Imagine, if you will, a tall, proud, beautiful oak tree. The tree is Microsoft. The leaves, they are an assortment of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games. And now it’s that time of the year when the leaves start to float to the ground, twirling gently in the breeze. It’s autumn, see. And that means it’s time for the Xbox Autumn Sale. And the leaves are games, falling. Except that it’s the prices that fall, really, not the games themselves. Right, my metaphor is crap.
Oh, it’s definitely happened to you. After hours, days even, of browsing through your Facebook archives and playing The Cure’s Disintegration on repeat and conscientious introspection about who did what wrong, you’re on the very verge of realising why your ex was actually the worst person ever. And then, suddenly, x_HITMAN_69_x WANTS TO PLAY WARFRAME.
Warframe.
Why did you even get that game? It’s the worst game ever. And maybe you’re the worst person ever. You don’t need this kind of epiphany now. And soon enough, you can preclude this sort of thing entirely.
Let me tell you what it’s like trying to play Forza Motorsport 7 on Windows 10. Sometimes you sit down to play and it just works. The soundtrack is tight and invigorating, your heart beats faster when you’re overtaking on a rain-soaked Spa Francorchamps in a 1970s racecar that barely has any traction. It’s smooth and slick, and fun. You just click with it. And sometimes… sometimes you sit down to see the game updating, only for the Store app and the Xbox centre to forget that you own it. Or it crashes in the middle of making a livery because of a memory leak. Or it refuses to allow you to play while your internet is off. Or it crashes on the splash screen thanks to a license error.
Forza 7 is a beautiful, fun, and engaging racing game, tainted by running it on a platform that Microsoft seems to barely take seriously. I’ve reinstalled it seven times in the past two weeks. But it’s worth the initial pains, and these things are fixable, because I’ve grown to love this game.
Just in time for the summer holidays, Microsoft is adding some hot hot hot new stuff to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, plus a limited time special signup price of only five bucks. That’s, like, ten Chappies Chappies for access to over 100 games. Five Chappies. Fifty Chappies. I dunno, I don’t eat Chappies. Can you even buy Chappies anymore? That’s probably enough about Chappies.
After a testing period for Xbox Insider program members, Microsoft has announced that the game gifting feature for Xbox One is now live for the general. See, “in time for the holiday season,” just like Tarryn predicted.