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When it comes to city builders on consoles, the results are generally poor. Even if the game is rock solid, the controls don't often translate well to controllers. These are games primarily built for a mouse and keyboard. Yet somehow Airborne Kingdom deals with those issues with ease, and provides a fantastic experience that is a must play for any city building fan.

Today is the day that the Xbox brand celebrates 20 years. It's a fantastic milestone for a company who has experienced many ups and downs. The highs of the Xbox 360, the lows of the Xbox One, and the mind boggling success of Xbox Game Pass have all shaped the company many of us know and love. And it's their birthday.

As we get closer and closer to the launch of Halo Infinite its time to get ready for the  Xbox Anniversary Celebration on Monday, November 15.  With that in mind, lets take a look back at the history of Halo and Master Chief, the most iconic representation for Xbox as a brand and a franchise. 81 million copies have been sold worldwide $6 Billion in worldwide product sales to date 3 million players of Halo: The Master Chief Collection on…

Today, Xbox and Gucci announced they’ll join forces to celebrate two iconic milestones: Xbox’s 20th anniversary and Gucci’s 100th birthday. In a meeting of tech innovation and tradition, we’re excited to unveil the first-ever, limited-edition Gucci Xbox Bundle available to purchase globally on November 17. Nodding to the past, present and future of the long-intertwined gaming and fashion communities, the collectable set is designed to celebrate and promote self-expression. To honor its 100th anniversary milestone, Gucci will produce just 100 …

A new SteamWorld game was revealed at Thunderful Games digital event today! We have the details below. SteamWorld Headhunter was revealed during Thunderful Games digital event, Thunderful World, today. In a press release we received it was described as “a stylised and colourful, third-person co-op action adventure with a head-popping twist.” It will be keeping “the style and charm that’s helped make SteamWorld such a beloved franchise” while taking the franchise into a 3D world. On Twitter, Thunderful Games added…

The launch of Forza Horizon 5 has once again solidified with me how it is without a doubt the best online subscription service for video games. Not only is Microsoft providing us with a ton of new games month-to-month, but are still releasing ALL first party titles on the service. On day one. Outstanding.

Thunderful Games will have a digital event on November 10th and Mark Hamill will be the host! We have the details below. Thunderful Games digital event ‘Thunderful World’ will air on November 10th at 1pm central and be on Youtube, Twitch, and the Thunderful Website. Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame will be the host! According to a press release that we received there will be “a ton of exciting new game reveals and announcements from Thunderful.” Also “The event…

There’s a very important topic of conversation that is getting buried behind Digital Foundry videos, arguments about whose console loads the fastest and hype for games that probably don’t exist. NFTs are confusing, mysterious and coming to the game industry at a rate of knots. It’s time to be very afraid. Why should you be worried? Imagine the early days of DLC – horse armour and the like – and then imagine it was 100 times more exploitative. Imagine that…

Re-releasing Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City and San Andreas with only a handful of improvements is ridiculous. It’s lazy. It’s outrageous. But the GTA Trilogy Remaster is something I’m totally down for. Here’s the problem: these three games are incredibly good. More than that, they ooze nostalgia. To play them with improved controls and graphics will restore them back to the level I thought they were back in the early noughties. Believe me, I know that releasing the GTA…

After not hearing or seeing a peep about it in over a year, Microsoft finally pulled pack the curtain a little on the Halo Infinite campaign today in a video showcase. While they have been very forthcoming in letting folks know all about (and even play a bunch of times) the multiplayer aspects of the game. Little has been showing in a long time, last time we saw it there was much industry disappointment with outdated graphics (see Craig). After…