The Xbox Drive Episode 176: The Medium Drives Down Memory Lane

The Most Horse-Powerful Podcast On The Internet, The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 176. This week Sean played KOTOR. Ryan played The Medium. 

Cleaning the Garage

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The Playlist

Ryan: Cyber Shadow, The Medium, Balan Wonderworld Demo

Blaze Knight @BlazeKnight0923 - With the fairly mixed reception of The Medium, would you say that combat is required in horror games to get critical praise from mainstream gamers or people who are not necessarily fans of the genre?

Sean: KOTOR

Braking News  

MLB The Show 21 will officially launch on Xbox One and Series X on April 20th! Note, there is no Smart Delivery and the Series X version will cost 69.99 while the Xbox One version will cost 59.99. 

Q4P_Joel @JoelakaFalcon - How excited are you guys to finally play the best baseball game ever on the Xbox I am beyond excited for mlb the show 21 this franchise was the soul reason I bought a PS4.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/02/01/mlb-the-show-21-coming-to-xbox/

Mass Effect Legendary Edition will officially launch on May 14th on Xbox One! It will include all of the trilogy’s DLC except for Pinnacle Station, will run in 4K with different framerate options and “multiple large fixes” for Mass Effect. Reminder, with Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play you get a 10% discount on the game. 

Jason C @JCarpingAbout - OK. Mass Effect. Renegade or Paragon? Fem or male shep? First name of your Shep? Hardest decision you made in the series?

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/02/02/mass-effect-legendary-edition-pre-order-details/

Ninja Theory have announced that they will no longer be supporting Bleeding Edge with new content and have moved their development efforts to Project Mara and Hellblade 2. The game will remain playable but will not receive any new updates. 

https://www.ign.com/articles/ninja-theory-will-add-no-more-content-to-bleeding-edge-as-it-focuses-on-hellblade-2-other-projects

During a 25th Anniversary video for the Tomb Raider franchise, Crystal Dynamics game director Will Kerslake indicated that a new Tomb Raider game was in the works that will unify the current Tomb Raider timeline and the original Core Design Tomb Raider timeline. Kerslake further noted that it’ll be awhile before we hear more about this. 

https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/1354555416210857988