What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 8-9)

Image: One Lonely Outpost, Xbox Game PassWeekend time! There's lots to enjoy on Xbox as usual over the next couple of days, including a selection of recent Xbox Game Pass additions, another batch of Xbox Free Play Days titles, some new free-to-play releases and a whole lot more! Here's what we're playing this weekend: Fraser Gilbert, Editor I'd be all over Split Fiction this weekend if I hadn't played it for review already with my wife - we loved the game so much and now I'm desperately searching for something to fill the void. To be honest, we're probably just going to end up going back to Mario Party - it's the only thing other than Hazelight Studios games that interests her! For me personally, I'm looking at more Football Manager 2024 over the weekend, as well as maybe some Balatro and Rock Band 4. I reviewed PDP's Riffmaster guitar for Pure Xbox last weekend and found it really kickstarted my love for Rock Band once more - the massive DLC library that I've created has gotten a lot bigger now! Oh, and WWE 2K25 as well. That game seems great so far, but I need a lot more time with it. Have a good weekend, folks! What are you playing on Xbox this weekend? Let us know down in the comments below. 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