The Most Horse-Powerful Podcast On The Internet, The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 158. This week Sean played Game Pass Games! Ryan played Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning.

Cleaning the Garage

Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning Extra Mile will be live on Friday!

The Playlist

Ryan: Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning, Hotshot Racing, Minecraft Dungeons

Sean: The Suicide of Rachel Foster, Golf Zero, Hotshot Racing, and Black Desert is back on GamePass? And still Wasteland 3

Braking News

PS5 will launch on November 12th in North America and Japan and on November 19th in the rest of the world. $399 USD/499 CAD for the all digital edition, $499 USD/629 CAD for the disk version!

PS Plus Collection announced, Playstation 4 games included as part of PS+ to compete with gamepass

Full priced first party PS5 titles will retail for $69.99 USD

Hogwarts Legacy announced! Coming to Xbox Series X in 2021!

Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition announced, coming to Xbox Series X on November 10th! It will include playable Vergil, new Turbo and Legendary Dark Knight modes and ray tracing.

Demon’s Souls has timed exclusivity(?)

Ubisoft Forward Recap:

Gods and Monsters has been re-revealed as Immortals: Fenyx Rising! It will be coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X on December 3rd!

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake announced! It will be coming to Xbox One on January 21st!

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game is returning in Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game: Complete Edition! It will include all of the DLC and arrive on Xbox One sometime this holiday!!

Riders Republic, a spiritual successor to Steep, will arrive on Xbox One and Xbox Series X on February 25th!

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/10/ubisoft-forward-september-2020-recap/

Microsoft have confirmed that Xbox Series S will play backwards compatible games the same way that Xbox One S does, without Xbox One X enhancements. This means games will take advantage of HDR and smoother framerates and according to Digital Foundry, they should see an increase in performance naturally because of the SSD and Series S hardware. Lower memory specs, in combination with other factors appear to be the reason behind this.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-series-s-likely-wont-be-able-to-run-xbox-one-x-content-its-claimed/

The following games are coming to Game Pass:

Company of Heroes 2 (PC) - September 17th

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep & Forsaken - September 22nd

Halo 3 ODST PC - September 22nd

Night in the Woods - September 24th

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - September 24th

River City Girls - “Coming Soon”

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/14/coming-soon-xbox-game-pass-wave-2-september-2020/

The following games are leaving Game Pass on September 30th:

Rocket League (going free to play on September 22nd!)

Bad North

DiRT Rally 2.0

Dishonored 2

Panzer Dragoon Orta

Westerado: Double Barreled

Yooka-Laylee

The Carpool

Todd Oxtra @toxtra - First question, is Sean growing a mullet to celebrate the Stanley cup? 2nd, do you foresee more internal studios new games moving away from Xbox one once the Series S/X