Cozy farm sim games just keep getting tinier these days. Small enough to dock to the bottom of your monitor like Rusty’s Retirement, and in the case of Tiny Garden, small enough to fit inside a Polly Pocket-looking little capsule toy. Inside its little globular world you’ve got space to cultivate a handful of plants…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the debut game from Montpelier studio Sandfall Interactive, was first revealed to us back in June 2024 with a wild trailer showing a turn-based RPG set in a world being slowly destroyed by a giant, unfathomable paintress. During today’s Xbox Developer Direct, we got another, longer look at the surreal RPG,…
Doom has been with us for a long time. The original arrived in 1993—32 years ago, if you can believe it—and after a pair of sequels and a long stretch of silence, it returned in 2016 with a powerful reboot that cemented its claim as gaming’s greatest FPS. Now the sixth game in the series,…
The head of Warner Bros Games, David Haddad, is leaving the role after 12 years. Haddad will continue as Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment president for three months as WB searches for his successor. The news was broken by Variety, which adds that a source insists there are no plans for WB to sell off its…
When I played six hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows at Ubisoft Quebec last week, I knew it would be the only time I saw it looking this good. Global illumination, ray traced everything, super high framerate—I was test driving a Ferrari knowing I’d eventually have to climb back into my Nissan Versa and go home….
South of Midnight, the new game coming from We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, made an appearance at today’s Xbox Direct showcase to reveal more about its “darkly magical world” set in the Deep South of the US. Also revealed is the release date: It’s set to come out on April 8. Hazel is a…
There are two key things to take away from Doom: The Dark Ages’ showing at today’s Xbox Developer Direct. The first: a release date. id Software’s prequel story will be with us in just a few months, on May 15. The second: a mission statement. “In Doom Eternal, you felt like a fighter jet. In…
It was only a couple of months ago that I bemoaned the fact that it had been a decade since the launch of Endless Legend, my favourite 4X, and there was still no word on a sequel. I needed my fix—more of that best-in-class faction design, more weird stories, more exotic maps to fight over….
Hello everybody! This is Hugo Martin, Game Director on Doom: The Dark Ages reporting from the offices at id Software – we are all hard at work polishing this latest installment in the franchise. It’s almost ready and we can’t wait for you to play it. In the meantime, we have a new look at…
Category: Developer_Direct January 23, 2025 Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 Recap: Everything We Announced Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief During the latest Developer_Direct, we showed off tons of brand new gameplay and provided developer insights on four upcoming games launching for Xbox Series X|S, PC, Game Pass, and cloud – and even surprise released a bonus remaster…