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Summary We are introducing the no annual fee Xbox Mastercard, issued by Barclays. The Xbox Mastercard allows cardmembers to earn card points with everyday purchases and redeem those points on games and add-ons at xbox.com.  The Xbox Mastercard will be available exclusively to Xbox Insiders in the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii beginning on

Running around a maze while being chased by a huge monster or fiend is as old as time. In Greek myth, there was the story of the minotaur and the labyrinth of Crete. The hero Theseus travelled through the maze with a ball of thread to help from being lost, while always being hunted by

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Cities: Skylines singlehandedly resuscitated the city builder gamer when it arrived in 2015; indeed it also made the genre relevant on console with a very slickly handled Xbox console port in 2017. The announcement of Cities: Skylines II promised to take things even further: bigger cities, redesigned economies,

Let’s Build a Zoo took the art of building an animal to a whole new level last year with addictive management gameplay, lots of different species, and the ability to play god through DNA splicing. But if you’re no longer entertained by morally questionable land animals like the chickows and goobits, then maybe it’s time

Whitestone merges a host of ideas We’d not heard of Whitestone from Hailstorm Games prior to release on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. But we’re super intrigued by the inspiration. How does a game that takes ideas from Persona, Dark Souls and Dead Space suit you? That’s what you’re getting with Whitestone on Xbox, PlayStation and

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Full Void OutOfTheBit ltd ☆☆☆☆☆

The hot season has appeared in Mexico and the world of Forza Horizon 5, and that is quite appropriate, given that September has turned out to be a scorcher so far!  While I sit in my air conditioned office, just looking at the heat, it appears that Playground Games are ready to bring the virtual

September is here and with it, the gridiron, gangs, and a corruptive presence for you to tackle. Madden NFL 24, Control, and Crime Boss: Rockay City are available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday, September 7 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, September 10 at

Smash it down and build it back up We’ve been demolishing and building for years, having first taken the hard hat back in 2020. Today though our skills will be put to the test like never before, as Demolish & Build Classic releases on Xbox.  Demolish & Build Classic is the latest to come from

Monkey Tower building ready? It’s been more than six years since the Bloons were last seen rocking on Xbox. But today it’s all about building up those Monkey Towers once again in Bloons TD 6 on Xbox.  Bloons TD 6 on Xbox comes via the team at Ninja Kiwi. As the name suggests, we’re now

Summary Kairosoft is a development studio that creates management simulation games. Five games will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Windows PC this summer. We will introduce each game that will be released this time. Do you like simulation games? We love them. Since 1996, we at Kairosoft have created a number

PowerA Lumectra is here! Back in 2021 we got hands-on with PowerA’s Spectra Infinity Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox. Frankly, we loved it. But now PowerA are moving forward with an enhanced version of the Spectra Infinity – and this time they are elevating their game and moving into the Lumectra Zone.  PowerA today announce

I do like a horror film, it has to be said, and one of mine and my father’s guilty pleasures years back was to watch these films together. Dawn of the Dead, The Thing, we watched them all, but for some reason we never got around to watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.  To this

The famous fable of the tortoise and the hare has been told many times. It dates back to Aesop, an ancient Greek storyteller who told this as a moral fable about hard work and boasting. I’m pretty sure you’ll know it – it focuses on how it’s not about how fast you are, but how

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny film review Watching Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was a bit like walking into an abandoned cabin in a slasher movie. After the horrors of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, we were expecting the worst. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this”, etc. We gripped

At IFA 2023, Lenovo introduced several new additions to Windows 11 gaming, including the Lenovo Legion Go – the company’s first Windows 11 handheld device for gamers – and its top-of-the-line Lenovo Legion 9i laptop. Businesses also got fresh options, including a new glasses-free experience with the ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor that is compatible with

A blur of a controller… I once had an unofficial Spider-Man 2 controller for the PlayStation 2. I loved it, but it really was poorly made. Between that and my unlicensed (ie. cheap) memory cards, it’s a wonder I got anything completed on that console. Third party controllers have come on leaps and bounds since,