When I first saw footage of medieval city builder Manor Lords a few years ago I added it to my Steam wishlist before the trailer had even finished playing. That’s how good it looked. I wasn’t alone, either. Manor Lords has occupied second place on Steam’s top wishlisted games for at least a year, where…
Ara: History Untold maybe could’ve used a better title—it makes me think of a Las Vegas show, like the Luxor hotel’s King Tut Experience—but it’s interesting: a historical grand strategy game from Microsoft-owned developer Oxide Games (maker of Ashes of the Singularity) with ambitions to deliver “an evolution” in the genre. A lot of what…
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MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today’s Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was first announced in early…
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It’s going to be a good year for Xbox players. At today’s Developer_Direct show, we provided deep-dives into five new games launching across Xbox Series X|S, PC, Game Pass and/or cloud – all of which will arrive later in 2024. Development teams at Xbox, Bethesda, and even one of our third-party partners invited you into…
At today’s Microsoft developer direct, we finally got a good, long look at RPG powerhouse Obsidian’s upcoming game, Avowed. The studio gave an eight-minute presentation of the first person spinoff of the Pillars of Eternity series, including an early game quest, a breakdown of its new combat system, and a fall 2024 release window. That…
Category: Developer_DirectJanuary 18, 2024 How Ara: History Untold is Evolving the Grand Strategy Genre Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We chat with Oxide Games Design Director Michelle Menard about the innovations Ara: History Untold is bringing to the grand strategy gaming space.Oxide Games is made up of many industry veterans who have been crafting…
Visions of Mana is a game of many firsts. It’s the first entirely new mainline Mana game for more than 15 years. It’s the first game to offer such sprawling 3D worlds and freedom to explore them. And – perhaps most excitingly for the readers of this blog – it’s the first Mana game to…