“It’s definitely a surprise,” game director Adam Brennecke says as we’re chatting about the newly-announced Obsidian title, Grounded. But Grounded has been in the works for a little while, giving Obsidian plenty of time to explore outside of its comfort area. According to Brennecke, the game will get harder as the story progresses, and some of the insects will grow more hostile. And like any Obsidian game, Grounded will navigate the notion of how a player affects the game world (how many times d

It’s a survival game. The spirit of Honey I Shrunk the Kids is coursing through Grounded, a co-op survival game that casts you as a teenager, shrunk down to ant size. For example, like every survival game, Grounded has hunger and thirst meters (you’ll take damage if you let these deplete, though it will never kill you). Obsidian is actually planning to launch Grounded in Early Access next year, on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, to help shape those features. The way that we’re looking at it, it’s how

Roku has announced its upcoming Black Friday deals that will include a substantial discount to its entire family of players – the return of the Roku SE at just $18 and a new series of Roku TVs made exclusively for Walmart. The biggest steal, however, is on the Roku SE, which will be available for a deal-busting $18 in stores and online starting on November 28 until supplies run out. For most folks that’s probably not a deal-breaker as many of us still have a second or third TV that’s only capabl

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When the Radeon RX 550 first debuted, cryptocurrency mining was just getting its legs, and Ethereum had not yet shot up in value. It’s a much different landscape now two and a half years later, though be that as it may, ASRock has quietly introduced another RX 550 graphics card. The new Phantom Gaming Radeon 550 2G is ASRock’s second RX 550 card. That said, there will likely be a lot of Black Friday deals on Polaris cards, particularly in the mid-range section as vendors look to clear room for R

RGB lighting isn’t going anywhere, that much is clear at this point. “No other RGB fan comes close to the brightness and vibrancy of QL RGB. These fans also use semi-transparent blades to give the RGB lighting an easier time of shining through. Pricing is as follows:iCue QL120 RGB 120mm fan (single pack)—$44.99iCue QL140 RGB 140mm fan (single pack)—$49.99iCue QL120 RGB 120mm fan (triple pack)—$139.99iCue QL140 RGB 140mm fan (twin pack)—$119.99Both the twin and triple packs also come with Corsair

While continuing its work on Sea of Thieves, Rare is developing a brand new game called Everwild. What is Everwild? Well, it’s a vocal track with lots of “oooh-eee-ahh-oooohs,” a band of adventurers, and some very cute, No Man’s Sky-looking animals. Otherwise, we really don’t know anything about Everwild. It’s a forested world with some cute animals in it, and presumably multiple players.

Raw Fury revealed a new game during today’s X019 livestream today called West of Dead, a twin-stick voice set in a supernatural Wild West that looks like a between Diablo and Jonah Hex, starring Ghost Rider. The western setting is actually Purgatory, an ever-changing world where dead man William Mason has, for reasons unknown, been brought back to fiery-headed life to do what he does—which is, as far as I can tell, kill everything that moves. But is there more to this story than meets the eye? T

The next free monthly update for Sea of Thieves is near, arriving on November 20. It’s called The Seabound Soul, and will contain a ghostly new Tall Tale, plus a new tool for bombarding your fellow pirates: fireballs. The new Tall Tale will invite players to join pirate Captain Pendragon and chase down a spooky ghost ship, the Ashen Dragon. And it looks like you’ll need to use your trusty bucket for more than just bailing out your sinking ships, because flaming cannonballs are being added. The t

At the X019 fan event in London today, Microsoft rolled a trailer for a new game from Dontnod Entertainment that looks a whole lot like Life Is Strange. But it’s not: It’s a new game that appears to be in the same vein, called Tell Me Why. Set in beautiful small-town Alaska, Tell Me Why features true-to-life characters, mature themes and gripping choices.” The trailer ends by saying “all chapters coming Summer 2020,” so it seems Tell Me Why is an episodic adventure just like Life Is Strange. Unl

Rare, the fabled British studio behind beloved games like Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye 007, and (more recently) Sea of Thieves, has today announced that its working on a new, Xbox exclusive IP, and it sounds like it’s being developed specifically with next year’s Xbox Project Scarlett console in mind. The company, which also revealed details of a new free update coming to Sea of Thieves, appeared on the X019 Inside Xbox livestream to speak more about the project, officially titled Everwild. In an ac

As promised, Microsoft delivered the first-ever Age of Empires 4 gameplay footage today at X019, revealing that the new addition to the long-running RTS series will be set in the Medieval era. The video also teased two of the civilizations that will be playable in the game, the Mongols and the English, and World’s Edge studio head Shannon Loftis said that there might be even more to find in the trailer. In related news, Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, which we recently slapped with a posit

A new game from the developers behind Life is Strange has been announced at X019. Xbox Game Studios unveiled Tell Me Why, an episodic “gripping true-to-life narrative adventure” coming to Xbox One, PC, Xbox Game Pass and Steam in Summer 2020. Ultimately, the choices players make determine the strength of the twins’ bond – and the future of their lives.” Tyler is also the first playable video game hero from a major publisher and studio who is also transgender. Creating a playable lead trans chara

But Microsoft with its Xbox console line looks set to definitely be worth a look during the deals rush. Microsoft is offering up to $150 off consoles, including any Xbox One X style you like, bringing the price of its current top machine down to $349.99. Xbox games and Game Pass dealsThe Xbox Game Pass subscription is one of the best-value offers in all of gaming at the moment, giving you instant access to a library of top Xbox titles for your Xbox One console. It includes day-and-date access to

Come next year, Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to play their games on phones or tablets by way of Project xCloud, a Stadia-like game streaming service currently being tested by Microsoft. It’s available in preview version right now for Android phones, and it’s coming to iOS as well. More importantly, Microsoft also announced that xCloud is coming to Windows PCs in 2020, so if you have Game Pass, and for some reason find cloud streaming preferable to running your games locally, it’ll be

Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service will add support for Sony’s DualShock 4 controller in early 2020, the company announced at X019 today. This will come as part of a broader update for Bluetooth controllers including Razer game pads, but the DualShock callout feels deliberate. This won’t be the first time people get to play Xbox games with a PlayStation controller. But given Microsoft’s push for cross-platform cooperation and its focus on streaming games in the next console genera

It’s also pushing its Project xCloud game streaming service – which is set to get considerably better in the coming months. Currently in a limited preview mode, Project xCloud lets you stream full Xbox One games to mobile devices from the cloud. According to the press release accompanying the news:”In 2020 we will enable gamers to stream from the cloud Xbox games that they already own or will purchase. We will also add game streaming from the cloud to Xbox Game Pass. Rounding off the Project xCl

At X019 in London today, Square Enix showed up to announce a whole boatload of Final Fantasy games are coming to Xbox Game Pass, including Game Pass for PC. Here’s the list:Final Fantasy 7Final Fantasy 8Final Fantasy 9Final Fantasy 10Final Fantasy 10-2Final Fantasy 12Final Fantasy 13Final Fantasy 13-2Final Fantasy 13: Lightning ReturnsFinal Fantasy 15Phew. That’s a lot of Final Fantasy—though all of the above games are available on Steam, they’ll now also be playable for a hard-to-beat $5 per mo

Project xCloud, Microsoft’s cloud streaming service currently available in early access across the US, UK, and South Korea, is about to expand in some major directions heading into 2020, most notably with the addition of 50 new games to its current library of playable titles. The news was announced at Microsoft’s X019 fan event, which also revealed that Project xCloud will be launching in Windows 10 PCs next year, alongside compatibility support for a number of Bluetooth controllers, including P

During X019, Sea of Thieves developer Rare announced its new exclusive IP for Xbox One – and it’s giving us serious Breath of the Wild vibes. We’re not quite sure what the gameplay will be like, but the Everwild trailer (embedded below) suggests it’ll be a bit like Monster Hunter World – without killing the monsters. Since its acquisition by Microsoft, it’s been focusing on games for the Xbox platform and it looks like Everwild is set to be a notable exclusive. The Everwild team is focused on bu