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For your convenience, we typically compile the top stories of each week, along with Major Nelson’s video recap, into a feature we call This Week on Xbox. With the year – and indeed the 2010s – drawing to a close, we’ve broadened our look back to include the entirety of 2019. The 12 stories below,

A demo for the highly anticipated Final Fantasy VII Remake might be coming to the PS4 if an alleged PS Store thumbnail leak is to be believed. Although such a demo has not been confirmed by Square Enix, the company has presented various playable builds of the game at press events, which could potentially become

I’ve always had a soft spot for music-driven games. Rhythm games like Guitar Hero, Rez, or Thumper play almost subconsciously for me as someone with a musical background so I first approached Sayonara Wild Hearts with a similar mindset. However, as I made my way through the game I discovered that it’s so much more

You’ve not even begun to groan yet Every year we are put in a cardboard box full of straw and carefully packed away in the treehouse attic, until Graham wakes up on January 3rd and chains us to our desks again. It’s a cosy little break for us, but we don’t want you to feel

We hope you had a great holiday season and are ready to take on a new year. This season always gets super busy, making it easy to lose track of the things that truly brightened our day. We wanted to take today to give you the opportunity to share the gift you enjoyed the most this year

It’s been out for ages, but there’s always something new in GTA Online. We’ve seen a new heist and casino DLC, but playing the tables and manipulating the stock market is for dweebs. Grab a gun, let’s plan a big score. Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the greatest games ever made, and you’ll

Earlier this week, I argued that the backward-compatibility features Microsoft is launching with the Xbox Series X will put consoles on an equal footing with PCs for the first time ever. My point was not to claim that PC and console gaming would now literally be identical, but that adding accessory and software backward compatibility

So you’ve got yourself a lovely new Nintendo Switch for Christmas and don’t know how to even begin setting it up? You’ve come to the right place! In this guide, we’re going to break down all of the things you should do first to help you get set up. That includes setting up a bunch

Japanese video game publisher Flyhigh Express has announced this morning that they will be holding a special video presentation on 27th December. The event is expected to reveal the release dates for the physical versions of Celeste, Shovel Knight and Human Resource Machine, and will presumably contain some surprises. You can tune into the event

There are times when you get told about distant relatives; usually as families come together whilst at weddings or funerals with things going just a few generations back, normally involving some incident that the family is a bit embarrassed by. But what about the other ancestors? The ones that go way back… about a million

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

Almost since the beginning, Star Wars has been a story of redemption from darkness. So, in an ironic sort of way, Battlefront 2 is a better Star Wars game because of its initial fall to the dark side and subsequent journey back to the light. After over two years of updates and changes, EA and

If you’re looking for a brand-new PlayStation 4 theme, look no further. Sucker Punch and Sony are currently offering a free dynamic theme for Ghost of Tsushima, complete with stunning imagery. Thankfully, the dynamic theme is available to download across multiple territories. All fans need to do is enter in a code on their respective

As someone familiar with FromSoftware’s prior works, I approached Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with (what I believed to be) earned confidence. After all, surely those who’ve conquered the Souls series and acquired Bloodborne’s Platinum Trophy would be adequately prepared for a stealthy shinobi adventure through 15th Century Japan. For the first several enemy encounters, this

Though everyone has their HMD cameras trained on Half-Life: Alyx as VR’s killer app, I’ve been staring creepily at Boneworks’ gif-rammed Steam page and saying “soon” over and over. Having spent a few hours working my way through its meta game-within-a-game world, I’m not quite in the position to review it as a whole. It’s

It’s Star Wars week, and there are a lot of reasons to be excited about our favorite space opera. One of those reasons is TT Games’ upcoming release of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The new trailer doesn’t add much, but when we saw the game during E3, we were really hot on it. May

There are newer games to play this holiday season, but none quite as cool. Whether you’re playing on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation, by now you’ve probably played by the rules in GTA: San Andreas a thousand times, so let’s mix it up with some cheat codes. These codes can spawn any weapon you want, any

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Blizzard announced Warcraft III: Reforged just over a year ago, promising a 2019 release. Well, that’s not going to happen. However, we do have an official release date for the remastered game. It’s coming on January 28, 2020. It’s no

Yes, it’s that time of year to look back and knock up your personal Top 3s, 5s and 10s as Game of the Year 2019 looms large. It’s been a great twelve months for Switch owners, with more games than we’ve had time to play, so whittling down just a few will be a hard

Respected video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been honoured and is now recognised as one of four honorary citizens of Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture. Mr. Miyamoto is well known for creating some of the biggest video game characters and games out there, so it’s great to see his work being acknowledged beyond the usual gaming circles.

After covering all things Xbox Series X in the previous show, TheXboxHub podcast team are back again, this time chatting all things 2019, rounding off the year in style by delving deep into the very best games of the year – the year of the indies.  Join Gareth, James and Neil as they once more

Since July 2018, our development team has talked about giving Warframe players something different than the tried-and-true procedurally generated corridor shooters and open-world expansions they have become used to. They have wanted to expand Warframe’s gameplay into real-time, ship-to-ship space combat. With that first Railjack demo shown at TennoCon one-and-a-half years ago, they turned a

Don’t get me wrong: I like Borderlands 3, but we’ve had a rocky relationship since launch. While I was initially extremely excited for it after seven years of waiting, I found it difficult to keep an interest once I had it in my hands and played it. It never really clicked for me, in part

While video games are full of passionate and excited people, there are certain people in the gaming industry that have a huge impact. Games are certainly more than one person, but sometimes there are names that bubble to the top. This isn’t about one single person, and we’d certainly love to honor everyone who helped

In the spirit of giving and holiday joy, Monster Hunter has something perfect for hunters looking for a light-hearted break from the super serious “save the New World” quest. We have a slew of seasonal activities for hunters in both Monster Hunter: World and Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, so grab a hot drink and listen

Inspired by a journey glitching beyond the world boundary of Red Dead Redemption 2, Ian MacLarty (the maker of Action Painting Pro and Catacombs Of Solaris) has created his own weird desert adventure to share with us all. Red Desert Render is a rolling landscape to explore with a few tasks to achieve and glitches

As 2019 wraps up, we’re all looking back at what we did this year. Nintendo is here to help you do that with a tool that compiles various statistics from your Switch activity over the course of the year. As you scroll down the page, Nintendo will give you various stats from your 2019 including

By Sherif Saed, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:07 GMT Capcom has gone on a bit of a trademark registration spree. Capcom has filed for trademark registrations in Japan for many of its classic franchises. The list, uncovered by Chizai Watch, includes names like Dino Crisis, Vapire (Darkstalkers), Bionic Commando and many more. As you can

We used to view the idea of gaming on a laptop as a virtual contradiction in terms, at least for anyone who didn’t want to invest in a so-called ‘desktop replacement.’ Over the last decade, we’ve seen a lot more laptops shipping with integrated graphics that are capable of at least some light gaming and

[embedded content] It’s that time of year where certain games celebrate Christmas. We’ve seen it in Overwatch, Rocket League and now it’s time for Overcooked 2 to receive some free content for holiday season. Similar to previous free seasonal events in the original game and last year’s update in the sequel, this new festive update