If you’d asked me what I thought a Cyberpunk 2077 expansion would focus on after I first beat the game in December 2020, I would have guessed the heist on the Crystal Palace satellite casino teased in two of the base game’s endings. According to CD Projekt Red narrative director Igor Sarzyński, though, the team…
Just a couple of weeks after finishing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is making some changes to its Xbox studio structure. In an internal memo acquired by The Verge, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is being promoted to president of game content and studios, a role that…
A magnificent seven? Unless you’re a Neo Geo diehard, Visco isn’t as recognisable as Namco, Konami, Capcom, or the other big hitters they used to roll with in the early ’90s arcade scene. And, although the company made strong impressions with the likes of Vasara, the majority of its work was for SNK’s Neo Geo…
You’re a detective, and a frog, and it’s time to solve some mysteries! Question suspects, find clues and look through your (allegedly useless) magnifying glass Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery is Out today with Game Pass! Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there. Welcome to my blog post. My name is Grace Bruxner and I’m…
As a perfectly bite-sized treat for spooky season, the farm sim where you’re a vampire has kicked off a quick demo to give us a taste of its pumpkin decor and midnight spellcasting. The first demo for Moonlight Peaks lets you play seven in-game days of foraging, farming, and decorating, with the option to take…
I like to imagine that one day, when I tune in to a Ubisoft quarterly financial call, CEO Yves Guillemot will come on and say in his French accent, “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from Hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake…
What if you could travel back in time to the exact day when everything went so wrong that youve been regretting till now? Would you make different choices, say different things, or, perhaps say nothing at all? In A Perfect Day, a 6th-grade Chinese student has got this opportunity to relive his last day of…
The full reveal of the Alan Wake 2 system requirements last week left a lot of fans unhappy. They’re steep: The minimum spec for 1080p, 30 fps gameplay at the low graphics preset is an Intel i5-7600K CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, and 16GB RAM, and a sharp ramp up from there into recommended, ultra, and…
Everybody loves a project, and that is exactly what social simulator Mineko’s Night Market taps into as soon as you press start. Out today on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC with Game Pass, the game introduces titular character Mineko and their father, who are the newest residents on a struggling, Japanese-inspired island and…
Hey Xbox fans! We’re Upstream Arcade, the team behind the new roguelike brawler; Hellboy Web of Wyrd. We’re a small independent team of 16 developers based in the UK who originally leveled up together at Lionhead Studios, working on the Fable Franchise and Black & White 2. Now, some years later, we’ve regrouped to make…