Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Gameplay Reveal
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Xbox Developer_Direct: All the News and Announcements
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…
Obsidian reveals Avowed’s dual wand ‘gunslinging mage’ combat and fall release
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…
How Ara: History Untold is Evolving the Grand Strategy Genre
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: The Origins (and Future) of the Legendary RPG Series
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…
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out on May 21
During Microsoft’s Developer Direct event on Thursday, developer Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out May 21st. “Senua is on the trail of the Vikings who’ve been enslaving her people,” says writer Lara Derham. That brings her to Iceland, where she’ll be fighting “giants who’ve plunged the lands into chaos, which in turns…
Experience a Brutal Journey of Cinematic Immersion in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II on May 21
Hello, Dom here, Studio Head at Ninja Theory. As I write this, we are now in the final few months of development on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, preparing for our launch Day One on Xbox Game Pass and across Xbox Series X|S, Windows and Steam on May 21. It was a pleasure to give you…
Two more studios announce layoffs as 2024 continues to suck for game developers
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that’s plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%. The CI…
Townscaper’s developer on how its ‘radically casual’ design is inspiring a new wave of low-stress builders to adapt the blueprint
Townscaper is one of those small snatches of joy I heavily associate with the Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020. The stress-free city builder was a tiny game that became a huge sensation that summer. Like other collective obsessions of that year, it inspired a trend that’s only now truly coming to fruition. Although Townscaper’s developer Oskar…
Palworld could be a delight if it wasn’t so invested in being awful
I was morally obligated to keep an eye on Palworld. I’ve been playing Pokémon on and off for four fifths of my time on this Earth. I’m a card-carrying Dwarf Fortress weirdo, which Palworld’s lead dev has cited as his favorite game. Ignoring Palworld would’ve been a dereliction of professional duty. Now that I’ve spent…