Should you happen to have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, the entire EA Play catalogue is now available to download and play on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
Among all the releases and things to celebrate today, there’s one that we shouldn’t miss: the seminal puzzler Tetris Effect has made its way to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, and it’s free to play for anyone with Game Pass. Tetris Effect: Connected is out now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S via Game Pass.
Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are here, but now that you've spent all your hard earned cash on the consoles themselves, what exactly are you going to be playing on them? Well, thanks to the power of Backwards Compatibility, you'll no doubt be looking to fill your digital library with many, many, games - and that is where the Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale for 10th-16th November 2020 comes in. Want the full list of discounted Xbox games available for the next week?
As someone who put Slay the Spire right at the top of their ‘Generational Game-changers’ this month, imagine the pure joy of finding Fights in Tight Spaces. This looks like it takes the randomised deckbuilding of that classic game, bolts on the looks of SUPERHOT, and then gets you to duke it out in no-holds-barred fisticuffs, as if you’re in a John Wick movie (but without a proper budget). It looks THAT interesting, and we can’t wait to bloody our noses with it. Fights in Tight Spaces is out now on Xbox One and Series X|S via Xbox Game Preview
Overcooked! from Team17 and Ghost Town Games has long been admired for delivering some of the best cooperative multiplayer action in town. Now though the full definitive edition is being served up on Xbox Series X|S - and PS5 if you wish - in the guise of Overcooked! All You Can Eat, remaking the classics from the ground up.
DJ Hero and DJ Hero 2 will hold a special place in the heart. Whether it was fumbling with the controls, repeatedly hammering the Flava Flav “Yeah boiiiii” sample, or trying to find a home for the plastic peripherals, I will always defend the series. Harmonix clearly have it in their hearts too, as FUSER captures that magic and tries something new with it. Fuser is out now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Switch and PC via Steam.
Oh, hello: Evergate is a bit of a looker. Saved for the launch of the Xbox Series X, presumably to show off these looks further, Evergate is a crisp, beautifully animated and dreamy platformer that looks a bit like Rayman Legends, if Rayman Legends were developed by Jonathon Blow rather than Ubisoft.
When Gears Tactics was announced at E3 2018, it was coupled with Gears POP!, the Funko crossover that probably shouldn’t have been. The combined result was that many people came away underwhelmed, particularly as they were expecting something more mainline. But after some ecstatic reviews for the Windows version (including a 5/5 from TheXboxHub), it’s fair to say that we’re on board the hype (Cole)train. Gears Tactics is out now on Xbox One, fully optimised for Series X|S and via Game Pass. It’s also been out for a while on PC via Games for Windows.
We are so close to the new console generations of Xbox Series X we can almost taste it (please don’t lick your new Xboxes when they arrive). But just as one eye looks forward to the future, the other looks back on the generation just gone. And what better way than by looking back at our thoughts on the Xbox One’s Generational Game-Changers.
It's highly anticipated among the horrorpunk community, but finally Merge Games and the development team at Still Running have been able to confirm the full release date for their upcoming action RPG, Morbid: The Seven Acolytes. And come December it'll be playable on Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC.
