After the recent State of Play, the team are off to Hogwarts to discuss all the magical goings on they can expect from the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy. Our muggles - Gareth, James, Darren and Richard - also have a ton of other things that to chat about in TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 121, including a preview of LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, a hands-on with Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin and some considered thoughts regarding plenty of other games too. Be sure to give it a listen.
The story kicking around behind Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is an intriguing, highly interesting one, focusing on how the world's greatest detective got a bit of a leg up in life. But that base story has been well complemented by a whole host of expansions since launch, with the latest requesting you dial M for Mystery.
Each and every week the Xbox Deals With Gold Sale happily throws multiple discounts the way of Xbox players. This week that trend continues, but much of the focus is on those titles which will allow you to have some joyful family time.
Just one of four titles devs Fellow Traveller are releasing onto Game Pass as a day-one launch, Kraken Academy!! follows the tried and tested ‘anime school’ formula that has dominated some of the visual novel scene in recent months.
At times Curious Expedition 2 feels like a storytelling generator, an algorithm for creating wacky combinations of moments. That’s absolutely the recommendation that it sounds like.
Hunt: Showdown is a game that borders many genres - battle royale, tactical shooter, and horror - but really it sits as a part of a genre that doesn’t really have a name yet.
The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature has done pretty well on the awards front elsewhere, receiving critical acclaim when it released on other formats. It’s easy to see why too - I’ve loved what has been created here and the integration of the Mary Shelly Frankenstein story has been an inspired choice
The hump of any month typically means that the Xbox Games With Gold scheme comes to the fore, delivering out new freebies to Xbox gamers. That's certainly the case with March, yet as two new free titles get set to arrive for download, the Xbox Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale for March 15th-21st complements things, adding in a whole ton of bargain basement Xbox games.
Epic adventures come in many forms these days, giving you an important choice to make. Do you go off to explore the Lands Between in Elden Ring? Perhaps embark upon a journey across the ravaged environments of Horizon Forbidden West? Or maybe a trip to Tux and Fanny’s garden to find a way to inflate a football? You might think the latter is a joke, but Tux and Fanny professes to be an epic point and click adventure. Seriously. Can it live up to its own hype?
