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As with last year, Valve have posted a look back at all of the changes to Steam in 2019 with a brief look ahead to 2020 squeezed in at the end. There are plenty of features you may or may not remember being added to Steam last year, among them changes to User Reviews. Valve

Take-Two Interactive Software recently announced that Dan Houser, vice president of creative at Rockstar Games, will soon be leaving the company.  According to the announcement, Houser took an extended break starting in the spring of 2019, but his last official day at the studio will be on March 11 of this year.  Dan Houser is

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:38 GMT Code Vein, Bandai Namco’s action RPG inspired by the Souls series, has sold over one million copies. Code Vein hit over one million copies sold within five months of its fall release. The game’s official Twitter account announced the new good news today. Dearest Revenants, we’d

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. According to research analytics firm SuperData, demand for Half-Life: Alyx drove VR sales sharply skywards in Q4. Valve, in particular, was the beneficiary of this trend: Sales of the company’s $999 Index VR system more than doubled from Q3 to

A newly-spotted Amazon listing suggests that Saints Row IV: Elected could well be on its way to Nintendo Switch. The listing – viewable here – says that the game will launch on 27th March and contains screenshots, box art, and a description. We’ve shared all of that with you below should you wish to check

IGN has an exclusive look at the first ten minutes of the long-awaited follow up to DOOM 2016 which is titled DOOM Eternal. While the game will be heading to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next month, Nintendo Switch owners will have to wait a little longer to experience the game. However, judging from

As the dust settles after the barrage of gunfire, a smoky haze clouds my vision across the cobbled European streets. Mere seconds ago, I was fighting an onslaught of horrific Nazis, hellbent on ending my life. Now, the cracks in my path are filled with blood, drained from the life-force just taken. Cracks that can

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

Monster Energy Supercross — The Official Videogame 3 definitely isn’t an elegant name; it’s a blunderbuss burst of buzzwords and branding that sounds like it was put together by a disinterested legal department via email. It is, however, a decent game, albeit one that isn’t exactly dazzlingly different to the equally decent pair of Supercross

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it’ll be introducing major changes to Overwatch with a patch in early February that’ll keep its meta fresh and address balancing issues. Overwatch players have often complained about infrequent balance updates, especially when new characters are released. There are also concerns about the game’s meta, which sometimes discourages diversity and

In the wake of the recent bushfires that have devastated communities across Australia, Sony Foundation Australia is hosting a Twitch fundraiser with the goal of raising funds to support young Australians affected by the bushfires. A few folks from PlayStation are joining to help support the cause… hope you can join us! The streaming campaign

This week, several esports events in China have been cancelled due to the new coronavirus going round, Steam done an oopsie. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also check out the Weekly Updates Update for the week’s big patches. Blizzard have cancelled Overwatch League matches

If you “accidentally” drop your Switch, or “accidentally” throw it in a wood chipper between now and March, you have every right to pick up the new Animal Crossing themed version. Hitting store shelves on March 13 – a week before the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – this special edition Switch comes with

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 31 January 2020 21:31 GMT The Last of Us Part II may have been delayed to May, but that isn’t stopping companies from creating more swag to buy for the Naughty Boy title! Dark Horse is making The Art of The Last of Us Part II, and you can preorder the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been trying to make its GeForce Now streaming service a viable product for years, but it has yet to get all the kinks worked out. Google leapfrogged Nvidia when it launched Stadia late last year, offering cloud gaming

Once upon a time, the sheer notion of The Witcher appearing on Nintendo Switch in any form seemed a fantastical pipe dream. It didn’t even seem like we’d even get a version of Gwent, the card-battling spinoff based on the in-game card game of the same, never mind a full-fat version of The Witcher 3:

 A new life on a deserted island awaits. To celebrate the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on 20th March, a limited Nintendo Switch bundle will be available in stores on the same day, including a special edition Nintendo Switch console alongside a download code for the game. With this bundle, players can take their island life with them in style.

For anyone looking for action, adventure, narrative, and a hell of a good time, the Metro series of games have more than delivered. And when Metro Exodus dropped onto Xbox One, PS4 and PC via the Epic Games Store in early 2019, those levels of action, adventure and narrative reached all new heights. Needless to

Confront or embody true evil with the new legend Revenant, try out a deadly new sniper rifle, and avoid destruction as Hammond Robotics’ Planet Harvester wreaks havoc in Apex Legends Season 4 – Assimilation. Summon your courage and prepare to drop in on Xbox One! Meet Death Revenant was once human, the Mercenary Syndicate’s best

With previous appearances in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Injustice, and Injustice 2 The Joker is basically a Netherrealm fighting game veteran at this point. That’s significant because his newest iteration in Mortal Kombat 11 is easily his best one yet, absolutely nailing The Joker’s penchant to make you laugh one moment, and then think

Launching on January 18th, 2020, in Japan, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the latest entry to the Yakuza series. With some pretty massive changes to the series’ normal genre (going for turn-based combat instead of third-person brawler combat), all eyes were on the newest game to see how it would perform with said changes. Change

February’s loaded with not two, not three, but potentially up to five free PS Plus games! Bioshock: The Collection contains three legendary first-person adventures, The Sims 4 gives you creative control over reality itself, Firewall Zero Hour offers engaging, online multiplayer* for PS VR owners**. More on February’s free games: Bioshock: The Collection Play Video

Last night’s new Destiny 2 patch had the unintended consequence of deleting many players’ hard-ground cash and upgrade materials, causing Bungie to take the MMOFPS offline for nine hours while they fixed it. Their solution was to roll characters back to their state before the patch, which has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out everything

Nintendo has announced details for Pokémon Home, including pricing and features for its two plans: Basic and Premium. Pokémon Home (via Switch and mobile versions) lets you store your Pokémon in the cloud so you can transfer them between compatible games*, trade them, and more. Pokémon Home is coming some time in February. The free Basic version of Pokémon Home

Pokemon Go players can start going up against one another in the Go Battle League. Niantic Labs has started rolling out a preseason trial of Go Battle League, which brings PvP to Pokemon Go. To make sure things go according to plan, the preseason will be rolled out based on Trainer level at the moment.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft surprised everyone with a teaser announcement of its upcoming Xbox Series X late last year. We didn’t get much aside from the name and a render of the monolithic case, but now a Twitter user has posted what appear

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players who also happen to have a subscription to the Nintendo Switch Online service can now download a new Spirit Training set from the eShop for free. This is a special offer for Nintendo Switch Online members. You can download the following items free of charge for use in Super Smash

Nintendo has shared the first look at the Doctor Doom character art in the upcoming downloadable content for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. The DLC is titled Fantastic Four: Shadow of Doom and is due out this spring on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo promises to share more details about the contents of the

Quite often I look back at my Xbox capture gallery and revisit past gaming moments I’ve loved. There have been exciting, visceral set pieces such as the intro to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, or moments of expertly crafted skill as I’ve destroyed a particularly hard boss in Dark Souls. Then there’s Dying Light, which

Hey Alpha ring users! Today’s Xbox Insider Release Notes highlight the latest fixes, known issues, and features coming to your console. Starting at 6:00 p.m. PT today, users will receive the latest 2002 Xbox One system update (build: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9119.200123-2000). Keep reading for more details. System Update Details: OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9119.200123-2000 Available: 6:00 p.m. PT