Phil Spencer says not every game has to have ‘a movie or a TV show’ tie-in, but promises ‘you’re going to see more’ adaptations of Microsoft games

Every year more and more games are adapted into TV shows, and hardly a day goes by without a new adaptation deal being announced, from a second Resident Evil movie reboot to a film based on Split Fiction to the Just Cause movie—announced way back in 2011—once again getting a new writer and director. It’s…

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The latest Elden Ring Nightreign character reveal is an aging viking whose hobbies include swigging ale and punching dragons in the jaw

One of my favorite things about Souls games is that sometimes the best method for dealing with tragic, corrupted knights and primordial horrors is simply hitting them very hard with a large object. It’s an ideal embodied by the Raider, the subject of Bandai Namco’s latest Elden Ring: Nightreign character reveal trailer, who seems just…

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Arc Raiders, the extraction shooter that might finally bring the genre to the masses, is holding a new playtest at the end of April

The extraction shooter discourse has been dominated in recent days by Marathon, Bungie’s upcoming kick at the can, but there’s another game in the mix with the potential to steal its thunder: Arc Raiders, which PC Gamer’s Jake Tucker said in 2024 “could be the extraction shooter that finally brings the genre to the masses.”…

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Guild Wars is 20 years old now, and that means it’s time for a content update and ‘the biggest discount in Guild Wars’ history’

Somehow, the fantasy MMO Guild Wars is 20 years old: It launched in 2005 and it’s still ticking over today. That’s an impressive accomplishment by any measure, and ArenaNet isn’t letting the anniversary pass unnoticed. The studio has rolled out a new content update that makes a range of previously-inaccessible promotional items from the early…

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