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News Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl Xbox Footage Appears To Have Leaked
Will it come before Stalker 2?
Stalker 2 has been one of our most anticipated games for a good while, even if a couple of delays have dampened our excitement a little bit. The game is now set for a 2023 launch on Xbox, but, what if one of its PC-only predecessors came to console to help with the wait? Well, it looks like just that could be...
News Halo Infinite's August Drop Pod Planned For Next Week
"More details to come"
343 Industries will apparently be releasing its Halo Infinite August Drop Pod at some point next week. Keep in mind, that the release schedule is always subject to change. Halo's senior community manager, John Junyszek, shared the rundown via social media - explaining how there were more details to come. As also previously...
Deals All 50+ Backwards Compatible Games In This Week's Xbox Sales (August 2-9)
Original Xbox and Xbox 360 classics
This week's latest selection of Xbox deals is now live, and as part of the massive batch of 400 games on sale, we've got just over 50 backwards compatible titles from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras amongst them. Below, we've included every single Xbox 360 and original Xbox game available over the next week...
Video Starfield Analysis Breaks Down Xbox Games Showcase Demo
How the studio has evolved
A new video from IGN goes into a little more detail about Xbox's big Starfield blowout from last month. The game was finally fully revealed at the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase this year, with lengthy gameplay clips featured in the extensive showing. This analysis is focusing purely on publicly available footage from...
News Halo Infinite Players Are Already Doing Amazing Things In The New Forge Mode
And it's not even out yet!
Forge hasn't been officially released in Halo Infinite yet, but some players have reportedly found a way to access an unfinished version of it thanks to the latest co-op campaign test flight. Others have had access to it before this via other means. It seems the possibilities in the new Forge mode are potentially...
News These Seven Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (August 2-11)
The latest batch of titles
The first batch of August 2022's Xbox Game Pass titles has arrived, with Microsoft officially revealing what's coming to the service in early-mid August, including a brand-new shadow drop today in the form of Ghost Recon Wildlands! Here's the full list of games announced for early-mid August 2022:...
Deals 400+ Games In This Week's Stacked Xbox Sales (August 2-9)
Including an impressive Action RPG Sale
Welcome to a new set of weekly Xbox deals! Well, the big Xbox Summer Sale 2022 is now over, but Microsoft isn't slowing down with the selection this week, adding well over 400 games to the sales over the next seven days! We've rounded up some of the most notable Deals with Gold, Spotlight, Action RPG,...
News Another Five Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (August 15)
Play 'em while you can!
Xbox has revealed the next batch of titles leaving its Game Pass service soon. At present, five games are scheduled to leave mid-August, including Curse of the Dead Gods and Train Sim World 2. One of these games is a PC-only Game Pass title, with the rest all affecting the console library as well. Here's the full list (so...
News MultiVersus Is The Most Popular Free-To-Play Game On Xbox Right Now
In the UK and the US at least
Look, this writer right here didn't expect to see it, but MultiVersus is kind of blowing up. The Smash Bros-like always looked as though it could provide a solid alternative to the Nintendo series on Xbox, but I never expected it to be this popular right out of the gate. And by 'this popular', we mean the most popular...
Feature All New Releases Coming To Xbox In August 2022
Every game releasing on Xbox in August 2022
Welcome to your new Xbox game releases roundup for August 2022! Below, we've prepared a full list of every game confirmed for Xbox in August 2022 so far. We've also thrown in the Xbox Game Pass games we know about... Without further ado, here are the new game releases on Xbox in August 2022: The...
News Scorn Runtime Revealed Ahead Of Xbox Game Pass Launch
We're almost there!
Long-in-development horror title, Scorn, is coming ever closer. At present, Ebb Software's slimy shooter is expected to release this October, day one on Xbox Game Pass. As development heads towards its final stages, the team has revealed some more juicy details about the game. Scorn: How Long To Beat? The developer says that...
News Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels Hits 1 Million Players In Under 2 Weeks
Speedy progress
Last month, Forza Horizon 5's first expansion in the form of Hot Wheels finally arrived, marking Forza's second crossover with the iconic franchise. In a little under two weeks since that launch, the DLC has already surpassed one million players worldwide, which is quite a feat! The stat comes from the DLC's in-game 'Hall of Fame'...
News The First Two Of August 2022's Xbox Games With Gold Are Now Available
Including a classic Saints Row game!
You can now begin downloading the first batch of August 2022's Xbox Games With Gold titles (one day early!), which are the Xbox One game Calico and Xbox 360 game Saints Row 2. Both titles are available right now from the Microsoft Store (links at the bottom of the page) or by searching manually on your console...
News These Five Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass Today (July 31)
Including the Enhanced edition of Raji
In case you'd forgotten, today marks the removal of five more games from the Xbox Game Pass library, all of them being highly-regarded indies including the likes of Katamari Damacy Reroll and Raji: An Ancient Epic. Here are the five games confirmed to leave today on Xbox Game Pass: Date Game Platform
News 'Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty' Free Trial Arriving Ahead Of Xbox Game Pass Launch
What sorcery is this?!
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty was revealed last month, with development being led by a couple of the folks behind Nioh and Bloodborne. Unlike those two, this one is coming to Xbox, including Game Pass on day one, and the team has jotted down a bunch of features it's building for the upcoming melee action game. One biggie is that a...
News It's Official, Grounded Launches On Xbox September 27th
"It's going to be our biggest update ever"
Update [Fri 29th Jul, 2022 06:55 BST]: The game director of Grounded Adam Brennecke has celebrated the two-year anniversary of the game being in early access by announcing its final release date. Following on from the month of September, the team at Obsidian has now locked in September 27th for version 1.0...
News Six Games Announced For Xbox Game Pass At Annapurna Showcase 2022
Fill yer boots
Today's Annapurna Showcase has fallen under the radar a little bit, but that doesn't mean there's no big news for Xbox players. As is now the norm, six more titles have been revealed as upcoming Game Pass drops (one being a next-gen upgrade). So, here's a little bit about each of the new Annapurna Interactive Xbox Game Pass...
News 'What Remains Of Edith Finch' Next-Gen Upgrade Now Available On Xbox Game Pass
4K/60 on Xbox Series X!
During today's Annapurna Interactive showcase, the publisher revealed that critically acclaimed story adventure, What Remains of Edith Finch, was getting a native next-gen port. Oh, and it's out right now! After five or so years out in the wild, the Xbox One title has finally been upgraded for new-gen consoles. On the...
News Goat Simulator 3 Is A Meme, And We're Here For It
Udderly bonkers!
It's not often you see an Xbox image that striking is it? Nah, not until Goat Simulator comes back around anyway with its second outing, which for 'udderly' unknown reasons, is called Goat Simulator 3. Right, udder puns out of the way, Goat Sim dev Coffee Sta
Poll Are You Happy With August 2022's Xbox Games With Gold?
What do you make of this month's selection?
Microsoft has officially announced August 2022's Xbox Games with Gold, giving us a look at four more games we'll be able to play at no extra cost with our Gold memberships next month. In case you missed it, the games are Xbox One titles Calico and ScourgeBringer, along with two backwards compatible Xbox...
News Xbox Games With Gold For August 2022 Announced
The latest batch of titles
Microsoft has officially announced all four Xbox Games With Gold titles for August 2022! These games are available to download for free for Xbox Live Gold members (including subscribers to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate). Calico (August 1-31) ScourgeBringer (August 16-September 15) Saints Row 2 (August 1-15) Monaco: What's...
News Stalker 2's Exclusion Zone Looks Incredibly Creepy In New Screenshots
With a Geiger counter in my hand
Things have gone a little dark on Stalker 2 as of late, understandably so given the team's unfortunate involvement in the ongoing Ukraine war. However, the studio is back at developing now, and they've given us a fresh insight into how things are going ahead of the game's 2023 launch. The team has dropped three new...
News Forza Motorsport Will Introduce New Ways To Compete Online
Leading the pack
Forza Motorsport finally got its time to shine at the recent Xbox Games Showcase 2022, in fact, we thought it was probably the most impressive next-gen game of the show! We've not heard much about it since mind, but developer Turn 10 has just dropped a nugget of info about one of the title's new systems. The Forza Motorsport reboot...
Guide How To Game Share On Xbox
Share your games on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S
How do you Game Share on Xbox? It's a question we hear all the time, and for good reason. This is a fantastic way to share your Xbox Game Pass library, your digital games, your Xbox Live Gold membership and other things with friends and family on your "Home" console, and it's really easy...
News Xbox Had Its Highest Sales Year Ever In FY22, Analysis Shows
Continued growth
Microsoft has just detailed all of its big flashy financial results for Q4 of the company's 2022 fiscal year. While sales across the Xbox brand are down on the previous quarter, just, the year as a whole looks pretty damn successful. Games industry analyst DomsPlaying has shared some research indicating that while Q4 is indeed...
News Path Of Titans, A Dinosaur MMO Survival Game, Is Now Available On Xbox
There's also a free trial!
Update (Wed 27th Jul, 2022): Today's the day! If you're interested in Path of Titans, it's now available in Game Preview form on Xbox, with a Founder's Pack and a Deluxe Founder's Pack available to purchase. Better yet, there's also a free trial you can check out right now, which we presume gives you about an hour of...
News Disney Dreamlight Valley Looks Wonderfully Whimsical In Gameplay Deep Dive
It's coming to Game Pass this September!
We've not really seen much gameplay of Disney Dreamlight Valley at this point, although each time we catch a glimpse of the title, it does intrigue us. This Animal Crossing meets Disney life sim seems like a pretty good mashup, and a new gameplay trailer shows us why. This lengthy look at the game ahead of...
News GTA 6 Reportedly Features Female Protagonist For The First Time
Following Rockstar shakeup
Out of nowhere, a pretty extensive Bloomberg report on GTA 6 has arrived, detailing the game's setting and scheduled release window, amongst other early development insights. Aside from a potential return to Vice City apparently coming sooner than we thought, Rockstar has reportedly made a load of internal changes after...
News Xbox Summer Promo Is Offering Up Bonus Microsoft Reward Points
5k points up for grabs
Team Xbox is highlighting a bunch of upcoming games as part of its Summer Spotlight promotion. Roughly 75 titles are set to launch between now and September 5th on Xbox, and if you spend $50 on a special selection of these, you'll get your hands on some bonus Microsoft Rewards points. To kick things off, Xbox has curated a...
News Xbox Series X And S Have Been Next-Gen 'Market Leaders' In The US
Over the last 3 fiscal quarters
Yesterday, Microsoft laid bare its company-wide results over the last financial year, and things are looking pretty positive overall.
Deals 70+ Games Added To This Week's Xbox Sales (July 26 - August 2)
To go alongside the Ultimate Game Sale
Welcome to a new set of weekly Xbox deals! Once again, the list is much smaller than usual this week due to the Ultimate Game Sale (the Summer Sale) also currently taking place, which is expected to end this Sunday. Read More: Deals: Xbox Summer Sale 2022 Now Live, 500+ Games Discounted You can read about...
News MultiVersus Is Now Officially Free To Play For Everyone On Xbox
Go get em!
Warner Bros' free-to-play fighter, MultiVersus, is now live on Xbox! Well, the game has entered 'Open Beta' anyway, which for all intents and purposes is the game's main free-to-play launch. There's quite a bit of hype behind MultiVersus as well, especially for us who reside on Xbox. It's looking like it'll finally provide a decent...
News Funko Pops Are Going Next-Gen With New 'AAA' Games In Development
In partnership with 10:10 Games
Funko has done its upmost to bring just about every single video game character ever to the real world, in the form of 'Funko Pops', which we're sure you've all heard of by now. Well, in an unexpected twist, Funko is now going digital. The figurine company is teaming up with 10:10 Games to create 'Triple A' titles...
Review Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels – Back For An Enjoyable Second Lap
The skies above Mexico are calling
There was definitely some confusion when the first Forza Horizon 5 expansion was leaked on the Steam Store – indicating it would be Hot Wheels (again). While it was thought to be placeholder artwork for something else at the time, it was in fact another Hot Wheels expansion. This announcement received mixed...
News Xbox Is Adding New Symbols To The Game Tiles In Your Library
Specifically for games that aren't currently accessible
If you're a member of the Alpha or Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insider rings, you may have noticed some new badges appear on the tiles in your library of games, and the Xbox team has explained what these new symbols actually do. As clarified by Xbox Engineer Eden Marie, these badges are intended to...
News The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Has Been Delayed For Xbox
No, my precious!
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum had already experienced some setbacks, and now Daedalic Entertainment has announced it's made the tough decision to delay the release of the game, across all platforms - including Xbox systems - by a "few months". The reason behind this is in order to deliver the "best possible experience" for players...
News Ubisoft Denies Roller Champions Is Getting Cancelled
Update: The company "fully supports" the game
Update: Well, we've got some good news if you're a fan of this one! According to a tweet from the official Roller Champions Twitter account, the game isn't being cancelled and Ubisoft has shown its "full support" to the title. Here's the full message that was posted on Twitter earlier today:...
News Your Xbox Series X|S Will Soon 'Boot Up' Even Faster
Update: Xbox One consoles also benefit!
[Update, July 25:] Team Xbox member Jake Rosenberg has confirmed that this update will also apply to Xbox One consoles! Rosenberg says that last-gen machines are now booting up "noticeably faster" after the animation changes, currently live for Xbox Insiders. [Original Story, July 24:] You know that...
News Single-Player Black Panther Game In The Works At EA, Says Report
With a new studio at the helm
Superhero games certainly aren't going anywhere are they? PlayStation's Insomniac has produced some very well-received Spider-Man games as of late, and we've got the likes of Gotham Knights and Marvel's Midnight Suns in the pipeline too. Well, a little further down the line we could be seeing a 'Black Panther' title...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Could Be Out On Xbox By Next March
According to database leak
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was only officially revealed a few months back, but we might be going hands-on with this one sooner than expected! A PlayStation Network database leak has revealed that the scheduled date for Survivor is late February or early March, 2023. That DB leak comes from well-known Twitter account...
News Skull & Bones Developer Claims The Game Lacks Depth In Every Area
According to a new Kotaku report
We've been pretty excited for Ubisoft's Skull & Bones for a long time now, and we got even more excited when it finally got a release date of November 8th, 2022 this month, but it seems not everyone at Ubisoft is fully confident in it. According to a new Kotaku report, multiple people who have worked on the game...
Feature These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (July 25-29)
Including the return of Digimon!
Welcome to your new Xbox games roundup for July 25th to 29th! It's a quiet week for major new releases, but there's still plenty to look forward to including the free beta of the ultra-popular MultiVersus, the releases of Digimon Survive and RimWorld Console Edition, and the Xbox Game Pass addition of the superb...
News 343 Responds To 'Urgent' Data Hog Issue In Halo Infinite Multiplayer
It's been using around 1GB of data every two games
A few days ago, a Twitter user by the name of NicmeistaR brought to light that Halo Infinite appeared to be using up far too much internet data during multiplayer games — or more specifically, after the multiplayer game had completed. According to their research, a match itself was only using...
Pick One Which Is Your Favourite Forza Horizon Expansion To Date?
Is it Hot Wheels or something else?
It's time for another round of Pick One! This week, to celebrate the release of Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels, we're going back and taking a look at the history of Forza Horizon expansions over the past decade. There have been some amazing expansions, but which is your favourite? Remember, you can only pick one!...
Talking Point What August 2022 Xbox Games With Gold Do You Want?
Any specific titles you're hoping for?
It's almost that time once again, with Xbox Games with Gold's August 2022 titles set to be announced very soon! The month of July has seen Beasts of Maravilla Island, Relicta, Thrillville: Off the Rails and Torchlight all given away for free for Xbox Li
News Xbox Dev Teases 'Really Exciting' Future For Discord Partnership
"We've had a lot of really exciting early conversations"
If you were glad to see the news earlier this week that Xbox is partnering with Discord to bring Discord Voice Chat to the platform, then you'll be even happier to know that it's apparently "just a step in a journey" for the partnership. Speaking on the Xbox Podcast this week, Xbox Engineer...
News Halo Infinite Campaign Co-Op Won't Feature Online Matchmaking
You'll have to invite your buddies
A lot of the Halo faithful have been anticipating campaign co-op for some time, after all, it's a pretty core feature of the series. Well, we've got some unfortunate news here as the mode enters testing. As it turns out, co-op won't contain online matchmaking once the mode hits the public build of Halo Infinite...
News This Next-Gen Soulslike RPG Launches August 2022 On Xbox Series X|S
Update: But now a week later than planned
Update (22nd Jul, 2022): Don't worry, Thymesia is still scheduled for an August 2022 release, but it's been pushed back just a little further to August 18th due to "changes and fixes" that are being implemented as a result of feedback from the game's recent Steam demo. "After listening to the community...
News Midnight Fight Express Brings Its 'Brutal Brawler' To Xbox Game Pass This August
"An unexpected hero emerges..."
A few games have already been confirmed for Xbox Game Pass in August 2022, and one of those is the "brutal and hyper-kinetic brawling ballet", Midnight Fight Express. It's coming to the service at launch on August 23rd. You'll play as a former member of the criminal underworld in a mission to prevent a citywide...
News Xbox Series X And S Console Sales Up Year-On-Year In Europe
Almost 10% higher than 2021
Over the course of 2022 so far, we've posted multiple stories about Xbox Series X and S console sales doing well in Japan. The pair of systems seem to be shifting fairly quickly in the region, although stock shortages have hurt PS5 sales somewhat. As it turns out, it's much the same story in Europe.
