You can download this free update now. Nintendo has dropped a surprise update for Mario Kart World this week, which adds 10 classic Super Mario Kart circuits and two new Knockout Tours. If you haven’t already downloaded this update, it’s now officially live! It bumps the software up to Version 1.8.0 and follows a major…
Have you met Valheim 1.0’s mountainous menace, the Gammeltroll? If you’ve made your way to Valheim’s final biome, the Deep North, you’ve probably seen and fought it already: the Gammeltroll is a 30-foot tall rock monster who pelts you with tree trunks from range and stomps you into paste if you get too close. Most…
Valve rolled out 18+ age verification for Australian Steam users yesterday, which was inevitable: both PlayStation and Xbox have already done so and it is, after all, illegal not to, with fines up to AU$50 million at stake. But unlike PlayStation and Xbox, which offers a small handful of ways to verify one’s adulthood, Valve…
As XBOX marks 25 years of play, we’re pleased to commemorate over 20 years of XBOX in Japan. To celebrate the players, developers, and creators who have been part of the journey, XBOX will be at Tokyo Game Show with a special broadcast, a show floor presence that includes Minecraft Dungeons II, and XBOX FanFest….
The brands are at it again but this time I’m inclined to let it slide, because it’s so nonsensical (which is a nice way of saying dumb) that I can’t help but be charmed. Ikea, the Swedish furniture-and-stuff giant, has released a mod for Skyrim called Kallax Storageborn: A new companion who is also a…
Playing Wardogs is a bit like playing Battlefield, except you have to buy every gun, magazine, helmet, and kevlar vest yourself. It’s a milsim FPS that runs on a personal wallet—doing useful things for the team makes you money used to unlock permanent upgrades and temporary gear. Wardogs is designed in a way that lets…
On this episode of the Official XBOX Podcast, we’re still in Cologne, Germany, and this time, we’re sitting down with Playground Games to discuss one of our most anticipated games: Fable. We’re getting more details on the gameplay the team shared at Gamescom while diving into the combat, story, and world that players got to…
A new hotfix for The Blood of Dawnwalker rolled out today, and you’ll be happy to know that this one improves the game’s overall stability, fixes several progression blockers, fixes an issue with controllers that was causing frame rate drops, gets rid of the famous red pipe—more on that later—and keeps dead folks from talking…
Call of Duty has joined Microsoft’s bid to reinvigorate interest in Xbox consoles, today announcing a Modern Warfare 4 gun skin that you can only see if you’re playing on an Xbox. You read that right: The Inner Circuit blueprint is an M4 skin granted to those who pre-order Modern Warfare 4 on any platform,…