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UPSpec Gaming has announced that its xScreen for Xbox Series S is now an official ‘Designed for Xbox’ licensed product. This means it has undergone rigorous testing and validation by the Xbox Quality Assurance (QA) team, providing additional reassurance to potential buyers of the portable screen. We gave the xScreen…

Just because I know that headline will have some of you primed to start typing in the Comments section, know that this column isn’t about Xbox exclusives. Those, as we all know by now, are still dripping out of the Xbox Game Studios spigot rather than flowing. But the back-pressure…

Pretty much out of nowhere, a new Elder Scrolls mobile game just dropped, and it’s basically Fallout Shelter, Skyrim-style. The Elder Scrolls: Castles appeared with little fanfare on Google Play today. It’s listed as early access on the Google Play page, but it’s currently free to download and play on…

Earlier today, Sony announced a handful of games on the way to the PlayStation VR2. Posting these announcements on both the PlayStation Blog and the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Sony shared new details on six games that will be playable on its headset. With release dates varying from…

If you, like me, are a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the promise of playing through its fantastic story yourself is an enticing concept that, shockingly, has yet to be truly delivered on in the 18 years since the animated show premiered on Nickelodeon. Avatar: The Last Airbender –…

PlayStation has detailed the wealth of accessibility features coming to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 at launch on October 20. Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, Insomniac Games’ advanced senior UX researcher Michele Zorrilla outlined the new and returning features intended to let as many people as possible play the game. Accessibility design…

Epic Games, the North Carolina-based studio behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine, has suffered a significant round of layoffs. First reported by Bloomberg, Epic Games is laying off 870 employees, or about 16 percent of its workforce. The layoffs were announced via a memo to staff, Bloomberg wrote. Epic Games shared…

Mortal Kombat 1 players have spent the game’s early life experimenting with the new Kameo system, which lets you call in other characters to perform an action. Using Kameo characters, players are working out how to do elaborate combos that involve “juggling” their opponent with multiple hits. But this new…

Sega has cancelled Hyenas, the multiplayer extraction shooter in development at UK studio Creative Assembly. Issuing a warning to investors that it will record a loss for the financial year, Sega said “profitability has been lowered mainly in European bases”. As a result, it has implemented “structural reforms aimed at…

We open this week’s busy episode of Unlocked by discussing two big new games we just played a bunch of: Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty and Alan Wake 2. After that we discuss Phil Spencer’s wish to bring back MechAssault and have a fantasy draft for which Xbox developer should make…