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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 2, 2025 How to Watch the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct on Sunday Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief This Sunday, June 8, it’s time for another huge double feature. The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 kicks off at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, immediately followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct – a deep-dive into the upcoming sequel to Obsidian Entertainment’s award-winning sci-fi RPG. These shows are always an exciting moment for all of us at Xbox, offering a look at brand-new games and updates from across our first-party studios…
Category: ID@XboxMay 30, 2025 Eternal Evil Hits Xbox Series X|S – Vampires Grow Stronger with Your Blood Imad Khalil, Partner, Human Qube Eternal Evil is a first-person survival horror game that captures the spirit of the genre’s roots. With two playable characters, limited resources, and a city on the edge of collapse, players must think fast, aim carefully, and survive the night. In Eternal Evil, Every Mistake Fuels Your Enemy Vampires don’t just attack – they feed. If you let them get close, they’ll grow faster, tougher and harder to kill. This survival horror FPS turns every encounter into a…
Last week, we asked you to highlight expressive faces from the games you love using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: MrioMoreno5 shares Ellie’s face lighting up in The Last of Us Part II. Couch_Gamer2k23 shares Maelle looking apprehensive in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 EmperorHal shares Deacon grimacing while holding a weapon in Days Gone Remastered xirantics shares Cait Sith with a cheeky grin in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. player1pov shares Raven looking fierce in Stellar Blade RhodWulfLeon shares Aloy looking wistful in the grass of Horizon Forbidden West Search #PSshare #PSBlog on Twitter or Instagram to…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for June 2 to 6 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published May 30, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox PC, 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! Zenless Zone Zero COGNOSPHERE PTE. LTD. ☆☆☆☆☆ 69 ★★★★★ Get it now Zenless Zone Zero – June 6Optimized for Xbox Series X|S Zenless Zone…
Category: Games How to Survive Your First Run in Elden Ring Nightreign Will Tuttle Published May 30, 2025 As the saying goes, the night is dark and full of terrors. That adage is proven true time and time again in Elden Ring Nightreign, the latest game from the merciless game design wizards at FromSoftware. Taking a page (or, rather, multiple pages) from their entire catalog dating back to the first Dark Souls, Nightreign somehow manages to offer an experience that simultaneously feels familiar and brand-new. A lot of the familiarity is due to the fact that the environments, weapons, and…
Category: GamesMay 30, 2025 Atomfall Story Expansion Arrives Next Week – Dare You Visit Wicked Isle? Ben Fisher, Head of Design, Rebellion For those of you who are new to the game, Atomfall is an action-survival mystery set in the UK. The story takes place five years after the real-life events of the 1957 Windscale Disaster in the North of England. In the world of Atomfall, a quarantine zone has been established around the Atom Plant and no one has been allowed in or out for five years. Life and society have changed and adapted under these trying circumstances and…
Cryptmaster, a narrative adventure where your words are your power, had a popular in-universe card minigame, “Whatever,” that you could play against certain characters to win more cards to add to your deck. First, let’s take a look at Whatever and understand how this deckbuilding minigame became so popular. In Whatever, your goal is to eliminate your opponent’s life before they destroy yours. This is accomplished by playing letter tabs (think the letters in Scrabble!) that match the letters in the names of the cards in your hand. If you complete a card’s name, then its ability goes into effect,…
From the first moment you step into the brutal lands of Shu, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers makes one thing clear: survival isn’t gifted, it’s earned. Throughout your journey, you’ll need to master an arsenal of weapons, spells, and abilities to overcome the harrowing challenges of this Soulslike action-RPG set in the waning years of the Ming dynasty. With the July 24 launch fast approaching, we’re giving PlayStation players a closer look at some of the game’s most defining tools of survival, power, and identity. We’ll highlight just a few of the devastating weapons, arcane spells, and unique abilities you’ll wield as…
Category: ID@XboxMay 29, 2025 Get Connected: Indie Selects for May 2025 Raymond Estrada, Deron Mann, Jairo Lopes, Steven Allen, Jessica Ronnell, Oscar Polanco – ID@Xbox Gaming Gurus Games are an excellent, though sometimes unexpected, medium for feeling connected. Obviously, there are online multiplayer games that by definition connect us, but that word, connection, has completely differing, nuanced meanings to us all. Whether you think of the connections we have to our culture, to nature, to warm memories, or even just enjoying quality time with friends and family, we seek connectivity to enrich our lives. Even though they were as different…
Category: GamesMay 29, 2025 Free Play Days – Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (MP & Zombies Only), The Division 2, ARK: Survival Ascended, and More Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox Clear out all your plans, we have got a jam-packed weekend with Free Play Days! ARK: Survival Ascended, Football Manager 2024 and Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday May 29 until Sunday, June 1. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is free for all Xbox members to try from May 30…