It seems that every year there is a HL3 rumor now, but I’m not sure if that source ever covered those. Could be interesting. PC only would be disappointing, unless it’s so far away that it can indeed come to the next Xbox system.
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I actually never even finished a single GTA game lol, I just cannot get into them for some reason. I did finish Sleeping Dogs though.
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Funnily enough, I’m going through the Definitive Edition right now; had spent hundreds of hours on the 360 version. Far superior than most in the genre.
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Loved Sleeping Dogs on the 360, really cool game with great mechanics (both melee and shooting were more than stellar) and very good story/characters! too bad we didn’t get a sequel and the studio was closed.
I’d like to replay the DE at some point, IIRC it supports FPS boost too which is a really nice bonus.
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https://x.com/xbox/status/1984668823924916553?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
For a dead platform, sure has many ads.
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It does support FPS Boost; silky smooth on Series consoles.
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There’s a lot of rumors since the mid/end of last year, I think, with some signs pointing at an imminent announcement that never came… There’s a supposed Half Life X that is talked about a lot in the community, but it’s hard to know if it’s real or not… I want to believe them, but grifters have been rolling on that for a while now, making it sounds like it’s going to be announced at ALL the big past events.
I think before any trailer is made, you should announced it, like all titles of this caliber.
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How can Xbox die when it lives rent free in so many heads?
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I’m getting on board with the “This is an Xbox” campaign. Feels like the ecosystem is more there now: the Xbox Ally, Xbox Full screen and experience, and adding cloud + PC to game pass core (essential) and premium (standard).
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So a whole new achievement stack on PC now I guess?
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I guess it’ll just be whatever the console achievements currently are + the new update
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This is for a special brand of excitable idiot, but if you’re like me and joined the windows insiders program to try accessing full screen experience on your current handheld now and accidentally clicked dev because for some reason it defaulted to that even though you swear you changed to the release preview but I guess it didn’t take, there’s an opportunity to switch down to beta: Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (Dev & Beta Channels) | Windows Insider Blog
Also (like was already said) they are rolling out Full Screen experience officially to more handhelds. Can confirm it worked (switching to beta; not the full screen experience; I don’t think it’s available on legion go OG handhelds yet)! Nice. I was worried I couldn’t when I didn’t see the option, but I just had to rollback an update and then enroll in beta BEFORE updating to the current release preview being shared in dev and beta. Also, I tried asking Copilot for confirmation while I was doing this (restoring the previous version of windows) and it lied straight to my face and told me I had to update to the latest build first. Good thing I didn’t ask it first or I might have thought I was stuck.
Just watched a digital foundry vid on the future xbox plans. Not really any news or good theories in the vid. Just dunking on windows and ms really. But I thought of a question I wanted to ask this thread. I thought the xbox ally handheld was the first step in the xbox/pc convergence. And that experience would just keep getting refined into what we see in next generation.
But now I’m wondering if there are two things going on.
The xbox ally is some short term improvement. It runs full windows and some windows things can be turned off, freeing up more memory. And that is really it.
Then there is a second thing going on. Maybe a gaming version of windows is being built from the ground up for next gen? And it is this project that is really the future of xbox gaming?
(I know very little about pc gaming)
I also know very little about PC gaming, but Xbox Play Anywhere as a program was started in 2016. I don’t think the ROG Xbox Ally is remotely a “first step”. Too much is coming too soon for Xbox to have just started work even when the Steam Deck launched. I think the Xbox Full Screen experience is an opportunity Microsoft saw and wanted to capture for windows. The interviews with Phil and Sarah really made it sound like they just say ASUS drop the ROG Ally and went, “We can use that.” and now we have some transitionary “mid generation” (probably the realm of thinking) Xbox devices that’ll help push Xbox on PC and prepare people for what’s coming next. But Xbox and Windows gaming converging has been in the works for a long time. What Jez’s article mentioned sounded more like dual booting, but yeah, I do think there’s something much deeper than the full screen experience (software wise) that’ll happen with the next gen Xbox, and I think that thing has been in the works for a while with parts moving as the industry and technology and general ideas grow and change.
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Ok, that makes sense and hope it is true. It does make me wonder why put resources towards the full screen experience when there is this other more significant project going on. Maybe the updates to full screen were easy enough to just through together and then see how people used it for data to use toward the permanent update coming with the next gen box.
I desperately need YouTube premium to add a feature to turn off comments (or make it a toggle), and especially not that dumb feature (which is just bad period) of seeing one random comment while scrolling the homepage.
It’s still terrible on the “this is an Xbox” ads. I don’t want to see a bunch of man children whining about Xbox not chaining them in handcuffs to a single piece of hardware. Especially not when the commercial is genuinely fun. Like before people complained about Xbox not marketing, but now marketing is really kinda great and it’s focused on expanding the Xbox ecosystem and meeting players where they are… and people are mad? Okay. There’s also no reply all button where I can explain to everyone how Xbox would only die if they refuse to evolve or how they can all go over to PS or Nintendo where there aren’t even free cloud saves.
Like am I crazy? Do people not want to be in 2025? I remember being mad at consoles in 2015 for not being like Netflix where I could watch on any device and resume my progress from anywhere. I was mad that they wouldn’t even always have backwards compatibility and cross progression. What’s happening now are literally beyond childhood dreams and people are… mad? Man, it really just brings me down. Hate seeing it when I only want to watch a fun Xbox ad.
And like Google, I’m just saying adblockers can do it on the browser. Shouldn’t be that complicated. What the heck am I even paying for with premium? An ad blocker is literally better for my mental health and online security.
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I think the full screen experience is a blanket answer for gaming on windows period. IMO it’s long overdue. It’s not a drastic change and doesn’t require dedicated hardware; it’s an overlay that drastically improves the user experience for anyone whose using windows to game. For Xbox, it also boosts their presence naturally on the windows gaming side of things. The Xbox launcher isn’t new nor is the PC Xbox games on the Microsoft store, but they’ve always struggled to pull in gamers and in the early days we’re really REALLY far behind other launchers in basic features and reliability. There’s been tons of updates to improve that motivated by the full screen experience and windows handhelds. This has also all led to a big push for Xbox Play Anywhere and increased developer/publisher support for the Xbox PC storefront.
I think potentially getting all of the advantages of Windows on top of having full backwards compatibility will generations all the way back to the OG Xbox is the best case for an open ecosystem, less work for developers having to optimize for different systems, as well as being more open and consumer friendly for all of us.
Closed ecosystems is why we have old systems being locked forever on hardware that is failing over time or games being sold to us or locked behind subscriptions like Nintendo Online or Playstation Plus with their classic titles. This is something you have never seen on PC and never will due to the nature of it being an open ecosystem.
On PC MS can still innovate though by having a specific hardware APU made at scale to reduce prices and a more streamlined OS like Steam OS in order to be specifically for gamers who want to have a simple to use setup. They will differentiate themselves by having Gamepass as well as access to OG Xbox games and Xbox 360 games, a lot of which will now be playable on PC and not available on any other store, making them available for the first time to the PC audience. That integration with other storefronts is also something that might push people towards them even for Steam users as they won’t stop you using Steam, they’re just adding more features on top.
They will compete with other OEMs in the PC space though that’s for sure, but with Xbox being a storefront by then, it’s just more options for consumers.
I also think the ROG Xbox Ally is basically a ‘‘beta’’ in that this will evolve greatly over time before the first party version is out.
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On Firefox I use an extension to block YouTube comments. You lose some rare nice things but generally nothing is lost.
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It really seems like mobile is the worst way to enjoy YouTube now.