Bang-On Balls: Chronicles – Review

Microsoft has announced that it will be holding an on Wednesday, October 25 to show off titles being developed by the gaming giant’s third-party partners. While the recently revealed showcase promises to give gamers a glimpse of some upcoming PC and Xbox titles, no Activision Blizzard games will be included at this year’s event.

Microsoft has announced an Xbox Partner Preview event livestream that will happen on Wednesday, October 25. The event will show new looks and reveals of upcoming games heading to Xbox, Game Pass, and Windows from third-party partners.

Microsoft has announced its next showcase event, the Xbox Partner Preview, for October 25th. It will broadcast on Twitch and YouTube at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET and feature over 20 minutes of trailers and gameplay from third-party developers. There will also be announcements for upcoming Game Pass titles.

War Thunder’s big Kings of Battle update is on the way, and Gaijin Entertainment has begun revealing some of what’s to come, with a new teaser and details.

Saber's arcade-like interpretation of American football is a few yards shy of a touchdown.

Having played 100s of hours of Stardew Valley, I can say with certainty that the soundtrack is absolutely killer. Not only does it feature a combination of genuinely moving and upbeat tracks: but my wife and I also can’t help but hum to the vast majority of the score. That’s going to be a lot more exciting to do in person of course, when the Stardew Valley concert tour kicks off next year.

Between the launches of Major League Cricket in the United States and the Women’s Premier League in India, and Ben Stokes’ Bazballing Brits putting bums on seats in the Test arena, the past couple of years has been an exciting period of expansion and evolution for the sport of cricket in all of its forms – well, except for one. Cricket 24, the latest video game version of the most beer-friendly of summer sports from developer Big Ant Studios, finds itself stuck in the past like a handlebar moustache on an Aussie fast bowler – offering a brand of bat-on-ball gameplay that’s almost indistinguishable from the now two-year-old Cricket 22. A sprinkling of new and only partially implemented player licences, slight visual improvements, and the addition of Adam Gilchrist to the perennially misfiring commentary team don’t really combine to provide a compelling enough reason to bring returning fans back through Cricket 24’s turnstiles.

The first Truck Driver, from Soedesco arrived back in 2019 with mixed reviews, while it wasn’t upto the standards of the PC based Truck Simulator franchise, it was one of the only (and possibly the best) Trucking Sim available on the Xbox and has built 1uote a following thanks to great support from the developers ironing out a few launch issues.

Martin Scorsese is a legend. The man has directed Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, and countless cinematic classics. Whenever he graces the big screen with his work, there is something to love. His new movie is, an epic Western crime drama. This time, Scorsese unites two actors he has worked with extensively over the past few decades: Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. We follow the real-life story of the members of the Osage Native American tribe in the 1920s who get killed one by one, leading to an FBI investigation.

Through the first three generations of Xbox, Forza Motorsport cemented itself as a racing game institution with its biennial releases. It’s been a much, much longer wait for the eighth game, though, with Turn 10 Studios reinventing the wheel of what Forza is as a racing game. The result is a game that fits in better with the current pantheon of ‘simcade’ racers with more serious-feeling multiplayer, but which has lost some of its US-centric racing personality.

The series has been the go-to racing series for Xbox players since all the way back in 2005, and in spite of various challengers nothing else has quite compared. Along the way, gamers have also been introduced to the series, with an expansive approach to racing in a series that is always improving. Now, Turn 10 Studios is back with , returning to the core franchise.

When I first pulled into Station to Station’s voxel-powered railways, I was expecting more of a straight-forward train sim, something akin to the A-Train franchise with a bit of city building. The reality, however, is much different – Station to Station is more like a puzzle game built around some of the tropes of simulation-style games, with stuff like resource and money management unlocking the next possibility in the gameplay loop. It's disarmingly simple to explain: some of the buildings on your map are industries that produce resources. Connect those to the other buildings that need those resources. Connect them all to the cities. Profit.