Morality morphing was a big deal in the Fable games of old. Your character would, famously, actually change appearance to match how good or evil they were. Do a lot of murders and you’d grow horns and find yourself surrounded by flies. Help people out (or do a lot of murders but also donate loads…
“Coming through!”. When I first booted up the Switch 2 Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, something almost immediately felt very wrong. The visuals, while certainly crisp, were upscaled in a way that meant almost all textures had this sort of blurry, smeary effect, especially environmental details, but also within character faces at certain…
Category: XBOX Games Showcase Fable: How We Built the Living Population Dan GreerLead Game Designer, Fable Published June 10, 2026 The Living Population sits at the heart of Fable – it’s our way of referring to the 1,000+ NPCs who bring Albion to life. Each one has a personality and a life that moves along,…
To badly paraphrase two Billie Eilish songs, when the party ends, where do all of the big tech PCs go? There are a few places that hardware can end up, beyond simply adding to the world’s mounting piles of e-waste. For instance, one Redditor who works as an HVAC tech claims to have found a…
Exodus might have an uphill struggle escaping the shadow of Mass Effect. Archetype Entertainment’s sci-fi RPG immediately invited Mass Effect comparisons when it was first shown off, and those comparisons have continued and, if anything, become more obvious. It’s understandable, of course. Archetype was founded by BioWare veteran James Ohlen and the team includes other…
4K Muramasa? Sold! With such a crammed Nintendo Direct, there was far too much to give every single announcement in the June showcase its own post (check out our round-up for the full rundown). However, we didn’t want to skip highlighting this gem that popped up: Vanillaware’s Muramasa is returning in the form of Muramasa:…
Director Kane Parsons is probably riding pretty high right now: At just 20 years old, his first feature film hit #1 in the world, tripled studio A24’s previous record, and even outperformed the latest Star Wars at the box office. But his dad, Michael Parsons, is also primed to take a victory lap or two…
In the midst of the RAMpocalypse and the billions of dollars being thrown at AI, it’s easy to become blind to the fact that the use of machine learning can be highly beneficial in lots of different scenarios. Case in point: an update to an old AMD GPU Linux driver was created with the help…
Category: XBOX Insider June 10, 2026 XBOX Insider Update Adds More Personalization, Easier Social Discovery, and Energy-Saving Improvements Alex Charters, Senior Product Manager; Eden Marie, Principal Software Engineering Lead Starting today, select XBOX Insiders can start testing new updates designed to make your XBOX consoles feel more personal and connected to the people and games…
Category: Games Alien: Isolation 2 is Poised to Deliver Another Bold Chapter in Survival Horror Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor Published June 10, 2026 Summary We played the Alien: Isolation 2 prologue at Summer Game Fest: Play Days and lived to talk about it with the creative geniuses at Creative Assembly. Creative Director Al Hope,…