That price is crazy 🥶

I am incredibly hyped to see the extended trailer tomorrow! I have a good idea what the game looks like, and the level of detail and realism that Rockstar is targeting due to the leaks but am looking forward to seeing a proper gameplay trailer in all it's 4k goodness.

Good to see Xbox is learning from their mistakes launching games without a performance mode. Many gamers prefer smoother gameplay over slightly better visuals.

Thats a big no from me. Absolutely not a chance I would have any of this hideous stuff in my home.

The first hour of the show was a snoozefest, I almost fell asleep. Then it picked up with some really fun looking games.

Highlight of the show was Final Fantasy VII Revelation by far in my opinion. It's my most anticipated game of 2027 and will likely be my game of the year next year.

The first hour of the show was a snoozefest but it picked up near the end.

Looking forward to Metro, Exodus, Witcher 3 DLC + remaster, FFVII Revelation, No Law, Crazy Taxi & Tides of Annihilation.

Blood Dungeon looks like a flash-based game I would have played on Newgrounds like 20+ years ago. Not something I'm interested in today.

@Fiendish-Beaver Gotta agree with you there. It's not only the quality of games, but Ultimate subscribers have been getting less and less new games each month. The 'coming to gamepass' lists are mostly premium and essential titles.

@BacklogBrad That's what I see as well. I have a feeling he's going to create a big stink about it if there is indeed a Ori 3, and he's (and Moon Studio) not involved. His post already reeks of narcissism, implying that only his studio is capable of making a good Ori game.

Absolutely loved it. I don't normally play the multiplayer very much, I'm more into the campaigns and zombies (bo7's Endgame gamemode also hooked me for months). MW4 multiplayer is so good though. I love the movement, the guns feel punchy and satisfying to use and the time to kill feels just about right but still room for some tweaking on some guns.

The campaign mission was also very well put together. I enjoyed the setting, the weapons and the overall presentation and flow moving through the map. It's a very well craft mission and I hope the rest of the campaign is mostly similar.

Overall MW4 is a return to the heights set by MW2019 in my honest opinion. It's a solid Call of Duty entry (if they stick the landing with the rest of the game.)

I doubt he knows for sure. Microsoft cut ties with his studio years ago and if the game isn't being developed internally by one of Xbox's studios, none of his friends or contacts would know about it except a select few within in the company privy to 3rd party contracts would know.

GTA VI is my most anticipated showing this week. I have lofty expectations for the game and based on the leaks so far, Rockstar has exceeded my expectations. The game looks incredible and Rockstar's attention to detail, and realism, is going to steal the show. Game of the year? Nah, game of the decade.

MW4 beta. I am HOOKED. CoD multiplayer hasn't been this fun since I dare say MW 2019. Kill Block is already one of my favorite maps in CoD's history. I thought I loved the gun play and movement in BO7 (hated just about everything else like maps and the so-so campaign but enjoyed Endgame) but the new movement in MW4 feels so good. I love being able to slide towards ladders and pipes then instantly climbing / sliding down them by holding down the crouch button as you approach them during your slide animation, it feels like a action movie how seamless and fluid the movement is.

The campaign mission felt very good as well, it felt like a classic CoD campaign mission with over the top action and so much going on in the level. It felt like there was a real battle going on and not some action hero taking on an army by himself. I'm 100% interested in the campaign now and hopefully the rest of the campaign is crafted the same way.

@CaptainCluck Good to know you don't care about fellow human beings. Great look 👌 Keep that same energy when something bad happens to you or your loved ones. You / they must have deserved it I guess.

@8th_Observer These same people would be crying foul and wanting justice if they were personally affected by it. Really reveals the true colors of some visitors on this site and their morals and how big of hypocrites they are.

Again, it doesn't matter what the company is doing. Yes, Take Two's union busting is bad but this effects MORE than just the executives, this effects the developers that have poured their blood, sweat & tears for the past 10+years into the game only to have their hard work stolen and leaked to the world by crypto scammer. Rockstar's developer moral is at an all time low and these hypocrites couldn't care less about the human cost of the situation.

Also very telling how @InterceptorAlpha completely ignored my comment about Plagued Tale Resonance being leaked in full on torrent sites a week before release. He doesn't actually care about Rockstar's or Take Two's or Asobo's developers or the union busting he goes on about. He's posturing on what he percieves as the highground because he thinks saying these things will earn him likes. It's honestly pathetic.

@BacklogBrad It's still a crime and affects the developers and everyone involved.

That's like someone stealing your vehicle and then being told, "suck it up you'll be fine, you have insurance." Meanwhile you've worked your ass off for years to be able to afford said vehicle.

@InterceptorAlpha Right, so the thousands of developers that worked on the game over the last 10+ years that now have had all their hard work spoiled to varying degrees and blackmailed can get bent?

I guess Asobo Studio's developers can "get bent" as well? Seeing as the PC version of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy has been leaked in full and playable on torrent sites a week before it's release.

"Crimes don't matter if it happens to a company I don't like / agree with" is a pretty ***** take.

@NeutronBomb Major tech companies like Microsoft maintain strict privacy policies and cannot legally or voluntarily hand over private user telemetry, OneDrive data, registration emails, or IP addresses to a private third-party publisher without a court order. It's standard procedure.

I wish Xbox was in a position to secure 3rd party deals like this for franchises I actually want to play. Instead we get mostly AA and Indie "exclusives".

I'm excited to try Kill Block out. That map looks like it's going to be a ton of fun to play on with the way it changes round to round, game to game.

The walls are closing in on CyberLeek. I bet we see an announcement of his or her arrest before GTA launches in November.

@SirStephenH Nothing you just wrote here is correct.

"Developers ship the full game but it's an early, not fully polished and debugged, version."

This is incorrect. Physical copies of games that have the label "Content Download Required " do not contain the entire game's code on the disc and will not launch.

"No one ships complete, working games anymore, that went away once patch downloads became a thing."

This is also incorrect. Many publishers release games on disc that contain the full game, fully playable offline without needing a mandatory update.

"it's not something exclusive to Xbox"

While not exclusive to Xbox, Xbox discs only support up to 50GB of data, any more and it requires a mandatory download for the rest of the files. Playstation 5 discs support up to 100GB of data which allows many more games to release on the platform fully playable from the disc without a mandatory download.

I encourage you to visit DoesItPlay and research which games are playable on disc without need for a download. You'll see Xbox does in fact have more games than other platforms that require mandatory downloads.

@Grumblevolcano Probably a part of the reasoning. The last time Xbox stopped reporting sales data was when the Xbox One was being significantly outsold by the PS4.

Pre loaded yesterday and ready to go when the beta goes live. I have a feeling this is going to be another good CoD on the same level or better than MW 2019. They need that after BO7, the only thing I liked about that game was Endgame and the gunplay +movement. The rest was eh..

@TDHorizon 24 hours of radio silence from him so far, they could very well already have him in custody. I don't know how harsh of sentencing he will receive in Germany for this but if he is in fact a German citizen they won't extradite him to the US. Take Two has operations and offices in Germany though so it's not like he's untouchable by their lawyers.

It will really depend on how he obtained the leaked materials. Trying to make money off it though really wasn't bright and opens a whole other world of legal problems for him that the other leaker didn't have.

Well that didn't take long

CyberLeek has had his crypto wallets traced back to a centralized crypto exchange that requires ID verification. He's from Germany. Enjoy prison. 🤣

Xbox has been moving towards the all digital future for many years now between gamepass and releasing games on discs that only contain a small portion of the actual game, the rest needing to be downloaded in order to actually play. All this on top of the rumored disc to digital program (yet to make an appearance), it all sounds like Helix will not come with a disc drive and with statistics like this I can understand why.

I was tempted to buy Icarus when it launched back in March.

Glad I didn't. I tried it last night when the free play games went live and after about 20 minutes I was so bored out of my mind.

Doesnt really matter to me. These leaks have got me even more hyped for the extended trailer next week, and the eventual release of the game in November. This game is gonna be crazy good, you can already see the attention to detail and realism Rockstar is aiming for just from the leaks.

As for Leeks, I hope he enjoys his 5 minutes of fame before having his entire life destroyed by Take Two's lawyers. The last guy to go after Rockstar / Take Two was institutionalized indefinitely to a mental hospital and now facing 15-20 years in prison after his re-trial. Good luck. 😂 nobody will even remember him after GTA VI is released, what a way to throw away your life.

September is shaping up to be a lot better of a month for gamepass after August's dissapointing lineup. Definitely checking this one out.

"New Profile Badge For Getting The Xbox One At Launch In 2023"

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I don't see a reality where a Helix, or PS6, is cheaper than their predecessors. It doesn't make sense. If they can't manage the price of the current, 6 year old hardware, how will they bring down the price of next gen while still delivering a truly next gen experience that everyone has come to expect? What would be the point of upgrading.

I have now seen that the group behind the leaks are making demands and threats of publishers.

I can't help but to laugh at this, because the footage they leaked looks pretty solid for an old build of the game. They are essentially doing free marketing for Rockstar at this point; lol. The only thing I see harming Rockstar is if major story spoilers were leaked, or an entire build of the game was somehow made playable.

@RiverGenie Also makes use of AI for it's cutscenes (poor implementation at that) and other, undisclosed, areas of the game. Could be characters, art, music.. who knows. Not a great look for the studio and the excuse that they are small indie studio is a poor one considering how many other indie games have been created by similarly small dev teams, without ai, that went on to become hits.

@Brigurugi I know for me personally Play Anywhere doesnt affect what games I do, and don't buy. I view it as a redundant feature since I don't intend to buy a PC anytime soon (thanks to the skyrocketing price) and by the time I do get a proper gaming PC all these games will be old and I would have already completed them and more than likely not interested in playing them just because I have better hardware now. I mean you don't even get a seperate achievement list for the PC version you get via XPA so even less reason for me to return.

At the same time when I do get a PC I would fully stop buying Xbox games, period. Why would I continue to play games on weaker hardware after that point and not take advantage of cheaper games on Steam or other storefronts?

It would be a day one purchase, no questions asked.

My hype for this game is through the roof and into the mesosphere. Biggest entertainment launch in the past decade+.

Well that's that then. August 2026 is officially one of the worst months in recent memory, possibly ever, for Ultimate subscribers.

Looking forward to Minecraft Dungeons 2 and Dune next month though.

Ori 3 but not developed by Moon Studios.

My hype and interest in this game died when the reviews dropped. Still sitting at 56% on steam after 4+ months.

@Feffster it wasn't all Microsoft owned studios, they outsourced most of the project to 3rd parties.

Arrival, FX Chamber, Devoted, Digic, Keyword Studios (and its subsidiaries Sparosoft and Snowden), Skybox Labs, Sprung Studios, Virtuos (and its subsidiaries Sparks and Abstraction), Ninja Theory, Turn 10 Studios, and Rare.

From the rumors that Campaign Evolved was handled by 15 different studios, with little involvement actually coming from Halo Studios themselves, this news doesn't surprise me. Microsoft has clearly lost faith in the studio to make a great new Halo game.

I have been getting the itch to boost my gamerscore again after getting all the achievements in the new Halo game. I discovered there's versions of the resident evil games on the Japan region of gamepass dubbed "Z version" and they have seperate achievements lists from the western releases so I've been playing through these games again earning the achievements again.

If anyone is interested, all you gotta do is change your region in your console settings to Japan (like you would setting it to New Zealand for that "trick") and then search either "Z version", or "biohazard" in the store and it will bring up Resident Evil 2&3 Remakes with the z version in title. Resident Evil 7 also has a z version. The games are identical in story but have reduced gore. DLC such as the "unlock all rewards" also carries over to these versions if you own them.

I'm pretty sure the series X is nearly indestructible. My launch model is still chugging on without issue and I basically never turn it off unless it's to clean it or move it. I regularly play over 5000 hours every year, not including the time it sits on but not playing anything on it, according to the various year in reviews that either Xbox or trueachievements does.

@Mr-Cage I agree. I feel like they were either pressured to get it out, or a contractual obligation. This almost certainly doesn't work for the gamepass model though, a game lives or dies by how it's reception at launch goes when exposed to such a large audience. I'm sure PC sales were great for them but im skeptical about how many sales Xbox accounted for.

I wouldn't say it launched to favorable reviews, at least not user reviews. It's sitting at 57% on Steam & 2.6/5 on Xbox, lol.

I played the beta and could tell it wasn't for me. I enjoyed Hell Let Loose but Vietnam really feels like a "one step forward, two steps back" situation.

@Mr-Cage Maybe one day, if the sale is good enough. I would have almost certainly felt ripped off had I purchased this one at launch though. I had no idea what to expect from this developer with it being there first attempt at a console release. Just dissapointed it took so long to get into a good place.

There's not many games that made me feel like I was a beta tester; but during Stalker 2's gamepass tenure it certainly felt that way. Happy to see the game is becoming what it was advertised as, but I can't help but to feel slighted by how long it took and the removal from gamepass just as it was getting there.

Appreciate the fixes but I'm already done with the game and got all the achievements.

Some of these should have really been available at launch. Chromatic aberration and film grain toggles are pretty standard in every game nowadays and even last gen games. Marines and flood not being able to shoot when using the magnified skull is also pretty odd, did Halo Studios even test the game? Strange considering magnified and the speed limit skull were advertised as "classic Halo settings / feel".

Loved this game and series. 3 from a story aspect was brilliant, unfortunately alot of the in-between and the open world left a lot to be desired.

Yet to play the newest Old Country.

I'm willing to give the beta another try, maybe it will feel better with the improved hit detection. The movement however, I don't think I will ever enjoy.