Category: Games July 25, 2025 Tales of the Shire: How to be a Hobbit – an Essential Guide to Settling into Bywater Julia GesslerCommunications Specialist, Wētā Workshop Summary Tales of the Shire is out on July 29 for Xbox Series X|S. Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the peaceful corner of Bywater. Get…
I normally wouldn’t inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle’s an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied. Tim Soret—who got in deep water…
Stop Killing Games’ quest to get publishers to, get this, stop killing games trundles on. In fact, things are going quite well: the campaign’s EU initiative recently hit the 1.4 million signatures milestone, which should be enough—fingers crossed—to get it over the hurdle and off to the European Commission, which will have six months to…
Hmmm, we’ve heard this one before. It’s official, folks — Mario and Peach are not in a relationship. Nintendo said it, so it must be true. A few days ago, on the Nintendo Today! App, the Big N dropped this major bombshell on the world, revealing that the Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and the…
While Nightreign’s 5 million players have clearly proven the Elden Ring experiment a successful one, the co-op spinoff has still had one glaring flaw: No duos. Today, we know when Nightreign’s original sin will finally be set right. Two-player mode is coming with patch 1.02, which will arrive in less than a week. Bandai Namco…
Along with a million wishlists, the demo for zombie apocalypse management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check got a lot of feedback. The demo was massively popular when it launched in May, and linked to a survey for players to fill out when they finished playing. Boy, did players fill out that survey. “We got…
It’s not even out yet, but zombie base management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is already a certified hit. Its demo, released in May, attracted hundreds of thousands of players (myself included), received great reviews and lots of attention on social media—and has now infected over a million Steam wishlists. It’s not surprising, then,…
Amid the hubbub of the Washington DC AI summit earlier this week, in which President Trump unveiled a raft of AI policies and made some dubious statements about the future of power generation, it might have been easy to miss a livestreamed interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as part of the All-In Podcast. In…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for July 28 to August 1 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published July 25, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox PC, and Game Pass! Get…
Drumroll, please. Ever since I was a kid stomping his feet to pop songs in Dance Dance Revolution and getting pep talks from PaRappa the Rapper about how I gotta believe, I’ve been a fan of rhythm games. And while I love popular juggernauts in the genre like Guitar Hero, I’ll always prefer something with…