Episode 199 of TheXboxHub Official Podcast is up, live and ready for your listening. This time the guys chat over the best new games set to release on Xbox throughout May 2024.
In this article, I’ll attempt to suggest cars and tunes for you try out, all as you look to complete the Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist Weekly Challenges for Series 33 Autumn, in the hope of getting our hands on some exclusive cars.
One of the latest to go down the Game Preview and Game Pass route is that of Lightyear Frontier, a game that takes farming sim elements but puts it into space.
We begin this week with the news that Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring as president of Nintendo of America effective in April. We take a moment to reflect on his career and celebrate his contributions to gaming and his role as a positive force in the gaming world. Also, we talk in-depth about both Crackdown 3 and Anthem, and our experiences so far with each. It's not all bad, as there are positives for both games.
With the release of classic Final Fantasy titles now starting to arrive on Xbox One, a lot of you may be wondering ‘What is Final Fantasy?’ Well, we want to help you out, and our latest Let’s Play of Final Fantasy IX on Xbox One does just that!
Last year we found out that Respawn’s Star Wars game is called, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Along with a few little titbits of information, we have an expected release date of sometime in Fall, 2019. Other than that, this game is a bit of a mystery. So, what should we expect from it?
This week, Activision announced over 800 jobs were being cut during their quarterly earnings call. We talk about the decision, as well as the outrage from some of the gaming community and the reality that our favorite hobby is also a huge industry where financial results often come first for publishers.
For my second interview at Yorkshire Games Festival 2019 (you can read the first here), I had the opportunity to pick the brains of Andreas Öjerfors, senior game designer at Machinegames about his time on the Wolfenstein series to date, and an insight into the future.
It’s tough to know where to start when describing Rami Ismail. As Xbox owners, you may not have even heard the name, but undoubtedly will have had some exposure to his work, directly or indirectly. His work transcends almost every aspect of gaming: the business, profiling and promotion, tutoring and more than a little development. His purpose at the Yorkshire Games Festival is to help nurture future generations of developers by giving one of his legendary talks.
As I'm sure you are aware, the juggernaut that is The Division is still going strong, with healthy player counts and continued support even to this day. However, as I'm also sure you are aware, the march of time waits for no man or game, and The Division 2 is gearing up to launch. In readiness, Ubisoft have decided to run down the ‘Private Beta’ route giving gamers the chance to check out the general state of affairs. With that in mind, I present to you my impressions of the state of the game, and thoughts about the beta in general.
Outward is fast approaching a release on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, bringing with it a brand new open-world fantasy adventure game that will be found featuring deep simulation and huge amounts of immersion. In fact, it promises players that they will get to experience an entirely new kind of RPG! Sounds good eh? We think so and when we had the opportunity to quiz the creative lead on the game, we couldn't let the chance pass us by. Guillaume Boucher-Vidal was more than happy to let us know more about Outward!
Following the release of the Resident Evil 2 remake, and my completion of all three Spyro games on the Reignited Trilogy (including every achievement, of which I would and will do again in a heartbeat), I have witnessed many ensued discussions regarding how ‘we’ should review remakes and how ‘we’ should regard them considering that they are based on a game [or games] that existed prior, and that most of the assets within the game(s) already existed to some degree.
Ken Levine helmed much of the creative direction of two of the original Bioshock games: Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite. Whilst Bioshock 2 served as an excellent sequel to the original Bioshock, the one thing that it did lack was an epic plot twist. Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite included memorable characters, original environments, and magnificent philosophical conceptual exploration.
Leaving behind such an impactful legacy, considering that Bioshock was years ahead of its time when it released in 2007, and that both Columbia and Rapture contain not only eye-catching environments, but impressionable political commentary not found in many other video games period, begs the question as to how 2K games will move forward with this series in particular.
Pumped BMX Pro is gearing up to release on Xbox One, with the game debuting in Xbox Game Pass alongside the usual standard launch. After finding the Pumped BMX series, and Pumped BMX+ in particular, hugely entertaining games, our excitement meters are high for this latest edition. Seems like the perfect time to sit down with the creator of the Pumped series of games, Adam Hunt, to quiz him about not just Pumped BMX Pro, but the series in general. He was only too happy to oblige!
Speculation around the announcement of the 7th Splinter Cell game seems to have reached new peaks recently, with many predicting confirmation of the project's existence is imminent.
In the meantime, it seems like an opportune moment to recall exactly how we got here. So sit back, slip your night vision goggles on and stock up on sticky shockers, it's time to head back to where it all began.
When the DC universe is in trouble, it’s usually left to the Justice League’s finest of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to save the day. Occasionally though, those who threaten to bring harm to the world are of a more supernatural disposition and so a specialist group, a sub-division of sorts, get called upon to eliminate such villainy. They are the lesser known comic book characters of Justice League Dark and a few of this ragtag bunch have wound up as DLC for LEGO DC Super-Villains. Is the Justice League Dark Character Pack worth your cash though?
Games like the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Kingdom Hearts, and the original Halo trilogy all helped shape my gaming interest and passion for the medium. One game in particular that I adore though seems to get quite the amount of flack from current gamers: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. While I'm sure nostalgia helps with my admiration towards the game, it took me off guard when I noticed the current amount of negativity surrounding a game that I feel I could boot up at any point and enjoy it just as much today as I did almost a decade and a half ago.
