This actually steps on a sore toe for me: I am banking on playing online MSFT games through Xcloud if certain games aren't in there. If there are, I would just groan and not bother with it. I get the whole "stream everything you own", but that should be separate and only use xCloud as an API. Like, those games aren't available per se on xCloud, but you can download and stream them normally. 

If not, then I can only hope MSFT does port to the actual EGS and I can play it without entering the Xbox ecosystem (except for the online multiplayer/matchmaking). 

I also hate when companies set terms: I give you my game, allow you to profit from it and even promote it so your platform gets more visibility. If I'd known you'd use force I wouldn't have come. 

Welp, there goes any hope of saving Xbox development for the stuff on my side. Every day ended up making it more tenuous and if this is true, non-freaking starter. 

Also, I'm officially on Epic's side firmly now: pry them open, all if you must. 

Is Doom Eternal really that hard?

What's this you say? Game "journalists" are still terrible at their jobs? Couldn't be

I hope that not every project that XGS greenlit is going to be multiplayer focused, wonder who is making Typhoon though Avalanche, Crytek, Sumo?

After having my Series X since launch, I just figured out today that quick resume works from an external HHD. I've been moving games back and forth thinking these needed to be running off the internal for it to work. I also thought for some reason FPS boosted games needed to be on the internal as well. This changes everything lol.

From the rumored XGSP titles it looks like it, but certainly not everything will be that way. There is Hellblade 2, Perfect Dark, Psychonauts 2, Compusion's next game is likely single player, and numerous RPG's like Avowed, Fable, Starfield, ES6, FO5, Outer Worlds 2, and Inxile next game will all be single player focused. 

Can't say I share this belief that MS needs to go out of their way to make sure they're producing more singleplayer only games. I love single player games, but at the end of the day, I play them nowhere nearly as much as I play games with some form of multiplayer. A good game I can play with my friends is by default better than a good game I have to play alone.

Totally agree. Not sure how MS can be seen as some bad guys in a situation when they are giving players more freedom and choice in how they play games. It's Epic who always uses shitty money hat tactics to force PC players into their crappy store that nobody is willing to use without "exclusive" games and them being so mad that MS offers a choice for PC players to bypass the need to go to EGS via xCloud. (Exactly what this leaked info is about). Epic so mad that they spent hundreds of millions on "exclusivity" and MS finding workarounds to eliminate it. Maybe Epic should try to make a better store and a fair competition first instead.

Not really. Base game is not that hard even on gamepad. I guess I've beaten it on "Hurt Me Plenty" or whatever the third out of 5 difficulty levels was called. DLC is another story though. Especially the first one. Had to switch to easiest difficulty in the end. Still, going with easiest difficulty should make the game a walk in the park.

Last news are definitely a bit disappointing. Not liking this direction that MS is banking heavy on multiplayer games, because all modern multiplayer games are just cheap and uninspired quick cash grabs with no soul put into them. I'd rather see MS going more creative direction instead of pure business. We have enough of shitty "business" companies in gaming industry already, like EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc. Don't really wanna see XGS among them.

Should be no difference between where you run your game from. The Quick Resume suspends you game RAM snapshot to already allocated space on internal SSD I think no matter if it is launched from SSD or some external HDD.

Crossed out the games that I suppose that are quite likely to have some form of multiplayer component. I wouldn't be so sure that they are single player only.

Hopefully we get more details about the Coalitions new IP from the XboxEra podcast since Shpeshal_Ed was the first one to leak that they were working on a new project outside from Gears.