So OxenFree 2 announced for everything but Xbox, did they have a falling out with MS?

An NDA for a beta this close to release? Kinda sus.

I did all the side quest apart from the optional bosses. It only took me 36 hours to beat the game on normal. I found the game to hold hands a bit too much. By the time u reach the end of the game u will have 99 of all the different type of elixirs ?

Barozi said:

Not exactly sure why but for some reason I decided to give Final Fantasy XV another chance.

I constantly died in some story related dungeon in chapter 3 so I decided to just put the game on easy and at least enjoy the story since I dislike the battle system so much.

That was yesterday. Now I'm at the end of chapter 13 which is almost the end of the game. Also the pacing is so weird. The first couple of chapters all take place within the open world or at least you will return to it after completing one main mission. Then at around chapter 6 (out of 14!) you will leave the open world and do nothing but main quests until the game is almost over.

I'm quite shocked how short the main story is. I will easily beat this in sub 20 hours. And that's with 30+ completed side quests. Oh well at least there are still a couple of DLC episodes left.

I will leave the rest for my review.

Yah this is weird... There are some "Story" stuff visible, so maybe it is for that. But the playable content is really just MP (versus players and AI). 

I played the whole tutorial and it feels good. Def. Age of Empiry :) There is something off with the camera tho, I will start up the other Age of Empires to see the difference but something does not feel right with the camera. Other than that the game looks good to me, not super awesomely good, but good enough.

Wow, Back 4 Blood has 376k viewers on Twitch, Lol.

Microsoft was very smart getting this on Game Pass.

Any aeo4 beta gameplay videos? I want to see how 1v1 feels like.

It may be less that they're saving already built consoles and more them planning a certain amount of consoles for certain periods, for example they target 10k consoles made for Summer and 100k for Holiday (random nonsense numbers) but I do believe it also wouldn't be that unbelievable that they would save some consoles for certain periods.

Like FH5 and HI are both launching in their FY22 Q2, I would think they would want a huge amount of consoles to sell in that period, not only to brag about it in their quarterly report to investors and their growth in comparison to FY22 Q2 but also cause it could provide them with some marketing brags too, like, "Thanks to the launch of Halo Infinite, Xbox Series breaks Xbox hardware records"

Like either way, I don't think they're ordering the same amount of consoles for Summer period as they would be for Holiday.

Not exactly sure why but for some reason I decided to give Final Fantasy XV another chance.

I constantly died in some story related dungeon in chapter 3 so I decided to just put the game on easy and at least enjoy the story since I dislike the battle system so much.

That was yesterday. Now I'm at the end of chapter 13 which is almost the end of the game. Also the pacing is so weird. The first couple of chapters all take place within the open world or at least you will return to it after completing one main mission. Then at around chapter 6 (out of 14!) you will leave the open world and do nothing but main quests until the game is almost over.

I'm quite shocked how short the main story is. I will easily beat this in sub 20 hours. And that's with 30+ completed side quests. Oh well at least there are still a couple of DLC episodes left.

I will leave the rest for my review.

TGS is typically September, but MS is usually a no-show there, apart from last year, where they had a big nothing burger show. But they wouldn't announce acquisitions at TGS anyway , even if they have a show this year, unless it was a Japanese studio they had acquired. Which would be great of course, but I don't see it happening sadly, even though both Phil and the Xbox Asia head have said at different points that Xbox wants to acquire some Asian studios.