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[Editor’s Note: This is a spoiler-free review.] Twelve Minutes doesn’t seem all that unique on paper. When you boil it all down, it’s a fairly traditional point-and-click adventure game that takes place in one setting. But where things get interesting is that it’s also a time-loop mystery, so even though you have all of your

Howdy hunters! Autumn is right around the corner, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally welcome PlayStation fans to Rancho del Arroyo, the brand-new desert reserve for the immersive hunting game theHunter: Call of the Wild. Inspired by the grandiose Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, this stunning reserve includes five unique new animal species

You can always beat the wolves, right? They’re usually the next rung up from rats; even at their very hardest, they’re maybe the fourth distinct creature thing a trainee adventurer has to slash into giblets on their way to bigger and better things. These grey, hairy training wheels might do a bit of snarling, a

Coming hot off the heels of the events surrounding Pokémon Go Fest 2021, Hoopa and its antics are continuing into a new season of content for the mobile app. Dubbed the Season of Mischief, trainers will complete Special Research objectives to find the smaller version of the legendary djinn, Confined Hoopa. Starting on September 1

Bungie has temporarily disabled both the Hunters’ Radiant Dance Machines Hunter leg armour and the Titans’ Wormgod Caress in Destiny 2 after it was discovered both were conferring uninentional bonuses to players in the Crucible and Gambit modes. Radiant Dance Machines (a new Hunter exotic) have been disabled in both the Crucible and Gambit modes

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Image: Microsoft)Wednesday’s Xbox and Bethesda Showcase revealed that Microsoft Flight Simulator, the hyper-realistic sim that allows you to fly around the world, will soon feature a competitive multiplayer mode. Beginning this fall, players will have the option of racing against

Image: Freedom Games / Sword & Axe LLC Fans of turn-based tactical RPG might want to be on the lookout for Dark Deity, developed by Sword and Axe and published by Freedom Games. The “highly-requested” Nintendo Switch version was this week confirmed for a 2022 launch. The game apparently draws inspiration from Nintendo’s Fire Emblem

Bravely Default 2 is less than a week away from releasing on the PC, but if you have a Nintendo Switch, the game has been available on the console since February of this year. Overall, the game received a positive reception from reviewers. In the 6 months since the game’s release, however, sales data has

The Falconeer was an adventure game that released in 2020 in which we got the chance to explore a vast ocean landscape (the Great Ursee) littered with settlements, whilst engaging in regular aerial dogfights with enemy factions. It was a game we were fairly fond of here at TheXboxHub, giving it a solid 3.5/5 when

Watch Dogs: Legion crosses over with Assassin’s Creed today, adding a modern-day Assassin named Darcy to DedSec’s ranks via the Season Pass. Arriving as part of Title Update 5.5 on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Darcy is accompanied by a slew of free additions for all Watch Dogs: Legion players, including new missions, new PVP modes,

It may have been 16 years since the first Psychonauts came out for us, but for Raz and his friends it’s only been a couple days. Psychonauts 2 picks up right where the 2005 original (and 2017 VR follow-up The Rhombus of Ruin) left off, and it does so in a way that feels fresh

Elysium Game Studio has announced Shadow of Conspiracy: Section 2 – a narrative-driven third and first-person action role-playing game, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Shadow of Conspiracy is a thriller set in dystopian 2087 Berlin, where players have to investigate a police chief’s murder. Over the course of the investigation, players

How do you stay alive in a world that devolved into Modern Dark Ages? You need your skills, your weapons and your wits. Dying Light 2 Stay Human’s parkour and creative combat mechanics let you combine the three to outsmart and outpower your foes. Let’s start with parkour. It’s the basis of your survival in

WD makes a truly incredible number of hard drives and SSDs, and today one of them is on sale: the WD Elements 14TB external hard drive. This incredibly massive drive has been reduced from £311 to £247, a 21% reduction on one of the very largest external hard drives available.

Update:Niantic is reversing course on one of the most controversial changes made to Pokémon Go during the pandemic. The range to which players can interact with Pokéstops and gyms is again expanding from 40 meters to 80. This change was announced in a series of tweets on Pokémon Go’s official channel and comes just weeks

A new Age of Empires 4 video was shown off during gamescom Opening Night Live. In it, we were given a look at the Holy Roman Empire faction and the Rise of Moscow campaign. [embedded content] To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings One of the most beloved real-time strategy games

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a tough couple of years for PC gamers hoping to score a new GPU. A confluence of events including the pandemic and cryptocurrency price spikes have caused supply to dwindle, but those of you in the US have

Image: Woodhouse Pictures Rare’s seminal N64 shooter GoldenEye 007 is coming up to its 25th birthday, and for a whole generation of players, it remains a pivotal experience in their gaming lives – a fact that was playfully acknowledged by Jim Miskell’s 2017 ‘mockumentary’ Going For Golden Eye, which focused on the fictional Golden Eye

It has been a while since we have gotten some new information on The Wonderful 101: Remastered & Sol Cresta, two games that PlatinumGames had previously announced. The former released on the Nintendo Switch last year, and the latter is releasing on Nintendo’s console later this year. Well, PlatinumGames has announced that, on August 27th

It’s impossible to overstate the influence James Cameron’s Aliens has had over video games. From rowdy hoots and hollers of Halo‘s interplanetary Marines to layered rows of gnashing insectoid teeth in Contra, the medium owes a lot to the legendary 1986 film, and Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a long-overdue interactive cover song of sorts. This

Electronic Arts has announced that five of its patents related to accessibility technology in video games are now free for other developers and publishers to use. Under its new “patent pledge,” EA promises not to charge anyone for taking advantage of its patented technology or take legal action against such parties provided that they don’t

Last week, we asked you to find reflections in the game of your choice and share them using #PSshare #PSBlog. From rippling water and shiny objects to confrontations in front of a mirror, here are this week’s highlights:  Ratchet and Clank are reflected in the glass of Rivet’s space helmet in Ratchet & Clank: Rift

We’ve already found out courtesy of host man Geoff Keighley that the Gamescom Opening Night Live will be a two hour long showcase event. As ever with Keighleyvents there are guaranteed to be tons of trailers and some world premiers and exclusive looks at cosmetic crossover items or something of the like. Also as usual,

Many anime fans, but new and old, have at the very least heard of the classic Cowboy Bebop series. This popular space western narrative first saw the light of day back in 1998 and has remained a staple with fans and an inspiration to other anime creators since then. Now there’s an all-new way to

A performance patch is coming to Resident Evil Village on Steam next week, and it promises to make the game run that little bit better on PC. In a tweet via the developer’s social media channels, Capcom said this update explains that the new update is being pushed out in order to fix an issue

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Bethesda announced a remastered version of Quake, with a number of goodies and quality of life upgrades for anyone who feels like revisiting the classic title. The remaster isn’t just a repackaging of the original game; it includes a new

Games are often about escapism, and Garden Story offers yet another way to lose yourself in the virtual world: the hero protagonist is a grape, burdened with great purpose. Concord (see what they did there) is but a youngling, wrenched from the Kindergarden to fulfil the role of Guardian after their predecessor decides to leave

Netherrealm Studios had been supporting Mortal Kombat 11 for a couple of years. However, in July, the studio announced that support for the game would be coming to an end. Since then, speculation on what Netherrealm’s next game has been occurring, due in part to rumors of the studio working on a Marvel title. However,

It’s been 2 years since Vigor first rocked up into the world, but in that time some 10 million players have spent time immersed in the Norwegian looter shooter. Today as the team at Bohemia Interactive celebrate those milestones, Season 9: Stalkers goes live, for free on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch.  Rolling out today for

Will you ensure the safety of The Bridge, or follow Jones’ footsteps to enforce its demise? Everyone has a role to fill in Fortnite Impostors. Impostors is an all-new Fortnite experience where players assuming the role of Agents aim to maintain order at the IO’s top secret facility: The Bridge. An Impostor (or two Imposters