Microsoft really needs to both unlock and advertise the Xbox Series as PC-compatible replacement gaming … things. On a whim i hooked up the Series S to a big monitor and it’s a revelation how fun PC gaming is on a system like that. It almost feels like a whole new product category. Most console games don’t use keyboard and mouse, but some do, and the ones that do feel very good compared to a real gaming PC.
I’m looking forward to trying Age of Empires 2 on the console version with keyboard / mouse. Might be the best/cheapest way to play!
Two more games I’ve never heard of. We’re in some weird transitional state here, I feel like. Clearly all the energy to getting new games is focused on Game Pass while GwG is out here twisting in the wind. The bold move would be to cut it loose, just let multiplayer go free but it’s probably hard to turn down easy money. In the meantime, we get these games that seem like they belong in a Fanatical bundle.
I played For the King back when it was on GP. Very much akin to an adventure boardgame sort of thing, in video game form. I liked it well enough, and have occasionally thought it’d be nice to play again- there’s several scenarios, I only beat one- but it was removed from GP a while back. It’ll be nice to have this in the library.
I just received a troubling email from Xbox, troubling partly because of its content but also kind of because of the way it presents its message. You may get the email too, telling you that a bunch of older games will soon be removed from the Xbox 360 store. Here’s a link to the games being removed:
So, a bunch of games, original Xbox and 360 games, will no longer be sold on the Xbox 360 store. That’s kind of a bummer, but it’s not as bad as it may seem on its face. If you are buying things on the Windows store or by way of the Xbox One or Series X marketplace, a lot of these games are still going to be available there. But not all of them! I know the two Left 4 Dead games are currently only available on the 360 marketplace, so will they no longer be available for purchase once the 360 store drops them? I don’t know! But now I kind of feel like I should grab them while I can!
I’m laughing internally because I already own all of those. At least, all the ones I’ve heard of. I bought way too many games in the 360 generation. Way too many.
They’re on Steam though. Indeed, the vast majority of those games are on PC, and it’s not like the 360 versions are in any way definitive. Eyeballing it, Blue Dragon is the only one that jumps out as an exception. It sucks when things stop being available in a store, but this isn’t like when the various Nintendo storefronts shut down and there was literally nowhere to get loads of games.
Your reading is extremely narrow but sure - in case anyone else misunderstands me, if you want to play any of the games I listed above ON AN XBOX, you will no longer be able to buy them on the 360 storefront.
Please note that an Xbox is not actually required to play these games. Except for the ones that do require an Xbox.
I own both on disc though, and Lost Odyssey has been given away on Xbox Live Gold before, so most people likely already own a digital copy already. But I have both on disc, so I’m covered either way.
Has anybody noticed some weird power on/off behaviour with HDMI CEC recently? I’m wondering if it’s tied to the “woke” power settings update. Basically, I’ve got it set up to turn the TV and AVR on when I turn on a controller, and conversely to turn them off when I switch off the TV via remote. This worked fine until a week or so ago. Now I get two weird behaviours. One, when I turn the Xbox on, it also turns on my AppleTV*, and when I turn it off, after a very short pause it immediately turns the TV and AVR back on (but not the Xbox). Could be an issue with my AVR of course, but the timing was a little suspicious.
Not 100% sure if it’s turning on the AppleTV per se, or turning on the AVR to the AppleTV input for some reason, which itself is triggering the AppleTV to turn on.
