Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.

Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC including current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, and major day one releases. You can find more details on Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, and PC Game Pass plans here, and manage your account here.

Our players cover a wide breadth of geographies, preferences, and tastes, so while there isn’t a single model that’s best for everyone, this change responds to a lot of feedback we’ve gotten so far. We’ll continue to listen and learn.

Thank you for being a part of the Xbox community.

Xbox’s new CEO Asha Sharma says the company is "returning to Xbox" with a renewed focus on consoles, hardware, and protecting players’ long‑term investments.

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/

Find out more about BDS: bdsmovement.net/

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.

https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft

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!