Xbox Series X News

Although Watch Dogs Legions is coming out at the end of October, it's close enough to the launch dates for Xbox Series X / Series S and PS5 to be considered a launch title - to be fair, it is a launch title officially, although not a 'new' launch title. Ubisoft loves to deliver great content for fans, but it's not often we get two mega titles so closely to each other. With Watch Dogs launching on October 29th, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla launching on November 10th, next generation launch week has Ubisoft written all over it.

The team behind The Medium are teasing that a mystery related to the game will be revealed tomorrow. The announcement will be made at 6am PDT/1pm UTC/3pm CET, and those interested in the dual reality game are speculating that it may have to do with the game’s release date. There isn’t currently a firm release for the psychological horror game, which is being made by Bloober Team for Xbox Series consoles and PC. Developers announced a vague “Holiday 2020” date…

Wolfenstein, Dishonored and Prey will be getting re-released collections for Xbox Series X and S according to new ratings by the ESRB. Wolfenstein Alt History Collection and Dishonored & Prey: The Arkane Collection have both been rated M for mature by the ratings body. The Wolfenstein set contains four games, although it isn’t specific as to which will be included. It’s most likely we’ll get The New Order, Old Blood, Wolfenstein II and Youngblood, all improved for the next-gen systems.…

Supposedly leaked art for a canceled Superman game has revealed its villain could have been Bizarro. Rocksteady were working on a Superman game after finishing Arkham Knight, but it got canned by Warner Brothers. The studio, which has worked almost exclusively on Batman games since before 2009, is now developing a Suicide Squad game. Now concept artist Jerad Marantz has revealed concept art for Bizarro, which he says was designed for a cancelled game. Posted to ArtStation, he said: “One…

Microsoft have opened the warchest and it’s been a long time coming. With confirmation that further studio and publisher purchases could happen, it’s exciting to think about who could be next. Some online speculation has just gone for the obvious: “EA would be a good buy – think of FIFA!”. But there’s more to it than that – there needs to be a connection in ideas, a benefit for both sides. Here are five purchases big and small Xbox could…

Xbox Series S hasn’t gone up for pre-order yet in Japan, but Microsoft have already dropped the price. The price has gone from 32,980 yen ($315) to 29,980 yen ($285). The reduction was made this morning, ahead of the company’s TGS show this afternoon. The Series X price has not been changed. Prices do not include sales tax. In a statement, Microsoft said: “Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. will revise the domestic sales price of the Xbox Series S, which is…

With the initial wave of Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S preorders done and out of the way, fans are wondering what is next...well at least fans who were not able to snag their preorders yesterday. While things in Europe seemed to work fairly well - outside of a few hiccups with some retailers - things in North America were terrible. Sites crashing, carts not loading, and some sites (Amazon) not even listing their preorder consoles until well after the 11:00 AM time that Xbox greenlight the process.

During the rush yesterday, EB Games Australia was active on Twitter, letting consumers know when the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S were sold out. And, like in Europe today, it didn't take long for that to happen. EB Games Australia did promise a second wave of preorders would be available today, with delivery still in 2020.

Xbox Series X sold out in less than 20 minutes on Amazon UK, with other stores also struggling to meet demand. Preorders for Microsoft’s most powerful console began at a little after 8am, instantly crashing the Amazon page when it appeared. Lucky gamers who managed to actually reach the purchase page didn’t have long to buy their device – it was reading “currently unavailable” by 8.20am. Elsewhere, Smyths and Game were both having issues. The two major retailers were the…

In an ideal world, launch games would be generation proof right out of the gate. We’d have Last of Us 2 quality games to play on day one, developer experience be damned. That’s not the real world though. In the real world, generations are mostly bluff and bluster, and there’s no reason to force people to upgrade. Since it was revealed that Horizon and Spider-man will be cross-gen games last night, some have declared it the death of next-gen. Developers…