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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53804920

It pains me to even post this here but apparently the xbox is "retro" now. oh boy.

Anyway - my problem. I thought for sure that OG xbox games would work on a 360s, as long as they were on the backward compatible list. well, my luck, none of the ones i got work and they're all on the list. I tried updating the 360 from a flash drive, it won't detect the update. I can't find a menu option to update. I would rather not connect it to my internet to update either if possible.

I tried reformatting the flash drive on the xbox itself then moving the update folder to it, that didn't work, neither did formatting on the pc first either. I cleared the cache of the xbox hard drive (it has an official M$ 250GB drive).

It is not modded in any way.

Anyone have a fix for the manual usb update? This is a glossy xbox 360 Slim, for reference.

Thought i should also post here!

I almost think I should just mod this thing, but is there any benefit to leaving it stock? I just wanna play OG xbox games man :(

Game Pass is adding these games over the next few weeks:

• Resident Evil Village
• MIO: Memories in Orbit
• Death Stranding Director's Cut
• RoadCraft
• Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
• The Talis Principle 2
• Anno: Mutationem
• Drop Duchy
• MySims: Cozy Bundle
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
• Indika
• Final Fantasy II

Finally, a viable wireless 3rd party controller option for the Xbox with TMR sticks and Hall Effect triggers. Rumors peg it at $150 USD.

I am in the Bell Tower at the Musician's Square. I came back up a ladder and nudged the B button on the way up (may or may not be relevant). Now I cannot interact with anything on the level I am on. The game seems to think I am still on the level below. I can see the ladder interaction if I tilt the camera down (see image) but have no way of getting close enough to it to use it. The game has auto-saved...

We've all seen how Costco, Target, and Walmart have eliminated their Xbox sections, looks like Best Buy is not far behind...

I saw this tonight at the local Fred Meyer store (now owned by Kroger).

Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it's already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.

Pledge your support for the boycott here: nogamesforgenocide.com/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. In light of the International Court of Justice’s legally-binding rulings to prevent Israel’s plausible genocide in Gaza, as well as its July 19 Advisory Opinion affirming Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system, Microsoft has failed its corporate obligation to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Microsoft, as well as its boards of directors and executives, may face criminal liability for this complicity.

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Heads up, everyone on Reddit gamepass issues. It's like wanting Chick-fil-A on SUN only.

I can't drop Xbox, it's what I have and I'm going to use it, but I did decide that I was not going to bend over for the new price tiers.

You can buy 3 months of Essential for $25. Thus lowering their revenue by $11.66 a month per person. If enough people do the same (or cancel completely if it's a reasonable option.) we can make them feel it in their bottom line!

Xbox is raising the price of gamepass Ultimate to $30/month effective today. I'll be cancelling and purchasing games with the help of DEKU DEALS moving forward.

It's also on sale for the next two weeks.

This all started for me when Starfield came out. I couldn't get past the tutorial because it would crash within ten minutes of staying up the game. I never did get to play it. I had similar issues with Avowed, Doom Middle Ages, Oblivion Remastered, and now Borderlands 4. I called Xbox support and ift course they had me reinstall, factory reset, change Mac address, and all that, only to listen to me play for ten minutes before it crashed yet again. The kids can play Siege, Fortnite and Roblox all day long with no issues, but I can't get even get to the first bandit camp in BL4.

I know that most people aren't having this issue, but there is a significant number of people on Reddit complaining about the same issues on the exact same games. I barely touch my Xbox anymore because I'm getting frustrated with not being able to play any of the games I want to play.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions, solutions, or success getting Microsoft to give a shit?

Jouer à du jeu vidéo SEGA avec un iPad, un écran 27 pouces et une manette Xbox, le tout branché en RJ45 en passant par un hub usb-c, c'est le gaming du 21e siècle 🎮

Et ça marche aussi avec du cloud gaming 😉

@xbox@lemmy.world @Xbox @segamag @theapplehub #jeuvidéo

Last Friday's THQ Nordic showcase featured the reveal of Darksiders 4. The next entry in the long-running series finally pays off the ending of the 2010 original, uniting all four horsemen of the apocalypse in one game.

The teaser trailer shows War, Death, Fury, and Strife atop their mounts as they prepare to face the apocalyptic events that conclude the first game. For fans, seeing the story finally move forward is an exciting proposition as each sequel's plot has either run parallel to or taken place before the first Darksiders' narrative. Darksiders 4 is being developed by Gunfire Games, which previously made Darksiders III and is also known for its work on the Remnant franchise.

Although the trailer excludes gameplay footage, Darksiders 4 is described as a fast-paced third-person action game that blends traversal and puzzle-solving. Players will control their preferred Horsemen (how/if you can switch between them during the campaign is unclear), and the game will feature online co-op. Unfortunately, it's unknown how many players can ride together or how cooperative play will work in general.

Darksiders 4 doesn't have a release window, but it will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. In the meantime, be sure to check out our reviews of the original Darksiders, 2012's Darksiders II, 2018's Darksiders III, and 2019's Darksiders Genesis.

Earlier this year, Digital Eclipse revealed Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, which includes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat 4, and more. At the time of this announcement, the studio merely said this collection of arcade classics would debut at some point this year, but a leak via the Xbox app may have given us a release date.

Over the weekend, the Xbox app had the collection listed with a 29th/30th September release (those two dates depend on where in the world you are). I've had a quick look now, and this date is no longer mentioned, though evidence still exists online thanks to eagle-eyed screenshotting fans.

Many have now surmised that the team at Digital Eclipse will announce (or, perhaps that should now be confirm) the release date for Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection during Evo USA, which kicks off this Friday. Stay tuned for more!

We first got word of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection during last month's PlayStation State of Play. "Step into the arena and choose your fighter," reads the collection's official blurb.

"Experience the legendary origins of the franchise with the iconic arcade classics that started it all - alongside a curated selection of most-loved home versions for the Super NES and Sega Genesis. Dive deeper with rare and fan-favorite releases across the Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega 32X, Game Boy Advance, and more - a celebration of the franchise's groundbreaking legacy."

The upcoming Legacy Kollection will also allow for players to "explore Mortal Kombat lore" on its release, thanks to "a timeline of the original series' storyline and comprehensive character histories that offer stories, secrets, and glimpses behind the scenes at their creation".

Elsewhere in franchise news, the Mortal Kombat film sequel - aptly named Mortal Kombat 2 - is slated for release this October. The team recently gave us two teasers for the upcoming adaptation, one focusing on Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, and one including the wider cast and some general torso splitting.

Microsoft has announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong - easily one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the moment - will have a playable demo at Gamescom on PC or ROG Xbox Ally X.

Gamescom is the highest attended gaming convention in the world, and is held in Cologne each summer. This year's event runs between 20th and 24th August.

The news that Silksong will be playable during the event was tucked away in a new Xbox Wire post, detailing what attendees can expect from Microsoft's booth during next month's activities.

"This year, the Xbox booth will be full of fantastic upcoming games from Xbox and our incredible third-party partners coming to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass this Holiday and beyond – and yes, that includes Hollow Knight: Silksong," the post reads. "On top of that, there will be the first ever public opportunity to go hands-on with the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, as well as other fun activities and photo opportunities."

Other games available to try out on the company's upcoming handheld devices include Roblox, Sea of Thieves, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4.

Meanwhile, in addition to Hollow Knight: Silksong, other third-party partners with playable demos at the Xbox booth include:

Borderlands 4
Onimusha: Way of The Sword
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
EA Sports FC 26
Aniimo
There Are No Ghosts at the Grand
PowerWash Simulator 2
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Final Fantasy 16
Invincible VS
Super Meat Boy 3D
Cronos: The New Dawn
Mistfall Hunter

There will also be the chance for attendees to enjoy Grounded 2, Ninja Gaiden 4, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (which is getting new DLC later this year), Age of Empires and Age of Mythology: Retold, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. You can find further information on Xbox Wire.

It has now been six years and a bit since Hollow Knight: Silksong was first announced, and many have been eagerly waiting ever since. In January, the team behind the game then finally assured us that Silksong was "real, progressing and will release".

Silksong is scheduled to release this year, but an exact date is still unknown.

12 years after Xbox introduced the Xbox One as a console that would be your entertainment media hub, Xbox is no longer selling TV shows or movies. The news came with little fanfare or notice, though some people who regularly check Xbox’s movie and TV section saw a bunch of movies about the end of the world in the featured section right before it all shut down.

On July 18, Xbox posted an FAQ quietly confirming that it was done selling movies and TV episodes on its digital storefront, available on PC and console.

“Microsoft has stopped selling new movie and TV content,” said Xbox bluntly in the new FAQ.

Microsoft says that anyone who has already bought a movie or TV show through the Xbox store will still have access and be able to watch purchased content on their Xbox consoles or PC. The company also confirmed that it will continue to support MoviesAnywhere in the United States, so any movies you own via Xbox should continue to be available via any platform that supports the movie sharing service.

While in 2025 it isn’t shocking that Xbox has backed out of selling movies and TV shows, as most people stream stuff or use more popular apps to buy new movies, it is still wild to think about how not that long ago, Xbox was super committed to turning its console into an entertainment hub. Infamously, when Xbox showed off the Xbox One in 2012 for the first time, it spent a good portion of the event talking about TV and movies. Now, that’s all gone. End of an era.

Some people saw this coming a few days ago when they noticed a strange collection of movies was in the featured section of the Xbox store.

This Is the End
End of Days
Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame
Marked For Death
The Last Stand
The World’s End
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
I Am Legend

“It certainly looks like this is the end,” posted one user earlier this week after seeing the featured movies. “Hopefully, we’ll at least have access to our digital purchases for a long time.”

Official blog post detailing Halo Infinite's new mode - their take on the classic search & destroy, complete with in-match economy.
This mode launches with 6 new Forged maps.

Hot on the heels of the layoffs that have swept through Xbox, the founder of Microsoft-owned Arkane Studios has hit out at Game Pass, whose subscription model he called “unsustainable.”

Raphael Colantonio, who founded the Dishonored and Prey developer and served as its president before leaving in 2017 to start Weird West maker WolfEye Studios, took to social media to ask: “Why is no-one talking about the elephant in the room? Cough cough (Gamepass).”

When asked to expand on his thoughts on Game Pass, which Weird West launched straight into as a day one title in March 2022, Colantonio said: “I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by MS’s ‘infinite money,’ but at some point reality has to hit. I don’t think GP can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”

Colantonio’s comment sparked a vociferous debate about the pros and cons of Game Pass in industry terms as well as for the customer. Microsoft's subscription service has been called many things over the years: the death of the video game industry; the savior of smaller developers who benefit greatly from payments made by Microsoft to secure their games; and everything in between. During the great Xbox FTC trial to decide the fate of Microsoft's $69 billion aquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, then PlayStation boss Jim Ryan claimed that he had talked to "all the publishers" and that, unanimously, they all hated Game Pass "because it is value destructive." He also said Microsoft "appears to be losing a lot of money on it."

Back in 2021, Xbox boss Phil Spencer countered Game Pass doomsayers, saying: "I know there's a lot of people that like to write [that] we're burning cash right now for some future pot of gold at the end. No. Game Pass is very, very sustainable right now as it sits. And it continues to grow."

That was four years ago. What about now, in the wake of cuts that have seen Rare's Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO in the works at developer behind The Elder Scrolls Online all canceled?

Colantonio’s comments were backed by a number of industry peers, including the former VP of biz dev at Epic Games. Michael Douse, publishing director at Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian, said that the biggest concern right now revolves around what happens when all that money runs out. This, Douse added, is “one of the main economic reasons people I know haven't shifted to its business model. The infinite money thing never made any sense.”

(It’s worth noting that Baldur’s Gate 3 has so far not launched in Game Pass or PlayStation Plus.)

Colantonio then ridiculed Microsoft’s insistence that launching games into Game Pass did not impact sales, only to later admit the contrary.

Douse responded to to say he prefers the Sony way of doing things. Sony’s PlayStation Plus policy is to keep first-party games off the subscription service at launch, only adding them some time later. That’s why you won’t see this year’s Sony’s Ghost of Yotei launch straight into PS Plus, but you will see Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as a day one Game Pass launch.

“The economics never made sense, but at the same time I do recognize that for smaller teams with new or riskier IPs it helped derisk,” Douse said. “Much prefer Sony's 'lifecycle management' strategy.”

"Yeah, the only way GP can co-exist without hurting everyone is for the back catalogue," Colantonio concluded.

Reports have indicated that Microsoft’s layoffs were more about the company’s high-profile push into AI than any failing with the gaming business, but Colantonio suggested this was “a bs excuse.”

He then went on to insist that “the maths don’t work for most publishers/devs nor for Xbox once they stop investing.”

Colantonio was also asked why Microsoft would continue to push Game Pass if it were unsustainable, even now, eight years after it launched. He responded to say that Game Pass isn’t profitable, Microsoft is still in the "customer acquisition phase", and the company hopes that one day, subscription revenue will make its significant investment pay off.

Colantonio explained that Game Pass on its own cannot be considered profitable because you need to factor in the billions of dollars Microsoft has spent acquiring content for the subscription service, and he includes Bethesda owner ZeniMax and Activision Blizzard in that equation. “It’s a spreadsheet trick where they don’t put that detail in a profit and loss section, but instead in the amortization over time,” he claimed.

Game Pass is of course an incredible deal for the gamer that lets subscribers dip in and out of a long list of games for a fraction of the cost of buying those games standalone. Game Pass is often said to be too good to be true because of how cheap it is relative to what it offers. When you throw in every game Microsoft has on its books as a day one Game Pass launch (Call of Duty included), the deal feels even better.

For Colantonio, though, the Game Pass deal is “too good.”

“What might happen once MS has won: the games will start to suck and your sub will go up,” he added. “Why? Because the current amazing deal you have is subsided by MS bleeding money into it with the hope they’ll kill the competition, but once they manage to do it, things will get real.”

He added: “... it’s a long game that involves throwing a tsunami at the entire ecosystem of the industry. Only the gamers like it because the offer is too good to be true, but eventually even gamers will hate it when they realize the effects on the games.”

Microsoft does not report on the success of Game Pass either way in financial terms. Indeed, its reporting on its gaming business is vague at best. In its last financial report (for the quarter ending March 31, 2025), Microsoft said Xbox content and services grew 8% year-over-year, which was in part due to growth in Xbox Game Pass. PC Game Pass revenue increased 45% year-over-year. But we don’t have an updated figure for how many subscribers Game Pass has, nor how much money it brings in.

In an April interview with Variety, Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer was asked how he views Game Pass’s ongoing role in the larger Xbox business. Spencer replied to say he thinks about Game Pass as “a healthy option for certain people,” but admitted “it’s not for everybody.”

“Our biggest areas of growth right now are PC and Cloud, which makes sense, since consoles, all up, are a good business, they’re an established business, but they’re not really a growing segment in gaming," he said.

"So we’ve got good growth on PC, we’ve got growth on Cloud, in terms of users and hours. And console continues to be a really healthy part of Game Pass. But there isn’t a unique need for Game Pass to be the only way for people to play. If everybody who’s a Game Pass subscriber instead decided to buy their games, that’s good for the business as well.

“For me, I look at Game Pass as a healthy option for certain people. It’s not for everybody. If you play one or two games a year, Game Pass probably isn’t the right business model for you, you should just buy those two games, and that would make total sense. But I want you to have the choice. So we remain focused on everything that’s on Game Pass is also available to buy. We’re making those games available to buy in more places.

“And I look at the overall hours of people who are playing on Xbox, playing our games, and that’s a number that continues to grow fairly substantially, and that’s really the metric I think about for success. And Game Pass has been an important part of that, but I don’t try to solve for Game Pass specifically on its own. It’s kind of part of the equation for Xbox finding new players.”