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Let's bloody go. DOOM was fantastic. DOOM Eternal was good but by about three quarters of the way through I was ready for it to be over, and there was way too much aerial guff. This looks much more like a return to the 2016 game and I'm so in.

@Doublecell you mean id Software?

There's a typo in the trailer. It says "play day one on Game Pass".

@Xbox_Dashboard I wondered this as well! $40/£35 seems like a low price for this.

Are you telling me - YOU! Pure Xbox!! - that Phil Spencer playing old Gears of War games DIDN'T have anything to do with anything?! I'm flabbergasted, truly.

@FraserG @Kaloudz especially if you try and go for all the gems, time trial medals, etc. I gave up on that very quickly. It is a fantastic game though.

@themightyant Sunrise Turbodrive. God, I'm good.

My wife will be happy if it's shown tomorrow. She played the Silent Hill 2 remake recently and loved it.

Well Phil Spencer has been playing old Gears of War games, so we'll definitely be getting release dates for Gears of War: E-Day, Gears 6, Gears Tactics 2, Gears of War: The Marcus Fenix Collection, Gears Pop 2 and Gears Kart. There will be at least one shadow drop.

@Kezelpaso or, more likely and as I said in my post, it has nothing to do with anything and he's just playing games.

Ultimately, we don't yet know the reasons behind Phil revisiting these classic Gears games.

He's playing games.

the timing of this fresh Gears activity from the Xbox boss is certainly intriguing.

No it isn't.

I swear, if people caught wind that Phil Spencer was playing Pong, Pure Xbox would report that maybe Microsoft bought the IP and were doing a Pong reboot. Just let the guy play games without inferring anything 🤣

@carlos82 true, but the potential buyers across Xbox, PlayStation, PC and Switch/Switch 2 dwarf the N64 user base. I didn't say a potential Banjo revival would definitely do Mario numbers if it released across multiple platforms; just that it selling that well wouldn't be so far-fetched compared to if it just released on Xbox.

Happy 3-year anniversary of @Ricky-Spanish's crusade to get the ABK back-catalogue on Game Pass 🎊🎈🎂

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I agree. Unless, of course, a potential Banjo revival wasn't an Xbox exclusive. If it released on Xbox, PlayStation, PC and Switch/Switch 2? In that case, Mario numbers aren't so far-fetched.

It's either Persona 6 or something from Square Enix.

Or, what the hell, Hi-Fi Rush 2 🤷

@Cikajovazmaj definitely something to be said for Diablo on the go. My wife spent the majority of her time with Diablo IV on Steam Deck and had a great time.

From what I heard about Diablo III on Switch, it sold well and was a really good port. Makes sense that Diablo IV would be in the works for Switch 2.

Xbox reporter. 🤣🤣 I just got in from work and needed a laugh. Thank you.

@Fiendish-Beaver Sorry. Autism. 🤷🤣

@Utena-mobile yeah, brand identity is important. But when clinging to that brand identity gets us one ok game (Halo 4), one mediocre game (Halo 5) and one mediocre game that was so ineptly managed and slapdash that it took literally years after it was released to finally be feature complete, I again do have to wonder when enough is enough.

Maybe the move to Unreal 5 will streamline the development process by finally using an engine you don't need to teach every single new Halo Studio hire and the next Halo will blow the doors off the industry. But I'm not holding my breath.

@Titntin

I do appreciate many of you love Intimate

Is that a proposition? 🤔

Look, I've had good times with Halo. Played 1-4, Reach and ODST. Played them all again in co-op when the wife got into them. We fell off 5 probably about halfway through it though, and by the time campaign co-op came to Infinite, we kinda didn't care; we played a bit of it but abandoned it pretty quickly. I don't think I care about Halo anymore.

Microsoft will never abandon it though, because for some reason Xbox fans seem to cling to it like it's the be all and end all of Xbox. Which is fine, I guess. But how long do people have to get hung up on Halo sticking around while being quite mediocre before enough is enough? It's not like 343 Indus... sorry, Halo Studios, has done a good job of shepherding the franchise so far.

That turned into a ramble. 🤣

@Fiendish-Beaver idle mode will still kick in after a certain amount of time.

I thought you were asking what was the point in idle mode in general.

Can't wait for that x-ray kill-cam to show those testicles popping at 4K/60 🤤

@Fiendish-Beaver to prevent screen burn, especially on OLED displays, while keeping the console on. You could just, y'know, turn the console and/or TV off, but I suppose sometimes life happens - you get pulled away from the console for longer than expected or whatever - so it's a good feature to have.

I'm not expecting a shadow drop. I don't think that Xbox releasing Hi-Fi Rush like an RKO set any sort of precedent; in fact, I find it weird that people assume that it did.

@OldGamer999 South of Midnight won't get shadow dropped. If I'm wrong and it does, you get to pick my punishment.

@TeiGekiLord I specifically only listed the Nintendo owned companies that develop software.

@TeiGekiLord That's wildly inaccurate. Nintendo has Nintendo EPD, Nintendo ST, Retro Studios, Shiver Entertainment, SRD, 1-Up Studio, Monolith Soft and Mario Club (which handles testing, QA and debugging). Plus they also farm out a lot of development to external companies; Arika, Bandai Namco Studios, Camelot, Creatures, Good-Feel, Grezzo, HAL Laboratory, Sora Ltd, Intelligent Systems, MercurySteam, to name just a few.

I'd also like to point out the hypocrisy in people - be that players or those writing for publications - singing the praises of cross-play when it was in its infancy (back when Epic was "accidentally" turning it on in Fortnite and Sony was steadfast in its reluctance to allow it) and now it's basically an industry standard, they want to lock out one of the platforms.

@Reptilio SA2 has its moments; the Sonic/Shadow sections are mostly alright and the Knuckles/Rouge sections aren't unbearable.

SA1 is terrible.

Control input is the last thing you should be concerned about in regards to what advantages PC players have over console players. Modding? Hacking? Aimbots? Them using a keyboard and mouse (which you're also free to do on console) is almost a non-issue in comparison.

Oh no. How many of those buyers are people who've never played Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 before? Those poor unsuspecting fools.

Breaking: it's Hi-Fi Rush 2.

If Call of Duty, Avowed, Doom, Fable, Towerborn, South of Midnight and The Outer Worlds 2 all release in 2025, surely that's your lot, right? People have lamented the relative lack of first-party games this gen, but you can go too far in the other direction. Leave some stuff for 2026 and beyond.

@cragis0001 he's a melt. He doesn't know anything about anything.

@cragis0001 Jez Corden, not James. Jez might not know anything and be desperate to be seen as some sort of industry insider, but even he isn't as insufferable as James Corden. 🤣

@RBRTMNZ who could resist the allure of the mystery box?

@Ricky-Spanish

It's like giving your neighbour a go with your misses just because your a nice guy!

Hey, no kink shaming please.

So all those years of publishers and media outlets throwing the term "Halo killer" around were for naught?

"Ok, so we remade the first House of the Dead, which was received less than favourably because of the lack of proper lightgun support. What's next?"

"Remake... House of the Dead 2 without proper lightgun support?"

"I love it! Give that man a raise!"

They don't mention it being an Xbox, ABK or Zenimax studio. My money's on something third-party. Let's say from... Square Enix.

@16BitHero it's about time we had some Contraband anything.

@TeiGekiLord when I had a Series X, I very quickly stopped using Quick Resume. Like you said, it regularly causes glitches. Also, if the game requires an online connection, when you resume it'll have lost connection while in sleep and just boot you back out to the title screen when you return anyway.

@Kezelpaso I'm not sure if Forza Horizon 5 being the next Xbox game to be ported to PS5 is a good call. On paper, yes, port it over and reap the benefits. However, is it worth porting over a game that'll inevitably be delisted from digital storefronts in a few years? For context:

Forza Horizon - released 2012, delisted 2016
Forza Horizon 2 - released 2014, delisted 2018
Forza Horizon 3 - released 2016, delisted 2020
Forza Horizon 4 - released 2018, delisted 2024

Forza Horizon 5 released in 2021 so, going by the past trend, we can probably expect it to be delisted this year at the earliest, 2027 at the latest.

This is why Xbox only sporadically puts out physical games and why companies like Limited Run games a) exist in the first place, and b) rarely, if ever, put out Xbox versions of games. The market just isn't there like it used to be. The vocal minority will die on the hill that physical games still matter, but they don't. The market has largely accepted the digital-only dystopia that that aforementioned vocal minority likes to bemoan.

@InvaderFromSpace it's less an issue of where they're playing and more a case of gross exaggeration.

That has to include marketing though, right?

I feel bad for the people looking forward to Skate. I never liked them back in the day, but I know a lot of people did and were buzzin' when EA announced they were finally doing another one. But it's a live-service free-to-play game by EA.

A live-service free-to-play game. By EA.

I'm not sure that's sunk in for a lot of people yet.

@Eightoheight Paradise looks like the next The Day Before. That any outlet is reporting on it in any way other than to either warn people about it or take the piss out of it is a joke.

I like to think (hope) that Bumblebee - Search for Happiness is a Transformers game. Like a cozy life sim where you play as Bumblebee.

My wife literally asked me 20 minutes ago if Rewards was working on my app. It is, but not on hers. This would explain it.

I would settle for 2025 being the year we just see what Everwild actually is. If Xbox hits this year with what it claims, that's a banger of a year already.

Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game is actually called Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game.

I'm most excited to play DOOM: The Dark Ages, even if I am a little apprehensive regarding its setting.

I'm not a fan of Fable or The Outer Worlds; my wife, however, is very much a fan of both, so I hope both Fable and The Outer Worlds 2 turn out well.