Category: Games January 24, 2025 How Avowed Lets You Choose Your Own Adventure with Incredible Freedom Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Avowed offers players an incredible level of freedom in quests, character interactions, and combat for a deeply immersive fantasy role-playing experience. Choices in Avowed can affect character relationships, quest outcomes, and overall journey…
Endgame Gear is emerging as a bit of a dark horse in the world of gaming peripherals, with options that fly under the radar against the Razers, SteelSeries and others in this world, while offering some astounding value for money. Take the KB65HE keyboard, for instance—it punched above its price point with snappy and responsive…
Saw X is Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures’ tenth installment of the beloved horror film series, featuring Tobin Bell reprising his role as the original Jigsaw — with an all-new set of diabolical and twisted traps. So, in honor of the film’s release and the return of one of cinema’s most iconic villains, Jigsaw and Xbox…
Slice ‘n’ dice. It’s been a long time since we were last graced with a proper 2D Ninja Gaiden game, so you can imagine our shock when Dotemu revealed Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, a brand-new side-scrolling action title from Blasphemous developer The Game Kitchen, currently scheduled to launch in Summer 2025. We recently went hands-on with…
Dungeons Of Despair released at Boston Apple Fest back in June 1981. With Wizardry being in the news recently, thanks to Atari’s acquisition of Wizardry I-V, it has had us thinking again about a lost piece of the series’ history that even its creators now feel could be lost forever. Before Sir-Tech released Wizardry: Proving…
When I was growing up there was a game I used to love playing with friends whereby your task was to drop bombs, and hopefully blow up other players in a maze like game screen. That game was none other than Bomberman also known as Dynablaster. A game which was actually first released way back…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
Respectable power and performance on a budget Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again. Red frills and decorations are everywhere, and holiday music fills every conceivable retail space. Love them or hate them, the holidays are just around the bend. At least there are some deals to be had. When we went…
Pretty much every video game loving child of the eighties dreamed of being able to play every single Famicom game. Well, RndStranger (real name David Mathis) of YouTube actually went and did it, completing an exhaustive 1,041 episode series about every single Famicom title on YouTube. There are 1042 official Famicom cartridge releases despite…
In the world of cybercrime and hacking, the rise of AI has been a blessing, as it has given ne’er-do-wells even more ways to steal accounts, nab vital information, or phish you for money. All is not lost, though, as it turns out that there’s one AI that’s so good at finding security issues and…