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Inside Xbox Series X Optimized: Call of the Sea

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

Eternal Hope gets a Making Of video of its artful inspirations & evolution

Indie studio Doublehit Games has released a developer diary for Eternal Hope, a puzzle platform about 'life after death' featuring inspirations from Studio Ghibli and Limbo. Sometimes as an indie projects begins with inspiration from projects that came before it, it can evolve and take on a true identity all its own while still harnessing a clear love of its foundations. That can be said of Eternal Hope, a puzzle platform adventure from indie studio Doublehit Games about a boy named Ti’bi venturing into the ethereal world to be reunited

Valorant Limbo: How Low Can You Go?

Valorant First Released Jun 2, 2020releasedVALORANT is your global competitive stage. It’s a 5v5 tac-shooter matchup to plant or defuse the Spike in a one-life-per-round, first to 13 series. More than guns and bullets, you’ll choose an Agent armed with adaptive, swift, and lethal abilities that create opportunities to let your gunplay shine. Source: https://www.gamespot.com/videos/valorant-limbo-how-low-can-you-go/2300-6453209/

VR in 2020: More Than a Fad

Virtual reality has faced accusations of being a stepping stone in gaming, here for a moment, not for the long-haul, since its inception. From the launch of the Oculus Rift which first allowed consumers to experience VR at a steep, but somewhat stomach-able price, those who enjoy VR have been seen as jumping on a trend.This may be news to some, but it must be said. We’re in 2020, and VR looks to be here to stay.I first experienced virtual reality through Google’s own Cardboard viewer made out of, unsurprisingly,

Skelattack Review – Bone-Dry

Lacking meat on its bones, Skelattack has disjointed pieces and parts that add up to create an awkward, though heartwarming, side-scrolling platformer. You can see snippets of a precise platformer in Skelattack, but they are too sporadic and underutilized to really make you sweat. In a game centered on a human invasion of the afterlife, there sure aren't very many enemies, and most of them remain in place or move like molasses, emulating the dead far more than the warm-blooded humans they're supposed to be. Skelattack's identity crisis is further

GCX Has Added DrLupo As A Board Member

The Gaming Community Expo (GCX) has added well-known streamer, Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo, as a board member. The Florida-based event won't have a physical setup this year, but will go ahead with online fundraising and a digital showcase later this summer. A video was released on the official GCX Twitter account earlier this week, narrated by Lupo himself. It confirmed that he would be joining the event's board and working closely with the Rare Drop organizing team on the GCX experience in the future. Lupo acknowledged that while the event would

Apex Legends’ Loba’s story detailed in Fortune’s Favor trailer

Get to know Loba, the newest Legend, ahead of Season 5 so you're ready to hit the ground running. Respawn has graced eager Apex Legends players with a new launch trailer for Season 5: Fortune's Favor, set to kick off on May 12. Season 5 will bring Loba to the game as a playable character, as well as a new Quests mode as well as a new battle pass to start earning on. The launch trailer is also a fun way to watch Loba, the "loose end" that Revenant left

Ziggurat Interactive purchases rights to the entire 3DO Studios library

Continuing its efforts to bring classic gaming to modern hardware, Ziggurat has acquired rights to pretty much all games from the 3DO Studios catalogue. Ziggurat Interactive has a passionate mission: to bring classic and enjoyable games to modern audiences through remakes, remasters, and re-releases of titles of yesteryear. It wants to shine a light on games that either made waves, pushed things forward, or were great but maybe overlooked by audiences. Today, they announced a continuation of that mission in acquiring the rights to the 3DO Studios gaming library. Ziggurat