This impending new console generation’s going to be…different. For starters, both Sony and Microsoft are taking a few more cues from PCs in how games will work. We know that PlayStation (at the very least) and Xbox One (and all previous Xbox generation) games will work on the new consoles, allowing players to bring their existing libraries into the new generation.

You know, the real tragedy here is that I just bought Tekken 7 two weeks ago during the holiday break. Oh well! C’est la vie! Back to the main story, we could wax lyrical all day about just how much value one gets from a monthly subscription to Xbox Game Pass. The library is an absolute unit of good games right now, not only from indie darlings but also from plenty of big name publishers who seem to be more than happy to have some of their biggest titles claim a new audience through the service.

The Xbox Games with Gold January 2020 lineup has been revealed and it just so happens to include a certain billionaire with parental abandonment issues venting his frustrations out on those who have it coming. It’ll be one of four games that you can grab in the first month of 2020, which also includes a few other bangers.

Out of the box, the newest Xbox is said to be backwards compatible across all three generations of gaming from Team Green as Xboss Phil Spencer explained that being able to play old games on bleeding edge hardware was a major priority for the console team.

In the case of the Xbox Series X, we’ve probably all been getting the idea behind that console completely wrong. Maybe. Kind of, look it’s weird.

Kind of looks like a boombox but I dig it. For the last couple of month’s the next-gen Xbox has been operating under the codename of Project Scarlett, a name that was bound to change as Microsoft finalised plans on the overall look, philosophy and internal design of a device that’ll pave the way for a new console cycle. That prototype era is officially over, as Microsoft officially unveiled Xbox Series X at The Game Awards last night.

We don’t know very much about the next generation of Xbox machines. We know that Microsoft is taking a double-pronged approach with its Project Scarlett family of Xbox devices. Anaconda will be the more powerful of the two, a beastly machine that’ll make the Xbox One X seem silly by comparison, and Lockheart, a possibly discless, less powerful machine with more palatable pricing.

This week, Xboss Phil Spencer appeared on an Extra Life charity stream and just happened to mention that Remedy’s latest game, Control, would soon be on Game Pass. He suggested that the game was great, but that it didn’t “didn’t reach enough people,” and that it being on Game Pass would rectify that. It caused many to celebrate. Control is indeed a lovely game, and it deserves to have more people play it.