Maybe I'm just dumb, but couldn't this simply be explained like; "The Coalition has had a $500 million dollar budget as a studio over the last five years, but only a fraction of this was specifically dedicated to E-Day?"

"Maul Mart" sounds like a name that Rockstar would have thought of themselves. This is worth paying attention to, for sure

this comment section is a disaster

I like that Blinx's release date is listed as "TBA." Like, hell yeah, man! When's it coming out?

I gotta say, I really think RGG has to knock it out of the park with this one. After the highpoint of the one-two punch of The Man Who Erased His Name and Infinite Wealth, Pirate Yakuza had me feeling so burned out on the series, and Kiwami 3 didn't help. I think having a fresh coat of paint is nice, but they REALLY need to make Stranger than Heaven feel different than Like a Dragon. Also, Tupac being resurrected doesn't fill me with a lot of hope.

@relearn Ball knower

@FraserG Yes, I 100% was thinking of Big Walk, lol. Thank you~!

Didn't they just talk about it NOT coming to Xbox yesterday?? Am I having a stroke or something?

Need a six-pack of Beers of War to drink on E-Day's launch day!

While I do not celebrate anyone losing their job in the current global economic environment, I would just like to say massive, MASSIVE RIP BOZO to 343/Halo Studios. You will not be missed.

In all seriousness, I think everything here is smart in the long-term. Corporate consolidations is scary, but it's a huge indicator that there's still a lot of life in this brand and community.

Gonna pay the $30 extra for early access so I can play it over my birthday weekend, like God intended.

@iCheckVibes I hear ya, but I'm not advocating that I WANT the Day One games to leave. I'm not going to voluntarily subscribe to the lower tier if I have to option to get Day One releases at a nominal price increase. I was simply giving a list of what I'd want/expect out of Gamepass should Microsoft actually remove Day One games. Also, the 1-3 hour long demos for every game that I mentioned is not available in any tier, so I think that point is still valid.

I would be okay with it, WITH a few conditions.

1. Lower the price (obviously)
2. Increase the number of third-party games arriving to Gamepass within their launch year
3. Give Gamepass subs a timed, one to three hour (depending on the game) demo of all first-party titles
4. Any and all expansion/story DLCs are still included in Gamepass
5. Release every first-party title physically (as long as such a thing exists)
6. Gamepass subscribers still get a discount and early access

Holstin looks dope!

@Nightcrawler71 Holy crap so that's an actual issue?? I thought I'd just drank a bit too much and forgotten to save the other night!

Wouldn't it have made more sense to do this before going back to being independent? That way Microsoft foots the bill for severance? Idk, food for thought

Honestly, if Crash 5 is 3-5 years away, I wouldn't mind that release cadence. I grew up with the original games, Crash 4 was the Crash game of my 20's, and Crash 5 can be the Crash game of my 30's. Just keep em coming, I know they'll be worth the wait

State of Play was doo-doo, but Xbox, Nintendo Direct, and SGF all ruled!

Seriously considering selling my launch Series X and getting this monstrosity. I mean, look at it! It's so dumb and cool!

I don't care what is or isn't exclusive, just as long as there's some consistency. Like, I totally understand that there are contractual obligations preventing them from making Fable and Halo exclusive to Xbox, but there's no other good reason why Gears and Clockwork are exclusive, but Fable and Halo aren't.

I'm man enough to admit this made me tear up a little bit. Welcome back, purple buddy

Hopefully Rise of the Tomb Raider sticks around. It's on the backlog, and I can't be assed to dig out my physical copy haha

best friggin showcase ever, lads

Irrationally happy about this

Ain't no Forza, but it doesn't need to be. As great as Forza is, it's a bit stale in terms of new mechanics. A little competition should get the creative juices flowing!

Not even trying to fanboy here; I really don't think I'm personally going to lose any sleep about these games skipping Xbox. Townfall, PB0, and Kemuri look like total snooze-fests. No Rest for the Wicked is interesting, but idk, man, I never really thought Ori was all that great. Style over substance

Is Undisputed fun? Not asking if it's good, I'm just wondering if it's fun (I think you guys know the difference lol)

So Space Marine will now join the very, VERY short list of Xbox console exclusive games that are not on Gamepass. Super weird!

GREEN BABY WE LOVE DA GREEN

Saying "we don't want this to happen at all" is incredibly shortsighted. Helix will almost certainly not have a disc drive. Without having a solution like what Positron is conceptually, you'll have millions of people who won't have a way to use their physical games on their console at all!

I hope all of the OG Xbox and 360 era Crash (and Spyro!) games are eventually made backward compatible. They own the IPs, there's fan interest, literally no excuse not to do it. Quake 4 is another example of that; perhaps even more egregious.

Also, DEADPOOL made the top ten?? There's literally a remastered version of that game on Xbox One!

I don't want to get ahead of myself but...are we back???

Just delay it, bro. It's not going to hurt anything. We've waited this long; what's another 3-9 months?

Not liking Gex is a skill issue

This is about what I expected. It's a means to an end to get it on PlayStation, and that's fine. Personally, I'm holding out for a Switch 2 release!

What's the name of the Greek God who flew too close to the sun? Phil Spencer, right?

This does not fill me with much confidence for the future of Xbox hardware

@Kaloudz Outbreak is 100% the answer

Arguably the best month in Game Pass history; definitely the best six weeks if you include the last two weeks of April

@Kaloudz Surely Rare wouldn't have been allowed to have such a lengthy gestation period for Everwild if Sea of Thieves hadn't been super successful and regularly updated. I wonder how big the Everwild team is in comparison to the SOT team?

Hey uh, I got a question...what is Everwild? Do we even know the genre?

@Sindayl Nah, 6-12 months later lol

I'm still cautiously optimistic about this one, but I'm curious to see what kind of stuff people build inside of it

This is huge!! I rented this from Gamefly last year but obviously couldn't finish it. It'll be nice to have access to it again, and just continue to chip away at it

Honestly, none of them? Maybe? I don't know, I'm sure I'll cave eventually, but in my head, I can't think of anything on Xbox that I can justify paying $80 for. I'm not going to say GTA VI, because I actually think that will be more than $80 lol

It's almost like GamePass doesn't hurt games, developers, or the industry

Don't do what I did and play 7 hours straight of Crisis Core with a controller sitting DIRECTLY ON TOP OF THE VENT and the absolutely crap your pants when your console shuts off and you get the overheating message.

But this was a very useful piece. I'll save it in case just blowing it out with compressed air while still assembled stops being enough

@Kaloudz Watch it be a match-three puzzler, hahaha

Slayers X is a decent little game with a pretty cool history, but other than that, I'm not too heartbroken about losing these lol

@Kaloudz Can you play BL6 on mobile with touch controls? If not, that was a huge accessibility edge that Warzone Mobile had