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A few years down the line, when Redfall, Starfield, Perfect Dark, and Avowed are in our hands, maybe gaming will be a clash of the titans once more, with the two consoles going head to head with triple-A killer apps.

For now though, Xbox is cultivating a different sort of playerbase, and it's refreshing to see. Every Xbox exclusive is free on Game Pass at launch too, while a mix of indie sleeper hits and forgotten cult gems are getting a new lease of life on the service. I could talk about the benefits of Game Pass all day, but I'm not here to talk about that - I'm here to talk about Blinx. Blinx is a crucial slice of gaming history, although it's entirely possible you've never heard of him.

That talk about Xbox's failing exclusives earlier was important, because Blinx laid the groundwork for all that. Sure, Sea of Thieves turned it around and the early Halo and Gears games were masterpieces, but Xbox has more than a few rough exclusives in its history, though none as interesting as Blinx.

Blinx arrived with a simple mission - he was here to kill Mario and Sonic. To be blunt, he failed. What's even more interesting is, as a game that released in , surely his platforming rivals would have been Crash and Spyro rather than Sonic, especially with the pair ripe for the picking after the so-so Wrath of Cortex and the banal Enter the Dragonfly.

At any rate, Blinx tried to change the platforming landscape and failed miserably. But as I just mentioned, this was around the time when Wrath of Cortex and Enter the Dragonfly came out. The N. Mario was fresh off the release of his most experimental game ever in Super Mario Sunshine, while Sega put out the polarising and confused Sonic Heroes. There was a change in the air. Platformers were going through a transition, and nobody could figure out what they would look like by the end of it.