Author: Sarah Connor

Category: ID@XboxJune 10, 2025 Star Trucker – Get Cozy in Your Home Away from Home Mariela González – Marketing Manager, Raw Fury How’s it been rollin’, truckers? Today Star Trucker is getting a bit of tune-up with the release of the latest update, Plates & Parking. We’ve popped open the hood and tinkered around with some stuff, tightened up other stuff, and threw in a whole heap of new stuff on top of all that. Here’s a quick run-down on just some of the awesome new things that you’ll find when you get back into the wide open star system.…

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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 10, 2025 Aphelion: Learn More About the Exploration and Emotions Behind This Brand-New Sci-Fi Adventure Kati Bumbera (Lead Narrative Designer), Florent Guillaume (Creative Director), Don’t Nod Hello! We’re Kati and Florent, Lead Narrative Designer and Creative Director, from the Aphelion team at Don’t Nod. Now that you’ve seen our game’s world premiere during Xbox Games Showcase, we wanted to talk more about it – including its conception, story, and what you can expect in terms of gameplay before it launches in 2026. Aphelion is a linear action-adventure game set in space, blending exploration, traversal, stealth, and…

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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 10, 2025 Planet of Lana II: This Ambitious Sequel Doubles the Size and Scope of the Original Adam Stjärnljus and Klas Martin ErikssonGame Directors, Planet of Lana II SummaryGame Directors Adam Stjärnljus and Klas Martin Eriksson dive into the sequel to 2023’s indie darling Planet of Lana.Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase and will be released in 2026, and will be available day one on Game Pass.Revisit Lana and Mui’s adorable, puzzle-solving companionship in  new environments, stacked with fresh features and otherworldly creatures. When we began crafting…

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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 10, 2025 Invincible VS: A Brutal, Stylish, Accessible Fighting Experience Jeff Rubenstein SummaryWe went hands-on with Invincible VS, the new 3v3 tag fighting game based on the beloved comic book and TV series.We found a game that draws on fighting game classics, with it own unique twists.Invincible VS comes to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud as an Xbox Play Anywhere title in 2026. With decades of story across comics and TV, a roster of charismatic heroes and villains, and superpowered superhumans with a wide variety of brutal attacks and abilities, it was…

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Category: Games Xbox Games Showcase Deep Dive: The Outer Worlds 2 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published June 9, 2025 Related Stories for “Xbox Games Showcase Deep Dive: The Outer Worlds 2” Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseA Deeper Look at High On Life 2 – Coming to Game Pass This Winter! Category: ID@XboxKreatureKind: Meet the Heroes who are Saving Magic by Debating Monsters Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseA Grounded Take on Dark Fantasy & Vampires – Story, Design and Combat in The Blood of Dawnwalker The post Xbox Games Showcase Deep Dive: The Outer Worlds 2 appeared first on Xbox Wire. Go to…

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Category: ID@XboxJune 9, 2025 KreatureKind: Meet the Heroes who are Saving Magic by Debating Monsters Anna Högberg Jenelius, Indie Game Developer, Valiant Game Studio KreatureKind, the wholesome, card-battling adventure where words replace swords, will launch on Xbox Series X|S on June 27, 2025. This cozy roguelite deckbuilder invites players into a hand-drawn world where kindness and compassion might just save magic. Debate Your Way Through a Monster-Filled World In KreatureKind, you will not be swinging swords or casting destructive spells. Instead, you build your decks with compassion-powered cards designed to charm, reason with, and reassure quirky and lovable monsters. The…

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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 9, 2025 A Deeper Look at High On Life 2 – Coming to Game Pass This Winter! Jordyn HalpernMarketing Manager, Squanch Games SummaryThe latest title from Squanch Games, High On Life 2, will be released this winter!High On Life 2 will be available for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Play Anywhere, and day one with Game Pass.Peek into the all-new world of High On Life 2 with a deeper look into the game’s debut trailer. Return to the hilariously action-packed world of High On Life in the upcoming intergalactic adventure from…

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The PlayStation Blog crew returned to Los Angeles to attend another Summer Game Fest Play Days. The team got some one-on-one time with a diverse selection of upcoming PS5 games. Here are the highlights! Crimson Desert | Coming 2025 Publisher: Pearl Abyss | Developer: Pearl Abyss | PS5 Play Video Crimson Desert is bringing deep, complex melee combat to its epic open world. In combat, players can chain together kicks, grapples, strong slices, leaping attacks, and much more in a deep, layered combat system that feels more like Soul Calibur than Dark Souls. The action is fast and acrobatic, and…

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Category: Xbox Games ShowcaseJune 9, 2025 A Grounded Take on Dark Fantasy & Vampires – Story, Design and Combat in The Blood of Dawnwalker Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, Creative Director at Rebel Wolves As we announced during the recent Xbox Games Showcase, our team at Rebel Wolves is working on our debut single-player, story-driven game: The Blood of Dawnwalker.  Following the reveal, I want to shed some light on the key elements that make this game truly ours, from the setting and plot, through our unique storytelling approach which we call the Narrative Sandbox, to gameplay systems.  The Blood of Dawnwalker is set…

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