Luke Albigés

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Posted 4 years ago

This week's Xbox Gameplay Chart of popular Xbox games sees the top spot change hands for the first time this year, along with a strong start for Bethesda's Redfall while Minecraft Legends tumbles towards the Nether...

Posted 8 months ago

This week's Xbox Gameplay Chart of popular Xbox games sees Minecraft Legends tumble 14 places to the bottom end of the top 20, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor doesn't manage to break the top ten...

Posted 8 months ago

Minecraft Legends launched last week, and early signs are very promising, with first-week player counts rivalling the opening periods of some of 2023's most successful launches to date, according to our Xbox player data.

Posted 9 months ago

Microsoft just dropped a new '50% off or more' Xbox sale, with over 200 games included. Here are the titles for which those deep discounts make for the best deals we've seen to date on the store for those games.

Posted 9 months ago

The Xbox Spring Sale is in its final few days, so there's still a little time to grab some games that have either never been on sale before, or are currently at their lowest prices to date. Here's a handy round-up of just that!

Posted 9 months ago

Rainbow Six Siege may be over seven years old, but that doesn't seem to be hurting the competitive shooter's player base. In fact, our data shows that weekly Xbox player counts have actually doubled since this time last year.

Posted 9 months ago

Recently, we've seen more and more indie titles belatedly arrive on Xbox — Vampire Survivors, Loop Hero, Inscryption, and many more besides. Here's a selection of other indie favourites that we'd love to see on Xbox.

Posted 9 months ago

If you're tired of open world collectathons and cookie-cutter shooters, the Game Pass library is home to more weird and wonderful experiences than you might expect. Here are a few of the strangest games on Xbox Game Pass...

Posted 9 months ago

Loop Hero is a fine new addition to the Game Pass library, bringing another popular Devolver release to Xbox at last. We dived in for a few laps of this unique fantasy roguelite to see if Four Quarters' game was worth the wait.

Posted 9 months ago

Arkane's vampire-hunting FPS Redfall is finally here, but can the studio take a bite out of the crowded open world game market? Luke headed to a quaint middle-American town overrun with bloodsucking freaks to find out...

Posted 8 months ago

Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake arrives on Xbox Series X|S on March 24th, and we've already blasted through the reworked campaign to see how Leon's little European excursion has changed. Here's how we got on...

Posted 10 months ago

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty launches into Xbox Game Pass this week, and Team Ninja's Nioh-esque spin on Three Kingdoms lore returns to the format of the PlayStation exclusive action-RPGs while adding some magic of its own.

Posted 10 months ago

Atomic Heart explodes onto Xbox this week, launching into Game Pass for all to enjoy its over-the-top mechanical mayhem. How does the game stack up to the intense footage we've been shown in the lead-up to launch?

Posted 11 months ago

Soleil's brutal action title Wanted: Dead launches today for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and what a perplexing, entertaining, intriguing, frustrating, and occasionally satisfying mess of a game it is...

Posted 11 months ago

Monster Hunter Rise launches into Xbox Game Pass later this week, and it should come as little surprise that Capcom's popular Switch game is still really good, but it's even better on Xbox...

Posted 1 year ago

Pentiment, Obsidian's historical artistic adventure and labour of love, arrives on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass tomorrow — here are our thoughts on this creative masterwork having rolled credits and jumped back in for more...

Posted 1 year ago

Gotham Knights swoops onto Xbox Series X|S this week, telling the tale of a post-Batman Gotham City. Luke donned cowl and cape to see how the new action-RPG from Warner Bros. Montreal compares to Bats' best.

Posted 1 year ago

Saints Row returns this week, and despite Volition's latest slice of over-the-top open world gang warfare having its share of bugs and issues, it's still a lot of fun. Luke took a quick city break to Santo Ileso to check it out...

Posted 1 year ago

The biggest licensed Lego game to date launches tomorrow, and ahead of release, we've been on a sightseeing tour of the galaxy to see how Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga stacks up to its peers...

Posted 1 year ago

More and more classic games are getting ported to modern systems or remastered for new audiences with each passing year, but why does it feel like every other platform is getting more retro love than poor old Xbox?

Posted 8 months ago

Missable achievements are not uncommon, especially in games with levels that are self-contained and don't offer a chapter select option. But larger games are not safe from them, either — cower before the point of no return.

Posted 8 months ago

With the anticipated Redfall proving a rather disappointing addition to the Xbox library, all hope now lies with Bethesda's interstellar RPG Starfield to deliver the first-party blockbuster Microsoft seriously needs in 2023.

Posted 8 months ago

Afterimage, the beautiful hand-drawn Metroidvania-style adventure, launched on Xbox this week, and though I'm almost at the end, poor achievement pacing means I have just seven out of 46 to show for my efforts so far...

Posted 9 months ago

Once a genre-defining gaming superpower, the Halo series feels like it has been treading water in recent years... should Microsoft let its flagship franchise die with dignity rather than trying to force it to remain relevant?

Posted 10 months ago

Bethesda was kind enough to invite us to take our first bite of upcoming vampire-flavoured shooter Redfall at a hands-on preview event recently — here's a taste of what to expect when Redfall launches in early May.

Posted 10 months ago

Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake launches next week, so what better time to look back on the series' history and chart the top-performing games in the premiere survival horror franchise?

Posted 10 months ago

Want to know how the fighting games on Game Pass stack up? You've come to the right place! Which Game Pass fighters are top tier, and which are never getting picked?

Posted 10 months ago

Redfall is a new co-op FPS from Dishonored creators, Arkane. As we await the shooter's launch later this year as an Xbox Series X|S console exclusive, let's go through everything we know about Redfall so far...

Posted 11 months ago

Free-to-play crossover fighting game MultiVersus got off to a flying start last year, with millions of players jumping into the chaotic action. So where did the hype go for a game starring some of media's most iconic characters?

Posted 11 months ago