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Xbox Game Pass—Microsoft’s Netflix-style games subscription service—is coming to mobile devices this September. The announcement was made on an official blog post, which stated that the service will launch for Android devices and tablets on September 15. The post reads, “As the world around us changes and entertainment is readily available no matter the device, it’s our vision to make games accessible in a variety of scenarios. All the experiences you expect on Xbox and your gaming profile travel with you on mobile, including your friends list, achievements, controller settings, and saved game progress....

Microsoft has confirmed the full lineup of Xbox Game with Gold titles for January 2019. Celeste is the big one for next month, and will be available to snap up for free between January 1-31, 2019. The other Xbox One title up for grabs is WRC 6, which is free during the period January 16 – February 15. As per usual, there’s a pair of Xbox 360 games also on the cards....

Following a record breaking Q1 last year, Microsoft has announced a 13% drop in Xbox gaming revenue for its latest quarter, but says that Game Pass subscriptions reached “new highs”. In its latest earnings report covering the current financial year’s second quarter, ending 31st December 2022, Microsoft confirmed a 13% reduction in gaming revenue compared to the same quarter last year (thanks Windows Central), highlighting declines in demand for first-party content and lower monetisation in third-party content....

Microsoft confirms that the Xbox Series X will launch with thousands of games. The company shared more about the Xbox Series X at The Game Awards 2019, officially confirming the name of the console and letting fans see what it would look like. Speaking to GameSpot, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that the Xbox Series X team “wanted to make sure we had that, day one, we could deliver on the compatibility promise....

With only a few weeks until its January release date in Japan, SEGA’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon has uploaded one final trailer for players to view. The video features in-game footage of the protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, and his rag-tag band of supporting characters in a re-imagining and celebration of the franchise’s 15th anniversary. As the eighth entry in the series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is set to bring many departures from the previous games....

One of the biggest changes in the video game industry over the last 10 years has been the polarization of budgets. In recent times, there’s been a real lack of anything that isn’t either a AAA game or an indie title. A game either has a huge budget and is expected to conquer the world, or it’s an indie title that is funded by its handful of developers who risk everything to complete their passion project....

If you remember Xena: Warrior Princess, you probably do for a few reasons. The tiny, tight-fitting costumes worn by its lead characters. That circular spinny thing Xena threw at people (it’s called a chakram). Xena’s fabulous ululating war cry. The bizarre mish-mash of history the show threw together (though the producers knew their stuff, deep down – Rob Tapert later produced the rather more accurate Spartacus for STARZ). What you might not remember, or might not know if you’re unfamiliar with the show, is just how important and ground-breaking Xena was when it first aired between 1995 and 2001....

Windbound, from developer 5 Lives Studios and publisher Deep Silver, released its announcement trailer today. It shows off a mix of gameplay, ranging from gathering to crafting to combat. There are a few echoes of other games in the trailer, but one thing’s for certain: it’s quite pretty. Take a look at the trailer below. Those islands are forbidden, see? Windbound tells the story of Kara, who winds up shipwrecked on the Forbidden Islands....

Overwatch 2 is well into its first beta, with a ton of new changes and reworks to existing heroes. Character balance is a tricky beast, and this first Overwatch 2 PVP beta patch set out to correct a lot of the issues that came with these new changes. Additionally, the new Overwatch 2 patch fixed a ton of different bugs, including one where the dastardly hamster Wrecking Ball could literally wreck your game....

Details about upcoming WWE 2K22, including its cover, have reportedly leaked online. According to the Twitter account of TechnikNews, Rey Mysterio will allegedly grace this year’s cover. The site also intimates that pre-orders will go live “soon”, but stopped short of providing a definitive date - although we already knew that it’ll be sometime in March. But that’s not all that’s leaked. According to TechnikNews, a three-day Early Access period will go live on 8th March, and the WWE 2K22 Deluxe Edition reportedly includes both the Undertaker Immortal Pack and the Season Pass (thanks, VGC)....

The Fall Dashboard Update for the Xbox 360 has been available for a lucky few who signed up and were accepted for the beta program, but they have been unable to join their friends’ parties who weren’t fortunate enough to gain early access to the new dashboard. Everyone has been waiting for the Fall Update to hit, but (as Microsoft has just announced) it looks like no one will have to wait much longer....

Microsoft has begun rolling out the latest system update for Xbox One. Available to all Xbox One users today, the May system update introduces the option to send voice messages to all Xbox One and Xbox 360 users, and power the console on or off directly through SmartGlass. Dedicated servers for party chat will also be rolling out to all Xbox One users “over the coming weeks”, too, which should help fix connectivity issues experienced by some players....

Sega has today put out a new video for the upcoming Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, the latest entry in the long running series which gives us a brief overview of how Kazuma Kiryu got to where he is by the events of this game. In addition, Localisation Producer on the game Scott Strichart has posted on the PlayStation blog some of the challenges of localising the game for a Western audience, including how UI elements had to be adjusted for a baby comforting mini-game, just in case you thought the series had ditched its many weird and wonderful side-activities....

Rust, a survival game by Facepunch Studios, was released in early access in 2013 and fully released in 2018. But now, it has earned $1 million on Steam twice in a week which is mind-boggling. It’s natural that gamers are wondering – why is everyone playing Rust again? Why now? If you want to know why Rust is so popular right now, we’ll explain it in this article. Why is Rust So Popular right Now?...

Ever since the premiere of the first season of Netflix’s The Witcher just a month ago, the show garnered millions of viewers and has easily spread the popularity of the franchise from the video game series to the world of streaming. With the second season set to begin production this year, the casting of Vesemir in The Witcher, Geralt’s mentor and witcher friend, is going to have a lot of eyes on it....

Wii U TVii, an entertainment service that lets Wii U owners use the GamePad as a second screen to browse information about TV shows, films and sports currently broadcasting on cable and satellite channels, has seen its European launch cancelled after Nintendo admitted to struggling with the complexities of the project. “At Nintendo of Europe, we continue to challenge ourselves to develop a range of entertaining experiences for all to enjoy,” reads a statement posted by Nintendo of Europe....

Another Fire Emblem is on the horizon with Fire Emblem Engage arriving soon, amd the more hardcore fans of the game will already be preparing for the chance that that they may lose some of their unit. One of the things the Fire Emblem franchise is so well known for is the risk of losing your units in battle, but permanently. In the past there have been two ways of playing Fire Emblem, Casual Mode with no Permadeath and Classic Mode that includes Permadeath....

WWE 2K20 is set to launch on October 22, and it’s bringing with it one of the most unique modes that we’ve seen for a professional wrestling game. The WWE 2K20 Originals mode transforms the world of the WWE to fit a variety of different themes, and now all four WWE 2K20 Originals have been revealed. We’ve known about the Bump in the Night DLC for quite some time, but now we can confirm that it will be followed by Wasteland Wanderers in late 2019, as well as Southpaw Regional Wrestling and Empire of Tomorrow at an undetermined point in the future....

The mystery of Aaron Greenberg’s tweet has finally been solved, and the result is a new Xbox & Bethesda developer stream happening near the end of the month on Jan. 25. This is the right move from Xbox after being an almost complete no-show the last couple of months of 2022 after a somewhat disappointing year. According to Xbox Wire, this livestream is referred to as a Developer_Direct, and will be “presented by the game creators themselves from studios including Arkane Austin, Mojang Studios, Turn 10 Studios, and ZeniMax Online Studios....

The Xbox Series X has been revealed and speculation has begun about what games will be launching on the next-gen hardware. Fans hopes are at an all-time high and their minds are letting them drift as they dream about sequels to some of their favorite games on Xbox One. It seems that the platform will likely see follow-ups to both critical darlings and franchises that haven’t been seen again for several years....