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In anxious anticipation of Skyrim in Space™, it's the new Xbox on console, PC, and streaming thread for 2023! Here where we talk about backwards compatibility, dev kit software, high-stakes corporate warfare in the arena of billion-dollar acqusitions, the inescapable subscription-dominated future, Xbox Game Streaming still not being on the Switch, how successful games aren't really successful, that political fallout of the United Kingdom's exit from the supranational European Union, how we might not really own anything anywhere, and why we're not allowed to turn our consoles into totally legitimate Nintendo and Sony emulation machines. No, Microsoft, I don't want to restart my console just to boot up Dolphin! I don't care what terms of service are!
Games with Gold
The original unified network for consoles somehow still with us, and still required for any non-free to play multiplayer experience, as on other networks! Nowadays, users with an "Xbox Live Gold" paid membership usually receive two free titles made available for download for a limited time--hit 'F' for Xbox 360 titles, which still available on the marketplace and Game Pass (mentioned below), concluded their role in Games with Gold in September 2022. Going forward, games will presumably belong to Xbox Series and Xbox One generations of releases. Yes, you do need to actually obtain them within the relevant time window. Yes, you can get Xbox Live Gold through a normal subscription fee, buying discounted months of membership through vendors, or abusing Xbox's overly-generous reward program. While original Xbox titles are not playable on original hardware (due to the discontinuation of Xbox Live support for the original 2001 console hardware), all subsequent releases are playable on their original hardware and all subsequent Xbox consoles going forward into the present (i.e. you can play Xbox 360 games when those were available).
Xbox and PC Game Pass or "The Best Value in Gaming!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Zz0Og6UuAXbox Game Pass is Microsoft's own subscription gaming catalog service ("Netflix for video games") with hundreds of periodically rotating first and third-party titles across four generations of console hardware, making it attractive for digital-only libraries and people who want to try first party new exclusives (which will make the rounds on the service at the time of their launch). Likewise, the renamed PC Game Pass (for Windows 10 and 11) features an overlapping but different library with a number of PC-only titles that can be found through the website, the Windows store app or Xbox app, or in the case of EA titles, their software EA Play. However, both services come with their own separate fees--If you want them both, you may wish to consider the Cadillac of Netflix for Games, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: for less than the combined cost of both services, you can have your Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold subscriptions in a single plan! Because nothing bad ever came from bundling services! Keep in mind, additions of Xbox Live Gold subscription time (via redeemed codes) to an account with Game Pass Ultimate will automatically convert to the later, more-Cadillac experience at a ratio of (approximately) 3:1 (12 months of Xbox Live Gold equal 4 months of Game Pass Ultimate, but 6 months of Xbox Live Gold equals 79 days of Game Pass Ultimate, because Phil Spencer works in mysterious ways).
For first-time subscribers or those with no current subscription time left, extremely generous subscription deals are still available, so make sure you do your research when you're stocking up and keep an eye out for sales. Or just do what Microsoft and other corporations are counting on, and set your subscription to blissful autorenewal. Life is too short to worry about things like monthly fees!
In either service, there is no limit on how many games you can download and install from it, and access is for as long as the subscription holds--permanent purchases made from the catalog are discounted 20%, and DLC by 10%. It still does not require Xbox Live Gold (though that is part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate). Now with a Family Plan option (currently only available in Colombia, Chile, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and the western hemisphere of Mars).
Xbox Game Streaming
https://youtu.be/J4FF_mHhwqwLike Nvidia, Sony's Playstation Plus premium tier, and Google in the era of Stadia, Xbox Game Streaming (formerly "Project Xcloud") replaces your grandparents' Xbox game from the ancient era of streaming a console over your home network to the sexy future of piping your game in from The Cloud onto not just your smart phones, but Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, Windows PCs, certain Apple products sometimes and certain models of Samsung television and PC monitors! No longer in free beta, it is now available as a benefit from the Game Pass Ultimate, and has migrated to an Xbox Series X experience from the original Xbox One streaming infrastructure (fortunately). Play console-quality games on mobile! Take advantage of all the normal Xbox Live services! Drain your mobile device battery before you know it! Still probably not coming to your favorite non-Xbox console no matter how hard you ask, consult your doctor before hacking your Switch!
As of mid 2022, Xbox Game Streaming is officially available in the following regions:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovakia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
A full list of current Xbox Game Streaming titles is available courtesy of the excellent Windows Central website, alongside a full list of touch-compatible titles which are playable without the prerequisite compatible controller.
Xbox Backwards Compatibility Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oe1LUJyCCsSay hello to the most extensive backwards compatibility library since Sony left the Playstation 3 unconscious in a bathtub full of ice! Since early in the Project Scarlett reveal, Xbox has committed to bringing the whole of the Xbox One library forward to the Xbox Series consoles, alongside the existing Xbox One-era software backwards compatibility libraries on all previous Xbox consoles since 2001 excluding Kinect-hardware requiring titles on Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Yes, we are as shocked as you. After capping the 20th Anniversary Showcase with more than seventy additions from the original Xbox and Xbox 360, the powers that be have sadly turned the page on further additions from 2012 and earlier (at least for now), though all new Xbox One releases are playable. In the meantime, pour one out for those games who couldn't be here with us.
Curious if your favorite Xbox 360 or original Xbox game is playable? Check it out!
2024 Developer Direct
Releases set for...2024!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELFSdlFmDNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htGnW6YNPjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nLqOW_UaA2023 Summer Showcase + Starfield Direct
Because it's a very big deal!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFuhaYxeMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OAr4Z0aiVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaFTDntBiSYLots of other Trailers!
Watch ol' Phil Spencer stumble awkwardly though Japanese! How cosmopolitan!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8krCALDMCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWBL-lXE40Xbox 20th Anniversary Showcase
This wasn't even that recent! Oh, god, we're all so old!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_a0ijMQex4
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I didn't notice Marathon is coming Xbox.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Do not engage the Watermelons.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/05/30/game-pass-june-2023-wave-1-announce/
Adios is cool, and The Vale is an audio-only experience which could be really neat
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/activision-blizzard-ceo-addresses-toxic-workforce-claims-microsoft-deal-1235628361/
Steam | XBL
I laughed at the first paragraph then learned from the second that Bobby is Jewish, and it changes nothing. He is a rich CEO living off our money, because that’s literally every single CEO of a major corporation.
It’s stupid fantasy but also makes sense that the ultimate dream of suits who blame labor for everything is owning a perpetual money machine that maintains itself and requires no pesky minions who want their cut.
In other news, ordered the Hori fight pad octa in anticipation for UwU Fighter 6, really sad that no one made any new fightpads in anticipation for the SF6 launch or even Tekken 8. Fightsticks are like keyboards and mice, for losers this post was made by controller gang.
Any/all support I have for the acquisition is in the hopes that he and his flunkies will soon be far, far away from the people at Activision Blizzard who deserve better, and we'll never have to hear about them again except in the footnotes of gaming history.
Wait, no, I take that back. Keep his name fresh and a spotlight on it for how terrible he is and how not to do things. Serve as an example to others. I have a spare pike, if it would help.
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No announcements yet, I would not count on it. Exoprimal is coming in July.
Playing the race card is just icing on this manure cake. He can't fuck off soon enough
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Basically Bethesda and Arkane leadership trying to force a round peg immersive sim dev into a square live service hole after Prey failed to take off, and then Microsoft failing to correct course.
Article is no longer paywalled, read away.
I'm replaying Prey at the moment, and it's still awesome. A vampire hunting version, fantasy rather than sci-fi, set in a small seaside town, would have been great.
https://www.gematsu.com/2023/06/front-mission-1st-remake-coming-to-ps5-xbox-series-ps4-xbox-one-and-pc-on-june-30
The story is the real surprise of the show. I’m fully now invested in my boneless fish’s revenge tale with Chris Parnell doing the voice over and Carlo Mestroni doing a lot of
the heavy lifting with a thick Georgia drawl to elevate the narrative.
Hopefully it does it drag much toward the end.
The irony of this statement is why it happened the way it did.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Yeah, I loved Maneater. It was great that it got picked up on Gamepass too because I think a lot of people thought that. Or it was just a wonky indy thing... but yeah. good stuff.
The best thing about it is how it keeps its sense of scale and growth. I need to go and do that truth DLC at some point.
Assholes.
Shitty week for russia and gaming, Valve also shut down a cs go map that was letting people cut through the propaganda in russia. Must remain neutral by supporting Russia I guess.
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I'm very certain they've reported a similar thing happening last year as well
But we are getting classic costumes you can unlock, and that....that just makes me smile. Can't spell classic without class(y)!
So far I've played enough SF6 to make my Avatar but it feels real good to be playing Street Fighter on an Xbox again.