Month: July 2021

Multinational tech conglomerate Tencent will buy Sumo Digital, the UK-based studio group behind Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Team Sonic Racing, and a number of other games for $1.27 billion. The two companies jointly announced the acquisition and represent another landmark deal that follows a handful of other big-name acquisitions made this year. Tencent has already owned an 8.75%
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Mini Motorways review:Building on the excellent Mini Metro that came before it, Mini Motorways is a great evolution of Dinosaur Polo Club’s minimalist transport sim. Developer: Dinosaur Polo Club Publisher: Dinosaur Polo Club Release: July 20th On: Windows, macOS From: Steam Price: £ / € / $TBC If the brilliant Mini Metro gave me a
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Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! Here we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released [email protected] games! Get more details on the games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates are
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Ever since Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl had been officially announced last week, and fans got to see the game in action, some people have noticed gameplay similarities to Nintendo‘s Super Smash Bros. series. Well, Ludosity, the studio working on Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, talked about the game to Kotaku. According to Ludosity’s Elias “sinxtanx” Forslind, the team
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After completing Life of Fly 2, we got curious and pulled up TheXboxHub’s original review of Life of Fly. We didn’t personally review it, so we were eager to see the verdict. It got a respectable 3/5, if you’re interested, and the reviewer said nice things: “If you’re after something different, then you can’t go
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IllFonic‘s recently announced cooperative multiplayer shooter Arcadegeddon received a patch on the PlayStation 5 and PC, which enabled AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0, and brought with it numerous stability improvements and bug fixes. Patch notes are as follows: Added AMD FSR 1.0 PS5 – Enabled AMD FSR 1.0 + TAAU Hybrid Upscaling by default PC – Added
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Wildermyth reviewed on PC by Rowan Kaiser. The magic of Wildermyth is that it loves stories so much that it builds its entire structure, from graphical style to prose to combat to campaign structure, around its characters becoming legends. It then cements those ideas in place with a Legacy system that turns those legendary characters
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We all know that the gaming scene has absolutely exploded in recent years. What was once the domain of the ‘80s kids and their consoles or an underground network of PC players linking as one, has burst into the mainstream with the battle for supremacy between Xbox, PlayStation and, to a lesser extent, Nintendo. In
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As promised last July, Enhance Games has announced that Tetris Effect: Connected will go live via a free update on August 18th, adding cross-platform support to all current Tetris Effect versions. This includes PlayStation 4, (playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility), Xbox One and Series X/S, and PC platforms. An overview of the update is as
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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
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Warhammer 40K: Battlesector reviewed by Jon Bolding on PC. Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector beats the pants off of other recent 40K tactical games, making a run at skirmish wargame greatness. While it’s limited in places and the interface can struggle, the tactical combat is well worth the time it takes to learn and the Momentum system
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Nintendo could be setting a precedent for increasing prices across the gaming industry with its new Nintendo Switch OLED coming in at a higher price point. Sony is reportedly “closely monitoring” the situation surrounding the new more expensive Switch, and could opt to make some pricing changes of its own depending on the results. The
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We’re in the middle of what’s considered a slower time of the year for game releases, but there are still some gems to be uncovered in the coming weeks, like OMNO. OMNO is an adventure game made by solo German developer Jonas Manke also know by his studio name, StudioInkyfox. He’s been working on this, his
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It’s hard to deny Halo’s influence on the greater gaming landscape. For decades, Halo has been one of Microsoft’s biggest gaming brands, and it helped establish the original Xbox as a gaming console of note. However, in all that time, we’ve never gotten a really good look at the series iconic hero. Most gamers know
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