I will be honest, I did not expect a Games with Gold announcement today, but it makes sense. I really don’t know much about Trackmania Turbo outside of that is feeding GWG’s ongoing obsession with racing games.  Seriously, if you are a racing fan, there is no point buying anything, just wait until GWG is announced and plan accordingly.  Tales of the Borderlands would be a fantastic choice if I didn’t complete it a while back.  The 360 choices are much more interesting as I’ve almost bought Deadfall Adventures several times.  It does have a few broken achievements, but free is free.  And it was not BC before this announcement, so there is that as well.  Nights into Dreams I played on the Sega Saturn and it was thoroughly enjoyable then.  Then being the operative word.  Regardless, I will certainly download the two 360 ones.  So I would assume we will have a BC notice for Deadfall very soon.  Enjoy.

Xbox One

• Trackmania Turbo (November 1st-30th)
• Tales of the Borderlands (November 16th – December 15th)

Xbox 360

• Nights into Dreams (November 1st-15th)
• Deadfall Adventures (November 16th-30th)

I mentioned this yesterday, but today is the first official day of backwards compatibility for the original Xbox on the Xbox One.  Thirteen titles lead off the list, I am happy to say I do own 3 of them (Bloodrayne 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic).  I thought I also owned Sid Meier’s Pirates but I was mistaken.  I probably just looked at it twenty times in an used game store and decided against it.  It will be interesting to see what else gets added but this is a fine start (though I would certainly like to see Morrowind and Indigo Prophecy at some point).  Enjoy.

• Black $9.99
• Bloodrayne 2 $9.99
• Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge $9.99
• Dead to Rights $9.99
• Fuzion Frenzy $9.99
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies $9.99
• King of Fighters: Neowave $9.99
• Ninja Gaiden Black $9.99
• Psychonauts $9.99
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time $9.99
• Red Faction II $14.99
• Sid Meier’s Pirates $9.99
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic $9.99

Well, this past week I have been playing mostly Pinball FX3.  I’ve gotten a few table achievements which I never have before in any other Pinball FX game including ones for Sorcerer’s Lair and Paranormal.  I seem to get better with pinball games with age, that’s honestly the only game where I feel like that.  I’m still not very good though to be honest.  Anyway, I will have two game reviews this week for my old job (Upcomingdiscs.com) in the form of Oxenfree and Among the Sleep.  They need horror/thriller material for October and I’m helping them out of a jam.  I’ll post links here of course when they are up.

Anyway, on to sales.   These sales are kinda weird in the sense that the Major took it upon himself to put it in two different posts.

Week’s Deals with Gold (no Xbox 360)

Xbox Shocktober Savings are Back!(plenty of 360)

There is a lot to go through and furthermore this isn’t all of the sales (as you will see in the BC list).  The Castlevania, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill stuff all seems really good.  (I’m actually contemplating getting the Silent Hill HD Collection despite wanting the disc forever and a day)  It’s just a matter of dissecting it and figuring out if it is really worth it.  Remember today is also supposed to be the launch of Xbox Originals on the Xbox One.  If you are searching for which titles, remember you can also search by the tag, XBO in my table.  That will give you a quick reference to weed out the original Xbox games.  BC sales after the –More–.  Enjoy.

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Good morning, I know I don’t usually post on Monday but this seemed worthy a post.  I ran across this article this morning.  I also double checked it by Xbox.com and gosh darn it, they were there.  Now I don’t know if I can play them just yet (I’ll wait for official verification on that one)…but I’d say this is as close to definite as you can get.  And $10 a head isn’t bad either (except for Red Faction II).    Can you get some of these games for $5 on disc?  Some perhaps, not Star Wars KOTOR or Sid Meier’s Pirates though.  Furthermore, finding a decent playable copy might be difficult too.  I mean, I know I have some but others that I might be interested in(like Dead to Rights), I really don’t want to bother with the shelf space.  The list of titles are below with links to their Xbox.com buy page.  This isn’t official yet, but we can count it as 98.7% if you catch my drift.  Enjoy.

• Black $9.99
• Bloodrayne 2 $9.99
• Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge $9.99
• Dead to Rights $9.99
• Fuzion Frenzy $9.99
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies $9.99
• King of Fighters: Neowave $9.99
• Ninja Gaiden Black $9.99
• Psychonauts $9.99
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time $9.99
• Red Faction II $14.99
• Sid Meier’s Pirates $9.99
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic $9.99

EDIT: It would appear that I didn’t jump the gun at all, check out this Twitter post from Major himself.  I’ll work this afternoon on finding a way to integrate them into our spreadsheets (where they stand out) in preparation for tomorrow.

Welp, I have not started a new game yet.  I’ve opted to play a whole bunch of Ziggurat and Pinball FX3.  Ziggurat, I collected 50 deaths as well as 5,000 kills and working on basically unlocking everything which is a lot harder than it sounds.  Meanwhile, in Pinball FX3, I’m screwing around mostly but actually did manage to get a perfect 15 stars in the one ball challenge on the Paranormal table in only my second try.  I got it up to almost 18 million before I just let it drain.  Maybe one of these days I can actually “master” a table.

Anyway, the deals today are pretty lack luster.  They are titles that we have seen a million times before and the savings are boring at best.  Plus, looks like Mr. Nelson decided to do his table a bit weird this week, so as a result mine is going to look weird too.  Mebee, we get something like Midnight Club or Max Payne to go BC.  We shall see.  Enjoy.

EDIT (10 AM): It seems that Mr. Nelson also forgot Fallout 3 and New Vegas deals, see below:

• Fallout 3 $7.49
  • DLC: Anchorage $3.34
  • DLC: The Pitt $3.34
• Fallout New Vegas $7.49
  • DLC: Dead Money $6.69
  • DLC: Lonesome Road $6.69

I guess after last week where they made me super happy (Fable Anniversary), they can then make me kinda disapointed.  Goat Simulator is arguably one of the stupidest games on the planet.  There I said it, I’ve actually argued with a eight or nine year old kid about that I was semi-related to.  Anyway, at least KOF: Sky Stage looks like a nice shooter if they ever come off the $10 tag for a sale or something.  Enjoy (everything except the Goat).

• Child of Eden $29.99 (cheaper on disc)
• Goat Simulator $9.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Goat MMO Simulator $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Goatz $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Payday $4.99
  • DLC w/Achievements: Waste of Space $4.99
• KOF: Sky Stage $9.99

Welp, some sales have been picked up now for the Xbox 360, and there is some BC stuff mostly in the form of Cabela’s and Mass Effect 2/3 DLC.  Nothing too exciting but if you have been itching for more Mass Effect, then here you go.  Enjoy.

Welp, I did it.  I finished Valkyria Revolution.  100% and all that jazz.  According to TruAchievements, I was the 50th person to do so.  Well on that site anyway, I’m sure there were others who never bother with that site.  But it’s done, and that’s that.  I did not start any new games this week, but I did go back to an old favorite, Ziggurat.  And guess what?  I finally beat all 5 floors.  After 30 freaking tries, I finally beat it.  I promptly died the next 10 tries (I was screwing around honestly)…but I made it happen.  Also got some of the other achievements too.  I’ll probably keep playing it until I reach a couple of milestones (5,000 kills, 50 deaths) and then put it down for another six months.  It’s a perfect palette cleanser.

I would love to bring you some 360 sales this week, but there isn’t any. Just Xbox One sales at this current point in time.  If I was going to recommend any Xbox One sales, I’d probably say Divinity and Dangerous Golf.  Dangerous Golf I’ve spoke of before, but it got a lot better with patches and is worth playing start to finish.  I stuck with it through all of the floating obstacles, stuck balls and graphic collision and came out loving it once it came together.  Now people who buy it can just enjoy what the game has become rather than how it got there.  Anyway, I’ll update this column once we get some 360 sales.  Enjoy your week.

F’ing Finally.  That’s all I have to say.  Fable freaking Anniversary.  This has been on my top 5 for quite sometime.  Fable II will still be my favorite when it comes to this genre, but the first one does come pretty darn close.  Speaking of Fable II, Pub Games is a nice little companion piece.  It was originally distributed with pre-orders of the game (which is where i picked it up) but is worth playing if you never messed with Fable II before.  Besides it gives you goodies that you can use in the main game (always useful).  Anyway, it’s a great day and Anniversary might just be cracked open this weekend.  Enjoy.

• Fable Anniversary $39.99 (much cheaper on disc)
• Fable II Pub Games $9.99 (I would say wait for a sale, but I don’t think it’s ever had one)

Welp, I finally got the alchemic weapons achievement in Valkyria Revolution.  All 12 freaking characters maxed out.  Now on to the two last achievements, secondary weapons maxed out and spending 300,000 at the shops.  I currently have a smidgen over 200,000 from doing all of these missions.  I figure I’m about 10-15k from getting the secondary weapons and at max, about 50k away from having enough to spend at the shops.  This game does not put you down the path towards spending a lot at the shops but I figure that to this point I’ve spent close to 50k.  And for those doing the math, yes when I get done with secondary weapons, I will not be saving the game, just letting the achievement pop and reload my previous save so I can keep my money.  No way in heck I’m grinding double the amount I need.

In a semi-BC related moment…the remasters of the first 2 Batman 360 games or what is known as Return to Arkham for the X1 and PS4 are $19.99 for a physical copy this week at Best Buy.  Amazon might price match, but no guarantee.  I have my copy reserved at one BB here.  Unlike a lot of remasters, this one is supposedly quite worth it.  Anyway, we got sales. This week we got a lot of Lego and a lot of Bioshock & Borderlands.  That pretty much sums it up.  As far as things I might be interested in, on the X1 side, I’m looking at Lego SW: Force Awakens which is $7.50 for the deluxe, $5 for the vanilla and then on 360 side, I am tempted by the Borderlands 2 Season Pass since I have the game in digital and mess with it all the time (but I’ll probably just save my money for a physical copy of the Triple Pack).  We’ll see, just maybe we’ll get some new Lego games in BC this week.  Enjoy.