Topic: Official Push Square Xbox Thread

@KratosMD No probs and good luck...

Its not just the dust from air though as you will also get plastic dust from wear and grease/skin from you using it. You also get some oxidation and combined with dust and grease, it can affect the switches inside and the contact. If you can't get it working with a blast of air, then really you may need to take it apart or look to replace. Deoxit spray is also very good as it dissolves oxidation, improves the contact and lubricates/adds a protective film - but you also need to ensure it can 'flush' out too.

@KratosMD A can of WD-40 usually sorts anything out.

Joke, please don’t use WD-40 lol seriously though I’m the same with it comes to dismantling the controller, I did it once with one of my kid’s when the left trigger was playing up, dismantled it and I just made it worse as it stopped working all together.

I’d take BAMozzy‘s suggestions but even they fail then try dismantling as a last resort before buying a new controller.

@KratosMD Glad to hear it helped

Leaked XSX Dev Kit Pics:

WOW. The back and front of a console. The latter which we've already seen.

New 'game' from Ninja Theory...

February's 2020 Games with Gold lineup for Xbox One includes: TT Isle of Man and Call of Cthulhu.

For Xbox 360 owners (and through Xbox One backward compatibility), February kicks off with Fable Heroes, followed by Star Wars Battlefront.

Overall - Meh!

@BAMozzy i thought NT was working on the Hellblade sequel? or is that done already?

@FullbringIchigo They are - but they also have other projects too - such as Bleeding Edge (a multiplayer Online combat game due to launch in March 2020) and Project Mara - a new in-development experimental title that explores new ways of storytelling.

"Project: Mara will be a real-world and grounded representation of mental terror. Based on real lived experience accounts and in-depth research, our aim is to recreate the horrors of the mind as accurately and realistically as possible. Project: Mara will be an experimental title and a showcase of what could become a new storytelling medium."

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice itself was made by a 'skeleton crew' of about 20 people whilst the rest of Ninja Theory were 'developers for hire' - working on contracted jobs for others. The majority of Ninja Theory had to do this to have the funds to make their own game - Hellblade and one of the reasons it wasn't launched on multiple platform. It wasn't because Sony paid for exclusivity but because they didn't have the manpower to make it on all platforms at the start.

Point is, they were a large studio of over 100 people but only 20 were able to make Hellblade whilst the rest were involved in outside projects. No doubt they will be shifting people around as necessary to finish Hellblade 2 but also working on other projects. They also set up the Insight Project - a Research and Development project dealing with Mental Health. With The Insight Project, Ninja Theory plans to build smaller games to "help people identify and control negative emotions" and maybe Project Mara was born out of this too. The Insight Project also builds upon and continues the co-operation between Ninja Theory and Paul Fletcher, a University of Cambridge psychiatrist and professor of health neuroscience who had consulted the studio on Hellblade.

It looks like Ninja Theory will be continuing to explore Mental Health and build games to help understand what people suffering from Mental Health issues feel. It also seems that they will be making other games - like Bleeding Edge too.

I got the impression that Obsidian and Ninja Theory were tasked with making something relatively 'quickly' to boost the output of Exclusives before the next gen - hence Bleeding Edge and Grounded. Neither seem particularly 'deep' but could be fun for those that enjoy that type of thing...

@KratosMD It’s great on PC, I agree about the short indie games being the best games on the service. Ape Out was the stand out game for me, a short but extremely fun indie game that I wouldn’t have bought outright but had a tremendous amount of fun with.

@KratosMD That is interesting and I do think indie games can benefit from subscription models because people are more likely to take a risk on it. I have Apple Arcade and have found some great gems on that I tried because I could. It also means they get some promotion by the platform holders and that makes a big difference.

I do still buy a lot of indie games new - I bought Untitled Goose Game for something like £15 at launch and don't regret it. I did the same with My Friend Pedro. For me personally, I don't mind supporting games I really want to play at launch even if the length is only a few hours. My favourite game of last year was Katana Zero and I bought that for £15 and it was about 4-5 hours and loved every second. That said, I don't have much time for long games so indie games being shorter works well for me.

@KratosMD i just brought an external HDD for my XB1 and it came with a months free Game Pass Ultimate so i thought i would take the chance to play a few games i never got round to buying such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider

personally i still don't think the service is for me, i still prefer to own my games physically and i'm still not sold on the idea that i wouldn't be able to play any game pass games if my internet went down (and given i live in a rural area it happens quite often) but i guess i can see why some people would be drawn to it

on a side note does anyone know why games i already owned, including physical game are showing up in my game pass games list? and will anything happen when my free month runs out? i don't want to lose access to games i legitimately own

@KratosMD Understand completely - indie gaming is quite important to me personally, but in my mind, indie wouldnt work without AAA or even AA games since they are a nice alternative. I tend to revist indies more than AAA but that might have something to do with length. I do like owning games though and I must say, I miss owning some indie games physically.

The Limited Run games and companies like it are good, I guess, but I can't afford them or pre-order and pay for games 4 months before they get posted out when I can buy them digitally for a fraction of the price. I'd love physical copies of Night In the Woods, MY Friend Pedro etc. but not able to pay £30-40 for them to be delivered.

@Rudy_Manchego I agree.

One thing I don't like about these subscription services is when games get rotated in and out of them. I like to play games at my own pace, I could not stand to rush through a game because it is coming off the service.

With Series X on the way, I was wondering...do you think we'll see the return of sister site Pure Xbox??

@LocalPenguin probably not, it was shut down due to lack of traffic to begin with sadly but that's why this thread was set up (and there is a similar one on Nintendo Life)

@KratosMD @FullbringIchigo Well that's what I thought, if Microsoft can really turn things around then the need for a dedicated website would surely be there?
Right now there isn't anything with a focus purely on Xbox, certainly nothing to the same caliber as PS and NL.
Personally I'd love to see a return of Pure Xbox

@JohnnyShoulder That is true - MS gamepass does show you what is leaving soon but it takes me ages to get to games so I might miss them...

At this point, I think Games with Gold is better than Plus free games. It's easier to have a hit with 4 games and Plus should be matching or upping that anty. It really is a shame. The Plus games have been pretty mediocre lately too, less games aside. If we had 6 I guarantee you we'd be finding something we want a lot more. Well, I guess Xbox needs to do something better.

@KratosMD I tried to play the Batman Telltale series once since it was a Plus game. It wouldn't load. I'm serious, apparently there was some save issue with a complicated fix that stopped the game from actually starting (can't remember if I even saw the main menu or not). I wonder if it ever got fixed on PS4. I want to say it was an Xbox issue too so it gives me hope if it worked as it supposed to on your Xbox.