Been a few years, here's a look at my current collection! Been playing a lot of Fallout New Vegas lately

418 to be exact! It’s been almost a year since my last update where I had 200, and I want to thank everyone for the support! I’d like to especially highlight all of the people who have sent me their copies, I am so grateful.

I began collecting nearly two years ago, and I am getting closer to my next milestone of 500. I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be done collecting or what I’ll do with my games then, but for now I am having a great time hunting for these! Interestingly enough, I’ve met about a dozen people who collect Kinect Adventures as well!

Here’s to hundreds more!

Edit: I own all of these Kinect Adventures simply because it is fun to play and collect! I find these on shelves everywhere :)

https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/final-fantasy-vii-revelation-launches-april-8-2027#39657a29-d512-4a34-864a-28e8c38519fc

Quote: According to Nielsen IQ, UK PS5 sales jumped 33% last week, while Xbox Series X|S sales leapt 34%.

Source : https://www.deepsilver.com/games/metro2039/news/metro-2039-launches-february-4th-2027

Got tired of xCloud in a browser tab, so I built Mac Xcloud. A free, open-source native macOS wrapper for xbox.com/play. Sign-in stays saved, edge-to-edge window, boot animation, menu bar stats (ping/FPS/bitrate), and it auto-updates itself.

DualSense goodies: 21 adaptive trigger modes you can switch mid-game from the menu bar, LED colors, haptics, touchpad gestures, calibration, and savable input presets. Full native settings window (region ping test, quality/bitrate, stats overlay). Built on the Better xCloud engine, no browser UI.

Needs Game Pass Ultimate like the browser. No Apple Developer license, so after downloading: right-click → Open → go through privacy settings and confirm once. After that it runs and updates normally.

Download: https://github.com/arunyagoojar/Mac-XCloud

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a highly frustrating situation regarding Microsoft Store's backend licensing issues and GSC's customer support loop. Even if Microsoft ends up refunding me after all this hassle, the way they handle player entitlements is unacceptable.

How it happened:
When S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 first launched, I was playing it entirely through my Xbox PC Game Pass subscription. Since the Microsoft Store allows you to buy DLCs for Game Pass titles, I purchased the standalone S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Season Pass (Windows Edition) (Order: 8033927537) to support the devs and secure future DLCs.

Shortly after, Microsoft/GSC changed the game's store listings, removed the standalone Season Pass from the store, and moved the game to a unified "Xbox Play Anywhere" ecosystem. This summer, I finally bought the permanent standalone Base Game (Order: 9787748636) to finally play everything.

The Blatant SKU Mismatch Bug:
Now, the store is completely broken for my account. My Base Game is the newer "Play Anywhere" ID, but my Season Pass license is permanently locked to the legacy, deprecated "Windows Edition" ID. The Season Pass page literally tells me: "Requires S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (Windows Edition) to run." It refuses to trigger the download for the modern version I have installed.

The Support Runaround (GSC Ticket: 106664):
I contacted GSC Support. To their credit, they understood the technical issue, but their final response was basically waving the white flag and telling me to request a refund for a 2-year-old purchase because they refuse to provide an Ultimate Upgrade digital code to fix Microsoft's backend mess:

Since the Season Pass was bought 2 years ago via Game Pass, Microsoft's automated system instantly rejected the refund. I was literally trapped between a multi-billion dollar storefront that broke its own product IDs and a developer telling me to "just get a refund" for an expired window.

Current Status:
I have just forced Microsoft to open a manual review ticket (Case/Refund ID: 7108305058) for a full refund of BOTH the Season Pass and the Base Game. I bought the base game specifically to play the DLCs I already owned; if they can't match the licenses, I'm getting my money back for everything and uninstalling permanently.

Be careful if you bought any standalone DLCs or upgrades during the early Game Pass days of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2—Microsoft's store consolidation might have secretly wiped or locked your entitlements without you knowing.

I know there are certain scenarios where cloud gaming in convenient. But its a massive energy drain. Think, youre relying on a massive data center to stream and run your game thousands of miles away instead of…putting a disc in and playing it.

Its fucking asinine. Theyre loud, they waste water, they take up massive amounts of land and use up the power grid

To boot its only 2% of gaming. Nahh dont limit hours. Get rid of this cancer, along with Ai

Should I try to play Cyberpunk 2077 before leaves GamePass?. I’ve seen that the campaign alone is pretty long (30-40hrs average), so idk if I’ll have time to do it on time before it leaves.

I also just played the entire The Walking Dead Telltale Games series and I’d like to take a 1-2 day break from playing until I jump to another game, but If I do that I’ll have less days left to beat CyberPunk.

I found this while going through storage. I got the HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360 back when Microsoft was pushing the format, and all of these movies came free through one of their promos.

I never actually bought an HD DVD, so this is literally my entire collection lol.

I still have my Xbox 360 Elite, so I'm going to hook this thing up this weekend and see how these movies hold up nearly 20 years later.

January 15th: Stranger Than Heaven (Gamepass)

February 18th: Persona 4 Revival (Gamepass)

February 23rd: Fable (Gamepass)

April 7th: Exodus

April 8th: Final Fantasy VII Revelation

Q2 2027: The Expanse Osiris Reborn (Gamepass)

Q3 2027: Clockwork Revolution (Gamepass)

TBD 2027: The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past

Rumoured for next year:

Fallout 3 Remake (Gamepass)

Persona 6 (Gamepass)

How am I going to find the time to play all these?!?!

Idk if this is for everyone but this seems like the steal of the century.

Edit: Well I‘m dumb… you going to have to pay 70 for all these games. Not really a great deal but if you don’t want to wait for these games to go back on sale you should take a look at this.

Seeing people finally convert old physical games with Disc to Digital made me think about all the games we almost traded away years ago.

For me, Red Dead Redemption 2. I could never bring myself to trade it in, and now keeping that disc feels even more worth it.

What disc are you happiest you never got rid of?

I can’t believe how bad the quality is on the elite controllers. The first one I got had faulty bumper input and would double-press quite often. I paid for an extended warranty swap and had the same issue come up within a few months. I ended up selling the controller.

A year later I missed the overall feel of the elite so I bought another one. The button double-press issue did not return which was great! However, a year in and the glue holding the grip in place seems to be giving out.

Seriously? One year of gentle use always keeping it in the case when not using it and this is what we can expect? These things are supposed to be premium. I’m so disappointed.

If I have discs that are scratched and don’t work, will disc to digital fix that?

I’m talking about older games and I’m unsure on if they even will get covered by the new feature.

Region Free Link. Price - $84.99

Edit: as noted by u/PlayBey0nd87 Please note!! ~This edition does give you all 3 FF7 chapters BUT you don’t get the Chapter 3 Expansion pass. Added this to avoid some confusion for folks buying the Trilogy Edition.

I'm thinking of buying an Xbox series x so that I can play gta 6. Before that I only played on PC. Anything I should know before buying one?

Finally gonna pick this up, have been waiting on a sale.