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Xbox Confirms It's Planning A Summer Showcase

Xbox has confirmed that its "yearly Showcase" will return this Summer, although it's currently unclear whether it'll be attached to E3, or if it'll be its own thing entirely. Yesterday, Xbox hosted its first Developer_Direct, shining a spotlight on Forza Motorsport and The Elder Scrolls Online, revealing release dates for Minecraft Legends and Redfall, and shadow dropping Hi-Fi Rush. Xbox has previously confirmed that a separate direct for Starfield was on the way, but it seems that it'll also have one more showcase during the Summer. Related: Everything Announced During Xbox's Developer Direct Showcase As reported by Game sRadar+, after the Developer_Direct, Xbox posted a summary of everything that was announced during the showcase on Xbox Wire. Towards the end of the post, Xbox reconfirms that it has plans for a Starfield deep dive at some point in the future, before confirming that its "yearly Showcase" is also returning to L.A. late...

Freddie Prinze Jr. Says Dragon Age's Iron Bull Is His Favourite CHaracter

You probably know Preddie Prinze Jr. from the Scooby-Doo movies or She's All That, but he's voiced some beloved characters over the years, too, like Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars: Rebels, James Vega in Mass Effect 3, and Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition. From that whole line-up, including the movies, Iron Bull was his favourite. "The Iron Bull is the one, that's the voice that's my favourite character I've ever played, ever. And it's a video Game ," Prinze Jr. said in an interview with Original Funko. "It's not from a big movie that made $100 million, it's not from Scooby or She's All That. It's a giant bull-looking massive buff guy, and they wanted this linebacker bro voice, like 'Hey, what's up', and it didn't feel right. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: Video Game Novels Are So Underrated "So, we started experimenting with voices... from Thunder and Pet e from the Mickey Mouse...

Forza Motorsport Reportedly Delayed To Second Half Of 2023

We caught a glimpse of Xbox’s upcoming Forza Motorsport title at the recently concluded Developer Direct showcase. However, the one detail missing from the information we got was a release date, as the showcase only mentioned a 2023 release without a launch window. Now, a popular industry insider has revealed that it has been reportedly delayed to the second half of 2023. According to Game sBeat reporter Jeff Grubb on the Game s Mess Decides podcast (Via r/GamingLeaksAndRumors), Forza Motorsport will likely release in the second half of 2023. He also pointed out that The Game Awards host, Geoff Keighley, said that the Game will release before the end of June. However, Grubb feels pretty confident about the information his sources provided. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: We Should Care More About Xbox Stealing Forza Back After Its Own Pricing Errors Earlier, Forza Motorsport was pegged to release in Spring 2023 as revealed during the Xbox-Bethesda...

Forza Motorsport Won't Have A Native Xbox One Release

Turn10 has confirmed that there won't be a native Xbox One version of Forza Motorsport, debunking previous rumours that claimed it would release on both current-gen and last-gen consoles. Just a few days ago, Xbox hosted its first Developer_Direct, giving us more details on Redfall, Minecraft Legends, The Elder Scrolls Online, and the newly-announced and released Hi-Fi Rush. Although most of the Game s at the show got given a firm release date, the one outlier was Forza Motorsport, which had a detailed Game play deep dive but was still tagged with "2023" at the end. Related: They Should Make A Forza Horizon For Adults One thing that wasn't mentioned during the Developer_Direct was that there won't be a native Xbox One version of Forza Motorsport. As confirmed by a blog post on the Forza Motorsport support site, Xbox One players will be able to play Forza Motorsport through a cloud version that's included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. THEGAMER VIDEO ...

xQc May Be Banned From Gambling During Divorce According To Court Documents

Twitch streamer xQc is reportedly undergoing a divorce from partner and fellow streamer Adept. Although he's vehemently denied ever being married, publically available court documents refer to the pair as a married couple seeking divorce, which means he may have been in what's known as a common law marriage. Part of Adept's filing includes a request that xQc be banned from gambling, something that's been a hot issue for Twitch recently. As reported by Dexerto, the divorce filing was combed through by YouTuber Henry Resilient. Adept has filed for a temporary injunction, meaning until further notice, xQc would be banned from doing the activities laid out within it. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: Streamers Are Sick Of Gaming, And There’s No Easy Answer Most notably, the temporary injunction requests xQc be banned from "Utilizing funds in his possession to wager, gamble, or play any Game s of chance" and "Utilizing funds ...

The Last Of Us Episode 1 Added To YouTube For Free

Millions of people have already watched The Last Of Us on HBO since its first episode debuted a little under two weeks ago. Keen to get even more people on the adaptation's bandwagon, HBO and Sky have now made the first episode of the show free to watch by making it available on YouTube. Since The Last Of Us is an HBO show, viewers either need an HBO or HBO Max (Sky or NowTV in the UK) subscription in order to watch it. Well, in an attempt to get even more people watching, and in turn up subscriber numbers, episode one of the show can now be watched in full on YouTube. Should first-time viewers love it as much as its creators expect them to, then the bet is they'll pay to keep up, as it's highly unlikely the showrunners are going to continue to be this charitable and post the whole series for free. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY RELATED: As Every Video Game Becomes A Film, We Have To Be Better About Spoilers That's only one additional episode fo...

Hi-Fi Rush Was Pitched Before Game Pass Existed

Hi-Fi Rush's director has described the title as a "dream Game " and revealed that it was pitched back in 2017, debunking the assumption that it was made just for Xbox Game Pass. Earlier this week, Xbox held its first Developer_Direct, revealing new details on some of its upcoming Game s. The best news to come from the showcase was the reveal and subsequent shadow drop of Hi-Fi Rush, a rhythm brawler from Tango Game works that's quickly become one of the most positively talked-about Xbox Game s in some time. Related: Hi-Fi Rush Leaker Claims Starfield And Redfall's Development Is In "Rough Shape" The sudden shadow dropping of Hi-Fi Rush has made the assumption that it was created just for Xbox Game Pass a pretty easy one, with many assuming Xbox has released and made it out of nowhere. Anyone who's played it will know it's far too complex to have just been booted out the door, but Game director John Johanas has further proven that as...

Players Share Useless Game Info From Portal's Glowing Mug To Fallout's Super Smart Mole

I'm pretty sure that most people reading this have at least one Game they know absolutely everything about. Whether it be a childhood Game or just something we've connected with over the years, we all have that one title that we love so much that we can't help but eat up all the info about them we possibly can. Because of this, we've all amassed a bunch of pointless video Game knowledge that's taking up precious space in our brains - until now that is. Twitter user SuperPodSaga recently asked the platform for the most pointless bits of video Game trivia they know, and boy did they deliver. With almost 13,000 quote tweets, answers came flooding in, including a Portal 2 fans who shared their discovery of a weird glowing mug that can be found floating out of bounds in Chapter 6. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Related: Only An Obsidian-Developed New Vegas Follow-Up Can Save The Series Turns out, this glowing mug might be placed there to succe...

MTG's Head Designer Points Out Too Many Planeswalker Names Start With K

It’s a ‘problem’ that few Magic: The Gathering players have likely noticed before, but one head designer Mark Rosewater has: too many Planeswalkers’ names begin with the letter K. Enough of them, in fact, that he has already raised the issue with his team at Wizards of the Coast. Planeswalkers are powerful mages who can move between realities (or “Planes”), and are central to the MTG story. Over the years, dozens of them have been introduced, but a shockingly high number of them have similar names. RELATED: The Creepiest Planeswalkers In Magic: The Gathering Answering a question on his Blogatog blog, where he often collects feedback from the community, Rosewater confirmed that the prevalence of Planeswalkers whose names start with K is something he has already noticed. In his answer he admitted he has “raised that very issue”, suggesting we could see fewer K- Planeswalkers in the future. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY ...

Overwatch Fans Share Which Rejected Prometheus Heroes They'd Add To The Game

Overwatch 2 has a pretty wide range of characters to choose from, as Heroes have been steadily added ever since the first Game 's launch back in 2016. Just like with most video Game projects, some potential characters were left on the cutting room floor back when Overwatch was known as Prometheus during development. For those that don't know, Blizzard employees were tasked with creating their own characters for Prometheus, some of which made it into the final Game . Characters like Winston and Reaper were largely unchanged, while characters that we know as Echo and Soldier 76 were originally called Iris and Troy. Then there are those that were eventually rejected which are the focus of today's story, as Overwatch players are discussing which they'd like to see revived and added to the Game . THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Related: Battle For Olympus Is Everything Wrong With Overwatch 2 If you visit the thread yourself, you'll quickly notice ...

The Witcher 3 Update Patch Is "Hopefully" Coming This Week

CD Projekt Red has been at work on a patch that should address the issues that players have been experiencing in The Witcher 3's "next-gen" update. The Witcher 3 was updated with major performance and graphics enhancements for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series last month, along with some new content inspired by the Netflix TV series. Visually, the Game has never looked better, but with the update there also came a host of new visual bugs, technical issues, and glitches. The good news is that players shouldn't have long to wait now for the patch for these problems. Related: Hearts Of Stone Is The Witcher 3 At Its Very Best On Twitter, the official Witcher account tweeted that a new patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is coming "very soon". When users commented when this might be more specifically, a CDPR representative clarified further. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY "How soon is soon?" was commented under...

Street Fighter 6 Adds WWE Star Thea Trinidad To Its Commentary Feature

One of the more interesting new features to arrive with Street Fighter 6 is a fight commentary function that makes your bout sound like a real-life e Sports broadcast. Capcom has hired real e Sports personalities to lend their voices to this feature in both English and Japanese. So far, we have Jeremy "Vicious" Lopez, James Chen, and Tasty Steve as English commentators and Kosuke Hiraiwa, Aru, and Demon Kakka in Japanese. Now we have two more voices to add to the English voice cast, and they're both WWE wrestlers. Zelina Vega announced herself as a Street Fighter 6 commentator by running into last night's Royal Rumble dressed as the kick-happy Juri, while Thea Trinidad received a more traditional trailer announcing her participation. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY Related: Predicting The Game r’s Game of the Year 2023 For those unsure how this works, each commentator has a number of pre-recorded lines that get played on-screen depending...