Indie Selects for November (and Some Cool Announcements!)

Category: ID@Xbox November 27, 2024 Indie Selects for November (and Some Cool Announcements!) Raymond Estrada, Jessica Ronnell, Andrei Pascaru, Nick ZuclichID@Xbox Awkward Conversation Monitors The holiday season is upon us, and the ID@Xbox team is thrilled to showcase this month’s picks for Indie Selects. But first, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone…

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‘A true, raw, emotional display of what our life is genuinely like’—how a documentary about a WoW player gave a vivid window into the lives of disabled gamers

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Ree, director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, about his project—which follows the well-documented life of Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen, a World of Warcraft player with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). DMD is one of many muscular dystrophy conditions, and is considered to be one of the most severe,…

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide brings grimdark co-op to PlayStation with PS5 Pro enhancements on Dec 3

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide brings grimdark co-op to PlayStation with PS5 Pro enhancements on Dec 3

Hi everyone! My name is Juan Martinez, executive producer at Fatshark and part of the Warhammer 40,000: Darktide team. I’d like to welcome all PlayStation players to the four-player co-operative grimdark experience we have created. Today we opened access to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide for PS5 players who pre-ordered the Imperial Edition. We are super excited…

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Team Ricochet is combating cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with ‘hourly sweeps’ and ‘AI systems’ but even with over 19,000 bans, players aren’t seeing the results

Giving up freedoms and privacy for a mirage of promised safety is very 1990s-coded. So, with this in mind, it seems like an apt moment to talk about Ricochet’s continued struggles with the 1991 period piece Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Players have a pretty rocky relationship with Activision’s anticheat software—mostly thanks to its…

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I’m digging out the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals using my many years of experience and an NFT of a shovel

Black Friday laptop deals (Image credit: Asus, Future) Jump straight to the deals you want…1. Quick links2. Under $10003. $1000 – $15004. $1500+5. UK deals6. Live You might as well call it Black Friday week because there are plenty of excellent Black Friday gaming laptop deals circulating the web. I’m beavering away updating this page…

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Accusations Of AI Art Deflate Archer Maclean’s DropZone 40th Anniversary Announcement

“Obviously generated by an AI”. System 3 has revealed that it will publish a 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Archer Maclean title DropZone on Steam, Switch, PS5, and Xbox next month. “On November 27th 1984, DropZone, the legendary Defender-style game from Archer Maclean, first took flight, captivating players across the globe,” says the game’s Steam…

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