Month: January 2019

A new sale is underway in the Microsoft Store. From now through January 28, Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners can find some steep discounts on a variety of games for each console, with some particularly good deals available across the wide-ranging Tom Clancy series.

On the Xbox One side, players can pick up the popular tactical shooters Rainbow Six Siege and Ghost Recon Wildlands for $15 each. If you’re looking for even more Wildlands content, the game’s season pass is also on sale for $26, while its Year 2 pass is $22.49. If you’re interested in trying out The Division before its sequel arrives this March, the first game is available for $10, and its various DLC packs are also discounted.

On Xbox 360, both Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and its sequel are on sale for $8 apiece, and Ghost Recon Future Soldier is discounted to $10. Rainbow Six Vegas is available for $6.59, while the three most recent installments in the Splinter Cell series–Double Agent, Conviction, and Blacklist–are on sale for $10 each. Thanks to backwards compatibility, most of these titles are also playable on Xbox One.

Beyond the Tom Clancy sale, a number of other recent and popular games are also discounted as part of this week’s Deals with Gold. Xbox Live Gold members can grab the Xbox One versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for $39, NHL 19 for $19.80, Hitman 2 for $42, and Grand Theft Auto V for $15. On the Xbox 360, each entry in the Dead Space trilogy is on sale, as are Dante’s Inferno and Alice: Madness Returns, among other titles.

This week’s sale will run until 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET on January 29. We’ve rounded up some other notable deals below; the full list of discounted titles can be found on Major Nelson’s blog. Xbox Live Gold members also still have a few more days to grab the remainder of this month’s Games with Gold, which will remain free through the end of the month.

This Week’s Xbox One Game Deals

Xbox One

• Brawlout — $10*
• Call of Cthulu — $40.19*
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — $39*
• EA Sports NHL 19 — $19.80
• Ghostbusters — $10*
• Grand Theft Auto V — $15*
• Hitman 2 — $42*
• Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition — $7*
• The Long Dark — $20.09*
• Override: Mech City Brawl — $19.49*
• Sky Force Anniversary — $3*
• Steep — $9.90*
• Tom Clancy’s The Division — $10
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands — $15
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege — $15

Xbox 360

• Alice: Madness Returns — $5*
• Dante’s Inferno — $4.94*
• Dead Space — $3.74*
• Dead Space 2 — $5*
• Dead Space 3 — $5*
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter — $8
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 — $8
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier — $10
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas — $6.59
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist — $10
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction — $10
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent — $10

* denotes a Deal with Gold

Hong Kong Massacre is a fun mash up of Hotline Miami and Max Payne set in a classic revenge story.

Twitch Prime regularly offers free games on a monthly basis, but January’s offerings come with a twist. The company added an extra game to its rotation, and on top of that, it released it a few days before it’s available widely to the public.

The new puzzle-platformer Pikuniku is available through Twitch Prime until February 28. However, it isn’t actually out until January 24, so for the next few days you can grab it before it goes on sale. To claim your free games, you’ll just have to link your Twitch Prime account to your Amazon account and then claim the games through the Twitch Prime site.

January’s other Prime games include Hyper Light Drifter, Bomber Crew, Republique, and Orwell. The service is also still offering the Devolver Digital Holiday Pack, which contains The Messenger, Broforce, Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Strafe, Crossing Souls, and The Swords of Ditto. All of those are available until January 31, and once you claim them, they’re yours forever.

“While Pikuniku is a light experience, it’s got enough charm and verve to stick with you well beyond completion,” critic James O’Connor wrote in GameSpot’s Pikuniku review. “From Piku’s weird wobbly gait and looping jumps in the opening right through to the game’s funny, bizarre ending, Pikuniku is more gripping than its simple aesthetic and playful tone would suggest. It’ll make you feel like a kid again.”

Anthem is just around the corner and all month long we’ve been covering it as part of IGN First. For our big deep dive this month, we got the opportunity to go to BioWare and play over 20 hours of Anthem in a work-in-progress state.

With that knowledge we’ve returned to share what we learned in order to give you a better understanding of what Anthem is going to be like, and how to decipher some of its lesser-known aspects – especially if you intend on spending any time in the upcoming demo. While some of this you may already know if you’ve been following Anthem, some of it you likely don’t, so let’s get into it.

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Let’s get the not-so-great part out of the way first: Trials Rising, the latest in the delightfully sadistic, physics-fueled motorcycle obstacle course racer, is coming to Nintendo Switch for the first time. That in and of itself is actually good; Trials on the go, yay! (Side note: the mobile version of the series, Trials Frontier, is surprisingly adept from a gameplay perspective.) But playing it with the JoyCon in multiple configurations – first with the JoyCon Grip and then using each JoyCon as its own controller in two-player mode – is far from the ideal Trials experience. Trials is at its best when you can feather a trigger to precisely moderate your gas pedal; the Switch just can’t provide that nearly as effectively as the DualShock 4 or Xbox One controllers can.

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In Trials Rising, we take a look at what tandem, cooperative play looks like in this gameplay video captured on the Nintendo Switch. Trials Rising is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.