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@Link41x I always love reading about the unique games you're playing!

@Tasuki Sorry to hear you've been in the hospital recently, hope you're keeping OK 🙏

@BBB I ended up going for the Bard. Tried to avoid thinking about it too much... I don't really know what I'm doing anyway!

@Dimey Sorry you feel that way, but it's just a lighthearted poll! We've been running some variant of this every Saturday for the past few years - it's a good time to do it considering the PX team only work very limited hours on weekends.

We're also pretty shattered after The Game Awards this week, so you won't see much from us until Monday

@NarutosBiggestFan Apologies! With the sales roundups, we try to include the generic links so that it automatically takes you to the correct page for your region - but in this case, we've only listed the UK and US prices just to highlight how fantastic these deals are.

@BaldBelper78 No problem, hope she enjoys it!

@Decimateh It's impossible to say, but normally they aren't much "better" - there's just more of them. That said, plenty of the games that are on sale right now might not be included in the Countdown Sale... we really don't know yet!

@RBRTMNZ There's a Countdown Sale taking place next week, probably worth holding off until then.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/12/xboxs-largest-sale-of-2023-begins-next-week-1400plus-games-included

@Kaloudz Nope I don't to be honest! The past two years of The Game Awards have been pretty underwhelming from an Xbox Game Pass perspective, so I don't see them going too crazy here.

@RazputinAquato It would, I certainly hope you're right!

@BacklogBrad If it follows the past couple of years, we'll get a few Xbox Game Pass announcements but nothing too major. BG3 seems very unlikely in my view.

@InterceptorAlpha It's also important to keep in mind that it's included with Game Pass at the moment.

@Fiendish-Beaver Might be tough! We'll see how things go...

In case we aren't able to, I'd suggest just checking the Microsoft Store on your console every day! It's usually right there on the main page when you hit the MS Store button

@McPhilen Will add as "Limited" for now until we get confirmation that it's full support. Thank you!

@IronMan30 Yeah, it's all been happening recently. We covered the removal of MS Edge points last week:

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/11/xbox-users-appear-to-have-spotted-more-nerfs-for-microsoft-rewards

@TheSilverFalcon The first was the PowerA MOGA XP-Ultra:

https://www.purexbox.com/reviews/powera-moga-xp-ultra-a-new-wireless-and-multi-platform-xbox-controller

The leak was correct! Article has been updated with dates.

Article has been updated with an official comment from Ubisoft.

Game is slated to release in early 2024! 👍

We've added a third into the mix! Killer Instinct: Anniversary Edition is also now available with Xbox Game Pass 💪

@Spectrus6006 Thank you! That's been added.

Updated the post with a longer statement from the official Assassin's Creed Twitter account:

"We have been made aware that some players encountered a pop-up message in-game while playing certain Assassin’s Creed titles yesterday. This was the result of a technical error that has now been fixed.

Our intention was to display a promotion for Assassin's Creed Mirage as part of the franchise news in the main menu of other Assassin's Creed games.

Unfortunately, this technical error caused the promotion to appear in one of our in-game menus instead. We want to ensure the best player experience possible, and these disruptive pop-ups were promptly removed once we learned of the issue.

We appreciate your understanding as we investigate the cause of the issue."

@Markatron84 Argh, that's infuriating! Thank you.

@themightyant I mean, we could be waiting a while. There's no guarantee here.

@Tasuki Hmm, are you sure? It's not indicating that for me, although it doesn't always read properly for us in the UK.

I'll add a note to the article - hopefully your son manages to get one eventually!

@Fishticon It's apparently coming to Xbox Game Pass (according to Windows Central) but we haven't seen any official confirmation from the KI team just yet. The Definitive Edition is already on Game Pass, so it makes sense.

@Sakai No problem!

@LX_FENIX Yeah, that's a fair point. Xbox is definitely still feeling the effects of what happened in 2013... it really was that bad of a launch.

If you take that part away and just focus on the console though, I do think they did a great job in turning the Xbox One's fortunes around.

@LX_FENIX Look at some of the things that came out of the Xbox One era though:

In 2013, there was no support for backwards compatibility whatsoever on the Xbox One. A few years later, we had HUNDREDS of BC titles.

In 2013, nobody had ever heard of Xbox Game Pass and we were still paying full-price for every first-party release. A few years later, the Game Pass model literally transformed the industry as we know it.

The Xbox One S and X were big steps forward as well from a design perspective (including some amazing enhancements for Xbox One X games that we're still benefiting from today).

That launch event in 2013 couldn't have gone any worse, and yet somehow the XB1 managed to recover - not to the point where it could beat the PS4 in sales, but I'd argue that its reputation improved massively over the years thanks to Phil and his team.

@Sakai She's leaving TiMI. Left The Coalition in January 2022, went to TiMI immediately and stayed there until now.

@lukgouvea Coral Island added, thank you!

@Carck No worries, thanks for your understanding!

Folks, can I please request that we keep this on topic and avoid dragging PushSquare into it? 😇 We're all friends on the team and clearly just went with different angles for this story!

Thanks in advance, I appreciate it 🙏

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Console sales across the board are down in the UK compared to 2022 I believe, but the Series X and Series S had a huge boost in September compared to August.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/10/thanks-to-starfield-uk-xbox-sales-enjoyed-a-huge-increase-in-september

I don't have the exact figures to hand in terms of October 2022 Vs. October 2023 in the UK...

Dungeons 4 and Remnant 2 added, thank you!

@Zandy Normally it's all just the same on Cyber Monday.

@Tasuki Yeah, I'm not sure why that's happening. Bare with me and I'll get it fixed ASAP.

@Kaloudz It happens with every Xbox sale. And yet every sale has games that are at least 90% off, if not 95% off.

@Banjo- Great catch, I'll add it in.

FYI, we may be missing a few games until the sale goes officially live on Friday.

There are definitely supposed to be over 1000 games altogether...

"With up to 50% off over 1,000 console games, it’s a great time to stock up on titles like Starfield, Forza Motorsport + Forza Horizon 5 Premium Edition Bundle, EA Sports FC 24, NBA 2K24, Mortal Kombat 1, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Diablo IV, and more."

I still don't understand why they advertise "up to 50% off" when many of them are clearly over 50%!

@Kaloudz Microsoft lists it as $299 ERP in the US:

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/consoles/xbox-series-s/starter-bundle

No word on UK yet!

@MaccaMUFC We've got a review of Teardown coming soon! 👍

@Balta666 Yep, Dune is on PC Game Pass.

Review has been bumped to coincide with today's Xbox Game Pass Ultimate release (November 9th, 2023). Enjoy!

@Asesinoloco Apologies, it was incorrectly listed as an xCloud title in our guide here.

I've seen a lot of people having trouble with the Minecraft Quest across console and PC so it's worth trying it throughout the week, but it seems the PC version doesn't count sadly.

Dead Space removed and Life is Strange: True Colors added.

Thanks for your updates, folks.

@Fiendish-Beaver That sounds good to me! I've been fascinated by everything about it so far... will definitely be getting it day one

@lukgouvea We're relying on reports like yours, so it might not all be 100% accurate! I'm going to update Cyberpunk and Hogwarts based on your feedback

@Fiendish-Beaver As someone with no Dungeons & Dragons or Baldur's Gate experience, do you think I could still get into it?

I'm saving up my Microsoft Rewards points for the Xbox release!

Thanks for the well wishes everyone! ❤️

Quick update to the article:

Paradox will retain ownership of The Lamplighters League and "other games" developed by the studio.

@JayJ was right! Although it took a while to get there 😅

Now that Like a Dragon: Ishin! is on Game Pass, we've bumped the review so you can get an idea of what to expect 👍

@Martsmall Haven't seen anything about this yet... patch notes will arrive on Thursday

@ChopperCampbell Thank you! I've added it as having "limited" functionality for now.