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Hideo Kojima took to the stage at SXSW today and – joined by some special guests – discussed new details about Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Those details included the reveal of the game’s release date: June 26, 2025. To mark the announcement – and pre-orders going live March 17* – attendees enjoyed a first look at a special Kojima-directed Pre-Order trailer, which you can watch in full below. Play Video Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will launch in a range of different versions. This includes a Collector’s Edition, which will be available to pre-order directly…
Category: GamesMarch 7, 2025 Core Keeper’s Creepiest, Crawliest Boss Stomps into the Sandbox Adventure Laert Karalliu, Product Manager, Fireshine Games Explorers! Gear up for a supersized battle against the creepiest and crawliest bosses of them all: Nimzura, Queen of the Burrowed Sands, featured in Core Keeper’s new Bags & Blasts free content update. If you’ve yet to discover this underground epic, Core Keeper is a sandbox adventure game that you can play as a solo explorer, or together with friends in 2-8-player online co-op. Best of all it’s available now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and with…
Last week, we asked you rewind back to the summer of 1995 and share moments from Lost Records: Bloom & Rage using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares Swann, Autumn, Nora, and Kat crossing a forest log in the setting sun treeblazah shares Autumn and Kat blowing out dandelions. Beat_Minerz shares Nora sitting on a picnic bench with a skateboard sic.parvis.magna.sfd shares Kat with her concert makeup on MrioMoreno5 shares a picture perfect moment of Swann’s cat gazing at a bird in the window tlouphotographer shares a close up of Swann’s concert eye makeup Search #PSshare…
Category: AccessoriesMarch 7, 2025 Celebrating Women in Gaming: Pioneers & Innovators Team Xbox SummaryEmpowering Future Generations: Xbox promotes a welcoming and diverse gaming industry where women continue to lead and inspire the next wave of creators to push boundaries and innovate. Discover Games Shaped by Women Creators: Highlighting iconic games and franchises created by women developers, showcasing how their unique perspectives have shaped the gaming world we know today. Spotlighting Women Gaming Pioneers: Celebrating the groundbreaking contributions of women like Roberta Williams who have redefined gaming through their innovation in game design, storytelling, and development. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s…
Magic, monsters, and… metalwork? Epic action-adventure comes in many fantastical forms, but MercurySteam’s forthcoming voyage into an all-new world of fantasy-based peril has a particularly unique approach. Yes, there’s the mysterious and slightly brooding protagonist – Aran de Lira – on a quest to defeat a brutal, army-wielding queen hell-bent on destruction. Play Video And yes, there’s a plucky squire – Adso – acting as Aran’s studious companion, documenting your journey to the Royal Palace, while helping solve puzzles and offering enemy-defeating strategies and quips. But also, shining within this rich quest promising anything between 60 to 80 hours of…
Category: Next Week on XboxMarch 7, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for March 10 to 14 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Xbox App on Windows 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! Beyond the Ice Palace 2 PQube Ltd ☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ $19.99 $17.99 Pre-order Beyond the Ice Palace 2 – March 11Optimized for Xbox…
Category: GamesMarch 7, 2025 Atomfall’s Unique Approach to Quests Makes You a Post-Apocalyptic Rural Detective Danielle Partis My personal experience with Atomfall improved tenfold the moment I stopped trying to follow the quest line in a traditional sense. This might sound weird, but stay with me. During a recent hands-on session, we had the chance to explore a section of Atomfall ahead of its launch later this month, and get to grips with how the game redefines traditional RPG questing. Atomfall takes place in an alternate version of a 1960s Cumbria, UK, and presents a fictionalized retelling of events following…
Trailmakers has since its conception aimed to be the ultimate sandbox vehicle builder game for adventurers. For nearly a decade, we have built a successful game with a strong community of enthusiastic and talented builders. Our players are dedicated to building and sharing cool vehicles, without any constraints or anyone to tell you what to do – but we wanted to make sure that even more people were able to play our game! This presented us with an opportunity to bring the Trailmakers experience to people who don’t usually play sandbox games. Our ambition with Trailmakers 2.0 – Pioneers, is…
Category: GamesMarch 6, 2025 How WWE 2K25’s Island is Breathing New Life into Wrestling Video Games Malik Prince, Xbox Communications Manager SummaryWWE 2K25’s The Island is a first of its kind, free-roam experience for the series. On the latest episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, Creative Director Lynell Jinks explained how this new feature came about. WWE 2K25 launches early access on March 7 with the Deadman Edition and The Bloodline Edition. Players around the world can jump in on release day, March 14. For decades, video games and WWE have formed an undeniable bond. Beyond being the most painless and advisable…
Category: GamesMarch 6, 2025 Unfinished Business: Cyborgs, Goblins and Lovecraftian Horrors Reign at Nacon Connect 2025 Cryss Leonhart, Lead Community Manager, Nacon A famous philosopher once said that cosmic forces coalesce during each rotation of the Earth around the Sun, calling forth a Nacon Connect from the aether. I for one, am not a man who questions the wisdom of unnamed famous philosophers or things that strangers tell me on the internet. Jokes aside, what I can tell you is that the 2025 edition of Nacon Connect was an absolute banger. And for those of you who missed it, let…