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Castlevania Dominus Collection: How Konami Recreated DS and Arcade Games for Xbox
The Castlevania Dominus Collection has launched on Xbox Series X|S. This bumper package brings together three classic Castlevania entries originally created for Nintendo DS – Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, and Castlevania Order of Ecclesia – as well as a redesigned version of the original Castlevania arcade game, Haunted Castle, titled Haunted Castle Revisited. All of this…
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How Jackbox Games Took a Beloved Party Game and Made a New Remote Play Version
Back in The Jackbox Party Pack 3, Jackbox Games unleashed a social deception game called Fakin’ It that had friends and family pointing at each other, throwing their hands up, and ultimately accusing each other of lying. At the beginning of the game, we let players know the best way to sit and enjoy the game so you can have…
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New Xbox Friends and Followers Experience
Beginning this week, starting with Alpha Skip-Ahead users on Xbox consoles, and users that have joined the PC Gaming preview on Windows PCs and handheld devices, Xbox Insiders will be able to preview an updated friends and followers experience! With updated relationships, and new privacy and notification settings, you can start managing your social experiences with Xbox just the way…
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Five Features That Make NBA 2K25 a Must-Play for Basketball Fans on Xbox
ProPLAY Elevates the Series to New Heights OK, this is a little bit of a cheat, since ProPLAY isn’t a feature but rather a technology that enables most of the features listed below. Essentially, ProPLAY replaces traditional motion-captured animations by taking authentic movements from actual NBA footage and translating them into immersive real-time gameplay. A whopping 9,000 new ProPLAY animations…
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Making a Sequel to a 13-Year Old Game (and How It Could Lead to More)
“We then went back and looked at the actual game and, of course, it didn’t quite marry up. All those elements were there, but games have moved on a lot in that time. So then we thought, OK, well, how can we take everybody’s memories of what that game was and honor them, while taking them to the next level…
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My Lovely Empress: How Xbox Helped a Fascinating Game Find Its Audience
Summary My Lovely Empress is an indie empire sim based on Asian fantasy, created by Indonesian developers. Indonesian game developer Riris Marpaung shares how the Xbox Global Expansion Team assisted in My Lovely Empress finding its audience beyond Southeast Asia. My Lovely Empress is out now for Xbox Series X|S. When you think of games made in Asia, your mind…
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Deep Dive Into Atomfall | Official Xbox Podcast
ANNOUNCER: Ratings for games in this podcast are pending. [XBOX SOUND] – Hello, and welcome to The Official Xbox Podcast. I’m your host for today’s episode, Tina Amini. And it’s a very special episode that we’ve got for you today because we’re going to dive deep and do a walkthrough into a highly anticipated game from our friends over at…
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Castlevania’s Dracula and Trevor Belmont Come to Dead by Daylight
Feel the scarlet eyes upon you, accursed and ravenous. Dead by Daylight: Castlevania is here, bringing Dracula and Trevor Belmont into The Fog. Embody The Night Dracula is the first shapeshifting Killer in Dead by Daylight, with 3 unique forms that offer distinct gameplay experiences: Vampire, Wolf, and Bat. Vampire form is a base form of sorts, with the ability…
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How Microsoft Flight Simulator Helped a Groundbreaking Lost Airliner Soar Once Again
“We brought two different groups together [for the Condor in Microsoft Flight Simulator],” Neumann tells me. “First, we have a company called iniBuilds that typically makes our airliners. They worked on the A320neo and they’re making an A330 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. They are top notch, the best of best in the industry to make airliners [for flight simulators].…
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – How Your Character Becomes Unique to You
To achieve the game’s unique sense of player freedom, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II employs a complex web of systems that sit largely unseen beneath your experience of the world. Through these systems, the world tracks your behaviour in granular detail, working to ensure that every decision you make is reflected in the actions and behavior of the characters in the…
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