Category: XBOX Games Showcase June 10, 2026 Long Overdue, Bad Magpie Finally Expands the ‘Be a Rude Bird’ Genre Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor Summary Bad Magpie comes out next year for XBOX Series X|S, XBOX on PC, cloud, and included with Game Pass. Play it on both console and PC at no additional cost…
Though the Steam Controller broke Valve’s storefront, and the Steam Machine otherwise stealing the show, I’m most looking forward to Valve’s VR headset, the Steam Frame. Until its release date is announced, however, the brief look at the headset’s Welcome Tour software, allegedly leaked to Reddit, will have to tide you over. Over on the…
Greetings from my desk, a place I have not seen much in the month of June. I just got back from Summer Game Fest’s in-person event, Play Days, in Los Angeles. I saw and played a boatload of cool games that I’m eager to talk about. If you’ll allow me to step behind the curtain…
Complete NSO challenges across Donkey Kong history to earn time-limited rewards. The DK Challenge event tasks Switch players with completing a series of Donkey Kong challenges to win themed Challenge Cards. The challenges have you jump into Donkey Kong games across the Nintendo Classics library, as well as the most recent series release, Donkey Kong…
Strange as it is, Destiny 2‘s massive final update is here, marking the end of an era. But Bungie’s gone out with a bang here, not least because it’s added 26 new catalysts and updated nine old ones. No Exotic weapons have been left behind, and that’s a fitting way to leave things. Below, I’ll…
What makes a JRPG a JRPG? Is it the sweeping stories? The protagonists with super spikey or multicolored hair? Or the simple fact that if an RPG video game was made in Japan, it qualifies as a JRPG? Most of you reading this may instantly go with the last option and call it a day….
Category: XBOX Games Showcase June 10, 2026 Minecraft Dungeons II Blows the Doors of the ARPG Wide Open Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor Summary Minecraft Dungeons II builds on the original game with an all-new story, an emerging threat, an Overworld map, new gear slots, among many other tweaks and enhancements. With added mechanical depth…
It’s been a bit of a journey for Toys for Bob, the studio behind the very good Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, that’s now making its own original Spyro game as an independent studio, as announced at the Xbox Games Showcase. Despite Reignited’s smashing success selling over 11 million copies, Toys for Bob was shifted to be…
Another third-party banger. If some publishers made the mistake of not supporting the original Switch enough, it seems that many have learnt their lesson for the Switch 2. The recent Direct was stuffed to the brim with third-party titles, and one that snuck in during a late sizzle reel was the rather excellent Warhammer 40,000:…