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Next Week on Xbox: June 23 to June 26

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Every week the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. To find out what’s coming soon to Xbox, read on below and click on each of the game profiles for pre-order details (dates are subject to change). SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated – June 23 Play as SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy and show the

The Last Of Us 2 Walkthrough – Part 1: Jackson (Spoiler-Free)

Warning: We've done everything we can to minimize spoilers in this walkthrough so you can enjoy the game even if you need help finding collectibles. However, if you want to know nothing about the game before playing, you should stop reading now.Like its predecessor, The Last of Us Part 2 will have you scavenging through its post-apocalyptic world to craft weapons and supplies, protect yourself against enemies, and uncover the story of the people who've come and gone before you. There's a lot to uncover in The Last of Us

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Warborn’, ‘Spacejacked’, ‘Pew Paw’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 12th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got an absolute ton of new releases to summarize. Apparently several games dropped out of nowhere yesterday while I was sleeping snug in my bed, so between those and the actual Friday releases, there’s a lot to deal with. Beyond that, I’ve also got a list of the new sales that popped up. Smaller than usual, because just about everything is on sale already. Let’s have a look! New Releases Warborn ($24.99) SwitchArcade

Action Adventure Game ‘Little Orpheus’ from The Chinese Room Is This Week’s Apple Arcade Release

Apple took a break from bringing a new title to Apple Arcade last week but made up for it with the release of the major ‘Golden Edition’ update for Cornfox’s Oceanhorn 2. Read about the update here. Before that, SpongeBob: Patty Pursuit hit the service as the second game on the service from Nickelodeon after Loud House: Outta Control. Check out review of that here. This week, The Chinese Room who released the excellent Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture which has one of my favourite soundtracks in

Amazon MMO New World Shares How Crafting Will Work

New World, Amazon's upcoming MMO, has revealed more details about how its crafting system will work. According to a post on the game's official website, crafting will allow players to not only decorate houses but to acquire powerful items. This information comes hot on the heels of an announcement from Amazon about how character progression will operate in the game's setting of Aeturnum. While New World's release has been delayed to later this year, it looks like other announcements about the title's mechanics are planned for the interim to keep

Inside Xbox Series X Optimized: Dirt 5

When it launches this holiday, Xbox Series X will be the most powerful console the world has ever seen. One of the biggest benefits of all that power is giving developers the ability to make games that are Xbox Series X Optimized. This means that they’ve taken full advantage of the unique capabilities of Xbox Series X, both for new titles built natively using the Xbox Series X development environment as well as previously released titles that have been rebuilt specifically for the console. In our Inside Xbox Series X

You Have To See Danny Trejo’s Animal Crossing Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has taken the world by storm, and has meant a lot to many who have been stuck in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Danny Trejo, the iconic actor who starred in Machete and has featured in Predators, Breaking Bad, and much more, has been putting time into the game too--and now you can take a video tour of his island. The video, which is part of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta's "Animal Talking" series, gives us some insight into Trejo's island

Interactive Mystery ‘Night in the Unpleasant House’ Coming to iOS this Month

Developer Unmapped Path is comprised of writer and game designer Joel Haddock and author and all-around creator Chris Klimas, who also created the popular open-source interactive fiction software Twine. They previously worked together developing games under the name Twofold Secret, but upon founding Unmapped Path in 2016 they set out with a goal of creating meaningful native experiences on mobile devices using Twine technology. They developed a proprietary engine they call Disbound which can adapt Twine-based interactive stories into a native experience for mobile without having to recode or rewrite

EA, Pokemon Company, And More Game Companies Donating To Black Lives Matter And Related Causes

After protests erupted in cities all over the United States in response to the police killing of George Floyd, a large number of studios and other game companies have made donations to the Black Lives Matter and other organizations like the NAACP and Color of Change. Companies from all corners of the industry have made contributions while encouraging others to do the same. Pokemon Go developer Niantic is donating proceeds from Pokemon Go Fest 2020 ticket sales, committing to a minimum of $5 million, to "Black gaming and AR creators

Animal Crossing Turnips Guide: Master New Horizons’ Stalk Market

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has an interesting economy, to say the least. If you've been playing the game for at least a few days, you've likely sold fruit, bugs, fish, and various random items to make a quick bell. This will get you by for a bit, but you'll need to get better income sources as your house payments start to balloon and you have to make larger infrastructure improvements around town. That's where the "stalk market"-- the game's take on the stock market--comes into play. Animal Crossing: New Horizons