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At Microsoft's big XO19 event in London yesterday, Xbox boss Phil Spencer told the gathered press all about Game Pass, the company's video game subscription. He spoke about the Yakuza games coming to Xbox for the first time. He spoke about Final Fantasy games coming to Xbox for the first time, including even Final Fantasy 14. And he spoke about Project xCloud, Microsoft's take on video game streaming, which already seems like a cool proposition as it plans integration with Game Pass in 2020.

At last, I have the perfect avatar for my terrible aim. To celebrate today's launch of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, the franchise's iconic Imperial Stormtrooper is now available as a skin in Fortnite.

Fractured Minds is a first-person adventure puzzle game all about mental health, and it was created by 17-year-old game developer.

Sea of Thieves will be embarking on a brand-new Tall Tales adventure next Wednesday, 20th November, when The Seabound Soul - as the multiplayer pirate game's latest free update is known - arrives on PC and Xbox One in a GREAT BIG BALL OF FIRE.

Wasteland 3, inXile's upcoming squad-based role-playing game sequel, will release on 19th May 2020.

Minecraft Dungeons, developer Mojang's somewhat unexpected but entirely appealing Minecraft dungeon-crawler spin-off, is one step closer to receiving a full release date. Microsoft has now revealed that it'll be coming to Xbox One, PC, Switch, and PS4 in April next year.

Next year, Undertale is getting an interactive musical adventure, which will showcase the game's brilliant score and allow the audience to make choices that will influence the performance.

I wasn't expecting this either. Obsidian Entertainment's first game for (relatively new) owner Microsoft is Grounded, a survival adventure which is essentially Honey I Shrunk the Kids. You and your friends play tiny teens in a sunny back garden filled with huge human debris and insects. You chop towering blades of grass to make bases and spit-roast aphids to eat. Honestly, it's captivating, but it's hardly the Obsidian Entertainment we know, hardly the studio which built Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds.

Colin Furze is a British inventor who runs a popular YouTube channel where he makes all kinds of crazy and dangerous looking inventions. Previously, he designed some of the trick weapons from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and now he's turned his attention to Overwatch.

Frontier Developments' acclaimed theme park sim Planet Coaster is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next summer.

The Molasses Flood, the developer behind 2016's rogue-like river survival game The Flame in the Flood, has unveiled its latest adventure, Drake Hollow.

Variable State, the developer responsible for 2016's fascinating, jump-cutting mystery adventure Virginia, has unveiled Last Stop - a solo third-person "anthology drama" that's coming to Xbox "soon".

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

Xbox Game Pass provides a space for games which do not try and be the only thing you play, forever. Games which you can finish in a week, or even in a single afternoon.

Sea of Thieves studio Rare has announced its next game, Everwild.

We've known for a while Halo: Reach would join Microsoft's big Master Chief Collection. Now, we know exactly when: on 3rd December.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has promised Final Fantasy 14 is coming to Microsoft's console.

Yesterday, Reddit held a Google Stadia AMA with publisher experience lead Beri Lee and Stadia director of product Andrey Doronichev to answer questions about the somewhat-anticipated Stadia launch.

Microsoft streaming service Project xCloud will come to Windows 10 PCs in 2020, as well as other devices.

I visited Obsidian Entertainment a couple of weeks ago for the reveal of the studio's first game for new owner Microsoft. If you remember, The Outer Worlds was published by Private Division, Take-Two's label for partnering with independent studios (Obsidian was independent when the deal was made). This was, then, a significant moment.

Tell Me Why is the next narrative adventure game from Life is Strange developer Dontnod, Microsoft has announced tonight during X019.

Microsoft's annual X019 live event takes place tonight in London - though you needn't look any further to watch the whole thing from home.

Sombre anti-war survival game This War of Mine turns five this month and, to mark the occasion, developer 11 Bit Studios has released the Final Cut, a big free content update on PC, that's described as the "crowning version" of the experience.

It's been almost a year since games using hardware accelerated ray tracing first arrived in the market, and it's clear that the use of RT technology continues to gain momentum, with hardware support baked into both Sony and Microsoft next-gen consoles. However, the debut of Crytek's Neon Noir demo earlier in the year raised eyebrows - what we were seeing here was software-powered RT, delivered by a Vega 56 and still looking quite performant. We've been testing this demo ahead of its public release and results are intriguing.

There's a lot of anticipation around this year's Pokémon game, Sword and Shield - it introduces the eighth generation of creatures, a new region based on the UK and is the first original Pokemon game for the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately, the end result is a bit of a disappointment.

The Bleeding Edge store page has gone live ahead of this evening's X019 stream, revealing the release date of Ninja Theory's upcoming online brawler.

Rune 2 publisher Ragnarok has said it was shocked to discover developer Human Head Studios had shut down - and heard the news at the same time as everyone else.

Human Head Studios, developer of the original Prey, has shut its doors after 22 years.

Sea of Thieves is no stranger to cross-promotional camaraderie; we've already seen the likes of Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Halo sneaking into Rare's multiplayer pirate adventure by way of fancy limited-time cosmetics. And now Gears of War is getting in on the nautical action too.

One of the things I'm already learning about Apple Arcade is that it's quite hard to stay on top of it. The service launched with enough stuff to make it a bit of a challenge to pick through everything, and as of last week - maybe this week? - there's now 100 games available.