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@Kezelpaso Completely unrelated but since you’re running the show here right now, have you seen that Pacific Drive was shadow dropped on Xbox today and is also on GamePass?

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/10/23/pacific-drive-xbox-launch-game-pass/

@Kezelpaso Is Pure Xbox going to do its own review? Seems like a bit first party title would be priority here.

@TrevorP86 @Gabrie I also think if there really were hordes of people cancelling GamePass, they may have backtracked - at least partially. The fact that nothing has happened since the initial price increase announcement makes me think the damage wasn’t as huge as people were acting like it would be.

@IOI Lmao at the Xbox haters spinning this into a bigger story than it is. Devs can borrow kits FREE of charge from Microsoft. Don’t know much more clear it can be that this story is pretty much irrelevant.

This story appears to be misleading. There’s now stories coming out because devs called it out. Microsoft loans out dev kits for free to developers just like Sony. This is only if they wanted to outright buy one which would be the same case with Sony.

Anyway, another anti-Xbox story blown out of proportion with misleading information. MS supports devs with free loans of dev kits so this has no impact on the vast majority of devs.

Great line up. Don’t miss 1000xResist. It’s fantastic (89 on OpenCritic) and glad it’s now coming to Xbox let alone GamePass. Of course, Outer Worlds 2 is the big highlight. But Bounty Star looks like a great mech game and always up for that!

All I really want to know is if it’s the lowest price ever. Last 30 days isn’t very helpful if the game was cheaper 31 days ago.

Ninja Gaiden 4 will suck up most of the oxygen for new games this week but Bounty Star sounds really good from the previews I’ve read. Totally overlooked it until I saw it’s coming to GamePass day one. That and NG4 are at the top of my list this week!

Interesting to see reviews ranging from perfect scores (even from Eurogamer no less, who is usually harder on games) to more middling. Love Double Fine though so I’m sure I’ll lean towards the former!

83 on OpenCritic is nothing to sneeze at overall either!

Got this on Switch and it is indeed excellent. But when I clicked on the link to the Windows Central and read “the hottest release of the season” in their subheading, I had to chuckle a bit. I mean it’s not like Battlefield 6 skipped Xbox.

@mikek2118 Sure Ninja Gaiden 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 that are also out this
month on GamePass are pure generic mobile game level garbage.

Ball X Pit is out today on GamePass Ultimate too. Been looking forward to that one!!!

Despite how good Battlefield 6 may be, I thought EA still had it’s badge of honor as one of the worst gaming companies in the world.

@FatGuyInLilCoat @PsBoxSwitchOwner One of the pictures was already found to be from 2023. It was likely a store that was moving stock around. So, yes, even pictures can lie. Also both Walmart and Target have said the rumors are untrue.

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.