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This is what I'd call a win win situation... Not only am I spared a crap game but also from clapping eyes on that annoying twonk too!

Always wanted to play XCOM but missed the boat last gen so I'm ecstatic that this is next months freebie. More than makes up for the fact that I already have or am not interested in the rest.

Another great sale, I picked up the Agatha Christie ABC Murders game (been waiting for this to go on sale for ages), Lego Pirates and will get the Dark Souls DLC too now that my attention has been drawn to it

@MegaKillScreen Thanks for the heads up (and the great review). Only just noticed the release date is today!!! Happy days

@RustyBullet I played through the Ryse campaign twice to get the Legendary cheevo... but I do still have all the DLC stuff to complete, but there's an awful lot of grinding involved there unfortunately. I do need to finish off a lot of the side missions in RDR though... I kind of got a bit pissed with the way it ended and cast you as a different character so I stopped playing lol

@RustyBullet That's a very specific list - hope it's true as I'd dearly love to be able to play RDR and Bioshock Infinite again... Already finished Ryse and Lichdom Battlemage is supposed to be one of the most appalling games ever made so I'll skip that

Like the sound of this a lot... I too have never played any of the others but really looking forward to giving this a go... used to love Sim CIty before it became rubbish and this seems to offer a lot more to keep you interested in playing.

With the save game issue... are you able to go in and delete old saves manually? If so might be an option to clean up after every couple of missions to avoid this problem until it gets patched?

Looks terrific - I do like adventure type games so this is looking like a likely purchase for me. Never played any of the previous ones either...

Yes!!! Fable Anniversary and NFS: Hot Pursuit. Both day one digital (re)purchases for me!

Booo to Crackdown 2 though... would much rather have the original Crackdown!

@MaccaMUFC Thanks - not liking the sound of it at all to be honest, think I'll pass on it for now!

@JaxonH Totally agree... No proper Single Player = no sale for me.

For pity's sake don't buy Super Night Riders... at least not until you've read Kens review. Utter garbage.

Does Homefront have a proper, story driven, single player campaign?

@Utena-mobile way I looked at it was I'd already moved on from each game as the next game out... Most had been sat untouched on a shelf for months or years even so might as well get as much money as possible for them.

@Red620Ti You should have seen me when I bought my 360... Traded in my PS2 along with about 150 PS2 games AND over 200 PS1 games plus a ton of memory cards, light guns, controllers, racing wheels etc for both systems. I was there all afternoon lol.

Won't happen again through - mostly digital this gen.

@Utena-mobile yep that would be me - took the whole lot (well over 100 physical games & 360) to my local Game store and traded them in. Did same with my PS3 stuff too. In fact I've done it every generation - don't have space for it all.

@Captain_Chao5 Oh dear... you know you're getting old when you can't remember finishing a game!

Like the look of this (literally - there's a definite Tron/Lawnmower Man vibe to it) and I do like adventure/puzzle solving games. Can't make much sense of the plot from the trailer but it's cheap enough that I'll probably give this a punt at launch.

@SuperKMx Aha, that sort of makes sense, although disappointing that it doesn't let them know which game I'm actually playing though.

@Red620Ti Indeed - it's about £11 - or $9.99 in the US... go figure...

That video has to be one of the most cringe-worthy things I've ever seen... maybe it would have come across better at the time? Still I'm assuming the pair of them did very well financially out of it.

With the Xbox One basically being a PC I'm surprised he wasn't able to get a version of Windows running natively on it... then you would have an interesting proposition!

Seems to be a bit of profiteering going on as I'm sure it wasn't that expensive when the news first broke?

I bought it digitally off the store and have been having a lot of fun with the campaign. Funny glitch with it though - while I'm playing, my friends are reporting that it says I'm playing "2 games" when they check their friend activity feed?

Wasn't able to view this on my work PC as it kept getting blocked by our web filter as being "pornographic". Surely that can't be right I was thinking to myself... so I whipped out my mobile only to find it was bang on!

Interesting article though... Always fancied a stab at steel battalion but glad I never bothered now - didn't know about the permadeath!

Picked a poor time to launch this one... it'll be well and truly in Doom's massive shadow.

Wish they'd have a stab at bringing something other than Worms to the table. How about bringing back Project-X or Alien Breed 3D. I enjoy the worms games but there's only so many of them I can stomach... think I'm all wormed out.

@KelticDevil EA definitely seem to be trying to improve their image... but having been voted worst company in the US for a few years on the trot I guess they need to!

Top marks for the cool Lee Marvin quote @SuperKMx

Personally I'm totally stoked for Super Night Riders...

Although the Blue Angles sim gets a special mention (and my vote) as it's been a long time since there's been a flying game to play on Xbox. The Kinect Kung Fu also looks like it could be a lot of incredibly silly fun

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This actually looks pretty decent... I was concerned that it would all take place on oval tracks and would be a bore fest but, at least going from that trailer, it looks like a lot of fun. New tracks are always welcome and there's a whole raft of new achievements to pick up so all in all colour me very interested

@KelticDevil Haven't really played the campaign on this one but got a mate at work who raves about it. He says on a par with MW2 but not as good as MW1... but that's just his opinion. I do know it's all grounded in reality... the cold war, vietnam etc not futuristic stuff so it has that going for it! Looking forward to getting stuck into it myself

Nice sale this week... shame the 3 Tomb Raider games aren't backwards compatible. Would have bought them in a heartbeat if they were...

@KelticDevil ...is the correct answer! Top marks to you sir

OK it's showing up as £11.84 now... just waiting for an official confirmation that it's really on the BC list before I commit. World at War is only £9.99 too but god knows whether or not that will ever make it onto the list...

Now this is more like it... but when I go to the marketplace it's listed as £44.95!!! Are they having a giraffe? Ignoring the fact that it's supposed to be on sale, £45 for a 6 year old game is staggeringly ridiculous.

Any idea how much it is supposed to be in the DWG sale?

Quite happy with mine - I've had it for 13 years!

Now if they'd done this AND announced that the trilogy would be backward compatible for Xbox One then they might have won themselves a little bit of goodwill back... christ, I probably would have bought it digitally so I could play them again on my One. But no, this is just another cash grabbing middle finger to its fans. They know what they can do with this collection...

Wow... it actually sounds even worse than I imagined it would be (and in my mind it was pretty awful already). The repeating traffic pattern sounds particularly tragic. This actually makes LocoCycle look like a masterpiece by comparison!

@sorethumbed You're not THAT old surely?

Deus Ex for me by a country mile!

I had a lot of fun with this, playing the games provided and dabbling with making my own. There was a pretty impressive clone of Minecraft made using this so it was clearly capable of some good stuff, although there was a lot of dross too. I also enjoyed Conkers Bad Fur Day that came out a while ago for it... will be sad to see it go

Wow, I was actually contemplating getting this as I have have some spare funds in my MS account... so glad I read this review first!

I thought all games had to go through MS certification to make sure there were no game breaking bugs like the ones this is clearly riddled with?

Yep Doom for sure. Someone is having a laugh with Raiden - charging £40 for a shoot em up!

@Red620Ti - my copy of Doom is installing now... You know you want it really...

Whatch out for them loading screen difficulty settings though @Captain_Chao5

@Captain_Chao5 Indeed it did... although mine actually did die about 1 week before my extended GAME warranty ran out so I was lucky enough to get a free replacement. Still wouldn't be without it for the voice command stuff though which still impresses the hell out of friends and family who've never seen it before.

And of course the odd game like this! This looks like a lot of fun and I'll almost certainly be picking this up. Just have to hope I don't smash anything whilst I'm flailing my arms and legs around like a madman... kind of tricky when you're 6'4"

Like the look of this A LOT! I'm a big fan of unique game experiences like this, although I just hope it isn't too scary (like Outlast!)

However I have to lay my cards on the table and say I'm not in the least bit interested in the VR side of it... already had a dabble with VR (Minecraft VR to be precise) and I have never felt so nauseous outside of being blind drunk.

This actually looks like it might be quite fun... gameplay reminds me of Pikmin crossed with the art style from something like Costume Quest.

Yeah the timing of this is obviously meant to stop Doom eating into its user-base,,, too late for me, I'll definitely be playing Doom this weekend!

Cool, despite the middling review I actually would really like to play this one. Good luck everyone!

@RustyBullet Yeah I usually don't like to be too negative when someone has clearly spent a lot of time creating something... but in this instance I honestly don't feel like much time or effort has actually gone into this one...

@BAMozzy To be honest I just don't remember any other console generation where there has been such an obsession of nitpicking the graphical fidelity of games. Maybe it's the switch in focus from reading reviews in paper based magazines to the web where things like Digital Foundry and YouTube reviewers exist purely to profit from fanning the flames of discontent...

I just want to play the latest games and am not really bothered by, or interested in, the sacrifices that were required to make it happen. If that means having to play at 720p for the rest of this generation then I'm fine with that...

Blimey, they REALLY stripped back the graphics on this one to the bone... and yet it doesn't seem to retain the 8-bit / 16-bit charm of the originals. Character on the bike looks like a Mii with it's stick legs... I know it's supposed to be retro but this looks like it was thrown together using one of those cookie cutter game development packages.

Agree with the comments above about the rumours... that sort of thing really impacts a lot of peoples' buying decisions. I know I would certainly be holding off on a new Xbox purchase until at least E3 to see what announcements are made...

The whole idea of there being a new more powerful console from either Sony or Microsoft really annoys me at this stage in their life-cycles to be honest. If I'd wanted this sort of scenario I would have gone back to PC gaming...

@KelticDevil If I'd known it would be 8 months until episode 2 came out I wouldn't have bought it either... to be honest until now I thought the developer had completely abandoned the game

Had a look on their website and they seem to specialise in turning expensive, aspirational electronics into incredibly tacky looking tat that I wouldn't give house room to...

They've got an Apple iMac that they've coloured bright blue, a pink and purple PS4 pad, a bright yellow and green Bose sound system and loads more bizarre colour options.. Quality of the finish looks top notch but their design aesthetic is appalling.