With recent rumours (or perhaps they should be called leaks) once again bringing to the surface thoughts about first party Xbox games going to PlayStation and Nintendo, we thought we’d put together a DEFCON rating chart of sorts to assess where we actually are right now compared to DEFCON 1: all first party games launching … Read more
With Hellblade II coming later this month, it’s perhaps not surprising that we’re entering a bit of a quieter period for big releases, with publishers perhaps wanting to avoid Microsoft’s big release. However, we do have some indies brave (or clever?) enough to bring their games to Xbox at this time, and they make up … Read more
Last week we saw the continuation of the rise of Fallout games into the various Xbox charts, and this week sees some further small gains in that department. Fallout 4 is up 5 places compared to this time last week, into 13th place on the Most Played charts, while Fallout 76 is up 4 to … Read more
On this week’s Phil Tracker, we can see Microsoft’s head honcho has continued his spree of Fallout 76 goodness, putting an extra 10 hours onto his total playtime in the last week. However, unlike last week, there has been at least a little more variety. He took in a few holes in EA SPORTS PGA … Read more
If you thought last week was a good one, this week blows it out of the water for new releases, Game Pass additions (and even a cheeky little next-gen update to a game that’s dominating the charts right now). Here are our picks for what’s coming this week. First things first, we have three new … Read more
Continuing our look at the Xbox Most Played, Top Paid and Top Free charts. Fallout’s not just popular on PlayStation You may have seen the news that Fallout is dominating the PlayStation charts at the moment (as well as other Microsoft games), and it’s no different on Xbox. With the success of the Amazon Prime … Read more
Welcome to the first post of what we have decided to call, rather unambiguously, The Phil Tracker. Using openly available data from Xbox Live, we follow the games that Head of Xbox CEO of Microsoft Gaming (dude needs to update his Twitter) Phil Spencer is playing. Why? Well it stands to reason that Phil would … Read more
The highlight of this week’s Xbox games is undoubtedly the aesthetically incredible Harold Halibut. A real jewel in the April Game Pass lineup, it’s already been getting a mix of reviews (73 from 18 reviews via Metacritic). This sort of game is exactly what Game Pass is for. An unashamedly artsy indie game with mixed … Read more
Welcome to the first of many future posts about the Xbox-provided Most Played, Top Paid and Top Free charts, which we’ll aim to review every Friday. This gives an insight into how certain games are performing, which can be particularly interesting when you factor in Game Pass and the impact that might (or might not) … Read more