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Xbox One/PC's Phantom Dust Re-Release Coming For Free Tomorrow

Phantom Dust features visual improvements and other tweaks.

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At one point, it looked as if the Phantom Dust series might have been axed completely, as the developer of a new title was shut down in 2015. We've since learned about a re-release of the original game, which is now coming extremely soon--and at a lower price than anyone imagined.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg announced on Twitter today that the Phantom Dust re-release launches tomorrow, May 16, on both Xbox One and PC (Windows 10 only). Even better news is the fact that it will be a free download.

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The company officially describes this as a re-release, but it does boast improvements. It runs at a higher resolution than the original game, supports widescreen, and adjust how the single-player progresses.

Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Isgreen recently explained the challenges of the project, as the company didn't have access to the game's final source code. "So everything that we've been able to do in this version of Phantom Dust has been through reverse-engineering the binaries, and actually hacking and cracking the code back open again," he told Polygon.

Earlier this year, Microsoft said the re-release should be out "before E3," which is now just three weeks away, but there has been little word regarding its launch since.

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So wait, where is it? I want to play but it's nowhere to be found...

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Oh, wow. Thats great!

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Thanks, I guess? Bizarre decision.

"(Windows 10 only)"

Nevermind, I take back my thanks.

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@Thanatos2k: I'm sure MS is fine without you. It isn't like you'd have anything positive to say. Nobody should have to tolerate your smug negative assertions online anyway.

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@lordstrategery: If you want a safe space where you don't have to "tolerate" the opinions of others, you might as well click the X in the upper right corner.

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@Thanatos2k: Maybe he prefers non toxic opinions.

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@freeryu: Of these five posts, only one contains toxicity. Guess which one?

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@Thanatos2k: I mean yours was kinda toxic and his was over the top toxic. Like you personally attacked him or somethin lol.

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I can't find it in Xbox store......

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@Flodiac: I'm refreshing http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-play-anywhere for the Windows 10 version but hasn't popped up yet. Maybe 12pm ET? They never said what time of day. I don't know what Microsoft's usual time of day for releasing Xbox Anywhere Games.

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Won't complain about a free game

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Well, that was pretty damn decent of them, although it will be awhile before I get to play it due to Injustice 2...but still, very good of them and much appreciated.

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So Xbox one owner will get three free game in May thanks to Phantom Dust being and if we add Xbox 360 that add up to five free games that is a steal

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Going to give Phantom Dust a shot and it looks has the post apocalypse feel to imo

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Yet another reason why the Xbox takes a shit on Sony. Sony gives nothing away for free

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@emptycow718: Sony actually innovates and adds to the game industry by having studios take more than 2 years on games that are actually memorable. This game is another reason why I am so happy I left Xbox for PC gaming in 2013 (DRM attempt) Microtransactions should be reserved for mobile games not exclusives on a platform. Another example of Phil Spencer's "service based gaming" ecosystem that could potentially cause a downfall of the industry. Ubisoft, Activision, and EA are bad enough but when M$ goes for the microtransaction grabs they go hard.

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@emptycow718: They are banking on microtransactions for the cards. If it was the intended remake game they started on (and then canceled) it wouldn't be free.

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@emptycow718: Sony earned the love of it's customers through quality games and excellent hardware this generation. Microsoft is forced to buy it through bribery. Plus the fact that Microsoft is not confident enough with this remaster to attempt selling it.

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@khanwashere: who exactly are they bribing? Non Xbox or win 10 owners?

There is nothing wrong with letting us play a 13 year old game for free especially if it has micro transactions.

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@emptycow718: Come on man, are you really an X fan, as we don't do this garbage...let the ponies remain the internet trolls ffs.

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@emptycow718: yet it's just the original, not a sequel.......they won't ever do a sequel cus they know it won't make sh**t for money like the original.......

MS takes a sh**t on Sony?? more like Sony is destroying MS with variety....we have like 10 first party games over here, what do you have?? 3 or 4??? pathetic......

while MS sat on their ass last gen, Sony grew their roster of games, even Nintendo who was called out for doing the same thing for 30 years made a new IP.......oops but they do make a new game every now and again, Pickmin, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Splatoon, Nintendogs all are spinoffs or new games altogether.....

just in last gen Sony made Infamous, Modnation Racers, Resistance, Uncharted & Last of Us.....that's sad Sony invented about as many new games as MS maintains now.....go spew your BS elsewhere.....you're sorely mistaken.....

hey I'm glad that at the very least a new generation can enjoy an old game like Phantom Dust but it's very far from a victory for the Halo/Forza factory.....

notice how Sony and Nintendo's games aren't all shooters?? or one genre for that matter?? just saying......

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@razorfist: RTS games don't work on consoles, none have fared well....RTS only work or PC.....oops, what a moronic argument.....

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@razorfist: I'm on PC with specs that will beat the shit out of the Scorpio. I can play RTS as well as all your xbox exclusive games but I can't play PS4 games ;) 0 reason to buy an xbox for me. Plus if I was to go the console route xbox doesn't have Bloodborne so yet another reason not to buy one.

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@razorfist: have you ever played a RTS on a console??? they're horrible, they lack all the depth the PC versions have, actually suggest something relevant FFS

turn based games work excellently on consoles and PC and some devs have realized that fact....

C&C on N64, C&C on X360, C&C on PSX FFS and even Halo Wars on the XBOX's do not work on consoles or offer good gameplay....the I tried C&C on X360 and it was just a mess of a game, I tried Halo Wars and even that was too simplified and felt wrong.....but had they done it turn based it might have been cool but eww the purists will scream you can't do that....either way you're damned if you do damned if you don't cus if they did it turn based they'd have a strong strategy game, but they did it real time and have a terrible strategy game.....

Civ Rev and XCOM on consoles work perfectly.....Playstation has many strategy games it's just I think more dev's are like screw real time use turn based....

still your little argument was stupid cus you're trying to pick apart one minor bit when my original comment proved my point....and I am not some fanboy, I'm not loyal to anything....I go where the games and variety in games are and currently that's Sony and Nintendo......MS has never grown their stable of IP's that the goddamn point idiot.....frack MS, they do not know games, they're trying to sell people on backwards compatibility while still not growing their IP's....but continue please.....if you can't see what I'm saying then there's something wrong with you....you are acting like more of the fanboy here, if you really read what I've said I called everyone out.....i laid everything bare, I can't help it that Sony comes off looking a little better....

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@darthrevenx: I have noticed. The best shooter on ps4 is black ops 3 or rainbow six. Not very diverse in that genre.

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@darthrevenx: If they market the game well and the microtransactions make them money, they will add more to the game (as much as they can through they're reverse engineer, hack methods) and potentially a sequel/remake. Sadly the money they wasted on the remake before cancellation probably became a write-off on their business taxes.

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@darthrevenx: So easy to trigger a fanboy... lol

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@darthrevenx:

Actually Nintendo been sitting of their asses not Microsoft and this coming from a loyal Nintendo fan

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@darthrevenx:

Apparently your blind fanboyism is showing guess you ignore that Microsoft has fable hmm RPG and Skyrim and sunset overdrive and remaster Voodoo Vince for Xbox one

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@kyacat: Fable studios shut down, Voodoo Vince is on PC AND STEAM THE BEST PLATFORM, ummmm Skyrim is multiplat dipshit, and well you got me with Sunset Overdrive but it's not a killer app for me so still no reason to buy.

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@jordytheghost:

I know Skyrim Multiplat duh and no reason to be a rude little prick to me.

I own PS2,PS3,PS4 and Xbox 360 and Xbox one and Wii Wii-u and a gaming PC

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@kyacat: eh my bad man. You know the Snickers commercial "you aren't you when you are hungry" hadn't eaten all day and I get really cranky when I don't. Just had a sandwich feel better. Anyways yeah i just really hate Microsoft.

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@darthrevenx: without gears of war you wouldn't have last of us or uncharted so put that in your Sony fanboy pipe and smoke it also enjoy the many many idea and features that Sony took from Microsoft the PS3 was bare bones when it came out it had nothing no features at all outside of play a game it had nothing no gamer score nothing they got all that later after they saw what Microsoft was doing

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darthrevenx never play on Microsoft console

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@darthrevenx: I own a PS4 and a xboxone and later this year I will own a Xbox Scorpio. The best game Sony put out this gen was uncharted 4 all the other first party stuff is garbage I hear horizon is good but to me it looks corny maybe I will pick it up when it's $10. Sony hasn't done much this gen outside of hype resolution and now Scorpio put a end to that bs so now the Sony fanboys makeup this bs story about Sony having great first party support all generation but anyone who knows gaming knows the PS4 first party lineup was pure garbage for years they had games like knack ,the order ,drive club ,no man's sky etc along with many PS3 ports with little to no upgrades sometimes features removed . On the Xbox side we had dead rising 3 and 4 ,halo 2 remake not remaster ,gears remake not remaster ,sun set over drive ,forza horizon 2 and 3 ,forza moter sport 5 and 6 ,killer instinct ,gears 4 ,halo 5 etc etc when is Sony going to get a driving game ? Gt sport looks like garbage. Psn is crap it's down all the time,the voice support is terrible etc ,the PS4 control is crap the analog sticks fall apart and the battery is always dead . My opinion is the PS4 is the most over rated console ever created . I can't wait to get the Xbox Scorpio later this year so I can play my backwards compatible 360 games on it and all the xboxone games I own will look and run better along with whetever Microsoft is putting out that will for sure take advantage of the better hardware in a way that Sony would never do with that Sony pro crap. I'm OK with the PS4 to play games like last of us 2 but outside of that my PS4 is a paper weight I won't ever buy a 3rd party game on PS4 every again I will be getting all my 3rd party games on the Scorpio

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@emptycow718: Your pretty delusional dude you might need to see a doctor for that most of the stuff you stated is pretty off par. From someone who has had both consoles since launch both services has been down at one point or another and honestly Sony has more exclusive titles then Microsoft even if you wont admit its fact.

Both systems have pros and cons personally i game more on my pc then my consoles.

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@darthrevenx: "notice how Sony and Nintendo's games aren't all shooters?? or one genre for that matter?? just saying......"

That line shows your ignorance and bias, thus making everything you've said invalid under you being an obvious fanboy

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@VoidBeyond: Mario ,Mario Mario and more Mario . Sony made 5 uncharted games ,Sony milks everything we are already up to 5 uncharted games 6 if you count the card game and that's in a little over one console generation now let's look at another Sony exclusive that was milked to death release list

2002 Ratchet & Clank

2003 Going Commando

2004 Up Your Arsenal

2005 Ratchet: Deadlocked

2006

2007 Size Matters

Future: Tools of Destruction

2008 Secret Agent Clank

Future: Quest for Booty

2009 Future: A Crack in Time

2010

2011 All 4 One

2012 Collection

Full Frontal Assault

2013 Into the Nexus

2014

2015

2016 Ratchet & Clank (re-imagining .Sony are the master milkers but Sony fanboys are blind to this and just point fingers at the company that gives it's fans great features and great products . Backwards compatible 360 vs stream PS3 games over psn is the difference between Sony and Xbox in a nutshell Sony is spitting in the face of its fans in many ways

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@emptycow718: Yeah ughhh Forza, Halo, Gears, Forza, Halo, Gears. All with added features "microtransactions" There is literally no imagination in M$. When they lost Bungie (and sued them for Mister Chief like the greedy assholes they are) they lost all the talent they had.

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@emptycow718: Let me help you

Jak and Daxter the lost frontier and don't get me start on it

Kingdom Hearts 3 ugh

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