I'm not even sure what Worlds Edge does. It's a weird studio that just manages an IP, it farms out actual game dev to real 3rd party devs. The entire operation always seemed like unnecessary bloat to me.

We have Halo 2 already remastered with gorgeous Blur Studios cinematics. Can we get the same treatment for Halo 3?

"breaking records"

Doesn't even name a single record or what held that record previously

Perfect Xbox employee: total f***ing clown. Don't leave all the tweeting to Aaron Greenberg.

Neither Rare nor Worlds Edge make games. Rare is just a Sea of Thieves content factory as far as I can tell. And I don't even know what Worlds Edge does. They don't make the AOE games, that gets farmed out. Relic made AOE4. It's as if World's Edge was created just so people not paying attention would think these games are being made by a first party studio. The whole thing is weird.

Are we going to get an updated Klobrielle infographic? Should be a lot smaller than a few years ago.

@ShiroKitten it is a far cry from the old horde modes, but it's awesome. Not everyone who has played a billion hours of horde is bitter, I've been here since 2 and my crew spends years in every entry. Siege is different, fun, and absolutely does feel like gears even if it doesn't feel like the other horde modes. When you're trying to take down a corpser and your squad is getting wrecked, flanked, and all hope is lost, and then suddenly someone picks you up and you realize it's someone from another squad, and now there's 8 or even 12 of you there, it's an awesome and VERY GEARS feeling.

He can correct me if Im wrong but Beaver doesn't play 5 man horde, he plays with 1 or 2 other people as some sort of self imposed challenge mode instead of ever interacting with others in the community. There was never a chance he would like this new, bigger mode.

I wonder what MS is going to find to put on game pass during the black hole around GTA6? Probably not many day 1s to be found

I finished FF7R in June, finished KCD yesterday... Do I move onto FF7R2 next to get ready for this, or KCD2... tough decision.

@lostfields why in the world would they do that? They've all been foaming at the mouth to destroy second hand sales for decades.

The Verge is also of the belief (like many others) that Microsoft will "follow Sony and eventually scrap Xbox discs",

...I mean.... Who doesn't understand that the entire point of disc to digital is just a slightly nicer way to drag physical media out behind the shed? The entire point. It's wild to read that, in an article about disc to digital, like it's some kind of possibility.

No more paywall to play online

I get the game with my game pass subscription, I'm not paying a trillion dollar corporation twice for the same game. Upgrade for this one doesn't seem worth it like FH6.

My body is ready, can't wait to get back into Horde Siege with the crew. Only complaint is 4 man instead of 5. 5 was great and separated it from most other co-op games, and when we only got 4 on a given night, it was fun to get a 5th random - lots of good stories and even a few friends made. With 4, we'll almost always fill.

Either way I'll probably drop game pass next gen, if I stick with Xbox. It was great while it lasted.

@Jaxx420 3rd party exclusive for Xbox is incredibly expensive. You're asking a company to not sell on a platform with. People think console exclusivity is console exclusivity and don't really weigh the reality, which is that the situation is not even remotely symmetrical. What Xbox buying exclusivity means is Xbox paying for you to not sell on a platform approaching 100m units, with a consumer base that buys games. What PS buying exclusivity means is PS paying you to not sell on a platform with 35m~ units, and a consumer base that largely doesn't buy games anymore as they've been conditioned to rent.

MS a trillion dollar company and can easily afford it, but the belt tightened on Xbox. Rambling, but this is why they went on an acquisition spree (not ABK, that's a different story, it was purchased for mobile and nothing to do with Xbox). Those purchases were to pump content onto Xbox and it made more sense financially to buy the devs rather than pay out the nose for exclusivity.

Hell... they don't even keep most of their OWN games exclusive. The math just isn't there unless they really want to back Xbox again.

tldr keeping games off xbox extremely cheap, keeping games off playstation extremely expensive

This game is 1 year younger than Brute Force. I played the hall out of it for many years, but didn't like the direction it went in around 2012 and quit completely in 2018ish (whenever BFA was)

Not personally interested and if it's not an Xbox exclusive then it's not interesting on any level.

Yikes, life choices

@somnambulance That's pretty much how my year is going so far with FF7R and Kingdom Come Deliverance. 2027 will probably be Rebirth and KCD2, lol.

I'm through the first game but haven't started the second yet, which is making this period awkward as I'm skipping all the previews for fear of spoilers.

The Doritos Pope in shambles knowing he's going to have to promote an Xbox game.

Personally not a fan of Kojina games but cool for those who are.

Some real babies in here lmao. Gears achievements have been terrible since at least 2, this looks like the best list in the series that I can remember.

@CaptainCluck I guess that's why Fallout 4 doesn't work. It makes sense that it's Aaron Greenberg's fault.

Valheim won GOTY in 2021 at PC Gamer. That's not my favorite genre but I really enjoyed my time in that game. It's also one of the only games I know of with crossplay that allows you to host your own dedicated server (not rent) and join it on an Xbox which is a huge bonus for me.

@Lup same boat I liked the first one and the 3rd one well enough but it lost me when they went to 3D. Felt like a game for children in all aspects.

@RiverGenie I don't care as much about story as I do about vibe. The vibe in the first FH was absolutely perfect and they got progressively worse until 5 where it seems to have hit an abysmal plateau.

Remember when they murdered avatars by letting Rare redesign them for modern audiences? I still remember seeing my avatar with big child birthing hips for a few moments before immediately swapping back to the original version

I don't remember, I didn't get a 360 until Oblivion was out. I got an Xbox camera when that came out and made my gamerpic a picture of my dog wearing my Xbox headset

I have Culdcept Saga, pretty neat game, although iirc the games were really long.

Imagine if Sega had the balls to rerelease Panzer Dragoon Saga on modern consoles.

I had more xbone physical games than I thought. Converted 13 successfully, 10 didn't work not including Destiny. Pretty pointless

I played Star Trek Online a million years ago...I remember really liking the ship combat but hating the away missions. I wonder how it plays on console? I'm weary of even trying it though because they whole genre had become a microtransaction hellscape.

@HelloCraigo I definitely recommend it if you like either sim-ish mech combat or gorgeous soap opera cutscenes. I knew I was a fan of the former but Clans taught me I'm a fan of the latter 😂

While it's still on gamepass I would say give it an install and do a mission or 2 to get an idea of what it is, the cutscenes feel AAA+ and might be all you need to get hooked.

Another thing I just thought of is there's a chance the game will stay long since Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries is still on for years now. I think they are in the business of trying to sell the DLC expansions at this point, which I'm rambling now, are true old school expansions, separate stories from different clans.

All Kingdome Come Deliverance, all the time. Finished all the DLCs but one, moving through the main story again.

I feel really bad for people who prepaid for months/years of game pass specifically for cloud gaming. If MS wasn't run by total scumbags at this point they would say those people are grandfathered in until their subs run out.

No thanks. Game looked stupid and pretty much everything Platinum games makes is for weirdos.

Xbox will do anything to not cater to their core audience, who they now have contempt for.

Clans was really fun, the cutscenes were surprisingly great. Loved the mech soap opera so much I bought all the DLCs.

Loved the first maneater, it's legitimately in the running for funniest game of all time thanks to Chris Parnell's narrating.

To me, this sounds like they are winding the service down.

I had a Mr Do arcade cabinet in my house as a kid. Let's goooooo

I'm sure my wife will try the RuneScape game because she loves survival crafting games, and she'll try the Dune game because she loves Dune.

I probably won't watch the Netflix thing, no point really except to dull my surprise when I play it. Nobody makes games like Rockstar. Whoever the 2nd best dev in the world is (CD Projekt Red maybe? From?) always feels like an entire generation behind them.

"Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct...

If I saw something clever, like a little coffee table in the shape of an Xbox, I had to have it.

I'd flip through catalogs and wonder: what kind of Xbox dining set defines me as a person?"

Wonderful feature that will work on approximately 3% of my physical Xbox games.

Still on board for horde but my excitement for the campaign cooled dramatically with the new campaign trailer.

Nothing beats the We Were Here series for 2 player co-op. Can't wait to play this one, the setting and tone look fun.

I would play this immediately if I had time. Unfortunately my minimal playtime is being consumed this year by massive games. FF7R into Kingdom come Deliverance has been months and months, and to make it worse I grabbed all the KCD DLC (Totally worth, Band of ***** was so good). then I want to do FF7R2 and KCD2. And then of course there's GTA6 on the horizon, and Dark Arisen 2 coming for my 2024 GOTY.

I WILL play this though as SRPGs are one of my favorite genres and I steer clear of the weeb stuff which cuts down on my choices.

@IronMan30 You're in for a treat. The DLCs are even better than the base game, especially Blood and Wine.

HOMM III is one of the greatest games of all time. No hyperbole, short list for GOAT.

This remake looks like ass and is exactly what you'd expect from ubisoft who has done nothing but fumble the series since they bought it. Crappy UE5+AI cash grab for a game that is beloved and still played heavily to this day. I hate ubisoft so much.

My hundreds of Xbox and Xbox 360 discs can remain comfortable boxed up in my basement, but I will try this out on my maybe one dozen Xbox One discs.

I like Kyle Bosman, he's a funny guy