May2024
News Fallout 4 Will Be Getting A New Update Next Week On Xbox
"Thanks for your continued feedback and support!"
Bethesda has taken to social media today to announce that a new update is on the way for Fallout 4. The team's big next-gen upgrade initially arrived last month, but with numerous issues present at launch, the studio still has work to do getting things up to scratch. For now, Bethesda hasn't...
News Tango Gameworks Manager Proudly Displays Hi-Fi RUSH Awards Following Studio Shutdown
"Not enough?"
It's no secret that Xbox fans seem most baffled about Tango Gameworks in regards to this week's studio shutdowns, with the community not taking the news particularly well when it dropped on Tuesday. Xbox fans aren't the only ones questioning why the developer has been shuttered though - the team's Game Project Manager has been...
News Former Microsoft Exec Gives 'Two Reasons' Why Xbox Closed Bethesda Teams
"Neither of them have anything to do with Bethesda"
It's been a tumultuous time in Xbox land as of late, with news breaking throughout the week about job cuts - including four studio closures within Xbox's Bethesda division. At the time of writing Microsoft hasn't released a statement about all of these reports, but one former executive thinks he...
News Xbox Apparently Still Needs Smaller Games For 'Prestige And Awards'
Matt Booty outlines the division's future goals at the latest town hall
Just a day after Xbox announced the closure of four studios including the Hi-Fi RUSH developer Tango Gameworks, it's apparently touched on the importance of "smaller games" during its latest town hall meeting. According to "internal remarks" shared with The Verge, Xbox Game...
News Arkane Apparently Wanted To Work On New 'Immersive Sim', Potentially More Dishonored
Arkane Austin is now closed
Tucked into tonight's fresh report on the inner turmoil happening at Xbox right now, Bloomberg has dropped a tidbit of information on what Arkane Austin might have done next - had the studio not been shuttered by Microsoft. According to the
News Redfall's Offline Update Was Reportedly Planned For This Month, Prior To Arkane Shutdown
Yeah, you read that right
Yesterday, we learnt of the devastating news that Xbox is closing four of its Bethesda development studios in a move to further consolidate, with Redfall developer Arkane Austin one of the unfortunate victims here. However, can you believe that the team was reportedly working on a major update for its vampiric shooter to...
Reaction Xbox's Push Towards 'Microsoft Gaming' Looks More Drastic Than We First Thought
The price of ever-expanding growth
It's been a wild few years over at Team Xbox, with the brand being marked by vast change since the launch of Xbox Series X and S back in late 2020 - which is starting to feel like a lifetime ago now. Huge acquisitions like that of both Bethesda and Activision Blizzard have massively changed how the team now...
News Xbox Exec Provides Reasoning Behind Bethesda Studio Closures
"Iām sharing changes we are making to our Bethesda teams"
We're all somewhat in shock by today's news surrounding the closure of four Bethesda development studios, including the teams behind the likes of Hi-Fi RUSH and Redfall. While it's hard to wrap your head around why Xbox would go out and buy these studios only to shut them down a few years...
News Redfall DLC Cancelled As Developer Arkane Austin Gets Closed Down By Xbox
Not the 'bite back' we were expecting
Update: Redfall developer Arkane Austin says players "will be eligible to receive the value of the upgrade", while Bethesda Support adds that the team is "working to finalize details for the Redfall credit program". Original Aricle: Remember Redfall's planned DLC? Well, it never actually existed in any...
News Fallout 4's Next-Gen Update 'Weirdly Undercooked', Says Digital Foundry
It may have needed more time in the vault
We waited a long time for Bethesda to deliver its next-gen upgrade for Fallout 4, and it's safe to say that last month's update hasn't turned out to be a particularly smooth transition for Xbox Series X|S players. Now, the team at Digital Foundry has had a good look at how
Talking Point Will You Be Playing Through Starfield Again At 60FPS On Xbox Series X?
Or are you done with Bethesda's 2023 RPG?
Well, Bethesda has delivered some fantastic news this week with the reveal of a huge update for Starfield - an update that will bring new high frame rate modes to the game on Xbox Series X amongst lots of other new features. So, will all of this be enough to tempt you into a second playthrough of Bethesda's...
News Starfield Is Getting A 60FPS Performance Mode On Xbox Series X
Coming as part of the big May update
As part of today's May update reveal for Starfield, Xbox Series X players are being treated to some brand-new display options for Bethesda's mammoth RPG. The big news here is that the game is getting a proper 60FPS Performance mode on Xbox Series X, although Xbox Series S appears to miss out for now. There's...
April2024
News Fallout 76 Drops First Xbox Update Since Franchise's TV Show Bonanza
Here are all the details
There's so much Fallout going on right now that it almost feels like we should be talking about a brand-new entry in the franchise, but nevertheless, Bethesda's existing releases are still being patched and updated in 2024. We just got our first taste of new-gen Fallout 4 with its 'next-gen' update, and now Fallout 76 has...
Random Xbox Boss Spotted Rocking Huge Fallout Helmet Behind The Scenes
"Guess who this is..."
Fallout fever is certainly spreading at the moment, as the brand-new TV show hits a massive viewership milestone in just over two weeks since its release - and it seems that Xbox boss Phil Spencer has caught the bug over at Microsoft HQ right now. Posting to Instagram, Xbox exec Sarah Bond initially asked fans to guess who...
News As Fallout TV Show Hits 65M Viewers, Bethesda Reveals Desire To 'Increase' Gaming Output
"We want to make sure we get it right"
The recent release of the Fallout TV show has been a massive success - it was reported by Variety last night that within its first 16 days of availability, a whopping 65 million viewers tuned in to watch it on Amazon Prime Video. This has led to fantastic sales for many of Bethes
News Starfield's Shattered Space Expansion DLC Launches On Xbox This Fall
A large update is also coming soon
Starfield got off to a strong start on Xbox, breaking all sorts of records for Bethesda, and now the development team is looking ahead to the future with the upcoming Shattered Space Story Expansion. During an appearance on the Kinda Funny Gamescast, the game's director Todd Howard mentioned how the expansion DLC...
News Todd Howard On Elder Scrolls Show: Nothing In The Works But 'You Never Know'
"I can't predict the future"
Amazon Prime's Fallout series has got off to an incredibly positive start, and it's already raised some questions about which other Bethesda franchises could be adapted for this format. One obvious series that comes to mind is The Elder Scrolls, so what are the chances?
March2024
News Bethesda Provides Tiny Update On The Elder Scrolls 6 To Celebrate Series Anniversary
"Yes, we are in development on the next chapter"
Earlier today we celebrated the 30th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series, and as it turns out, so has Bethesda - dropping a small update on The Elder Scrolls 6 in the meantime. Taking to social media earlier today, Bethesda Game Studios talked about all things Elder Scrolls, including how things...
Talking Point The Elder Scrolls Is Now 30 Years Old As We Await Xbox's First Series Entry
The Elder Scrolls 6 is coming... one day
Believe it or not, today marks the 30th anniversary of Bethesda's legendary Elder Scrolls series. The franchise's PC debut ā The Elder Scrolls: Arena ā launched on March 25th, 1994 - and it's safe to say that the team hasn't looked back since. Three decades on, and in the wake of an astronomically...
News Xbox Game Pass Hit Hi-Fi RUSH Just Won Another Award
This time for "best audio"
One of Xbox's biggest success stories of the previous year was the shadow drop of Hi-Fi RUSH on Game Pass. Since then it's been played by millions of Xbox users, has been ported to other platforms, and has even won some awards. Now, to add to this, it's taken out 'best audio' at this year's
News Hi-Fi RUSH Is One Of PS5's Best-Rated Games Of 2024 So Far
Hi on the list
Back when Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi RUSH first arrived on Xbox it became something of a critical darling, and this week's PS5 re-release is much the same story as early reviews start to trickle out for the PlayStation version of the title. At the moment, Hi-Fi RUSH on PS5 has a Metacritic score of 9
News Xbox's Latest Console Giveaway Comes With An Entire Fallout-Themed Vault
Fort Xbox
Microsoft has unveiled yet another custom Xbox Series X console for an upcoming giveaway - and this particular bundle contains a little extra thanks to Fallout's impending Amazon Prime debut. Ahead of the famous franchise's TV premiere, Microsoft has created a pretty incredible custom console bundle. The console itself matches nicely with...
News Todd Howard Keeps Fallout TV Show In Check To Avoid Crossover With 'Fallout 5'
Tease Howard
Xbox has been drumming up some hype for Fallout recently on the eve of the series' Amazon Prime TV debut, and long-time Bethesda Game Studios head Todd Howard has also been talking about the franchise in a new interview with Den of Geek - includi
Video Here's An Up-Close Look At The New Xbox Fallout Controller
Unboxed on the Official Xbox Podcast
There's been lots of Fallout happening in the world of Xbox this week, kicked off by some new Xbox Design Lab choices arriving for the program just a few days ago. It's always nice to see an in-person look at these designs before parting with any cash though, and thanks to the Official Xbox Podcast, we've now got...
News Xbox Adds More First-Party Games To Boosteroid Cloud Gaming Service
From Bethesda & Xbox Game Studios
Microsoft has today announced another batch of games for Boosteroid; the cloud gaming service involved in one of Xbox's 10-year deals surrounding the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Today's batch of titles are as follows: Deathloop, Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Dishonored: Death