Welcome to the weekend! It's definitely been a quieter week following the busy period that was E3 2021, but we've received another welcome selection of Xbox Game Pass titles over the past few days, along with three more Free Play Days additions, and over 300 games are still on sale as part of the usual Xbox weekly offers.
Here's what we’re jumping into over the weekend:
Fraser Gilbert, News Editor
I'll tell you what I'm hooked on at the moment, Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game. The sports are hit-and-miss, and can be fairly clunky, but the game puts such an emphasis on just having fun regardless, and I'm enjoying jumping online for an hour each evening and playing some low-stakes events with the rest of the world. The game constantly rotates its ranked events, so the lobbies always remain populated.
If I do decide to play anything else, it'll be a toss-up between Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, which just joined EA Play and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Sonic Mania. I'm in a really big Sonic mood after the 30th anniversary celebrations this week, and Sonic Mania is just such a delight to play. Plus, the soundtrack is a banger!
Have a good weekend, folks.
Daniel Hollis, News Reporter
After a busy E3 period, I can finally settle down a bit this weekend. How am I going to do that? By playing video games, of course! This weekend is going to see me jumping into Scarlet Nexus - a game I’ve been eagerly anticipating for a long time now. It looks like the anime fluff I absolutely love!
What else? Well, the Guardians of the Galaxy reveal has got me excited to try it, so I’m finally going to check out the Xbox Series X version of Marvel’s Avengers. I’m also going to be continuing a lot of multiplayer games I’m checking out. Chivalry 2, Knockout City, and of course, Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life. There’s so many games at the moment, it’s becoming overwhelming!
Side note: I’m also visiting a retro game store tomorrow, so will be sharing my pick ups on Twitter. Be sure to come check it out if you’re into your classic games!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
What Xbox games are you playing this weekend? Let us know down in the comments below.
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Playing Yakuza Like A Dragon All Weekend
Will be playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider on PS4, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time on Wii U and Ghost Recon Future Soldier on PS3. Been a long time since I played a Tomb Raider or Ghost Recon game. These games along with Mario & Luigi are just so much fun! It's gonna be a great weekend.
Sea of Thieves!
My buds are on vacation, so no weekend online multiplayer session this week. I just bought a nifty little laptop (2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14) for myself a couple days ago, so I've pretty drastically upgraded my PC gaming situation. I've got the day off tomorrow, so tonight I'm looking to dive deep into Prodeus. I've had save file issues with the Xbox app in the past, however, this game allows you to choose between saving locally or saving to the cloud. I chose local and have not had an issue yet, and hopefully I won't. I'm also looking at my gigantic library of free games I've collected from EGS over the past 12-18 months that my previous PC wouldn't be able to run very well, and I think I'm going to check out Ghostbusters Remastered as well.
Gonna get some Sea of Thieves going and carry on in recore.
Order of Battle.
Its quite good turn based war game. Plays very similar to Advance Wars.
Playing Jedi Fallen Order, I thought that it was another trashy licence game but since it is on Game Pass I thought that I could Give it.m a go… how wrong I was. Its amazing. The best Star Wars game I’ve played.
Scarlet Nexus mostly for me. Tie that in with some Mario Golf. Also just got a Fender Strat HM reissue so going to be wailing on that as well. Here's to a rainy weekend!
Elder Scrolls Online.
I'm still playing through Zelda Breath Of The Wild..
@Chaudy same, I've currently got 25h in and I love it. Unexpectedly though because I was not looking forward to the turn based combat.
Some mario golf and scarlet nexus
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Vita) - I wanted to replay this again, so here we go for a Hard difficulty run.
Battleship (Windows Phone) - Nearing the endzone with this one.
Lines: The Game (Windows Phone) - Also about 3/4th done with this as well.
Some Sea of Thieves, played the first chapter and loved it, especially all the secrets and an eater egg for another game. Also a bit more of Metro Exodus which looks amazing on the Series X and perhaps start Borderlands 3 as well
Started playing Dark Alliance, finished the first mission. Saw the faults but in truth didn't feel like it was that horrid.
But anyway, it's now deleted, my gaming time is limited as it is and I'm certainly not going to play through something which I find bang average
In truth, I'm really really struggling for something to get stuck into
I recently bought the Tomb Raider definitive survivor trilogy on Xbox (previously played them on PlayStation) so am working my way through them again (damn good games!) Playing Worms Rumble but am still undecided about the game. Also playing NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered (GP). I think I’m also gonna fire up Farming Simulator 19 (nothing to do with Clarkson’s farm...honest 😉). No AC Valhalla for a while as I’m suffering burnout on it.
Hot Pursuit Remastered is brilliant. I never played the original and I'm surprised how good it actually is.
I'm also playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is gorgeous with FPS Boost switched on.
Lvling up a bit more in PSO2 and also started Spiritfarer which looks great so far.
I’ve been playing Fallout 4 but I’m not sure how long I will play it. It hasn’t grabbed me like The Outer Worlds did with it’s over the top characters, humor, interesting and colorful world. I feel like there’s a story here but I’m just plodding along waiting to see if something develops.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Halo reach on mcc. Brings back some good memories!
Series S: Outriders co-op and Nier Automata.
Switch: Persona 5 Strikers and Atelier Ryza 2
PS4: Collecting dust 3rd week in a row.
@thenewguy my PS4 has been collecting dust since getting my Series X last November!
@Nightcrawler71 Wouldve been the same here if it wasnt for a gta v online session with friends. Cheers!
Sea of Thieves all Friday night and the rest of the weekend playing Monster Hunter Rise, the demo for Monster Hunter Stories 2 and some Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate haha
Big fan right here 😊
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 as chosen for my Backlog Draft. But also Gems of War, Riverbond,. and Tracks - The Train Set Game for some quick completions.
Playing Mass Effect Andromeda, after playing theory the original trilogy I decided to see if the game was really as bad as many claimed. I can see why fans of the originals would not like it, but so far enjoying it.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 on Game Pass, Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis, Bug Fables and some Dungeon of (sigh... I always have to look this up...) Naheulbeuk: Amulet of Chaos. It's got good art; nice-looking characters and environments. I know it was well-received on PC, so I nabbed it this week for the Xbone and it does seem pretty cool.
Re 8 in village of shadows, ori
Since the announcement of Forza Horizon 5 I have been in a major Forza Horizon mood. To take care of that I will be playing Forza Horizon 3 this weekend.
Any game time I get is dedicated to Scarlet Nexus, I’m really enjoying it so far.
Giving Cyber punk ago.
Playing on series x quality mode
Turned off all the film grain and other fancy things, gives a sharper image.
Looks good and well detailed and smooth.
Gameplay so far really good.
No bugs so far.
Just ranking up in Chivalry 2 absolutely love it, I've also just bought a broken PS4 slim off ebay which I've now fixed, I'll be going through some of the exclusives soon, starting with God Of War.
We just started a new schedule at work so I’ll be getting my feet wet in a game called 4/10’s. But when my weekend hits I’ll delve deeper into Dark Alliance and try to get through it before the janky mechanics turn me off. Also gonna finish up Gears 5 campaign and then get started with Gears Tactics.
Also need to play Persona 5 and some of the pile of shame I’ve stacked on. Nintendo Switch as well. Not enough time in the day.
@Sakai Reach hit me right in the feels. Such a good story.
Remember Reach.
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