Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches November 19, 2024, Microsoft announced during its Xbox Games Showcase.
The follow-up to 2020’s well-received Microsoft Flight Simulator is designed to take advantage of the latest technologies in simulation, cloud, machine learning, and graphics, Microsoft said. It’s all powered by an evolved Asobo Studio engine and built by French outfit Asobo Studio.
As an Xbox Game Studios title, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launches day-one across Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows 10/11, and Steam. For more, check out everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024.
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Microsoft has shown off the opening cinematic for Diablo 4’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, at its Xbox Games Showcase while also revealing the release date: October 8, 2024.
The expansion revolves around prime evil Mephisto, who as you’d expect has demonic plans for poor old Sanctuary. Vessel of Hatred continues the main story from Diablo 4, which launched to record-breaking sales back in June 2023. Diablo 4 is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game of all time, earning over $666 million dollars in sales in less than a week.
According to cinematic director Doug Gregory, the trailer shows Mephisto playing with the emotions of Neyrelle, who is shown in the trailer.
“The brutality is there, but if you don’t believe in the relationship...
Microsoft has shown off its Fable reboot once more, this time with a new trailer during its Xbox Showcase event.
Alongside a new look at Playground Games' upcoming reboot in the Fable franchise, we also learned that fans do not have to wait too long to play it, as Fable is set to release sometime next year. "What does it mean to be a Hero? Well, in the fairytale land of Albion, that is entirely up to you," Fable's product listing reads. "With a dark threat looming, and in a world where your reputation precedes you, your choices will change Albion forever."
Playground’s revival of the much-loved fantasy role-playing game series was announced in 2020 as a “new beginning.” 2023’s Xbox Game Showcase then gave us a better idea of what to...
Microsoft has announced Age of Mythology Retold launches on September 4, 2024, on Xbox Series X and S and PC.
The announcement came during Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase and alongside a new trailer, below.
Age of Mythology Retold is a strategy game from the developers behind the Age of Empires series. It’s set during a mythical age with gods, monsters, and humans colliding. Microsoft said it combines the best elements of Age of Mythology with modern real-time strategy design and visuals.
You choose your gods from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Atlantean pantheons, and summon lightning storms, quakes, and even the Nidhogg dragon. You can also call upon protective Dryads to help your people grow and prosper.
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Four years after its cinematic reveal at The Game Awards, Xbox has finally given us a proper look at its reboot of Perfect Dark at today's Xbox Games Showcase.
It featured a look at gameplay for the first-person shooter, as well as the welcome return of protagonist Joanna Dark.
"Earth has been struck by a series of disasters, bringing ecosystems around the world to the verge of collapse," Perfect Dark's YouTube description reads. "In this first look at gameplay, follow agent Joanna Dark as she hunts down the world's most wanted criminal, Daniel Carrington, to uncover the mysteries that threaten the lives of millions."
An Xbox Wire blog post adds additional context, answering numerous questions about Perfect Dark. Among other...
Compulsion Games arrived at today's Xbox Showcase with a new trailer for South of Midnight, showing off both new gameplay and some lively animation, complete with a couple of cool creatures.
Watch the trailer below. South of Midnight will arrive on Xbox Series X/S and PC sometime in 2025, although we're still waiting on a more specific release date.
South of Midnight was first unveiled during last year's Xbox Showcase, where it showed off a brief teaser. It's a brand-new IP from We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games, following protagonist Hazel in the American Deep South.
The new trailer also gives us a preview of what the plot might cover, as it opens with a voiceover of Hazel asking, "Do you think there's a chance my ma's still...
Silent Hill 2 is not the only remake Konami is planning to publish in the foreseeable future. The company once again shared another look at its upcoming remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, yet no release date was shared.
As part of Microsoft's annual Xbox Games Showcase, Konami shared another look at Metal Gear Solid Δ (pronounced Delta): Snake Eater, showcasing a new look at stealth takedowns and a lot of shooting when stealth is not an option.
Although today's Xbox Games Showcase did not provide fans with a release date for the game signs of a 2024 release window for Metal Gear Solid Delta first surfaced in January after Sony uploaded a YouTube video highlighting a slew of first and third-party games slated to release on...
During today's Xbox Games Showcase, Xbox and Blizzard unveiled the release date for the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft: The War Within. It's coming on August 26 of this year.
We've already gotten several looks at the adventures Blizzard is planning for us in Khaz Algar during our preview of the expansion. We learned that the expansion kicks off by wrecking a beloved in-game location, and did a deep Q&A with game director Ion Hazzikostas about everything we saw. Blizzard and Xbox are apparently "experimenting" with a paid early access period, though players don't seem thrilled at the prospect.
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We already knew that Bethesda Game Studios was working on a massive DLC expansion for Starfield, Shattered Space. Today, at the Xbox Games Showcase, the developer unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming expansion, which shows a new planet, creepy atmosphere, and intense gameplay.
The first DLC trailer for Shattered Space opened with the player's spaceship heading towards the planet Dazra, known as the hidden homeworld for the illusive faction House Va'Ruun. "Investigate a frightening cosmic threat, explore a new planet, and find unique weapons, spacesuits, and gear in this all-new adventure," Starfield's official website explains in a new page dedicated to the Shattered Space expansion.
Bethesda previously confirmed it was...
Nearly four years after its initial announcement, Undead Labs has provided a long-awaited update to State of Decay 3 with a new trailer...though there's still no release date.
State of Decay 3's latest trailer finally showed off a little bit of gameplay for the next installment in the MMO zombie franchise, showing a lot of brutal zombie hacking and slashing underlying an emotional monologue.
In an Xbox Wire blog post, we also learned that Undead Labs has teamed up with Fallout: New Vegas, Grounded, and Avowed developer Obsidian on what Undead Labs calls a "shared world feature," which aims to provide a more flexible online cooperate experience for State of Decay 3 players.
Undead Labs announced State of Decay 3 at an Xbox Games...
For years, Fallout fans have wanted to play as a ghoul in the mainline Fallout games. In early 2025, they’ll be able to realize that rather grim fantasy via an update coming to Fallout 76.
This technically won’t be a first for the Fallout franchise, as Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel let players play as a ghoul called Cain, one of six playable characters in the 2004 PlayStation 2 and Xbox spinoff. And in 2001’s Fallout Tactics, characters in multiplayer can be of any of the six races featured in the game, including ghoul. But this is certainly a first for the mainline Fallout games, which have so far forced players into creating human characters before booting them out into the wasteland.
In the Fallout universe, ghouls are former...
Id Software is keeping busy as the company unveiled the next installment in the Doom franchise, subtitled The Dark Ages.
As a previous Insider Gaming report noted, Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel that includes a dark fantasy with a medieval-inspired theme. It launches 2025 on Xbox Series X and S, PC, and PlayStation 5, continuing Microsoft's recent multi-platform push for Xbox games.
There had been rumors dating back to a leaked Microsoft court document published in 2023 that claimed that a new Doom game was in development back when it was previously known under the name Doom: Year Zero. Yet today's announcement is the first time id Software and Microsoft are properly revealing the project after an "IDKFA" trademark filing was...
Microsoft just wrapped up its June 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, revealing a smorgasbord of details about games new and old.
Highlights from the hour-and-a-half show include a nice selection of titles from Bethesda, Activision, and more, including sneak peek trailers for games like Doom: The Dark Ages, State of Decay 3, and, of course, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. There was a lot to cover across the Microsoft presentation’s runtime, but we managed to compile all of the highlights for you here. If you want to peek behind the curtain of the future of Xbox, look no further.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 kicks off the showcase with a gameplay trailer
As new Call of Duty games release every year, we get to see the new settings that millions of...
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 has suffered a significant leak just hours before the shooter was set to be detailed at Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase and subsequent Call of Duty Direct event.
The leak comes from Microsoft’s own Xbox Store, where at the time of this article’s publication a full description for the game was available. The Xbox Games Showcase kicks off at 10am PT today, June 9, with the Call of Duty Direct to follow immediately after.
The highlights here are the release date (October 25, 2024), campaign details, confirmation of 16 new multiplayer maps at launch, and two brand-new maps at launch for the return of Round-Based Zombies. There’s an open beta, too.
Elsewhere, the Black Ops 6 Steam store page has published the...
We’re all still reeling from finishing Baldur’s Gate 3 and wandering aimlessly through a digital world now, right? Well, Skald: Against the Black Priory wants to remedy that issue with its 80’s graphical stylings, incredible story, grimdark eldritch horror story, and some absurdly deep RPG mechanics. Skald has you journeying through a stunning 8-bit world […]
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State of Decay 3 will be one of the games shown off at tomorrow's Xbox Showcase, according to a fresh leak today.
As spotted by @gematsu on X/Twitter, developer Undead Labs seemingly accidentally leaked the news itself with a link to a press kit on its jobs page. The link, per gematsu, leads to a press release which reads, in part, "Undead Labs revealed its new brand during the highly anticipated Xbox Showcase presentation on June 9th in the newest State of Decay 3 trailer." Its new logo also appeared to leak.
The Undead Labs jobs page, however, was swiftly taken down once the leak was spotted. The website's homepage is still live, but the navigation bar at the top of the page, which includes "jobs," no longer has any hyperlinks...
IGN’s Summer of Gaming is in full swing, and as part of the festivities, indie developer platform indie.io took the stage at IGN Live for a showcase of their upcoming slate of games. If you’re not familiar with indie.io, you might know them as Freedom Games, publisher of popular titles like Symphony of War, Coromon, and Dark Deity.
They recently unveiled their new name, and they began their new era with a showcase that gave us reveals, trailers, and info for lots of upcoming games. If you weren’t able to watch it live, no worries. We have details on all the games that were featured during the show.
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It’s been another rough year for the games industry, with seemingly constant layoffs taking place and studios being shuttered. However, a new publishing label announced today hopes to help curb this trend by uplifting developers.
Today, European publisher MY.GAMES announced Knights Peak, its new publishing division "dedicated to supporting both emerging and established studios." Knights Peak also revealed its diverse initial roster of upcoming games and re-releases.
Among Knights Peak's announcements was the world premiere of Nikoderiko, a colorful platformer in the style of Banjo-Kazooie that's in development at VEA Games. It's headed to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC later this summer with music by Donkey Kong Country...
SNK has announced two characters for upcoming fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as part of Summer Game Fest 2024.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is the first new entry in the Fatal Fury series in 26 years, and follows the 1999 release of the much-loved Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It’s due out early 2025 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and Xbox Series X/S. Nintendo Switch and Xbox One miss out.
During Summer Game Fest 2024, SNK revealed newcomer Vox Reaper, described as a street assassin “on a mission," and confirmed the return of B. Jenet, a character from both Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters. Story-wise, Vox Reaper was hunting down Garou: Mark of the Wolves final boss Kain R...
First revealed in 2022, Starship Troopers: Extermination, the upcoming FPS based on the classic Starship Troopers movies, has been in early access for over a year. Now, it finally has a release date, and it's also coming to consoles with a new mode in store.
Today during IGN Live, development team Offworld (along with Sony Pictures Consumer Products) announced that Starship Troopers: Extermination is officially headed to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on October 11. It's also receiving a singleplayer campaign starring actor Casper Van Dien, who played protagonist Johnny Rico in the original films.
General John "Johnny Rico" will command players, along with their three NPC allies original to the game, in the campaign. The...
A Destiny 2 clan has completed The Final Shape expansion’s raid, unlocking a final mission for all players that brings to an end the series’ decade-long story that began back in 2014.
This article does not include any spoilers for Destiny 2 The Final Shape.
PC Gamer has a great rundown of events up to and including this moment, but for our purposes, we’ll just say that clan Parabellum completed The Final Shape raid before any other and in the process unlocked a 12-person final mission called Excision that acts as a fitting end to everything that has proceeded it over the last 10 years.
But it looks like there is an issue with Excision that is causing players in fireteams to be unable to view all cutscenes upon completion of the...
Showing off over 70 indie games with positivity and compassion at their core, today’s Wholesome Direct had quite a few neat games to keep an eye on, whether today marked their world premiere or just the debut of a brand new trailer. A handful of games even received surprise releases, and there are quite a few more demos out right now!
From a cheese-filled decorating simulator for mice to an exploration game where you play as a house on a date (and an impressive number of games with “lands” somewhere in their titles), here are 15 of our favorite games from this year’s Wholesome Direct.
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Receiving a world premiere at today’s Wholesome Direct, Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is an adorably named combination...
Helldivers 2’s next patch is a big one, as developer Arrowhead has promised it will make over 100 changes and fixes to the game.
In a post on the Helldivers Discord, community manager Twinbeard gave fans a tease for what to expect from the update, which all being well should be released next week.
As well as the over 100 changes and fixes, the patch will revert patrols and spawn rate after feedback from the community to changes made in previous patches.
There’s also the promise of invite-only lobbies, a fix for the unlimited grenade issue, and making super samples available at level six difficulty, which should make them easier to obtain by more players. Currently, super samples are locked to Helldivers 2 difficulties seven to nine...
After weeks of internet rumours, Sony’s unusual new game was finally made official at Summer Game Fest 2024: LEGO Horizon Adventures. Built brick-by-brick by main Horizon developer Guerilla in collaboration with Studio Gobo, it looks to be exactly what you’d expect from a LEGO tie-in: bright, charming, goofy, and full of things to smash and studs to collect. That’s been a recipe for success multiple times over for LEGO, but this time around I’m not so sure. Who exactly is LEGO Horizon Adventures for?
This isn’t LEGO’s first foray into the Horizon universe. The Danish toy company’s fantastic Tallneck kit, based on Horizon’s giraffe-like walking towers, is an almost 14-inch tall behemoth made of 1,222 pieces. If the brick count didn’t...
Once again, the annual Summer Game Fest showcase has concluded with a coda that should not be skipped: Day of the Devs. Now officially a non-profit, Day of the Devs is responsible for both a number of digital showcases throughout the year as well as physical shows of highly curated indie games, and their picks are impeccable as always.
This year, Day of the Devs included a whopping 21 games (last year’s had 15!), many of which were newly announced. They included cozy sims, unsettling horror games, arcade collections, RPGs, and far more. We couldn’t choose our favorites out of the bunch, so here’s the full rundown of everything you missed – but really, you should watch the showcase yourself too.
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Happy Volvy's birthday, I guess? Devolver Digital just wrapped its annual Devolver Direct which, among plenty of weirdness, included a number of big game announcements. We got two new game reveals, including one from the devs of Hyper Light Drifter, new DLC for games like Cult of the Lamb, and release dates for The Crush House and Anger Foot.
A time was certainly had by all, but if you missed the show and don't want to go back and watch a 30-minute video of a lonely man trying to prepare for a birthday party, here's a quick recap of the announcements:
Tenjutsu
The first of two brand new games announced during the event, Tenjutsu comes from Dead Cells designer Sébastien Benard. It's a "rogue-jutsu" game set in a crumbling city, where...
Black Myth: Wukong is now up for pre-order, including its planned physical and collector's editions. But it looks like none of the physical editions will actually include a physical edition. It's just a code in a box.
Today, alongside a new trailer shown at Summer Game Fest, developer Game Science put Black Myth: Wukong up for preorder and shared some details about how those preorders and physical editions will work. According to the developer, both the physical Deluxe and Collector's Editions will come with digital activation codes for the Digital Deluxe edition of the game, but will not have a disc.
In an FAQ, Game Science explained that this was due to limitations on resources, but said it was looking into releasing discs in the...
At Summer Games Fest 2024, Blumhouse Games officially unveiled its first six projects since launching its interactive division last year.
They are: Sleep Awake from developer Eyes Out, Fear the Spotlight from Cozy Game Pals, Crisol Theater of Idols from Vermila Studios, The Simulation from Playmestudio, Grave Seasons from Perfect Garbage, and Project C from Sam Barlow and Infinity Pool director Brandon Cronenberg.
You can watch the first looks below.
Blumhouse founder Jason Blum also took the SGF stage to talk about the slate, and promised that they're working on the Five Nights at Freddy's sequel - although it's likely he's talking about the previously announced film sequel to last year's horror hit.
Blumhouse is well-known in...
In December 2020, Keiichiro Toyama announced the establishment of Bokeh Game Studio, a new development company he founded together with select cohorts from his days at Sony’s now defunct Japan Studio. With Toyama’s resume including beloved titles like the original Silent Hill, Siren and Gravity Rush, many fans had been looking forward to seeing his next creation.
Now, four years later, Slitterhead is ready to release this November as Bokeh Game Studio’s debut title. I was fortunate enough to actually play the horror action adventure game, and you can read my impressions in our exclusive preview article. Following my session with the game, I interviewed Toyama as well as producer Kazunobu Sato and game director Junya Okura.
Many fans...
Monster capturing, gun shooting, crafting survival game Palworld made an appearance at Summer Game Fest today with news about an update, and it's a big one. On June 27, Palworld will see the Sakurajima update add a higher level cap, new Pals, a new raid, a new faction and boss, a whole new island, and more.
The Sakurajima update sounds like one heck of a doozy. In a new trailer, we got a look at a brand new island being added to Palworld with a distinctly Japanese theme. We see cherry blossoms, something that looks like a bath house, and plenty of architecture and nature pointing toward that theme.
The island comes complete with new Pals, new subspecies, new buildings, a new raid, a new stronghold called the Oil Rig, an arena, a new...