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Category: GamesAugust 7, 2025 Free Play Days – The Elder Scrolls Online, PAW Patrol World, Cassette Beasts and Souldiers Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox August is here, and there’s plenty to explore with Free Play Days! Souldiers is available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday August 7 until Sunday, August 10. The Elder Scrolls Online is free for all Xbox members to try from August 5, 10 am ET through August 12, am ET (Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership not required). Paw Patrol World and Cassette Beasts are available…
Ding ding! Time is up and we’re ready to pull our final party game creation out of the oven for a piping hot reveal. Cookie Haus is the fifth and final party game coming this fall in The Jackbox Party Pack 11. Play Video Welcome to Cookie Haus Cookie Haus is a brand new drawing game that puts an emphasis on silliness and simplicity. In this game, you are a decorator at a bakery undergoing some creative chaos. Patrons come in to give you their decoration requests and you have a limited amount of time to design a cookie that…
Category: GamesAugust 6, 2025 The War Within: Ghosts of K’aresh is Now Live! Danielle Partis The post The War Within: Ghosts of K’aresh is Now Live! appeared first on Xbox Wire. Go to Source (xbox.com)
Category: Xbox InsiderAugust 6, 2025 Gaming Copilot (Beta) Begins Rolling Out to Xbox Insiders on Game Bar Today Taylor O’Malley, Principal Program Manager at Xbox Gaming Copilot (Beta), the ultimate gaming sidekick, is available on Game Bar for Windows PC for Xbox Insiders enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview beginning today. Gaming is one of the only forms of entertainment where you can get stuck, and Gaming Copilot is designed to help get you past those obstacles so you can spend more time playing the games you love. This companion makes gaming with Xbox more seamless and personalized, helping you…
NBA 2K26 tip-off on PlayStation 5 is less than a month away; bringing a host of exciting gameplay innovations and presentation enhancements in the latest iteration of the NBA 2K franchise. This year, the Visual Concepts development team made another Eurostep forward in lifelike animations and authenticity, with heightened player fidelity, palpable arena atmosphere, energetic commentary and captivating pageantry—let’s get into it. Player fidelity The weight of the moment combined with the wear and tear of each dribble, foul, and collision takes a physical toll over the course of a game. In NBA 2K26, the evolution of player fidelity…
Category: GamesAugust 6, 2025 Wander Stars and the Power of Words: How the Japanese Belief of Kotodama Shaped a Battle System Andie GalloArt Director & Narrative Designer, Wander Stars SummaryWander Stars is a turn-based JRPG where you can combine words to create powerful attacks.Kotodama is the Japanese belief that words and names have power of their own.Wander Stars will be available for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC on September 19. Would you ever consider the idea that the words you use have the power to shape your reality? Well, in Wander Stars, words quite literally have power. In…
Category: GamesAugust 5, 2025 Exciting New Features of The First Descendant ‘Breakthrough’ Update – Available August 7 Beom-jun Lee, Producer, The First Descendant We’re just days away from The First Descendant Breakthrough update, launching August 7 – and I want to thank all of you who’ve been eagerly awaiting this major content drop. Your continued support means the world to us. Today, I’m excited to share an overview of the new season’s key features with our Xbox community. It’s a pleasure to connect with you directly and give you a closer look at what’s coming. The Story of Breakthrough In…
Some big new releases from last month included College Football 26, Abiotic Factor, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, and Shadow Labyrinth. Which earns your vote for July 2025’s best new game? How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that month. After the polls close we will tally your votes, and announce the winner on our social channels and PlayStation.Blog. What is the voting criteria? That’s up to you! If you were only able to recommend one new release to a friend that month,…
Category: Games Overwatch 2 x Nerf: Unlock New Blaster Skins Now Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published August 5, 2025 Related Stories for “Overwatch 2 x Nerf: Unlock New Blaster Skins Now” Category: GamesExciting New Features of The First Descendant ‘Breakthrough’ Update – Available August 7 Category: GamesComing to Game Pass: Assassin’s Creed Mirage, 9 Kings (Game Preview), Rain World, and More Category: GamesTHQ Nordic Gets You in the Game at 2025 Digital Showcase The post Overwatch 2 x Nerf: Unlock New Blaster Skins Now appeared first on Xbox Wire. Go to Source (xbox.com)
Category: GamesAugust 5, 2025 Coming to Game Pass: Assassin’s Creed Mirage, 9 Kings (Game Preview), Rain World, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass My favorite reminder for you all – games that you can play today, games coming soon, and even one we slipped in last week you might have missed. Make room in your download and pre-install queue and let’s get to the games! Available Today Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC)Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your…