Random Video Games/News Thread

[Phil_SS]

The Golf Club 2019 is the free game with gold right now. Anyone up for some golf?

Thanks for the heads up. Gonna have to grab it just to mess around with.

[Cam]

Is it any good?

Try it for free and decide for yourself.

When I still had the Xbox 360, I had Tiger Woods 2007. It is very similar, if that tells you anything.

[Rare White Ape]

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooool



Link here if you can’t see it:
https://www.facebook.com/gamesmen/ph...type=3&sfns=mo

They say it’s an Australian exclusive box variant. The 90s were sick.

[Rare White Ape]

I’m pretty proud of myself.

I just cleared 150 lines and beat marathon mode in Puyo-Puyo Tetris.



I have become a god. A Tetris god.

[Tom Servo]

I made it to 8th of the 99 in my last round, was feeling pretty pleased with myself.

[Rare White Ape]

It’s amazing how bloody good Tetris is, and we’ve been playing it for 30 years.

[Rare White Ape]

Some exciting news to hand for PC players.

Microsoft is launching Xbox Game Pass for PC, AND will start selling its first-party games on Steam.

Details such as pricing, etc, will be announced next week at E3.

[Tom Servo]

It's too bad I bet they won't let us transfer existing licenses - the Windows Store is such a shitshow.

[Rare White Ape]

Well in the news report I read there was a bit of chat from Phil Spencer talking about freedom of choice for PC players. No real mention of the Epic store tho

So I’m hoping they’re at least aware of the need to transfer licenses unlike everyone’s favourite retro games hoarder Nintendo. They seem to have their finger on the pulse with this one. But I’m betting that Xbox Game Pass will be limited to the Microsoft Store.

The holy grail would be allowing owners of Xbox One games play them on PC for free, which they already do, but via Steam and Epic (and GOG and Humble etc) as well as save transfers and cross-platform play. We shall see.

[Tom Servo]

I'd much rather have my games under Steam than the Windows store if only because they don't have weird, unexplained delays when downloading (and only do like 5k/sec for the first 20 minutes), and presumably they also won't go into that weird black hole of encrypted storage that prevents me from getting an accurate accounting of what's actually on my hard drive.