Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! EchoBlade Echoblade – July 3Optimized…
The SpongeBob SquarePants DLC for PowerWash Simulator, which brings with it a new mini-campaign, is out now. The SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack for PowerWash Simulator is out now. The DLC, which brings with it a host of new content for the game, also has a new launch trailer that you can check out below. The…
Giger-inspired first-person horror game Scorn is making its way on to the PS5 some time in 2023. Developer Ebb Software has announced that its H.R. Giger-inspired horror game, Scorn, is coming to the PS5. While there’s no release date for Scorn‘s PS5 release yet, the blog post making the announcement states that it is slated…
Check out the latest trailer for The Crew Motorfest, which gives us a look at some of the activities in the upcoming racing game. Ubisoft has released a new trailer for its upcoming racing game The Crew Motorfest. The trailer, dubbed the Festival Program Trailer, shows off some of the activities players can take part…
Swen Vincke also reveals that Larian Studios has been receiving support from Mirosoft and the Xbox Advanced Technology Group. Larian Studios recently announced some changes in plans for Baldur’s Gate 3’s launch, with its PC version’s release being brought forward by several weeks, and its PS5 launch being delayed by a few days. Of course,…
Story Mode will have more forgiving combat for the narrative-minded, while Hardcore Mode features more challenging battles. If you weren’t tired of hearing about Baldur’s Gate 3 en route to its full release, there’s more. In a new Steam post, Larian Studios revealed two additional difficulty options available at launch. There’s the standard Normal Mode,…
Creative director Sam Lake says the team created a new concept for Alan Wake 2 “between every game project we have made.” It’s no secret that Remedy Entertainment wanted to make a sequel to Alan Wake. We’re finally getting one when Alan Wake 2 launches for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC as a digital-only…
A pre-access beta for random applicants will run from July 26th to 27th. An open beta will then go live from July 28th to 30th. After a minor delay, Cygames’ online beta for Granblue Fantasy: Versus Rising will go live in late July for PS4 and PS5. A randomly selected group of applicants can gain…
Players who sign up will get exclusive access to preview builds of Stoic Studio’s upcoming co-op action-adventure game. The Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month was packed full of a number of major reveals and updates, and the first party front in particular saw games like Fable, Avowed, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, and Starfield showing…
Ebb Software’s long-in-development Giger-inspired horror game launched for Xbox Series X/S and PC in October last year. Ebb Software’s H.R. Giger-inspired survival horror game Scorn was on many of our radars for a number of years, and after years of development (many of which saw nothing but radio silence from the developers), the game finally…
Enjoy two completely different vibes this July with Games with Gold! On Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Live Gold members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. So will Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, who receive all the fantastic benefits of Gold plus access to hundreds…
Dungeons & Dragons is all about player freedom. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a big RPG. A great, big, uncompromising RPG! It shows in the numbers: more than 170 hours of cinematics and featuring three times more cinematic dialogue than all three The Lord of the Rings novels combined, a library of more than 600 spells…
World of Warcraft Classic is bringing permadeath to the game with the addition of new hardcore realms. Blizzard is bringing new ways to play hardcore mode in World of Warcraft Classic by bringing new Hardcore realms where every single player death will be permanent. Slated for launch later this Summer, the hardcore realms are coming…
A demo of the long-awaited real-time strategy title is also now available on the Switch eShop, and will allow save data transfers to the full game. Pikmin 4 has been a long time coming, but it’s finally almost here now, and ahead of its launch less than a month from now, Nintendo is continuing to…
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick believes Nintendo’s next console will have comparable hardware to Sony and Microsoft’s eighth-gen consoles. When the Wii launched in 2006, it brought about a significant shift in Nintendo’s approach to hardware, with the company choosing to stop focusing on power and technical capabilities and instead opting to create bespoke hardware…
New modes and improvements for parkour are also coming, and the Summer of Horrors event begins with new rewards to earn. Techland’s newest update for Dying Light 2 Stay Human goes live today and adds more horror with darker nights and roaming Volatiles. Titled “Good Night, Good Luck” after the first game, it ensures tenser…
“I grew up in a company that always believed that software should run in as many platforms as possible, and that’s just the Microsoft I grew up in,” says CEO Satya Nadella. For as long as gaming consoles have existed in competition with each other, their library of exclusive games that cannot be played elsewhere…
The hand-drawn co-op platformer launches on July 28th for Nintendo Switch and sees Mickey and friends retrieving three tomes. A new trailer is available for Disney Illusion Island, the four-player co-op platformer from Dlala Studios and Disney Interactive Studios. Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Minnie venture to the mysterious Monoth Island and are tasked with retrieving…
Mei’s slow effects are slightly reduced, while Cassidy’s Magnetic Grenade will no longer track you to the ends of the Earth. Blizzard Entertainment released a new patch for Overwatch 2, following several balance changes made when Season 5 went live. The latter introduced some CC changes for Cassidy, whose Magnetic Grenade could now hinder enemies…
The Dungeons and Dragons-based RPG has over 170 hours of cinematics and is roughly four times the size of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian Studios was slated to release on August 31st for PC and PS5. However, it’s been preponed for the former and will now launch on August 3rd for…
