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Microsoft Wants To Buy Your XBOX One Digital Games

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Microsoft has been a company which has been innovating their offerings since quite a long time and the company has been coming out with many updates and upgrades for their users. They have been one of the leading names when it comes to the world of technology, and have also been a prominent player in the console markets. A leaked survey on Reddit now shows that Microsoft is looking forward towards buying back old XBOX One games.

“If the console digital games store for the console you owned offered customers the option to “sell back” their digital games to the store for 10% of the purchase price in store credit, would you be interested in such an offer?” the survey asks.

However, while this might sound like a unique offering from Microsoft with their XBOX One console, this has actually been done in the past by Green Man Gaming in 2010. They too had a similar model where consumers would exchange games for credits. Green Man Gaming used to re-sell them as pre-owned games.

As of now it is still unclear about how the XBOX One users will be affected with this, and what Microsoft plans to do with these games, but it is highly anticipated that the company is working on a similar model such as the Green Man Gaming had.

This is possibly a move towards having more consumers shift to digital games than physical games, possibly leading towards a complete shift to the cloud platform in the upcoming years. The bigger question here is, that if Microsoft decides to go the Green Man Gaming way, and they do end up re-selling these games, will they actually pay the producers for the re-sale?

As of now everything is just on paper and this might never see the light of the day, but Microsoft is indeed thinking on ways to innovate their offerings.

Rise Of The Tomb Raider Baba Yaga DLC – How Was It Received?

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The Baba Yaga DLC was a celebrated addition to the Rise Of The Tomb Raider game, which is a part of Xbox One games.

 

All  about the Baba Yaga – according to the Slavic folklore.

The Rise of the Tomb Raider game came as a follow up to the first Tomb raider game that was launched in 2013. This sequel was launched in 2015 November and has since then drawn a lot of positive feedback. But the game makers are not done with the game yet; they have been supplying content to the players of the game, particularly to those on the Xbox One. Its latest addition to the game was in the form of The Baba Yaga – Temple of The Witch DLC. Also known as Baba Yaga DLC, the game involved Lara’s journey deep inot the the forests if the Eastern Europe, and in this case, in the Siberian forests as well, where she is sent to find people who were lost during a mission. The jungle is full of dangers, and you’ll know how much if you have read the description of Baba Yaga in the picture above. Since she can control animals and people alike, the witch has apparently put these lost peopple in a trance where they will attack her while Lara is alone scouring the forests to find them and to uncover the Baba Yaga mystery.

Naturally, this story, derived so well from a folklore that has scared many a kids in their childhood was able to bag the game an AOTF award for being the best story of the year. It also comes with moments where Lara is confused, trying to fight off creatures that are actually just in her head. Some are real, while others are figments of her imagination and she has to ward them off the complete the game. The game graphics are perfect for the stry of the game and since Lara also seems to be affected by the psychologically disturbing spells of the witch, the graphics will appear unclear and trippy to you.

On the downside we fell that the game could have been a little more longer, but the boss fight was excellent and really pushes up the standards.