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Balatro also got a new Friends of Jimbo crossover pack today, featuring Civilization 7, Fallout, and more.

Sigma has announced the BF, a new 24.6-megapixel full-frame, mirrorless camera that has a built-in SSD rather than an a CFexpress or SD card slot. The company is known for making lenses and unconventional cameras, and the BF's design and unique approach to storage definitely fit the bill. The Sigma BF is milled from a single block of aluminum, and looks it, with mostly flat, angular edges that don't seem entirely designed for human hands, save for a thumb rest on the back. This is all part of th...

Making the switch from bikes to boards (and whatever other extreme ways of getting around its developers can think of) Descenders Next is an extremely ambitious and intriguing sequel to the brilliant downhill cycling game, Descenders. Launching into Game Pass on day one and offering huge variation with its procedurally generated zones, Descenders Next sounds like it's got a lot of the right ingredients to succeed. After featuring in today’s ID@Xbox showcase, we also now know exactly when it’ll b...

In the simulation driving game RoadCraft, you’ll pilot a fleet of construction vehicles and heavy machinery to clear roads, supply worksites, and rebuild infrastructure in the wake of natural disasters. First, you’ll hop in a scout vehicle to offroad over treacherous terrain and assess the damage. Then, you’ll drive bulldozes and cranes to clear debris and replace infrastructure. There’s more than just being in the driver’s seat though - you’ll manage resources and convoys to make your recovery ...

The announcement comes just over a month after Phoenix Labs laid off the majority of its employees.

Fanroll LLC has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Catan Masterpiece, an officially licensed set of bespoke game components. It was funded in an hour.

The Steam Deck just can't handle this monster.

Potentially the most approachable Monster Hunter game yet, but it may have lost something along the way.

Co-op “raidlike” 33 Immortals has a hell of a hook, literally. You play as one of 33 damned souls fighting their way up through the layers of the afterlife. It aspires to the thrill of MMO raids, but without the hassle of finding a group or spending hundreds of hours getting the right equipment. You can also get your dirty hands on it soon, because 33 Immortals will launch in early access in just a few weeks.

As a ’90s child, I’ve got a lot of nostalgia for Polly Pocket, the pocket-sized dollhouse I carried around in my youth. Tiny Garden is a laid back gardening simulator and decorating game encapsulated in the iconic Polly Pocket housing, the in-game days of which are powered by a hand crank. As much of a...

Monday's ID@Xbox indie showcase included release dates for a few upcoming games we've been tracking. 33 Immortals, which lets you round up 32 pals to try to escape hell with, arrives next month, with the escape room mansion game Blue Prince coming in April and the quirky shooter Revenge of the Savage Planet following in May. All three will be on Game Pass on day one. 33 Immortals Get ready to run like hell in 33 Immortals, which Engadget's Mat Smith previewed at Summer Game Fest 2023. The multip...

Pokémon Go has an item that gives you a guaranteed lucky trade called a “Lucky Trinket.” This mysterious orb can only be obtained through very limited methods and is a hot item do to how useful it is. Below, we explain what Lucky Trinkets do, detail how to get them in Pokémon Go, and give...

Wizards of the Coast is crossing the streams again, mixing its popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering with the iconic rules of Dungeons & Dragons. The result will be a “crossover supplement” focused on the mysterious plane known as both Lorwyn and Shadowmoor. The announcement was made during MagicCon Chicago, which Wizards says was...

Tron: Catalyst, the follow-up to Tron: Identity and the next game from Bithell Games, is set to launch on June 17, 2025. The game is technically standalone, but builds on Identity's narrative and tackles the world of Tron from a new isometric perspective. Paired with the release date, Bithell Games and publisher Big Fan also showed off a new trailer at the ID@Xbox Showcase that offers a glimpse of how combat and narrative work in the game. You play as Exo, a program from the "Arq Grid" with an a...

Another week, and there's another new AI model ready for public use. This time, it's Anthropic with the introduction of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The company describes its latest release as the market's first "hybrid reasoning model," meaning the new version of Claude can both answer a question nearly instantaneously or take its time to work through it step by step. As the user you can decide what approach Claude takes, with a dropdown menu allowing you to select the "thinking mode" you want it to take...

Keep Driving is an evocative turn-based sim/role-playing game about going on road trips as a shiftless youth in the early 2000s. But perhaps the Swedish developers at YCJY Games were adopting the attitudes of turn-of-the-millennium slackers a little too keenly when they were making it — because the game design subscribes to the notion that,...

The post Get The Band Back Together in Rockbeasts, a Management RPG Coming to Xbox appeared first on Xbox Wire.

It's another headache for Ubisoft.

It's a milestone day for MacRumors, as today marks our 25th birthday. MacRumors was coincidentally founded on Steve Jobs' birthday of February 24, 2000, with articles starting just a few days later. MacRumors was founded by medical student Arnold Kim, and it remained a side project for over eight years until he decided to give up medicine to focus on MacRumors as a full-time career. That backstory and additional perspective were shared in a July 2008 New York Times profile. Through the years, Ma...

Star Wars: The Old Republic wasn't quite successful enough to be used as the basis for a coup.

The Apple iPhone 16e looks like a solid handset for most consumers. It’s got plenty of power, a gorgeous display and the Action button that first debuted with the iPhone 15 Pro series. It doesn’t, however, offer any way to wirelessly charge the device using MagSafe.  Just because Apple excluded the feature doesn’t mean you’re completely out of luck. Here are a couple of options for using MagSafe charging on an iPhone 16e. The easiest way to get this going is to pick up a MagSafe-compatible smart...

Outlaw Midas is the mid-season skin for Chapter 6 Season 2 of Fortnite. According to Greek Mythology, Midas is a fallen king who turned everything he touched into gold. Developer Epic Games has released a few skins for this character already, but this time he will get a new skin variant showing off his freshly...

In the mountain of copycats released since From Software’s titanic Dark Souls series, Lies of P is a cut above. It impressed even those bewildered by its peculiar premise: a tragic, steampunk run at the classic children’s story Pinocchio. Impressively made and shockingly deep, Lies of P struck a place of its own in a crowded field. Now, in just a few months, we’ll be getting more of it, in a snowy prequel DLC called Overture.

It's sort of out of character for Amazon to be hosting a devices event in February, as opposed to its usual Fall launch. But this Wednesday (February 26) at 10am ET, the company is holding a presentation in New York City. As it's done in the past, Amazon won't be livestreaming this event, and you won't be able to watch Panos Panay and his colleagues present to members of the media. Don't worry about FOMO, though, because we've got you. Engadget will be attending and liveblogging the event, so if...

The post How the Guild Came Together: Dive into the Origins of The Lonesome Guild appeared first on Xbox Wire.

You remember Exodus, right? It’s the upcoming sci-fi RPG from former BioWare developers that could easily be mistaken for Mass Effect. No really — The premise in its initial trailer is just Mass Effect Andromeda without the N7 armor. Matthew McConaughey showed up to announce it during the 2023 Game Awards and narrated a series...

Infinity Nikki is getting a new update, version 1.3, on Feb. 25. The update brings new features, like a new purification outfit for Nikki and the limited-time “Queen’s Lament” event. Below, we explain when Infinity Nikki goes down for maintenance ahead of version 1.3 and when it’ll come back up with the new version using...

I am tired of Pleasantview. These Sims. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

It'll be available to play in just a few months.

Keep the tempo(po). Developer Witch Beam and publisher CULT Games have announced a release date for the lovely-looking Tempopo, a chill musical puzzle where you're rescuing floral friends who have been thrown into disarray by a storm. Coming to Switch on 17th April, Tempopo is both the name of the game and the flowers. Using music, you'll need to guide the Tempopo through multiple levels by using the beat of the music. You'll make your way through all four seasons as you try and wrangle these ch...

The post Blue Prince: What You Need to Know About This Genre-Defying Game – Coming to Game Pass April 10 appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Everyone's favorite sorta-poker game Balatro is set to cause yet another dip in global productivity levels. The roguelike — which encourages you to bend and twist the rules of poker in all kinds of wild ways — is available on Game Pass Ultimate, PC and Standard. Apple Arcade subscribers also have access to it at no extra cost.  A trailer that premiered during Monday's ID@Xbox showcase also revealed the latest batch of cosmetic crossover card decks that are now available on all platforms. They in...

Balatro recently celebrated its first birthday, and despite millions of players getting hooked on its satisfying, roguelike gameplay, it’s just opened itself up to millions more. While its modest price has always made it super affordable to pick up, Game Pass subscribers now have zero excuses for playing one of the best indie games ever. That’s right - in a surprise announcement, Balatro has just been added to Game Pass. Oh, and its next collection of cards has been revealed too, featuring cross...

It feels like videogames are slowly but surely beginning to embrace the strange again. As audiences tire of the traditional triple-A open-world fare, there's an appetite for weirdness: take 2024's Indika or Thank Goodness You're Here, for example, or the upcoming Promise Mascot Agency. Hotel Barcelona, the brainchild of Deadly Premonition's Hidetaka 'Swery' Suehiro and Killer7's Goichi 'Suda51' Suda is set to be yet another installment in the 'what the hell did I just play?' canon, thrusting you...

Everyone was disappointed when they found out that Starfield wouldn’t have seamless space travel. Maybe it's a technical gripe, but it does mess with the rhythm - the dream of the space game is being able to course through the galaxy, touch down on a distant planet, explore on foot, and then jet off again all in one operatic motion. It’s not an RPG. Its world isn’t as big. But Jump Ship, the upcoming co-op shooter from Keepsake Games, is built around this kind of flow. Sometimes you’re in dogfig...