If you're not too fussed with taking home the latest and greatest titles, just wishing to fill your Xbox digital library with other great games, it's the weekly Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale which is for you - and the one running between the 19th-25th January 2021 is full of stunning bargains.
When it first launched almost 15 years ago, the original Gears of War set the tone not just for the Xbox 360, but also for the generation to come. Flash forward to today, however, and the franchise in terms of reception and audience engagement seems to have taken a bit of a decline. The way I see it, it boils down to two questions: "Does Gears of War need a reboot?" and "Would Gears of War benefit from a reboot?".
We can barely bring ourselves to complete a single Five Night at Freddy’s game, but - heaven help us - we’re getting five of them on one disk for Xbox One, Series X|S and PS4, and on a cartridge for the Nintendo Switch.
Over the course of the last week or so, Xbox gamers have had the opportunity to embark on new adventures, take in additional journeys and be wowed by magical worlds like no other. Of course, that's pretty much the case for 52 weeks of the year in gaming circles, but in these times these new objectives come to the fore like never before. But that said, thanks to the Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale those adventures, journeys and worlds can be taken in at cut-price levels and once more the sale for 12th-18th January 2021 is opening up the landscape in various ways. Want to check out the full list of brilliant bargains that can be had across Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S titles for the next week?
Week 1 of 2021 is done and dusted yet as we move through the gears and get back to work, constants stay in place, with one of the most exciting of those being the next set of brilliant discounts found in the Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale. Yep that's right, between the dates of 5th-11th January 2021 there are a host of stunning discounts available on a ton of Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S titles - and honestly, you won't want to miss them.
2020, on the whole, barring the global catastrophes and all, was a pretty good year for Xbox. While there was the odd misstep like the Halo Infinite delay or the over hyped May event, on the whole the team at Xbox did a bang-up job. However, there are still some things it would be wise for the team to address and improve in 2021.
2021 is here, finally. And you know what that means? Well, not only can we put 2020 to bed for good, but a whole new world of gaming is just around the corner, with a plethora of new titles readying themselves to launch in the coming weeks and months. Before we get that far though the Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale is here to keep us rolling along in the gaming scene, and between the dates of 29th December 2020 and spanning into the new year before finishing on 4th January 2021, there are a whole host of new and exciting discounts available on many Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S titles.
Regardless of the love you’ll have for Wilmot’s Warehouse on Xbox, it’s a game to admire. It is incredibly minimalist, in its fantastic chillwave soundtrack, visuals and the basic sorting it tasks you with, but that just highlights its elegance. It’s a very original game, but at the same time feels so refined that it could be from a genre that’s been around for decades.
We’ve gathered together the games of 2020 that impressed us the most, with a couple of criteria: they sold naff-all, and barely got featured across the gaming media. These are the hidden Xbox gems of 2020.
