Xbox Series X News

The Microsoft/Activision deal has been given a preliminary approval by the UK’s CMA and that means it will be closing within a fortnight. The biggest deal in tech history is coming to a close. This has been by no means a foregone conclusion. The deal made a lot of legal sense, but some regulators seemed desperate to shut it down. We went from being fairly positive it would close, to some industry analysts giving it a less than 20 percent…

Game engines aren’t supposed to cause major problems for their users. Usually when they do, it’s accidental. This week Unity bucked that trend. And while there is no shortage of column space around this very issue, it’s worth another look. It could very easily impact on the way we all play our games old and new. So as a quick recap: Unity decided to change their deal with developers. They would charge a set fee of $0.20 for every download…

Lightwood Games always creates wonderful word puzzle games. Their newest game, Word Web by POWGI, releases this week for consoles. Word Web by POWGI releases this week for consoles. The game will be coming out today for PS4/PS5, tomorrow for Xbox, and Thursday for Nintendo Switch. I love Lightwood Games word puzzle games. They always create something unique and fun to play. These games will test your word skills and really make you think. The newest one looks like it’ll…

It seems for a while everybody had settled on the idea that Game Pass wasn’t some kind of weird space/time hack. It works, it’s profitable and it’s popular. Then Starfield came along and broke everybody’s minds all over again. Is six million players enough for Microsoft to be happy with Starfield’s release? Have enough people paid for the game through Steam to subsidise the obvious losses made from a subscription service? Should we be concerned that only one million people…

Starfield finally came out on Tuesday night for those who didn’t get early access to it. I started playing it then and now have some thoughts on it. Here are my first impressions of Starfield for the Xbox Series S! On Tuesday night, I finally got to play Starfield. I only played for about an hour. Then the next day I played it a bit more and then on Thursday I played it even more. And now I can finally…

Within 24 hours, critics across the world will be sharing their thoughts on Starfield. And it’s clear that they have something pretty special in their hands. Honestly, I’ve never seen this level of hype from critics before. Everybody seems to be sharing hints and teasers. Some are saying it’s their biggest review ever. I’ve seen at least one review split into two videos. Notice so far I haven’t said anything about good. None of the above precludes an 8/10, or…

It’s almost time to lace up your skates and do your best FLYING V! Time for your best knuckle pucks and triple dekes! QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK, while I am still waiting for EA to pump out a Mighty Ducks Edition or DLC for NHL 24, they haven’t announced it yet, but they did announce some stuff today ahead of NHL 24’s release this October. EA SPORTS has revealed more details about all of the exciting updates coming to NHL…

Born of Bread, the upcoming Paper Mario inspired indie title, has an update release window! Check out the new trailer for the game below. Born of Bread will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series, and PC this Fall! Its been delayed a little so that the developer can polish the game more. This game looks incredible and I’m glad they are taking the extra time to make sure its awesome. And its still coming out this year!…

With a tantalisingly small amount of time left until Starfield is in our grubby little mitts, it’s a good idea to take a look at an extremely helpful but often overlooked Xbox feature. You can pre-install the game to your console or PC via the Xbox app right now, with the pre-install for Steam coming this week too. But you’re also able to do this on console if you don’t own the game yet. The full install can be put…

I know, I know – I can already hear the comments. But bear with me, because I really do believe it’s true. Final Fantasy 16 is the ultimate Final Fantasy experience. And I think it’s only going to get better from here. If you’re after a stat-driven turn-based RPG, I can imagine you’re rolling your eyes around now. But that’s never been what Final Fantasy is. Yes, it’s the mode that it was delivered. But it’s the way that many,…