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Category: GamesJanuary 23, 2026 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season 2 is here! Legend Edition Drops and Kim Jae Hoon Leads the Charge Yasuyuki Oda, Producer, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves SummaryFatal Fury: City of the Wolves Season 2 begins January 22, 2026.Kim Jae Hoon ignites Season 2 as its first fighter, leading the charge for an exciting lineup!The Legend Edition includes the base game plus Season Pass 1 & 2 for the ultimate experience. Get ready, fighters… The battle heats up as Season 2 of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves officially began on January 22, 2026!…
Category: Next Week on XboxJanuary 23, 2026 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for January 26 to 30 Will Fulton, 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, Xbox on 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! Highguard, Wildlight Studio’s debut free-to-play competitive shooter, releases on January 26, when we will update with a store link. Drop Duchy – Complete Edition The…
For the first time in the franchise’s history, Fable is coming to PlayStation 5 in Autumn 2026. Today we’re excited to reveal the most detailed look yet at our fresh take on Albion – a world that’s familiar in spirit, but newly reimagined for modern RPG players. Play Video Fable is not a remake or a sequel. It’s a new beginning for the franchise, designed to capture the heart and humor that defined the original trilogy while bringing contemporary storytelling, world design, and player agency to the forefront. Fans of the classic games will recognize the series’ signature blend of…
Category: Developer_DirectJanuary 22, 2026 Xbox Developer_Direct 2026 Recap: Everything Revealed, Including a Surprise New Double Fine Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Developer_Direct kicked off 2026 with new gameplay and developer insights for four games coming to Xbox, all of which players can enjoy this year. The development teams at Playground Games (who brought two games to the show), Game Freak and Double Fine showed off Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Beast of Reincarnation, and surprise announcement, Kiln. Each brought extended new footage, looks behind the development curtain and, of course, information on when you’ll be able to play the games…
Category: Developer_DirectJanuary 22, 2026 Fable: Answering the Big Questions After that Long-Awaited Developer_Direct Deep-Dive Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief SummaryFable, the new open world action-RPG from Playground Games, saw a first extended deep-dive at Developer_Direct todayFable comes to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate this Autumn. It will arrive as an Xbox Play Anywhere title.We caught up with Fable GM and Game Director, Ralph Fulton to get answers to some of our biggest questions. Today at Developer_Direct, we got our first in-depth look at Fable, the open world, action-RPG “new…
Salutations, budding crocksmiths, and welcome to the world of Kiln! A game that we like to refer to as a ‘pottery power-fantasy.’ It celebrates both Creativity and Destruction: the pleasure that comes from both making beautiful things…and then smashing those beautiful things to smithereens! In Kiln you’ll join a team of colorful spirits, and then you and your friends will face off against opposing teams in online arenas, where the ceramic creations you sculpt on a pottery wheel become the bodies you bring into battle. But before you can head into the fray to smash up the opposing team’s pots,…
Category: Developer_DirectJanuary 22, 2026 Creation and Destruction: How Double Fine’s Kiln Combines Pottery with Brawling Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor SummaryWe talk with Project Lead Derek Brand to learn more about Double Fine’s newest creation, Kiln, a team-based multiplayer party brawler – with pottery!Craft your own battler from clay within The Wedge and then literally shatter the competition across a variety of ancient, mythology-inspired maps.Kiln is launching Spring 2026, for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Play Anywhere, Handheld Optimized, PlayStation 5, Steam, and with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Molding a game into shape is a…
Category: Developer_Direct Beast of Reincarnation: A One-Person, One-Dog Action RPG Kota Furushima, Director at Game Freak Published January 22, 2026 SummaryAfter being revealed at Xbox Games Showcase last year, Developer_Direct brought us a first in-depth look at Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation.Learn more about this unique action-RPG, with a breakdown of its story, combat, world, and the interplay between protagonists Emma and Koo.Beast of Reincarnation comes to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud this Summer. It will be available with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on day one, and is an Xbox Play Anywhere and Handheld Optimized title.…
Category: Developer_DirectJanuary 22, 2026 Forza Horizon 6: More Details on The Country, The Culture and The Cars of Playground Games’ Japan Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor SummaryAt today’s Developer_Direct, we got an extended look at Forza Horizon 6, brought to life in the stunning landscapes of Japan. We spoke to Design Director Torben Ellert about building the landscape, the cultural inspirations, and the many new additions coming to the game. Arriving for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, Steam, and day one with Game Pass Ultimate. Forza Horizon 6 will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title. Coming to PlayStation 5 later in 2026. Forza Horizon 6 arrives later this…
Category: GamesJanuary 22, 2026 Free Play Days – Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, South Park: Snow Day, This War of Mine: Final Cut and Cult of the Lamb Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox Try something new this weekend with Free Play Days! Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, South Park: Snow Day, This War of Mine: Final Cut and Cult of the Lamb are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, January 22 until Sunday, January 25. How To Start Playing Scroll down and find and install the games on each of the individual game…