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@Cakefish @RegnumSolipsi Microsoft/Xbox executives being pleased with Everwild's progress was the word of professional rumour-monger Jez Corden, so make of that what you will.

@Cakefish so is Prince of Persia. I wouldn't put money on Beyond Good & Evil 2 ever releasing.

@FraserG the article mentions six games being cancelled but the blurbs only reference five (Sands of Time and four unannounced games). Any word on what the sixth one is?

CoughBeyondGood&Evil2Cough

Everybody needs to play Psychonauts 2.

@OldGamer999 well, Forza Horizon 6 at least. Let's wait and see about Fable.

@Fiendish-Beaver if Masters of Albion doesn't have someone calling the player a "poultry punter", we riot.

@Balaam_ or did you get your comparatively inferior to native play cloud gaming on my corporate greed? HMMMM??

It's an absolute crime that I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother will be completely forgotten by the time Game of the Year season rolls around.

@Weebleman Oh no! Cover your eyes and ears, it's back!

@nomither6

Fable 3 because it’s the only one i’ve played

This. But replace Fable 3 with Fable 2.

Edit: No wait! I've played Fable: The Journey as well!

So Fable 2.

@Fiendish-Beaver my reasoning for a vague 2026 window being given next week is that Microsoft must - right now anyway - have a certain confidence that Fable will release this year to be giving it such a spotlight. This isn't a massive presentation with dozens of games, so by focusing one third (that we know of right now for certain) of a presentation on Fable, I feel like they'll actually say 2026. Of course, things change and I do believe it'll delay into 2027, but right now I think Microsoft will specify 2026.

That's my reasoning anyway.

I don't think they'll give any specific date for Fable at next week's Developer_Direct; I think we'll get a vague "2026 🤷‍♂️". Although, I'm with @Fiendish-Beaver on Fable, in that I think it'll ultimately get pushed again into 2027.

Who knows with Halo? Smart money would've been on November to coincide with the series' 25th anniversary, but then GTA VI happened.

Gears, I could see that in June/July.

@ILuvGames at this point it feels like we'll all be zombies before State of Decay 3 comes out.

I said to my wife when Larry went to Unity that, if I were working in that space, Unity is the absolute last place I'd go. Had he not been paying attention to what the company was up to, oh I don't know, around September 2023?

@Fiendish-Beaver

If I remember rightly, Peter Molyneux has a habit of making claims that don't quite come to fruition.

We've got an early contender for understatement of the year 😂

Don Mattrick says "If you can't afford an Xbox Series X, we have a console for you: it's called the Xbox One".

@FrenchVaniIIuxe who cares what they look like? You're playing a game as them, not marrying them.

@FraserG

Toys for Bob isn't technically a first-party studio (their next game is being published by Xbox, but they haven't been acquired)

Toys For Bob was a first-party studio until fairly recently.

I would be very interested to see Beast of Reincarnation. Game Freak's output on Switch has been spotty.

@Brigurugi DOA Xtreme and DOA3, eh? I had a witty remark spring to mind, but I'll save the mods the trouble:

[Removed - inappropriate]😉

What could that mystery Xbox game be?

A 10-years-too-late-to-the-party toys-to-life game featuring characters from Everwild and Perfect Dark.

@Smackosynthesis I can't not laugh at that official 2XKO tweet. It's written like an 11-year old texted it to his mate.

There's some cool looking games there. Barring any disasters, Forza Horizon 6 will be a rare day one purchase for me.

Also, I like Invincible but damn, that Invincible VS. is one ugly arse video game.

Also also, how many "XX Xbox Series X|S Games To Look Forward To In 202X" articles has Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake appeared in now? What with that and Beyond Good & Evil 2, Ubisoft is becoming to new king of vapourware.

@BattleMonkey I feel attacked.

I don't have any specific goals in mind because I'm boring.

@ZYDIO How's that going so far?

@nomither6 I'm 41, it doesn't take much to tire me out 🤣

I rolled credits on Pokémon Legends Z-A last night, so I'll be chipping away at Doom: The Dark Ages. Chipping away because, while I do like the game, it's so non-stop, fast and utterly relentless to the point that I can only play a chapter or two before I'm actually tired. I was the same with 2016 and Eternal.

Other than that, I have eShop credit burning a hole in my ePocket so I might see what else I can snag on Switch 2, and I might start The Rogue Prince of Persia.

Also, the citizens of Super Earth call for aid as always, so Helldivers 2.

@Weebleman that sounds pretty irreparable to me 😂

@Weebleman don't keep me in suspense. Did you look it up? Are you irreparably damaged?

@FarmDog08

Just having some good ol' New Year Fun!

Me too buddy. 😉 Happy New Year to you.

@RadioHedgeFund Gears E-Day isn't a remake.

@FarmDog08 that's pushing the limits of wishful thinking🤣

I'll tell you what I tell my line managers at work: if you want miracles, find Jesus.

@RadioHedgeFund one remake.

@Titntin I agree that Microsoft - as a first-party publisher, with more developers than you can shake a stick at - should be absolutely striving for quality. However, that Eurogamer list is nothing definitive. It's their list, their opinion and certainly doesn't warrant close scrutiny. PX just found a tenuous way to link it to Game Pass in order to write another article about Game Pass.

@cornholio005 ouch

@TrollOfWar that was deep, fair play 👍😂

@Weebleman I wasn't going to look up that game because I dreaded what I might find. Curiosity eventually got the better of me though. I'm actually none the wiser as to exactly what the feck is going on 🤣

Some cool looking games there. I loved Pragmata from my time spent with the demo, while the other big one for me in the first half of the year is 007: First Light.

Although, I still have unfinished business with 2025. I'm midway through Doom: The Dark Ages and Pokémon Legends Z-A. There are also a few things from last year I'm yet to get to, the big one being Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

the big quandary is whether "This is an Xbox" will ever resonate with those who believe "Xbox" should always mean "console" above all else.

I don't think that the "This is an Xbox" ad campaign is aimed at those people though, nor does it need to be. Those people are already entrenched within the Xbox brand and ecosystem and don't need convincing; they're going to buy the next Xbox.

@SuntannedDuck2 if you had your own Xbox news site, you could have reported on it yourself.

MONTHS AGO.

@SeaDaVie That was savage.

I love it 😂

@GoldenPants more like three times in a decade if GTA V is anything to go by 🤣

Out of those creators I only know of Luke Stephens. I have... opinions on him and things he's done.

Smarch. The weather's lousy but no one's releasing games then.

I once knew somebody who, in their mid-20s, legitimately thought and swore blind that Mount Everest was - and I quote - "somewhere near Birmingham", and until today that was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard.

@RiverGenie I'm still getting regular emails regarding that. And every time one comes through, I think "oh, didn't I verify my age?" and go to do it... and it turns out I've already done it.

@Tasuki it was the first DQ game I've spent any significant amount of time with. I'd played an hour or two of VIII on PS2 but never owned it. XI really is a wonderful game; I'll definitely be checking out VII Reimagined, and XII when it eventually surfaces.

I don't even want to know what's going on with I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother. Some things mankind just wasn't meant to know.

@Tasuki how are you finding Dragon Quest XI? It's one of the few JRPG's I've ever rolled credits on and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute.