Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha (2311.231106-1030)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…

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‘If you want to think of it as Hunt 2 you’re welcome to, but I’m not going to charge you’: Hunt: Showdown manager on the extraction shooter’s impending engine upgrade, and the pitfalls of declaring a sequel

Live service games are evolving. The major multiplayer shooters of the 2010s are starting to show their age in the 2020s, leaving their stewards to answer an interesting question: How do you move a service game into the future without disrupting its active player base, or starting completely fresh? In the cases of Overwatch 2…

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Dev reveals that Half-Life could’ve been called ‘Bent’, ‘Screwed’, ‘Trash’, ‘CrYsis’, and my personal favourite, ‘Dirt’

Dario Casali, who started working at Valve in 1996, has started his own playthrough of the original 1998 Half-Life on YouTube (thanks, Gamesradar). The episodes are coming out at a blistering pace, with Chapters 1 through 8 already released, but the Chapter 1 walkthrough comes front-loaded with a fascinating glimpse into the classic’s early development….

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