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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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Xbox Series X and Series S isn’t so much a “next-gen” controller as it is an incremental update on the one we already know. It’s flush with small tweaks that improve specific elements of the Xbox experience, like recording gameplay, using the D-pad, and grip. However, there are no big “next-gen” swings – no features
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Electronic Arts and DICE previously confirmed plans to release the next Battlefield entry in 2021. During a recent earnings call, the publisher narrowed the launch window down to next year’s holiday season. That very same call unveiled another new tidbit, too–Battlefield’s new outing will apparently feature a scale unlike any other in the franchise. Seeking
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Despite numerous delays and continued controversy, Cyberpunk 2077 will finally be released out into the wild (hopefully) next month. To celebrate the launch, Adidas and CD Projekt RED are teaming up for a new Cyberpunk 2077 shoe line. The downside? The shoes are only available in select Asian markets, so phone a friend if there
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By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 20:48 GMT Digital Deluxe and Special Edition pre-orders of Sackboy: A Big Adventure will include some interesting outfits. Those who pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition or Special Edition of Sackboy: A Big Adventure will receive some outfits based on Days Gone, Death Stranding, and Ghost of Tsushima. Here’s
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Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) If you haven’t played Control yet, the game’s newest release on Nintendo Switch might be enough to finally tempt you to give it a go. But one question looms large over the Switch’s version of the game: does it actually run well on Nintendo’s less-powerful home console? The short answer
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Back in the primordial days of video games, the graphics were simple and so was the hardware. Nowadays the Xbox controller serves as the benchmark of an ergonomically efficient masterpiece in game controller design, with triggers, bumpers, sticks, d-pads, and whatever else (there’s more finicky buttons if you decide to get the Elite controller). Back
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Xbox Series X and Series S, a brand-new revision of its high-end wireless gaming headset, marks a huge upgrade over the original model. It improves upon some of the original’s least successful specs, like battery life, while refining its physical design that looks and feels like a premium headset. Like its less expensive cousin, the
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Never heard of it. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. The default Fortnite dance is terrible. You move out of time with the music, the music itself is boring, and it wasn’t even stolen from a pop-cultural icon (although to be fair
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By Dom Peppiatt, Sunday, 1 November 2020 15:49 GMT Shadowlands has managed to secure more pre-sales than any other expansion in World of Warcraft history, Blizzard has revealed. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that players are seemingly incredily excited about the upcoming expansion, noting that Shadowlands has out-performed every other expansion in the
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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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Horror can be hard to get right in an interactive story. When you have the freedom to make your own decisions it can inadvertently interrupt the building moods and provocative themes the genre is built on, but developer Supermassive has proven before that it can still tell a (mostly) cohesive story no matter what players
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