MattWithoutFear

100% Clair Obscur for me. Started playing it on my own but even my wife got into it, which almost never happens. I liked Split Fiction but Clair Obscur was more rounded experience.

I'm interested and it would definitely be an upgrade from my white Rog Ally. I'm curious about which has better ergonomics though - the Xbox Ally X or the Legion Go 2 - and want to try to find physical samples of both to check before buying.

These look like Playnite, which is a PC launcher - would love to see this come over to Xbox.

"Empty" + "loading screens" are the two main things I took away from Starfield. I started off picking up side quests and factions missions, but in the end I just mainlined the main story and has to force myself to finish it. Haven't thought about it once since then.

I already have an Ally X, which I use daily, and have upgrades the SSD, so don't think I'll change out just for different grips, but I'll be interested to see if the OS updates come across to my system - I hope they do!

River Raid! I remember playing that with my Grandad on his Atari 7800

Love these changes - I just wish they had a dedicated Map button. I think that the Start menu could've been another tab in the Character screen, then the Back button could've been used to go straight to the Map tab.

It was reported a while ago that they were working on an unannounced Xbox exclusive. I wonder if this was that?

This sounds a direct response to the main complaint I've been seeing with the new Dragon Age, that being that there's very-little-to-no player choice and none of the companions change their opinions of you in any meaningful way based on your choices.

Loved the FEAR games, I still have my old physical copies and they're all backwards compatible. Always assumed some licencing deal stopped the first game from being made available digitally on later gens.

They're also shutting down their Game Reward and Game Elite programmes; defo on their last legs. My local one closed down completely and the one in the next town moved into Sports Direct. As others have said, it's mostly toys, collectibles and card games now like Magic or Pokemon. My kids love it, but it's a far cry from the Game of old.

Used to love it but it just doesn't work with games that need an online connection, and now I sync between lounge and game room Xboxs so it doesn't work with that regardless.

@ganonms 100% feels like it's inching closer to it's 1.0 release 🥲🤣

These changes don't fix an empty game. If Starfield had launched with just 10 populated planets vs 1,000 barren ones, it would have been soooo much more enjoyable. There was no joy to exploration that previous BGS games have; it was just loading screen on top of loading screen, then running around an unpopulated expanse.

@Vordus music stops as Gabe Newall opens his Steam Deck without a Game Pass app: You said everything was an Xbox, Phil!
Close up on Phil: Everything IS an Xbox, Gabe
MS buys Steam

All these people saying "This confirms that Xbox is dead". NOTHING has been confirmed, you're all just doom-mongering based on rumors and speculation.

@JokerBoy422 It's not going to be entirely developers. A lot of it will be overlap and redundancy in departments like IT, Finance, marketing - whenever you have big acquisitions like this, those are the areas that always get cut because you don't need that many people all doing the same job.

Not a great look, as this almost reads like, "I've spent 20+ years at Microsoft before... Not doing that again."
Yikes.

I bought the PS5 version for the opposite reason, so I could have an Xbox layout 🤣 brother got my a PS5 for Christmas last year but could get on with the sticks in the middle.

Useful when it works. If the game has an online component, either for solo play account checking, or you're doing online co-op or PvP, it's a pain! I have to remove games from the Quick Resume list more often than I use it properly as intended.

@themightyant all fair comments and I am definitely guilty of oversimplifying things with my comment. That said, they are still the latest in a long line of victims of Embracers over-ambition in terms of acquisition and clear lack of planning for what they acquired.

F*** Embracer.
That is all

I encountered the bug with linking a Larian account. Had to log in through their website and remove the connection to my Xbox account before the game would load.

Thank you, Bing! Been hoarding MS reward points and cashed them in for Xbox vouchers last month ahead of this release. Just picked it up for £30 and have it installed ready for tonight 😁

Xbox isn't the platform now; Game Pass is. An Xbox is just another tool to access game pass, just like a PC, or via the cloud on your phone or an app on your TV. Not saying Xbox isn't important, but it's no longer the driving force.

There's a shot of Alex Mercer from Prototype in that video 😊

@BBB Starfield Anniversary edition next year with 60 FPS and new DLC lol.

@AlwaysPlaying thank you for your sacrifice 😂

@Kaloudz from memory, the deal concerned the number of games released rather than a specific time frame. People were saying 2024 as the assumption was no CoD this year. However, I remember people like Grubb saying this might be final game covered under the Sony deal.

No online multiplayer in basic Console GP is a massive L! Why have it in core but not in the next tier up?

FTC: 'Tis but a scratch.
Xbox: A scratch? Your arm's off!
FTC: No, it isn't.
Xbox: Well, what's that, then?
FTC: I've had worse.

I wish Ponies would realise that when he says "value destructive" he's talking about value to Sony, not value to the consumer.

Also, he clearly didn't talk to EA, who have no problem putting all their stuff in Game Pass - granted it's not day and date, but (almost?) everything ends up there via the EA Play connection. EA were also saying the other week about how they'll still be the biggest shipper on Xbox even if ABK went through. Maybe he just spoke to the publishing team at SIE...

@GamingFan4Lyf Right? NividiaRTX boys - so anyone who's purchased a new Nvidia GPU in the last 5 years!

@GamingFan4Lyf and @SplooshDmg get it.

@ChromeMud I'm annoyed that I've got to compromise because of a monetary decision on Bethesda's part. They could've left it open - as I and others have said repeatedly - so that no-one had to compromise. I don't get what's so hard to understand and why you keep twisting my complaint.

@ChromeMud the issue is that this partnership with AMD will likely block DLSS from working, as that's Nvidia tech. So instead of leaving it gpu-agnostic and open, they're curtailing performance for a massive percentage of gamers who chose the "wrong" GPU platform. I've got a Series X and S, but when I want to play it on my Alienware with an Nvidia GPU, I won't get full benefit.

Hate this! It won't make much difference for Xbox but it'll massively affect PC players, and that's where I was going to play (need those 60 frames). PC is meant to be an OPEN platform. Why do companies have to lock features down - especially when the features are better like DLSS - so that people are trapped with worse options.

Haha @SplooshDmg said the CMA are DLC 🤣

Never played a Diablo game before but was sneaking off the whole weekend and hogging the TV in the evenings to play it. Having withdrawal symptoms already now...

Something something Calculus of Duty.

@themightyant all great points! IMO MS won't offer Sony anything different as 1. that will be seen as capitulating to them and Sony will claim a "victory", and 2. the other companies will demand the same.

In the same way that Sony won't accept the deal until it's all approved and they have to, MS won't offer them anything else if they think it will be approved regardless as then Sony will still have to sign the deal that MS is putting forward.

@themightyant well the parity there is that it will still be $70 to buy on Xbox and Sony have been offered the option to put it into PS Plus. They just don't want to because 1. They'll have to pay MS the upfront cost for that 2. Sony would likely make more money with direct sales than revenue from subscription users (except now they'll lose their preferential revenue share that they currently enjoy from ABK so even direct sales will net them less). That aside, they're still being offered the same opportunities.

@themightyant 100% Sony's strategy is block or bust, apparently no matter how petty it makes them seem.

Sony doesn't want anything on their subscription model because they think they'll get more $$$ from selling direct. Also, apparently they get a better revenue share of ABK sales than MS because they have a larger install base, but you gotta think that that goes away if MS own ABK, meaning less money for them per sale.

Wish this had a Game Pass upgrade route like the Skyrim Anniversary Edition.

So, it's Crackdown but with tinnier guns (seriously those guns had no impact).

I'd love a cross-IP racing event. The Halo race in FH4 awesome!

While I'm hopeful that the deal goes through, pinning hopes on Michael Pachter is far from a winning bet; bloke's been wrong almost as often as he's been right.

We can all stop holding our breath for when EA was going to trip over itself. The winning streak is over; the return to form is here.