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Xbox and Bethesda will present a Developer_Direct on Wednesday, January 25, providing fans with an inside look at some of the games coming to Xbox, PC and Game Pass over the next few months. Presented by the game creators themselves from studios including Arkane Austin, Mojang Studios, Turn 10 Studios, and ZeniMax Online Studios, the

The world of video games isn’t awash, to the best of my knowledge, with developers from Columbia, but there is at least one – R-Next Games, the developers of Aniquilation. Published by Gamera Games, Aniquilation promises not just a weird name, but also plenty of shooty action in a twin-stick style.  Whatever the game, the

Dive into a physics-based fishy adventure this weekend during Free Play Days. I am Fish is available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday, January 12 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, January 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.  How to Start Playing Find and install the

If you’ve been feeling guilty about making animal-skin wallets in the Far Cry series, then you might want to redeem yourself with We Are the Caretakers. Instead of carving up creatures you’re protecting them, in what might be Xbox’s first anti-poaching game. Buy it, and you’re even contributing 10% of the amount to Save the

Pre-order Shoulders of Giants today on the Xbox Store, available January 26 After almost three years of development, we’re overjoyed to announce that Shoulders of Giants is now available for pre-order. The game will be released on January 26, 2023, on Xbox! Check out the newest trailer above featuring a mix of single-player and co-op

Ever heard of Edifier as an audio brand? Nah, us neither, but if their GX Gaming Headset is anything to go by, we’re likely to be hearing much more from these guys going forward.  We’ve used a lot of gaming headsets over the years, from official Microsoft offerings, through the big third party names of

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! Re:Call – January 17 An

We’ve had Sudoku, Akari, Slitherlink and Nurikabe. Now though the masters of the puzzle are back and this time they are bringing a proper oddity with them as Puzzle by Nikoli W Heyawake releases on Xbox.  Available to purchase, download and play right now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, ready to test your

Welcome to 2023! Thank you for another bustling year of DC Universe Online on Xbox. Together we fought off Perpetua’s Dark Knights, stormed Neron’s Underworld with Black Adam, and Saved the Universe (literally, again).  Doesn’t ring a bell? Don’t worry. All our storyline content is delivered in free episodes, and you can still jump in right

If you’re a fan of the retro gaming scene then you are well sorted today. Not only do console players get the opportunity to take in the Breakers Collection, bringing together a couple of games from the 1990s, but a trio of old-timers arrives for play too – it just so happens that they are

Xbox is working to reduce our environmental impact to help us reach Microsoft’s goal of being a carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste company by 2030 by rethinking how we design, build, distribute, and use our products. Last March, we shared an update on our sustainability efforts across hardware, software, waste reduction, and collective

Do we really need colour-changing controllers in the world? Probably not.  Do we want them? Hell yeah.  The NACON Pro Compact controller for Xbox may not be our go-to gaming pad, especially not for long drawn-out sessions, but it’s not a bad option to have, particularly as it is well suited to those who need

One Piece Odyssey’s release is just around the corner and to give everyone a head start, a demo of this new turn-based RPG is available now on Xbox Series X|S. When you begin, you’ll see our main cast, known as the Straw Hat Pirates, get sucked into a storm, thrown onto a mysterious island, and

When I played and reviewed the previous Strategic Mind game to surface on the Xbox, Strategic Mind: The Pacific, I wasn’t massively enamoured of it. But never ones to let a dissenting voice sway their release schedule, the next game in the series has limped onto the big black Microsoft box, from developers Starni Games

“Happy lyrics should always be paired with a minor key, and vice versa!” – a guest teacher at my music school once proclaimed this with certainty, arguing that you needed that touch of melancholy to make things interesting. Now, writing a video game script might not be the same as writing a hit song, but

For all the RIG headsets that we’ve used over the years, it’s the range-topping 800 series which is our favourite. Having been heads-on with the 800LX Dolby Atmos Special Edition Headset back in 2020, as well as taking in every other product in the RIG range – the 300 PRO HX, 400HX, 500 PRO HX

CES always brings exciting new developments in hardware, and never more so when it comes to gaming devices. CES 2023 is no exception, bringing us early looks at portable-but-powerful laptops, beefy home rigs, future-proofed AI chips, and more. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up a sampling of the new Windows 11 PCs announced at

Steve Robinson is not a happy chappie. His wife, Carol, has left him, his mum has recently died, and his novels aren’t selling like they used to. He’s spiralling, and his solution is to return to the cottage he inherited and see if he can find something, anything to hold onto.  As a premise for