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It was far and away my GoTY last year. Sound, visuals and level design were astounding. So many unforgettable moments in that game. And can’t wait for the expansion next week!

MechWarrior Clans is a blast so far and getting good reviews (80 on OpenCritic).

Awesome to get another great $50 game Day One release in the same month as COD and everything else.

GamePass rocks!

Stalker 2, Nine Sols and Flight Simulator already make this an awesome month for me.

Been playing the demo and while I like it, it is VERY slow to get going. Probably get it but maybe not right away.

For some reason I thought I remember this being something that was also supposed to be on GamePass Day 1.

@Gamer83 It’s Sony’s IP being licensed to them so it may have been a condition of getting the license. Not necessarily Namco’s decision.

I suspect Sony may have had a condition when licensing the IP to Namco that this port wouldn’t go to Xbox.

Comments from other “insiders” on this same tweet point out that regardless of who is publishing it, it’s still Sony’s IP.

You know I read a bunch of other reviews and most didn’t really allude to this being just a kids game. But having played an hour on PS Plus Extra, yeah, it really does seem totally geared toward kids. Easy difficulty and puzzles like using words in sentences make it pretty clear who the target audience was.

I’ll play through it but it’s a bit disappointing in that I expected it to be more well rounded for everyone to play.

Damn. Sad to see Darktide go.

@Ilyn Not exactly sure what you’re trying to say but this is from the Digital Foundry article on Eurogamer about the Series S and Black Myth Wukong:

“ News journalists with good track records have corroborated the Sony exclusivity angle (and to be clear, we've heard the same ourselves from sources with good knowledge of the situation) ”

How is that “not once” said by Digital Foundry? If you’re mentioning a different DF article / video, does it matter? They DID say it in this one.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-df-weekly-if-black-myth-wukong-has-issues-on-ps5-is-a-series-s-port-viable

Funny how people keep bringing up Digital Foundry because they themselves also said they heard from reliable sources that there is an exclusivity deal in place with Sony.

Excited for this!

Don’t forget we also get the Persona 3 Episode Aigis expansion for free on 9/10. The expansion pass is $35 otherwise. That’s really the equivalent of a new game on its own. And three of these five games are day one adds. Train Sim World 5 is a $50 game. There’s $140 in day one games/content just in the first half of the month. So I can’t complain.

Really looking forward to Age of Mythology!

I’d like to try it but 350 GB is absolutely insane.

I don’t know how it could be made any clearer that they’re still working on optimizing it.

“SO FAR, we have it at 25ish FPS on the Xbox Series S, BUT WE STILL HAVE SPACE TO OPTIMIZE.”

Talk about taking something out of context just to bash the Series S. 🤦‍♂️

@FraserG Ah, not sure how I missed that. My bad! 😀

@FraserG Speaking of GamePass, I haven’t seen any mention of Core Keeper coming out today on it. It’s getting excellent reviews and has 91% positive of 26,000+ on Steam.

Yeah, I want them to take their time with this given how many performance issue problems PS5 has. But haters are ignoring the that even the PS5 has issues. To me, it’s good that Xbox will be getting a more polished version of the game.

The developers even say fixes for PS5 may take a while because of “bottlenecks” on the console.

But sure, only Xbox machines have issues…

Full disclosure: I have the PS5 version and the graphics and balanced modes are stuttering messes and are unplayable to me. Performance is the best but it’s running a 30 FPS in the background while displaying 60 FPS. It’s playable but there are a lot of issues with missed inputs due to this. I’ve lost lives because of health gourds not trigger or sometimes triggering twice as I’m trying to get it to work. It can be incredibly frustrating. It definitely needs fixes.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call this a major addition at all at this point. It’s old and can be had super cheap.

I’m not a stickler for 60 FPS and do get what the devs are talking about with making choices visually. But as is the case with other games, can’t you drop fancy lighting or whatever CPU heavy graphical enhancement in a performance mode?

Anyway, this is still one of my most anticipated games.

Sony’s strategy has also shifted and that really has made a PC the golden ticket for everything.

Day one games on GamePass, Sony exclusives and games that will never be on console. All on PC. No need for an Xbox or PlayStation.

Can’t say it’s just Xbox that’s expanding beyond their own hardware.

Hoping we get some more “today” drops during the Xbox presentations. This month is extremely light (especially compared to last month) for GamePass.

Honestly am more upset about Towerborne going F2P than I am about this going to PS5.

Ughh, that is extremely disappointing that it’s going to be F2P

@anoyonmus To play the games Day One on GamePass instead of $70 for one game.

This is the same guy who said Starfield was going to PS5 and then had to issue a statement that he was wrong. So, yeah, take it with a healthy dose of salt.

I think Final Fantasy 16 will be announced for Xbox with PS exclusivity ending, SE saying they want to do more multiplats and plenty of rumors swirling about it.

And, yes, Square announced the PC version but I think the Xbox announcement would be during one of the console’s own events.

Yeah, there’s got to be more to this case. There are literally thousands of devs, some with incredibly low budget junk, that are able to get through the submission process just fine. How come they are able to do it? Is there a language barrier or something else going on? It doesn’t make sense.

@Frmknst Literally nothing except Indy? Umm, Towerborne, Avowed, Shattered Space, Ara: History Untold, Flight Simulator, etc. Plenty of first party stuff in there and it does say “and more”.

That’s a bummer if true. I thought Phil said earlier that it would be a true handheld device not requiring a console.

Good games but let’s hope the second half is better…

That said I still have a ton to work through from the massive amount of games last month.

Not big on monster collecting games but this one has me intrigued. Looking forward to checking it out on Wednesday!

My feeling is that if Avowed was delayed, they are likely confident that Indy will release this year. So I’m continuing to have faith that it will.

This game is said to be practically done so for those saying Indy is going to be delayed, I think this game is being delayed BECAUSE Indy is still coming and they wanted to give it and the other releases more time to breathe.

Wargroove 2 would be excellent! Nice to even see it come to Xbox!

@MrMagic Yes, I’m sure it’s not like any of the devs could possibly have friends and family at home going through hell every day to think about. I’m sure the most important thing in the world to them is finishing this game.

Good news for people that want it. I probably won’t download it just because it’s gigantic and don’t have the space. But it’s already been an awesome month for GP so I’m quite happy.

Fantastic game! Hope it finds a good audience. It deserves it!

I’m enjoying it but Dungeons of Hinterberg is the real gem of last week’s releases. Great game!

Path of the Goddess is also quite good. Impressive week of GamePass releases for me!

@Decimateh Funny that you mentioned that about Xbox store reviews because this is a prime example. Average rating for this on Xbox is 2.6. And on PlayStation it’s 4.3!

Played a few games with the EA Access trial (via GamePass) and it’s fun. Animations are a little janky and the game as a whole maybe not quite at the level of the old games but it’s a good start. Also refreshing after so many years of Madden doing next to nothing each year.

Really been looking forward to this one!

@MjJmediablogger So you’re ignoring the other games that are out this week on GamePass like Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (81 on OpenCritic) and Magical Delicacy (84 on OpenCritic)?

Yeah, really “depressing” and killing the Xbox brand with such horrible games. Every day a bad game…

Was hoping this would fare better. This and Hinterberg were my most anticipated of this week’s releases. Still sounds like something I might enjoy so I’ll definitely give it a shot.

Now anxious to read reviews for Hinterberg (which got great previews so fingers crossed!).

@Pusher2021 Wow. I didn’t realize that. Thanks for the heads up. I need to check it out again!

Loved Driver: San Francisco in particular and always wished it had been made backwards compatible. But I’ll take a new one!

@Nightcrawler71 I think there’s a deluxe edition that gives you access two days ahead of time.

Edit: I was wrong about the deluxe edition giving early access. But going by the developer’s website, this site is correct with the 18th and Push Square is wrong.

Absolutely amazing week for GamePass! Definitely looking forward to Hinterberg, Flintlock and Path of the Goddess!! And will at least try the others as well as totally burning through those 10 hours with College Football.

People need to relax. Both look great and the August games for just the first half aren’t even announced yet! Our July was absolutely stacked. Cannot wait for all the Day One games we get next week!

@rustyduck Neon White is far from a child cartoon game. It’s an incredibly difficult speed parkour platformer with very high critical reviews (89 on OpenCritic). But your loss if you want to write it off as a “child cartoon game”.

Tchia is also well reviewed and it’s kind of funny how a big deal was made about it coming to PS Plus Extra originally.