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Next Week on Xbox: New Games for August 25 to 29

August 22, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for August 25 to 29 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, ...
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Double Fine’s Tim Schafer Rules Out More Sequels for Now, So You Can Forget About Brütal Legend 2 and Psychonauts 3

Double Fine is poised to release a brand new game called Keeper in October, but what comes after that? According to development chief Tim Schafer, he’s working on multiple projects at the Microsoft-owned studio, none of which are sequels.Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is ...
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How purple skin and a Spanish phone number almost sank The Rogue Prince of Persia

The Rogue Prince of Persia celebrated its 1.0 release yesterday with a remarkably honest behind-the-scenes video from developers Evil Empire, detailing the ups and downs of a year-long Early Access period, including the decision to completely overhaul the game's art style and redesign its purple-skinned protagonist. Read more ...
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Stardew Valley Creator ConcernedApe Doesn’t Ask for Money for Collabs, Insists He Only Does It With Games He’s a Fan Of, or Because He ‘Genuinely Thought Players Would Like It’

Stardew Valley developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has revealed he doesn't ask for any compensation when his fan-favorite farm sim collabs with other franchises, saying he only does them because "[he] was a fan of the other games, or because [he] genuinely thought players would like it."The statement comes as fans ...
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Battlefield 6 Dev DICE Confirms Big Changes Coming to Player Movement, ‘Especially Horizontal Speed’

DICE has outlined what it's learned — and what it's changing — following the open beta test for Battlefield 6.With "tens of thousands connecting on Discord to play together, over 600,000 hours streamed, and over 30 million hours watched," the Battlefield team said it would "like to take a moment ...
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First Footage Of Elden Ring Running On Switch 2 Appears Online

Docked and loaded.Earlier this week, we were lucky enough to head to the Nintendo booth at Gamescom and go hands-on with Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on Switch 2. Bandai Namco didn't allow any footage to be recorded from our handheld session (and we quickly saw why), but it seems such ...
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Includes Remake of Fan-Favorite Secret Mode From Original PS2 Version — and Bayonetta Developer PlatinumGames Worked on It

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater contains a secret mode developed by PlatinumGames, the studio behind the likes of Bayonetta and Nier: Automata.Warning! Spoilers for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and the original Metal Gear Solid 3 follow:Fans of the original Metal Gear Solid 3, which Konami has remade ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Campaign Does Not Have Difficulty Options, Treyarch Explains Why

For as long as Call of Duty campaigns have existed, so has the option to play them at whichever difficulty suits you best. Whether recruit, normal, hardened, or veteran, long-term COD players know their level. But this year’s entry, Black Ops 7, won’t let you pick.Black Ops 7 has a ...
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The first hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 uncloak a slick action game, but a limited RPG

I feel for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. If it was named something like Fang Bastard: The Punching Of The Many, the trailers wouldn’t have so many views, but those who’d watched them would probably be quite jazzed for that new bitey-talky game that looks a bit like Dishonored ...
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It’s Almost Showtime For Overwatch 2’s New Persona Collab

No joke.Persona 5's Joker has made surprise appearances in games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and now he's making his way to Blizzard's free-to-play hero shooter, Overwatch 2.The Season 18 trailer has gone live and it finishes with the Persona 5 theme along with a silhouette of Joker. Atlus has ...
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