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@ResoluteCustoms we'll add it to the list of things somebody needs to tell that guy. I find Josef Fares to be the most irritating public figure in the games industry since Phil Fish.

@WCB cool, I'll give that a go later.

@Fjordjuh None of the Game Pass reward quests are working for me this week, apart from the one for logging into the app. A similar thing happened a few weeks ago, except every quest APART from the logging in one would work. After a few days the quest stopped appearing, then came back.

The sofa the guy is sitting on? Xbox Sofa Controller with haptic feedback and patented immersive heat technology. Coming June 2021.

@IsThatATitleist3 summer this year.

@MetalGear_Yoshi don't give them ideas. A dedicated flight stick controller is just the kind of stupid sh*t I'd buy.

@ralphdibny you shouldn't have said anything; I already took the bullet for you.

That headline confused me. For a second I thought the update was called "Third World" and I was thinking "bloody hell @FraserG Brexit hasn't knackered us up THAT much yet!"

Also, I'm eager to see this come to Series X. I think I heard our PC audibly laugh at my wife when she tried to run it.

@LtSarge I can see where you're coming from, but age isn't an excuse. I'm in the age bracket you mentioned (I'm 36) and am completely and utterly accepting of trans people because they're just people. Saying "oh, they're older and stuck in an old-fashioned mindset" gives these people a free pass.

Some of the comments in this thread have been utterly abhorrent; I cannot stress that enough. And I will say to anyone who's posted here or anywhere else anything disparaging or dismissive regarding age, sex, gender, religion, disability, race, ethnicity: Pure Xbox posting stories like this one is something that should be applauded, not complained about or dismissed simply because you don't agree with it. It's mindsets like yours that are preventing people from living safely in the knowledge that they worth just as much as anyone else regardless of how they were born or, in some extreme cases, living at all.

@FraserG as have I. The lack of understanding and sympathy for what exactly going public means for trans people is really saddening to see. The ironic thing here is that all the people saying this isn't newsworthy are the reason it IS newsworthy.

@papahefe I'm literally at a loss for words.

@LtSarge because he usually has something outlandish to say and uses the word "f*ck" a lot. That's literally it.

@gollumb82 I think going public is extremely important because it forces the conversation around being transgender to be had. Without transgender people finding the courage to publicly state who they are, this issue and more like it would've been swept under the carpet and there would be potentially millions of transgender individuals who feel that they have to hide or that they don't have a voice or that they're somehow worth less simply because of who they are. Although there is much room for improvement, issues surrounding the treatment and rights of women, LGBTQ individuals and entire races of people wouldn't have progressed to where they are today without people having the courage to find their voice and be heard.

Also thank you for the kind words; I appreciate it.

@gollumb82 it's not a private matter, because your sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and any number of other factors can dramatically affect how others perceive you and, by extension, treat you.

For example, I'm albino. It's - whether I like it or not - a huge part of who I am and affects my life both physically and mentally and at 36 years old I'm still mocked for it. By putting the word 'albino" in my username, it's my personal way of being upfront and unashamed of who I am. I'm saying "yes, I look different to you and my life has and always will be adversely affected by it, but this is who I am".

I know my situation isn't 100% comparable to that of a transgender person, but trust me: when there is something different about you, you find out exactly who is worth keeping in your life when they react to your situation. That's all this is.

@gollumb82 the thing is, it isn't a private matter and shouldn't be treated as such. This is about a person - after however many years - finally being comfortable and confident enough in who she is to be able to say, very publicly, "this is who I am".

Original Xbox, although it was sort of my secondary console until Xbox Live launched, at which point I became obsessed with Rainbow Six 3, Midtown Madness 3 and Project Gotham Racing 2. I have a lot of fond memories of those days and made a fair few friends.

Massive is currently heading up development on a Star Wars project so The Division 3 will probably be a way off, especially as Ubisoft intends to focus on fewer AAA titles going forward. I imagine the current plan of action internally will be to drip feed extra Division 2 content to keep players playing.

Making your significant other play Minecraft Dungeons should be grounds for divorce.

@carlos82 I don't know if it's been on Game Pass before but it was definitely a Games With Gold game a year or so ago.

I've played SO much Evolution across PS4 and Xbox One. I regularly fire it up and try to perfect a park's look in sandbox mode. As @ResoluteCustoms said, it's relaxing, although I'm never 100% happy and always end up starting another park.

Oh, I am so in. This sounds like my dream game.

We'll see how well this goes down. It wouldn't surprise me if the original controversy got reignited and the game got cancelled a second time.

"Everything we know so far"

You could've summed up the entirety of our Starfield knowledge in two words: Jack sh*t.

This was one of my favourite Telltale games. I may be persuaded to buy it again on Xbox.

Now I'm wondering... should I hang on to my copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2?

Another intern for the chop then.

@Grumblevolcano I agree. I find it very telling that FH4 got a Series X upgrade while FM7 didn't. This says to me that FH4 will be around for a long while before FH5 comes out and FM8 will arrive before it.

These types of anime brawlers invariably turn out to be mediocre.

Played some more today and in under an hour I had two more instances of being booted to the dashboard. I think I'll leave playing on any further until it's patched.

Extra surprise, Nuketown will be in it.

I've played for a few hours; it's completely locked up once and booted me out to the dashboard twice.

I have no prior experience with baseball games and I rarely play sports games, but every now and then one will grab me and refuse to let go, so never say never.

If IOI keeps putting out Hitman 3 content, I'll play it. Most people have a 800GB SSD in their Series X; mine is 740GB 'cos this game ain't going anywhere. 😁

But is it willing to sacrifice my love?

If it actually played discs and didn't solely resort to streaming, I'd definitely consider it. But I have to echo others' comments and say that I'd prefer more Xbox 360 and OG Xbox games to be added to Series X's backwards compatibility.

I disagree with "remarkable". Don't get me wrong, it looks good and the reflections are impressive... but it doesn't support HDR and I have to say that, after a few months with Series X, now I really miss HDR when it's not there.

I might have to play Cyber Shadow to get my gamerscore ending in a 5 or 0 again. It's been stuck on a 4 or 9 for years. 😂

If it doesn't come with the game, how exactly is it a collector's edition of the game? That's like saying a toilet is a collector's edition of a turd; sure, it's a fully featured working lavatory system, but I still have to pay extra to fill it.

@Nightcrawler71 yes. Control plus the two add-ons will be the Xbox One version. Control: Ultimate Edition is the Series X version. Check in my games and apps; the UE icon should have the Series X logo in the lower left corner.

@Tasuki the series was actually axed because college football players aren't allowed to earn any money from playing. Turns out that includes getting paid for allowing their likenesses to be used in videogames. So the NCAA was getting paid from EA using the NCAA licence and player likenesses and the players were getting nothing out of it and so got all up in arms over the situation.

Since then, no more NCAA games, which is a shame; I don't know the first thing about American football but it's my understanding that the games were good and a lot of people liked them.

I'm surprised Stadia is still going. My wife got sent the controller, Chromecast Ultra and a month of Stadia Pro for free, they're that desperate. If they couldn't capitalise on COVID-19 literally forcing most of the planet's population indoors and begging for something to do, then the thing is even more f**led than we all assumed from the beginning.

If I hadn't seen proof to the contrary, I would've sworn that headline should've read "Battleborn Player Bids Farewell As Servers Shutdown Permanently".

Good on them. Anything that heightens awareness of the plights that people of colour face in our supposedly inclusive and socially equal society is only a good thing.

I'd like to see Eternal Sonata go backwards compatible as I never got around to it on 360. Singularity and Blur are highly underrated games; the latter got played a LOT in 4-player split-screen in my house over a few beers and a takeaway.

@orionreplay @Tharsman the reasoning behind the game not utilising Smart Delivery is simple: if it did, it'd be $60 to play it on Series X and $70 to play it on PS5, and there's not a chance in hell that Sony would ever let that happen.

@Tharsman and yet I've never thought to myself, "damn, wish I'd used quick resume". Don't get me wrong, it's a welcome feature to have if/when it works; it's just not something I've bothered with because to me personally waiting a few extra seconds to play isn't that big of a deal.

It also seems like every time I read the words "quick resume", they're followed by complaints about how it doesn't work with every game.

I hardly use it. I rarely, if ever, left games suspended on Xbox One or PlayStation 4 and games load so quickly on Series X that having to boot them up fresh is a non-issue.

I really liked Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise, especially how they're essentially 3D Metroidvanias. Not sure I could pick one over the other. I really should get around to playing Shadow.

This is more likely to see an official release now than it ever has been. Nintendo and Microsoft in particular have never been as chummy with each other in the past as they are currently, so with any luck they can get whoever has the rights to Bond (is it still Activision or does IOI have the sole rights to Bond games now?) in a room and get some kind of deal worked out.

I didn't even notice the Xbox Assist option had been put there until reading this article. I've just been quitting games the same way I always have.

“Are you going to be able to play it on [Xbox Series X]? Definitely. We will see moving forward what's going to happen, but you will definitely be able to play it on those consoles.”

Well, no sh*t; it's called backwards compatibility. There's not a chance in Hell that Microsoft is going to let an Xbox One game (that doesn't require Kinect) release right now and have it not playable on Series X.

I'm all for Microsoft purchasing Sega, if only to prevent the nightmare future in which Tencent owns a stake in EVERY videogame company.