Gears Tactics and MS support studio Splash Damage are making a Stadia Exclusive title. https://www.splashdamage.com/news/splash-damage-stadia/

Going to have to keep an eye on this one, If Gears Tactics gets critical praise and this Stadia exclusive gets some positive response then Google might throw some cash to try snap them up.

They won't close the "loophole" because they want to tie gamers into their service for years. A great way to promote game pass and perhaps push people to buy their new console as they see the value of game pass. 

The loophole isn't there by mistake.

Sea of Thieves was 14th most played game last week according to trueachivements.com Xbox Gaming Charts. On Xbox most played it's currently 19th in US and 16th in UK. Looking good and 2nd anniversary update has yet to launch :P

I wonder if Rare can somehow separate Series X and PC versions from base Xbox One and make them even bigger without base console holding them back. There's still so much potential to this game.

I’m also an Ultimate subscriber. I probably buy as many games now as I did before, I just don’t play them because there are too many games to play. I do pretty much only buy them on sale now.

Played a couple Bleeding Edge matches this morning. Latency seems much improved from the beta and it’s nice to have in game music during matches. First match we were losing but we all had mics and communicated and were able to come back. Second match other team sucked and we stomped the shit out of them. I’ll be interested in seeing how it scores.

Forgot all about that

You could try to just avoid said threads.

So far, I've managed to avoid them myself. Definitely not worth getting drained over :)

Just jumped back into the world of Xbox and dusted off my XB1, got Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (Is there another version? I just saw it was £1 for the first month) thought why not, if I'm in lockdown might as well!

Any really stand out games I should DL? I've been out of the loop for about 3/4 years now and have no idea most of these games were even announced apart from the really obvious stuff (Halo, Gears ect).

Welcome back old timer!

Ultimate encompasses both the console and PC version of GP + XBL Gold. All for like 5 bucks more than base GP.

As for games you should download...are we talking purely MS games, or just in general?

Hey Trunks!

I've got the Ori Wisps game downloading, Cities Skylines, Yooka Laylee, Dead Risin 4 and Superhot. Is SoD2 much improved upon the first? I'll definitely probably get GTAV.

Hey, thanks! Good to see you :)

Just in general, I'm more interested in the cartoony looking like games, that I hope are platformers. I'll stick with ultimate and if I like having the game pass will probs just get the regular one, thanks for the clarification.

Ryuu96 said: Is like the old days, welcome back Seece. Now to unban Jaywood. 👀

Hey Ryuu, gratz on Modship, good to see you still here.

Ryuu96 said: Is like the old days, welcome back Seece. Now to unban Jaywood. 👀

From a mod during the Jaywood days - don't. Haha