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Both Target and Walmart here have an Xbox section that looks the same as always. One of the original stories about this used a photo from 2023 (store was probably remodeling/moving stock around).

Can’t wait for Keeper and Ball x Pit looks great (demo got overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam). Love a good break breaker with a twist.

Ball x Pit, which looks awesome and has overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam for the demo, and Keeper are at the top of my list!

Expedition 33. Not even close. One of my favorite games of all time.

I want to play it but I’ll get it when it’s on sale or on GamePass.

It’s just weird with AMD working on both consoles. Almost seems like a conflict of interest.

@Tdx As with everything, I’m sure it probably has to do with cost. They might have some artificial cost threshold for Premium that would keep some in the tier and others out. That said it still is odd.

Keeper and Ninja Gaiden 4 are all I need!!!

Yeah, problem is that a lot of us (myself included) turned off recurring billing because of the price hike. If they had given people currently subbed a chance to turn it back on for the old price, that would have been nice.

@JayJ This is a Unity issue. Not something that’s Microsoft’s fault.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/unity-has-found-a-security-vulnerability-that-has-sat-dormant-for-almost-a-decade-take-immediate-action-to-protect-your-games-and-apps

Expedition 33 isn’t even in the Console GoTY list. That already makes these awards null and void.

The hour limit mirrors GeForce Now’s ad supported plan. But the 5 hour overall limit needs to go.

That said the overall negativity about it here is a bit much. It’s free. Don’t like it. Don’t use it.

Easy way for someone to try out cloud gaming with no money involved.

@Fiendish-Beaver We’re also talking about day one games and it’s honestly hard to find ANY that are just “filler trash”. So no, my point stands.

The GamePass team does an excellent job of curating games that seem worthy of being added on day one.

Some of the indies filler trash we’ve gotten on GamePass this year and their OpenCritic scores:

Hollow Knight: Silksong 92
Blue Prince 89
Monster Train 2 88
Citizen Sleeper 2 87
The Alters 86
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound 86
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor 85
Frostpunk 2 84
Abiotic Factor 84
Lost in Random The Eternal Die 81
RoadCraft 81
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders 81
Herdling 81
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo 80
Revenge of the Savage Planet 80
Tempopo 79

Horrible stuff!!!

Again, not justifying the price hike, but people who only want big AAA games because the rest of gaming is pathetic garbage are missing some of the best games released. To each their own…

@SeaDaVie See my post above for 2025. There are 50 games pictured at the link I mentioned.

This isn’t even everything so I too would love to see Pure Xbox post a complete list.

I’m not happy about the price increase but we’ve already had plenty of months where we’ve gotten 5-6 quality day one games. There’s been some absolutely fantastic indies as well as bigger releases. So this part of the equation I don’t doubt.

The link below is a few months old but shows you all the day one 2025 releases that came or had been announced at that point. And there’s been more since then. There’s a LOT of great games there. If you think it’s mostly filler, then I feel sorry for you because you’re missing some great games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/s/PaLGxN1MCt

Again, the price increase is ridiculous. But the amount of great day one games has never been a question for me.

Just give us an option without “more value”. I could care less about Fortnite and Ubisoft Classics. Sure they supposedly cost $20 combined and your increase is $10 so you can say it’s “more value”. But it’s NO VALUE for people that don’t want them.

I’d rather take a smaller increase and keep what I already had.

All that said I have GamePass on the cheap into 2027 so I’ll ride the wave for a while and see what shakes out between now and then. I DO love GamePass. Just don’t justify an increase for more features I didn’t ask for.

Good bonus for Fortnite players but, as someone who isn’t one, I would have preferred to shave a few bucks off of the Ultimate sub without it.

It’s all going to depend on the quality of the games. MS is basically committing to at least six brand new games a month. That’s a lot of new games. I’m sure most will be indies.

In any case, I’m set for a while with GP that I have stacked so I’ll enjoy it while I can and see how things shake out later down the line.

Well, I have my GamePass Ultimate stacked for a while. Committing to 75+ day one games a year is pretty ballsy. I’ll enjoy it until my sub runs out and then evaluate when the time comes.

I think they should have left things like Ubisoft Classics and Fortnite Crew off the table to minimize the increase. I don’t have much interest in either of those.

Well, still better than Sony or Nintendo where you can now earn… absolutely nothing towards their subscriptions/games.

And this is before they even have their “official” announcements. Great stuff!!!

@Ricky-Spanish You can play 10 hours of it now with GamePass. That’s what I’m doing to check it out. Not bad so far!

I’d love to get one but not for that price!

Problem is that Xbox has had so many awesome showcases in the last few years that they set the bar high. So outside of FH 6, this was a bit disappointing. Thought they’d be showing more of other games they’ve been working on. Guess it maybe was due to the Japanese focus. I don’t know.

But super excited for FH in Japan!!!

Was pretty disappointing TBH. No new first party game announcements. Saros just looks like Returnal with a new skin. Wolverine looked good but that’s about it for me.

I can already say there will be more Xbox Game Studio games at tomorrow’s showcase without a doubt. Could care less whether they go to PS or not, they’re are a LOT of great games coming from Microsoft and GamePass will have me set for a long time to come.

@somnambulance I think odds a pretty high that it will be.

There are just way too many good games coming out at once.

Been playing it in early access on PC and love it even more than the original.

Still think Clair Obscur is by far the GOTY though.

I’ll be sleeping. But will read the recap here when I get up!

Nice line up considering we also got Silksong, I Am Your Beast, and Roadcraft this month! Definitely looking forward to Deep Space Galactic: Survivor, Frostpunk 2 and Visions of Mana.

Expedition 33 still far and away my GOTY.

When I heard about this I was thinking it was a sequel to I Made a Game with Zombies In It. But nope, disappointed. But found the remastered version of that game on the store for free. Brings back fun memories of those cheap but sometimes awesome Xbox 360 arcade games!

First one was pretty good but all the sequels, prequels and spinoffs seem to be just recycling the same stuff (sometimes with a layer of new paint like Tiny Tina). Ultimately they end up boring me to tears. So no, I’ll pass thank you very much.

Had no issues downloading it right from my console. And thanks GamePass!!!

Had this preordered and can’t wait to dig in!!!

A little light but great additions and, as always, this is just one half of the month.

Great game! Glad it’s on GamePass for the rest of you to enjoy. Definitely at least give it a try. It’s addicting!

Got the upgrade knowing I’d want this. Can’t wait!!!

Maybe Lumen should be disabled on PS5 too because it still runs like s*** on it even with updates.

@RentedPanda Yeah, was surprised to see that one as well and definitely will check it out.

@Kezelpaso Still think the Day One add from last week, Herdling, didn’t get much of any coverage here, particularly last week when I don’t think there was any GamePass story that included its release.

That’s sad because it’s a very well-reviewed game and deservedly so. Hope people are giving it a chance.

@Fiendish-Beaver It says they remastered textures, lighting, shadow and reflections. That’s a lot more than just settings IMO. But you do you as far as playing it.

@Fiendish-Beaver GoW Reloaded sounds like it’s a bit more than just a performance boast:

“ The iconic original now looks and plays better than ever with lightning-fast load times, 4K assets plus remastered textures, lighting, shadows and reflections, HDR and Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, as well as up to 120 FPS in multiplayer.”

The BC version already had gave it a performance boast.

Also be sure to check out well reviewed day one GamePass game Herdling that came out today!

@Kezelpaso Didn’t see anything here mentioning that Herdling came out today on GamePass. Another day one game that’s getting excellent reviews! 84 on OpenCritic!

Honestly this is the first month this year I felt was a little light. But Gears Reloaded will be sweet.

Honestly still catching up on last month’s insanely stacked plate (Tony Hawk 3+4, Descenders Next, Wheel World, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Grounded 2, Abiotic Factor and My Friendly Neighborhood are all games I’ve been playing just from July. All Day One and that wasn’t even all of them!).

So a bit slower month might be good!

Got it on PS5 and it’s not bad but nothing all the special. Honestly haven’t finished it yet, lol.

Never had issues with this either. Has worked very well for me!

I need to get back to and finish Cocoon. Great game but got sidetracked with others at the time.

@FraserG Wasn’t sure if you had heard that the Hexen/Hexen X remasters shadow dropped today and are also up on GamePass.