Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Necro Story Rablo Games ☆☆☆☆☆
Month: October 2024
Developer Electronic Arts has revealed a brand new expansion pack for The Sims 4, which will launch on October 31, or Halloween. The downloadable content (DLC) focuses on the suitably macabre topic of death and ghosts. Titled Life & Death, this expansion pack aims to flesh out the life simulator’s death mechanics. New additions include
Windblown is an action roguelite much like Dead Cells, the previous game from developer Motion Twin, but it trades sidescrolling ‘vania vibes for a 3D and more colourful world, and adds co-op for up to three pals. That sounds plenty appealing, and it now has a release date: October 24th. Better still, on October 14th,
Several games will get a performance jump when the PS5 Pro launches in November. One that seems to be a technical showcase for the improved console is The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. The PS5 Pro enhanced The Last of Us Part 2 brings a 4K final image with a rock solid 60 frames
I’m on a one-man mission to destroy your productivity. Yesterday I offered you Scrambled Maps, which is good for fifteen minutes of not working. Today I offer Alphaguess, a once-a-day browser puzzle game in which you must guess a word. With every incorrect guess you make, the game tells you whether the correct answer comes
Renowned video game voice actor David Hayter is teasing his return to Metal Gear Solid. The last time Hayter played a role in the beloved franchise was in 2010’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. The tease comes from X (formerly Twitter). “I was in the booth today,” says Hayter in his post. “Playing a role
When I first sat down and really dug into Starfield after it came out last year, I was between jobs. I had two weeks to interact with the thing as much as I wanted to – this game I’d been looking forward to not necessarily because I was that into the premise, but because of
Avatar: The Last Airbender hasn’t had much luck when it comes to adaptations, whether to film or to video games. Now Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive are going to take a new swing at it. The pair have announced an action RPG set in the “Avatar Legends universe”, the broader world and timeline that
Ubisoft has had a rough year or more, losing almost half its share value in 2024 due to the underwhelming performance of Star Wars Outlaws and the delay of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, among other issues. Now Tencent and Ubisoft’s founders, the Guillemots, are considering buying out the publisher, reports say.
When Claude Makelele moved from Real Madrid to Chelsea at the height of Galacticos era, Zinedine Zidane famously said: “Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you’re losing the entire engine?” And, despite the exciting addition of PlayStyles in the inaugural EA Sports FC, EA’s flagship football franchise has felt a
More Doomier than ever by Ollie Reynolds 45m ago Image: Bethesda Bethesda has announced and released a new update for DOOM + DOOM II on Nintendo Switch, introducing a vast selection of improvements and fixes that should make the pair even better than before (thanks, Nintendo Everything). The new update brings the surprise release up
I’m usually a little suspicious of anything that winkingly describes itself as “very normal”. It’s got Mental Baz energy to me. You’ve met mental Baz, right? He’s mental, he is! Has half a lemonade shandy with lunch sometimes, and wears one of those t-shirts that look like a tuxedo. Absolute mentalist! Anyway, after reviewing Grunn
Sony is under fire once again as it has made Horizon Zero Dawn inaccessible to a large number of PC players. The company delisted the original game on Steam four years after it launched on the platform in anticipation of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. The upcoming title requires creating a PSN account, making it impossible
Sony has “big” PS5 (and certainly PS6) remasters planned, if a statement by a Nixxes Software employee is anything to go by. Following the announcement of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered for PS5 and PC, which is in development at Nixxes, a dev suggested that the studio will work on more of such projects. Expect more
Silent Hill 2’s PS5, PC remake has received stellar reviews, and its dev Bloober Team is understandably very relieved. The studio was under quite a lot of pressure to strike a balance between staying true to the original while bringing the classic to a modern audience, and it has certainly delivered. Silent Hill 2 dev
Ever since Sony officially announced the PS5 Pro, players have been wondering if the console will be supported by Xbox Game Studios. Microsoft has acquired a large number of multiplatform developers who previously supported the PS4 Pro, so it’s a legitimate question. And we’ve received our first answer. Xbox studio Blizzard will release a PS5
Spongebob Squarepants The Patrick Star Game – out now! Outright Games is making dreams come true for fans of everyone’s favourite pink starfish with the release of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game. Available now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC, this hilarious sandbox adventure lets players