it was a disk only release - no download version (which is pretty unusual), as well as having stringent right issues
The disc installs fine without having to change region, but getting a license to play without the disc I think may be problematic

The big issue with a hard deleting is even if you have the game installed it can’t be played- the license has effectively been revoked
Still mighty PO’d about Marvel Puzzle Quest going AWOL for me - not even recognised when u copy onto an external drive to move to another machine

There's a reason tentpole films like The Odyssey & Spider-Man: Brand New Day are released first in cinemas before going to streaming & physical media and other films are direct to video.

It shouldn't be so hard for the same principles to work with games - you won't be seeing GTA 6 launching on a subscription service for a very long time, if ever

Just as a thought experiment:
I wonder how things would work if games were ONLY released on Game Pass - no retail or digital sales, no PC versions, no PS or Switch versions
If you want to play Halo, Forza, Gears, etc you have to subscribe to Game Pass (& buy an XBOX)

Not a strategy I would want but would be an interesting way to get to the stage where we don't own anything....

I'm fully all digital, but do have some discs where the games have been delisted or not available online

I went to install some of them as I have upgraded my external drive and 2 of the discs are now unreadable - Skylanders Imaginators & Transformers Dark of the Moon. I take immaculate care of my discs & have never had this happen with other discs; thankfully all the other discs I tried were fine
However these 2 discs are spotless with no scratches, with no sign of rot & have been in their cases for years - I have tried in my Series X & One X and both failing to be recognised.

What is concerning is I only have 8 or 9 XBox One discs, so thats around a 20% failure rate...

This will be useful if it works for games like Lego Dimensions & some of the Skylanders games which were not available to buy digitally, due to the need for the peripheral
I've also got a Japanese version of the first Puyo Puyo vs Tetris game that was only ever available on disc in Japan - two issues with that one, #1 being a foreign disc & #2 not available digitally - think it was something to do with the Tetris license being for Japan only

Will the Series S price now be the same as the Series X launch price?

There are 2 Backroom multiplayer games that have been released pretty close to each other and have almost the same game title as well - it's pretty confusing and not sure which is better or if one is a knock off of the other ?
Backrooms Escape Together
Escape the Backrooms

I can't see how Day 1 Gamepass releases are sustainable, especially AAA games
If Gears is $400 million, surely you'd want to recoup a good chunk of that in sales from PC & XBOX, before putting it onto Gamepass

Still maintain that 6 months at retail, then Gamepass, then other platforms after 12 months, is the way to go

My opinion, for what it's worth, would be keep it simple:

Initially release at retail only, then put on Gamepass after 6 months and finally release on other platforms after 12 (or even 18) months

This way you would get 3 bites at the cherry

• the sales for those keen to play the game in the launch period and 6 months is far enough away that it will put some off waiting for it to arrive on Gamepass and buy it.
• a soft relaunch when going into Gamepass
• final push when launched on other platforms and there should still be demand after a years exclusivity (and all the bugs ironed out...)

Ultimately you need the messaging to be clear, simple & consistent

Disappointed there was no mention of the Backwards Compatible programme restarting

Also, the Series X25 really needed to have 2Tb storage

Would be interesting if Sony decided to make the PS6 a PC compatible machine too.
XBox Anywhere / PC game exclusives working on a Sony machine?

Interesting idea - wonder how it would work for disc games that are backwards compatible but not available to buy digitally
eg Lego Dimensions, 50 Cent-Blood on the Sand, Blazing Angels, Greg Hastings Paintball, etc
Getting digital rights without needing the disc would be great for these games & fingers crossed the licenses might carry back to previous XBox generations ie playing Driver SF without the disc on Series X would be great

How about a list for licenses that have been revoked?
#1 - Marvel Puzzle Quest (XB1 - every license revoked & cannot be played)
#2 - FIFA15 Ultimate Team Edition (XB1 - the specific edition I bought has had its license revoked, other versions do still work)

I'm pretty miffed that after buying these games digitally they no longer work and can't even be re-downloaded

Anyone else got the issue where the button prompts don't show which button to press but have instead "glyph missing" ?
Easy enough to work out which button to hit but looks messy with the text overlapping other text

Would it be possible to make a hub for multiple expansion cards?

I now use the 4Tb one & have a 2Tb and 1Tb that are not really used & it is hard to swap over the cards as there are a lot of connections around the card slot on my Series X

Clearing Reserved Space if not used in a certain time frame; reserved space can eat up a massive amount of storage space.
Some games, GTA or COD can be 16gigs each and more, even having a lot of games that reserve 1 or 2 gigs can really eat into storage space

I'm just looking for an Everybodys / Hotshots Golf style of game on XBox - the last one was Tee Off on the 360 . Powerstar Golf doesn't have online play - its has a weird system of setting a score for a round then inviting your mates to beat it, with no simultaneous play.
There is Golf with Your Friends but it is crazy golf & not proper golf courses
Was hoping Claphands Easy Come, Easy Golf might have made it over from the Switch

My take would be:

Day 1 - retail only XBox (&PC)
6 months - added to Game Pass
12 months - other platforms

Do away with day one GP launches & at least generate initial full price sales on XBox, with a second bite at increasing Game Pass after 6 months & then further sales from other platforms after 1 year.
Keeping the messaging clear, simple & consistent would make it obvious when to expect the game's delivery via your preferred method/platform

@FraserG

from what I can see Rave Racer is an Arcade Archives 2 title & would assume thats for XBox, PS, & Switch on 26th Feb
Cool Boarders & Ninja Gaiden 2 seems to be a new Archives series "Console Archives" and are coming to Switch 2. They launch later today, so we will find out soon enough if they come to platforms other than Switch 2

Rave Racer, via Arcade Archives 2, finally coming to consoles on 26th Feb is the one I'm most excited for
Only ever played the tracks on PSP Ridge Racer 2, so keen to see how the arcade original performs

Its frustrating when a game doesn't allow you to restart - would love to get back into Steep or Riders Republic, but completely lost when I try to play them now. No idea about the controls or the maps as there are so many different icons
It also doesn't help when you let your mates have a go & then try to pickup where they left off or work out what to do or go next....

@swedetrap I am using this drive I got from Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DW92YSB6/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_10?smid=&psc=1

Shows as out of stock but it was available earlier this week
Was going for silly amounts at the end of last year & I ended up getting it from Amazon.com where it worked out cheaper than getting in the UK

Monty Mole - that's a blast from the past. I remember recording the opening theme tune from the C64 version of Month on the Run to cassette. Don't think i got very far with the game but would load it up to listen to the music

Seems strange Ubisoft do this for the Far Cry games for free, but are supposedly doing a full on remake of Black Flag

Currently got a 28Tb, 18Tb & 16Tb attached to my Series X (Cosmic Black - 2Tb internal) with a 4Tb Expansion card
So glad they ditched the 16Tb restriction on external drives last year - I prefer to have access to all my games at any time, unlike the Playstation where the restriction is one 8Tb external drive and the system get very confused when you try to swap over external drives

I bought Marvel Puzzle Quest when it came out on my XB1 and it still is on the hard drive, although it cannot be played. My Series X is now my home console & I cannot move it over to it. (There were reports that it is playable offline on your home console)

It no longer shows in my available to install section & when I copy it onto an external harddrive on my XB1 (and it shows up as being on both the external & internal drives) , the Series X doesn't recognise the game as being on the external drive, but the XB1 does

I'm really hacked off about this as I didn't buy the 360 version when the store was closing down as I had it on my XB1
Mystified how it cannot be copied over when it is definately on the external harddrive
I suspect that the game was delisted incorrectly and everybody's rights have been revoked erroneously instead of a normal delisting

The above details exactly why I dislike PC games

Let me just turn on a game & play it and not have to faff about with settings: 17w mode, FSR 3, turbo mode, recommended graphics, recommended performance and all the time watching the FPS & resolution and stressing I am not optimising what I am playing & worrying about frame drops & can it be fixed by tweaking something deep in the menus or is it my PC

Consoles for me, choose performance or resolution and invert the Y axis & I am good to go

iDarb is #iDarb
Still showing for me in my Games with Gold tab - although I have it installed & even bought some DLC for it
I have now added a group in my games for some of these delisted games so they should be easier to find in the future- I have 5 from the list although not all installed so will have to see if I can get them back
Project Downfall was pulled & then released as Neckbreak with seperate achievements

@Banjo- Cheers for confirming - not showing up for me; looking back I bought the original from the Hungarian marketplace, guess that must have something to do with it

Anyone able to get the 30% discount for existing owners ?
It's not showing for me when I go to buy it through the XBox store

I'm getting a Delivery Us the Moon vibe from this game
Hopefully it will be just as as good as I've got this on pre-order

I'm not a massive multiplayer fan but Far Cry 3 multiplayer has to be one of the best experiences I've had and was gutted when later games went from 4 player to 2 player co-op
The completely different missions & the competitive sections were so refreshing - loved the section where 3 of us were on a raft going down river as part of the mission & it then changed to an in game competition to see who could shoot the most of the attackers around us
The characters were a bit special with the sweariest being the Glasgow ned football supporter
Just a fun co-op game & still pretty unique in my opinion & disappointed the remastered version dropped the co-op side of things

First played Platypus back when it was an XBLIG on 360 - who can say no to a plasticine version of Nemesis?
Looking forward to playing it on my Series X
Can we now have the XBLIG classic Techno Kitten Adventure on Series X too? Absolute banger of a tune on the first level

You can change the controls to the normal Right Trigger setup, but I think I had to do it at the main menu once you had completed a race (3 control options in total)
Was a bit of a game changer for me as after playing Speedstorm pretty much daily for the last 2 years I was not getting on with the game's controls at all, and to be honest the car handling is a bit stiff for my liking and they do not slide as much as I am used to with Speedstorm
I do prefer the Grand Prix setup rather than the live service of Speedstorm

My take is that Backwards Compatibility has caused the problem of indistinct console generations
I love having B/C games on my XBoxes & Playstations and have hundreds of them downloaded on my consoles, even last week I got excited when the PS 1 versions of RE2 & RE3 appeared on PSN
However, it used to be you would draw a line under one generation & move on to the next
This just doesn't happen now and drags out previous generations so you have the current situation where using a PS4 is almost as good as having a PS5 and I would imagine the same will happen with the PS5 when the PS6 comes out (and running a PS4 is still potentially still a valid option when the PS6 comes out)

The Grow Up / Home games were by Reflections of Driver fame and think that license is with Atari too
Would be good to see Atari relist Driver SF or release a Series X version and make some of the older games in the series available again with some QoL updates
I'm assuming Reflections are no more?

MGS is still in in my backlog…..
2004 - that’s over 20 years that I haven’t got round to playing it yet

Got just over 4000 installed - thank goodness MS allowed drives over 16Tb to be used - got 2 x 16TB + 1 x 18Tb

I tend to keep all my games on the external drives & copy Series X games over to the internal or expansion drives as I play them, that way I can delete them immediately off the internal/expansion drive with out having to copy back to the external drive

For info, even though the games are installed the licenses can be revoked & the installed game will not work, this happened to me with FIFA15 for some reason

I know this is an stupid amount to have and even playing 1 different game a day for a decade would only be 3652, so I have way more games than I could realistically play in a lifetime, before even thinking about my Playstation & Switch games.....

I wouldn't mind a Forza "World" that allows you to revisit the locations from previous Horizon games
It's the rights to the cars & music from the old games stopping them being sold - why not just let you select from the old locations (+ current one) and let you race on them with the current set of licensed cars
I'm sure it wouldn't take much to spruce the locations up as most still look pretty good even today, although FM#1 might need more work done

Its really frustrating when games that do not need to be on the fast SSD memory are mandated to be installed there by Smart delivery
Much better to give you the option to install on an external hard drive and give them Gen9 Aware status rather than being Gen9 games and forced to the SSD drive
There are understandably games that require the faster drives, but surely games like Pinkman & Epyx Games Collection do not need to be on the SSD memory
Is there some mandate that stops games being certified as Gen9 Aware rather than Gen9?

Hopefully this is the start of XBox getting the Arcade Archives series, even if it is the new #2 series
Got about 40 of the original Arcade Archives games on PS4 & Switch and always disappointed it never appeared on XBox consoles