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One of the biggest benefits of all that power in the hardware is giving developers the ability to make games that are Xbox Series X|S Optimized. This means that they’ve taken full advantage of the unique capabilities of Xbox Series X|S, both for new titles built natively using the Xbox Series X|S development environment as

Villages in the middle of nowhere. We all know that they have a lot of problems in games. In real life, they have to deal with bad wifi service, buses only arriving once a day, and the village shop closing at 11am on a Wednesday. In games, they have to deal with devil possession, zombie

When we think about horror games there are common titles that come to our minds: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, or the most recent Amnesia or Layers of Fear, but where are the horror games that are suitable for a younger audiences? While on other media, like movies or books, the horror genre is not uncommon

the pope’s exorcist film review Putting the words ‘The Exorcist’ in your title, regardless of whether other words separate them, is a big shout. The mind immediately skips to the 1974 classic, and suddenly you’ve got some catching up to do.  The Pope’s Exorcist knows this, and is game for the comparison. It immediately goes

That’s it. I’m doomed to play 8floor games until the day I keel over. Somehow arriving on the Xbox on a weekly basis, they are a cursed coin that keeps ending up back in my pocket, no matter how many times I toss them down a well. For the uninitiated, 8floor Ltd have a well-worn

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! Sea Horizon Eastasiasoft Limited ☆☆☆☆☆

We currently seem to be at one of those rare times when conditions here in the UK, and of that in Mexico, coincide. In the world of Forza Horizon 5, it is now winter, and that equates to the Dry Season in that strange country. And there seems to be a noticeable lack of rain

Keep the July 4th celebrations going with four big hitters included in this weekend’s Free Play Days! The Crew 2, UFC 4, Super Mega Baseball 4, and MLB The Show 23 are available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. The Crew 2 and UFC 4 will be available to

Hi-Fi RUSH Arcade Challenge! Update! Thinking back to the start of 2023, when we were all cosied up in our winter pyjamas, celebrating the New Year and committing to burning off the Christmas calories. Who were we to know of the sheer awesomeness that is Hi-Fi RUSH. Bethesda and Tango Gamework’s rhythm-action hack ’n’ slasher

This July, as part of Disability Pride Month, Team Xbox proudly celebrates players, creators, and community members with disabilities. More than 400 million video game players have disabilities worldwide, and we recognize the incredible contributions the gaming and disability community has made in making Team Xbox, and the broader gaming industry, more inclusive and welcoming

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective finally finds its way to the sunny shores of Xbox bay. First released in 2011 for the Nintendo DS, Ghost Trick is ready to haunt the good players of Xbox (and those other systems). Coming from the genius minds behind Capcom’s Ace Attorney and Phoenix Wright franchises, gives the game some

I am old enough to remember when we used to win goldfish in country fairs. Those poor fish would be given to you as a prize for knocking over some skittles, taken home in their plastic vessels. Within a day or two they would die and you’d have a funeral, probably involving the toilet. I’d

In a sea of roguelite games, its becoming increasingly hard to find games that truly differentiate themselves. Shared mechanics are common within the genre and even when new subgenres appear, such as deck-building roguelites, they are often quick to be copied. It comes down to how well a game manages to adopt and implement these

At times, during a review process, an acknowledgment hits. That video games are amazing. They can entertain and tell amazing new stories that play with the boundaries of fantasy and reality in clever new ways. I’m not just talking about the big games either, those with their million-dollar advertising budgets and huge studio spaces. I’m

I once had a job in a warehouse that was so big, I could never find the toilets. They seemed to move constantly, like they were being distorted by some space-time anomaly. I got sacked after two days. The strangeness of that experience on that job fits perfectly with the themes and tones of GoolWorks’

There’s clearly a SEGA Megadrive fan working on TORINTO. Each level is introduced with a ‘Green Hill Zone’ style title card, and the bosses arrive every few levels like Doc Robotnik. There’s a Golden Axe ‘Go!’ message every time you clear a screen, and the gameplay is somewhere between Rolling Thunder and Altered Beast. TORINTO