"Today, the Full Product Release (1.0) update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) released for new and existing owners across the Xbox One family of devices. This is a big moment for the PUBG Xbox community, now over nine million players strong,"

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/09/04/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-full-product-release-now-available-on-xbox-one/#bOtXPpr59XUlWAO6.99

PUBG on Xbox hits 9 million players.

Once it start to slow down, PUBG Corp should ask Microsoft to add it to game pass.

Shadow of War... amazing game. Too tired to write any of my thoughts down though xD

Profile pic has changed..... 2018 GOTY. :)

Best games I've played this year
1) Shadow of War
2) Dragon Age Inquisition
3) Gears 5
4) Last of Us (put that in there to seem less Xbox bias, but we all know I'm an xcuck.)

FH4, Spyro, and Pokemon are my last games of this year I'm buying day one. FH4 gonna be GOTY Don't @ me.

Yesterday I finally became a Pirate Legend!

Got to say I'm not a fan of this latest SoT update and the new barrel system. Also I feel there's too many events these days dictating how people play the game.. Still looking forward to Forsaken Shores though. I just think Rare should take a breath for a moment and think back to their original vision.

Nice! Congrats on becoming a legend, A great deal of time "sunk" into SoT there on your end and a great accomplishment.

What's the new barrel system I haven't played any SoT for a month or so so I'm out of the loop on the recent updates.

LEGO Harry Potter Collection Releasing in October with Xbox One X Enhancements

https://www.trueachievements.com/n34356/lego-harry-potter-collection-releasing-in-october-with-xbox-one-x-enhancements

yay another PS4 exclusive (which didn't make sense to begin with).

Thanks! Being able to buy levels with Bilge Rats doubloons saved a great deal of time of course.

Now you have to open an inventory screen when searching barrels and storing items. It's because they added those cursed cannonballs. My first impression is that it really messed up the simple and quick gameplay, especially when you're fighting other ships it takes a while to pick up cannonballs and planks. Of course the good thing is they will add more stuff to the game like this and hopefully improve the barrel system further. 

I'm not sure I like these cursed cannonballs either.. they're too common and change ship battles too much. They give too much of an advantage. They should have been something rare you carry around like gunpowder barrels imo. But let's see how it goes after this event.

Another good thing is they changed the commendations. For example, instead of 1000 gunpowder barrels delivered on time you only need 100 now to get the Black Powder Merchant -title. They will adjust achievements too in the future. 1000 shipwrecked chests, 1000 banana crates etc was stupid to begin with. Hopefully they'll add new achievements too.

I will only participate in GOTY festivities once ToV R is released. I can finally discard my 360 after that since ToV is the one game I replay ad nauseum...

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-07-xbox-i-cant-think-of-a-holiday-that-has-more-aaa-games-in-such-a-tight-time-period


"Nevertheless, Forza Horizon 4 is no small title for Xbox. The last game in the Horizon sub-brand - released in 2016 - was a breakout hit and sold 2.5 million copies globally in less than six months. It far exceeded all expectations from analysts, retailers and even Microsoft itself. It's still selling well today. The question is whether this new game can hope to match or even beat it."

""So our expectation is that Forza Horizon 4 is going to be the biggest and best-selling Forza game that we've ever launched. Currently our pre-order tracking is well ahead of where we want, and tracking ahead of where we were with Forza Horizon 3. So the early indicators are really good. And that's before you get into the fact that this title will be in Game Pass, which will allow it to reach another set of gamers who may never have played or bought the game.""

"It's not all about new games, either. Microsoft's big new IP of the year was Sea of Thieves in March, and its service-based pirate game will receive two major updates before the end of the year.

"Sea of Thieves is a big priority for us," says Greenberg. "Both Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2 were, for us, breakout hits of the spring, They exceeded what we expected them to do. Sea of Thieves has over 5 million players, State of Decay 2 has more than 3 million players. They both sold more than we expected and drove a lot of great engagement with Game Pass."

Very glad that Horizon 4 is doing great in terms of pre-orders. Hope this goes on to become the best-selling Forza game.

For some reason we've got a lot of ports of PS4 games this year:

Ethan Carter, Crash trilogy, Nier Automata, Talos Principle, Hellblade, No Mans Sky, and now the Lego Harry Potter Collection (granted this was on the 360, but was never playable on the one before this).

Now bring on Yakuza 0, sega. It's one of the few Japanese games that look interesting to me, but I don't own a PS4 yet.