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The Best Xbox Series X|S Games to Play Now

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After a whirlwind end to 2024 and a strong start to 2025 that included the best Call of Duty in years , a fantastic Silent Hill 2 remake, a new Dragon Age , a new Assassin's Creed , STALKER 2 , Metaphor: ReFantazio (AKA IGN's Game of the Year 2024) and a stunningly great Indiana Jones game , among others, it's about to get a lot tougher to pick your favorite Xbox Series X/S games. Here's our staff's list of the 25 best games on the Xbox Series X|S – meaning they were either released directly for this generation of Xbox consoles or have been updated to take advantage of their improved resolution, frame rate, and other features. Note that to avoid the scourge of recency bias, we’ve cut off new additions as of the end of September 2024, since anything more recent than that is still a bit too new to rank. But don't worry, they’ll be considered for future rankings! This is NOT an attempt at an “objective” ranking. But what do we mean by “best?” To be very clea...

Game Informer Is Back and the Whole Team Is Returning With It Thanks to a New Owner: Neill Blomkamp's Video Game Studio

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A little over half a year after GameStop shut it down in August 2024, Game Informer is officially back and the whole team is returning with it. In a 'Letter From the Editor' by Game Informer Editor-In-Chief Matt Miller, it was revealed that Gunzilla Games secured the rights to Game Informer from GameStop and that it was planning to bring back not only the editorial team, but "production and beyond." For those unfamiliar, Gunzilla Games is the game developer and publisher behind the free-to-play extraction battle royale game called Off the Grid, which is now in Early Access. It is also the developer behind GunZ, the "Layer-1 blockchain ecosystem powering community-driven economies in AAA games," including Off the Grid. Additionally, District 9 and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp is part of the team as Gunzilla's chief creative officer and co-founder. Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come joi...

Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5

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Civilization 7 developer Firaxis has outlined the game’s crucial update 1.1.1, which hits at a time when the recently released strategy game has fewer players on Steam than Civilization 6 and even the 15-year-old Civilization 5 . On Valve’s platform, Civilization 7 has a 24-hour concurrent peak player count of 16,921, which isn’t enough to get into Steam’s top 100 most-played games. Civilization 5, released in 2010, had a 24-hour peak of 17,423. Clearly, most Civ fans are sticking with 2016’s Civilization 6, however, which had a 24-hour peak of 40,676 players. In a post on Steam , Firaxis listed some of the “additions and refinements” coming with Update 1.1.1, including: Quick Move Functionality New Natural Wonder Mount Everest Additional UI Updates & Polish Settlement & Commander Renaming And more! In a more in-depth video , lead designer Ed Beach ran through the changes while pointing to the patch notes in full, which are imminent. Civilization 7 update 1.1.1 ...

Anime Card Clash Codes (March 2025)

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Last updated on March 25, 2025 - Added new Anime Card Clash codes! Looking for Anime Card Clash codes so you can build your deck and battle bosses effortlessly? You're in the right place. We've searched high and low to find all the new and active codes for Anime Card Clash in March 2025, so you won't miss out on everything from Large Luck Potions to Boss Potions and Instant Rolls. New Codes for Anime Card Clash (March 2025) Here are the newest codes we've found for Anime Card Clash this month, as well as information on the rewards you'll get for redeeming them: 5MILLIONVISITS - 5x Large Luck Potions, 5x Large Cooldown Potions, 2x Boss Potions, 3x Moon Cycle Reroll Potions, 2x Border Chance Potions, 2x Trait Rerolls, 5,000 Instant Rolls Active Anime Card Clash Codes (March 2025) Below, you'll find all the active Anime Card Clash codes that are still working as of this month: 3MILLIONVISITS - 5x Large Luck Potions, 5x Large Cooldown Potions, 2x Bo...

Steel Hunters: The Final Preview

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On paper, Steel Hunters is a serious left turn for World of Tanks developer Wargaming. But just because the developer’s next project is rooted in a sci-fi, futuristic setting with larger-than-life mechs doesn’t mean they’re not tapping into their 27 years of multiplayer expertise for this mech hero shooter. I spent about 45 minutes racing other mechs to an extraction point in Steel Hunters’ battle royale-lite extraction mode, trying out half of its seven-character launch roster. Although I hit a few snags as I got myself used to controlling a building-size robot shaped like a spider, I could see Wargaming’s multiplayer pedigree on full display. Aside from a short tutorial, which introduced me to Steel Hunters’ movement and controls, I spent all of my time in one mode. This extraction-based mode was kind of like a scaled-down battle royale: a few squads of two are dropped onto a map and sent toward points of interest, picking up helpful stuff along the way. Each mech is fully loade...

Don't Compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' Launch to the 'Perfect Storm' Valhalla Benefitted From, Ubisoft Internal Email Says, Compare It to Origins, Odyssey, and Mirage

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There is enormous pressure on Assassin's Creed Shadows to do well for Ubisoft globally after a number of delays and the sales failure of last year’s Star Wars Outlaws . Indeed, Ubisoft suffered a number of high-profile flops , layoffs , studio closures , and game cancellations in the run up to Assassin's Creed Shadows' release. Things have got so bad at Ubisoft that its founding Guillemot family is reportedly exploring talks with Chinese mega-corp Tencent and other investors on a buyout deal that would let it preserve control of the company's intellectual property. So, the video game world is watching Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ early performance closely for signs of its success — or failure. So far, Ubisoft has yet to announce a sales figure, but has said Assassin's Creed Shadows hit 2 million players just two days after launch , surpassing the launches of both Origins and Odyssey. There’s also a lot of attention on Shadows’ Steam concurrents, which are bein...

Best Pokémon TCG Deals Today (March 2025)

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Pokémon TCG is in a wierd place this year, with stock drying up quicker than it can be listed and the secondary market rife with scalpers and "investors". Whilst the community and some retailers are battling the "Crypto Bros" attitude to Pokémon cards, Creatures Inc. and The Pokémon Company have stated print production has been ramped up to meet demand . This all takes time, however. Update: 03/21/25 - Amazon has pooled international stock leading to a massive restock Amazon There's been a massive restock of Pokémon TCG thanks to Amazon pooling it's stock levels internationally. You won't find sets like Prismatic Evolutions, but previous Scarlet and Violet / Sword and Shield sets are in stock right now. The good news is that you've got me to find the best Pokémon TCG deals on the daily, and it's what I do best. I've even got some great tips on where to find stock and which sets from the Sword + Shield and Scarlet + Violet eras to choos...