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Avowed Impressions

Avowed
  • Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
  • Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
  • Available On: Xbox Series X|S, PC
  • Played On: Xbox Series X

In the lead-up to the release of Avowed, my excitement levels were at a comfortable seven out of ten. I was looking forward to Obsidian Entertainment’s new RPG and expected it to be a good game, but for some reason, I wasn’t as enthusiastic as I had been just a year ago. Fast forward to now and after spending 15 hours with Avowed, it’s proved to be just the fantasy gaming experience I’ve wanted and needed for years.

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Xbox Games Showcase 2024 Predictions!

We covered my predictions for the rumored PlayStation Showcase, so now it’s Xbox’s turn. The Xbox Games Showcase is just a few weeks away and there’s a lot that I’m hoping we see from Microsoft. Will Gears 6 finally be announced? Is there going to be a new Perfect Dark trailer? Will we finally get to see gameplay for Fable? I have predictions for all those games and so many others, so let’s talk about them!

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Xbox Made Its Worst Decision Yet

At Xbox’s business update earlier this year, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer tried to explain the company’s business rationale behind putting four of their first-party titles on other consoles. A key reason he gave for sharing these games with other platforms was that it would allow the company to “invest in maybe future iterations of those or sequels to those, or just other games like that in our portfolio.” One of those games was Hi-Fi Rush, the surprise 2023 hit from Japanese developer Tango Gameworks. Yesterday, the company announced internally that it would be shutting down multiple studios across Tango’s parent company Zenimax Media, and Tango is one of them.

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My 11 Most Anticipated Games of 2024

There are a lot of great games set to release in 2024 and I’m excited for a lot of them. If I was to make a list of them all, this post would be extremely long, so I’m trimming it down to the 11 that I’m anticipating the most in 2024. Most of them are big games, some of them are small games, and many of them don’t have solid release dates. What they all have in common though is a perceived level of quality that can’t be denied. With that said, let’s get into it.

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The Xbox Games Showcase Was Exactly What Xbox Needed

Microsoft just held their double feature Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct, and I’m happy to say that the team easily knocked it out of the park. If your confidence in the future of Xbox was shaky prior to today, now it’s almost certainly stronger than ever before.

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