Winter is less than a month away but there’s still enough time left in the current season to squeeze in a Steam sale—and yes, that means the 2024 Steam Autumn Sale is now underway. As always, the start of the Autumn Sale also kicks off the nominations for the 2024 Steam Awards, the annual celebration…
Listen up, friends. Here are my top tips for making sure a date goes well: show interest; make eye contact; laugh at their jokes; under no circumstances give voice to your inner burning desire to escape, to flee, to gnaw off your own leg and break out of the bear trap of your life; wear…
Category: Announcements November 27, 2024 Interscope Records Launches Custom Juice WRLD Fortnite Island and Juice WRLD-inspired Xbox Design Lab Controllers Darell BookerCorporate Affairs Specialist, Xbox Summary On November 30, a custom Juice WRLD-themed Fortnite Island, “Juice WRLD: The Party Never Ends” launches, featuring unreleased music, iconic tracks, and Xbox Lounges. Xbox will release two Juice…
A few months back, we got the news that Cyberpunk was getting a live-action project from the same production company behind True Detective. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of further information concerning this, but at the very least, we know it’s still in the works. “I mean, the conceptual stage has various stages of advancement,…
It’s been a rough week for BioWare veterans trying their hands at new things: Two days after former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced the closure of Humanoid Origin, former Mass Effect lead writer and creative director Mac Walters has been forced to “pause operations” at Worlds Untold, just one year after it was founded….
Riot’s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be—otherwise, Riot probably wouldn’t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart. The bounty system has been in place pretty much since Valorant was first launched a few years ago, but the…
You’re skipping through the woods, not a care in the world—except, perhaps, the fire spewing out of the ground, or the weird gravitational anomaly sucking and crushing everything in its vicinity, or maybe the invisible mutants that will strike without warning. Such is life in Stalker 2‘s Zone. But aside from those things? Life is…
We’re wait-Ing. So… where is it? When Metroid Prime Remastered launched on 9th February 2023, we were utterly convinced that its sequels, Prime 2: Echoes and Prime 3: Corruption, would follow suit sometime after. Now that 2025 is fast approaching, our certainty has waned, yet we remain confident that Nintendo will complete the saga on…
Category: ID@Xbox November 27, 2024 Indie Selects for November (and Some Cool Announcements!) Raymond Estrada, Jessica Ronnell, Andrei Pascaru, Nick ZuclichID@Xbox Awkward Conversation Monitors The holiday season is upon us, and the ID@Xbox team is thrilled to showcase this month’s picks for Indie Selects. But first, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone…
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Ree, director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, about his project—which follows the well-documented life of Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen, a World of Warcraft player with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). DMD is one of many muscular dystrophy conditions, and is considered to be one of the most severe,…