Turnip_Knight

Classy move if true. Although I wouldn't be surprised if there were several exclusives announced alongside the yearly multiplatform releases.

In terms of the potential the franchise offers, it has to be Warcraft. WoW is well past its prime, but there's still a lot of affection for the characters and the lore. It might be years before we see any new spin offs for the series, but I'm excited about it nonetheless.

This seems like a sensible way to proceed. Is CoD exclusivity really the only potential part of this deal to draw new players to Xbox? It seems like Xbox is going to have an even better year than 2021. Keeping CoD multiplatform would show a lot of confidence on Microsoft's part — and keep the golden goose a-laying.

Comments like this from Phil will also help the acquisition deal pass with regulators. Let's not underestimate the potential for friction over the appearance of monopolization. Activision-Blizzard was the biggest of the big fish, and this deal changes the gaming landscape more than any deal I can remember in the past.

I hope Ichiban gets his own seven part arc. Love that guy.

Game Pass is synonymous with Xbox gaming. 90% of what I play is on there. I've picked up a few wildly discounted games in sales recently, but along comes Halo and I'm still stuck on Game Pass....

Jedi: Fallen Order! If you're coming from the Switch, this game will blow your mind. I think it even got an FPS boost this year!

Mtx is par for the course now, but what's being offered in Halo Infinite is just less than elsewhere for the same high price.

$20 for a premium outfit? Not unheard of. But the outfit in question is some dongles and a palette swap of the costume you already have. It's not a brand new character model, or something licensed from a 3rd party. Bad value at the current price point.

What about the battle pass? $10 is a fine price. But a huge chunk of the goods is just challenge swaps. Moreover, the Fortnite battle pass includes enough in-game currency that you can afford the next battle pass and then some. No in-game currency unlocked anywhere in Halo Infinite except through our wallets. Not a bad battle pass, but clearly less robust than its competitors.

What a joke. Incredibly disingenuous too.

Playing Halo multiplayer on teams with randos has got me interested in Aliens Fireteam. Anybody know if the player base is, uh, friendly to newcomers? There's nothing worse than being put on a team with a loudmouth jerk.

This looks better than I even imagined. What a horrifying boss monster.

@BrazillianCara I want It Takes Two to win just to see the over the top acceptance speech from Josef Fares. Ugh but TGAs don't usually do acceptance speeches do they?

Being able to stream on console is so good that I didn't think I'd ever go back to browser streaming. I'll have to check this out though.

So far I've only heard a handful of players piping up on mic, but they've always been teammates and mercifully haven't been toxic or distracting (so far).

But can you hear enemy players too? I figured it wasn't possible but maybe I just haven't encountered it yet.

At least the armour core was easy to get, unlike anything of note in the free part of the battle pass.

What I'm liking about the fiesta event though is it's a crash course in all the various weapons. As a total newcomer to Halo, I was pretty hopeless at first and stuck to the default rifle. Now I'm at a bit more with it thanks to the randomized weapons. Looking forward to the actual campaign to hopefully learn a lot more.

I might be able to muster up a friend or two for Back 4 Blood. But three friends??

Sounds great. I hope they also allow achievements to count for microsoft rewards after midnight since that's when I get most of mine.

Can someone explain why they would remove this game from Game Pass if Microsoft owns the IP anyway? Is it a licensing thing with the cars / music?

I sit next to my router and voilà, my phone is an Xbox. It may not be perfect but it's wayyy smoother since the server upgrade.

God I love Gauntlet. Maybe now I'll actually beat it...

Fallout: New Vegas please and thank you. Does it matter if it was an Xbox 360 game? Have they boosted those before?