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Post by Medicine Man » Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:34 pm

September's Games with Gold..


Hitman: The Complete First Season - September 1st - 30th
We Were Here - September 16th - October 15th
Earth Defense Force 2025 - September 1st - 15th
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - September 16th - 30th.


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Post by Medicine Man » Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:10 pm

October's Games with Gold..


Tembo the Badass Elephant - October 1st - 31st
Friday the 13th: The Game - October 16th - November 15th
Disney Bolt - October 1st - 15th
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge - October 16th - 31st

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Post by Medicine Man » Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:23 pm

November's Games with Gold...


Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter - November 1st - 30th
The Final Station - November 16th - December 15th
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter - November 1st - 15th
Joy Ride Turbo - November 16th - 30th

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Re: Xbox & Microsoft News/Discussion

Post by Animalmother » Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:22 pm

Subnautica is now available on Games Pass :P

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Post by Medicine Man » Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:18 pm

X019 is tonight at 8pm.

https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/x019

Apparently we’ll see new IP from both Obsidian and Rare and release dates for Wasteland 3 and Minecraft Dungeons among others.



No doubt Game Pass will be all over it too. I see the Witcher 3 is coming to the service as seen in a Twitch ad...


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Post by DjchunKfunK » Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:55 pm

Rage 2 has apparently leaked as an Xbox Game Pass title as well.

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Post by Medicine Man » Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:09 pm

Obsidian's next game: Grounded...



Rare's next game: Everwild...



Dontnod's next game: Tell Me Why...



Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami coming to Xbox.

Halo Reach joins the Master Chief Collection on December 3rd. The same day it launches on PC.

ProjectXCloud coming to PC next year

Age of Empires IV...



And Wasteland 3...



Done! Give or take a few wee missed bits and pieces.

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Post by Raid » Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:18 pm

So I just got home with my shiny new One X, and boy, the interface on this thing is shockingly bad isn't it. When you're using a games console, you'd think that it would have a section for, well, games, right? Nope. As far as I can tell they just nestle among the massive amount of adverts.

I really do think that Gamepass is the one thing that will save Microsoft this generation.

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Post by Alan » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:08 am

3 times they have overhauled it too!
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Post by Mantis » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:43 pm

The 360 interface got worse every time they changed it.

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Post by Alan » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:58 pm

Nothing beats PS3, its the gold standard.
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Post by DjchunKfunK » Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:23 pm

None of the interfaces have been good, you stick that PS3 interface in a modern console and it wouldn't cope with all the extra stuff we have now.

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Post by Alan » Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:54 pm

DjchunKfunK wrote:
Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:23 pm
None of the interfaces have been good, you stick that PS3 interface in a modern console and it wouldn't cope with all the extra stuff we have now.
Like what? What else do we have other than video capture which would be siloed in an app. The XMB is at its heart a cleaner non ADHD version of the PS4 one which is a cluttered mess of a UI.
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Post by Raid » Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:56 pm

The Switch has a near perfect UI. The home screen has a side-scrolling list of your installed games. Underneath this is your list of system apps. There's an account and settings button in the top left. That's it. I appreciate the Switch doesn't do half of what the other consoles do, but I really don't care about that stuff. All I want to do is turn my console on and tell it which game to load.

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