Category: Xbox News

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!

Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising – November 8 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

Recruit…Train…Fight! The All Valley Awaits! Eagle Fang, Cobra Kia, Miyagi-do — which is your dojo? That choice begins your journey, but then it’s up to you to recruit the most powerful team as you master your fighting style and battle to solidify your dojo’s legacy as the All Valley Karate Grand Champion!

Football Manager 2023 (PC) – November 8
Game Pass

Available on day one with PC Game Pass: Football Manager 2023 brings you closer to the beautiful game, from the supporters that live and breathe every match to your board, scouts, players, and opposition managers. Earn the backing of the fans by outsmarting your rivals and delivering success on the pitch.

Football Manager 2023 Console – November 8
Game Pass

Available on day one with Game Pass: Become the best in Football Manager 2023 Console, newly renamed for this season. Formerly titled the Xbox edition, this tailored version of Football Manager zones in on football’s most important areas: the transfer market, the tactics board, and the pitch.

Return to Monkey Island – November 8
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Game Pass

Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games.

Sonic Frontiers – November 8
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

Worlds are colliding in Sonic the Hedgehog’s newest high-speed adventure! In search of the missing Chaos emeralds, Sonic becomes stranded on an ancient island teeming with unusual creatures. Battle hordes of powerful enemies as you explore a breathtaking world of action, adventure, and mystery.

Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony – November 9

A young adventurer Hugh Radcliff is in pursuit of one of the greatest mysteries of history: The Lost Colony. Deal with pirates, dive into native rituals, reveal conspiracies, and make tough choices on your difficult journey for unveiling this mystery!

Geometric Sniper – November 9

Play across a variety of environments where you will not have a second chance; precision is everything. When gaining intel, pay attention to the photo and information obtained by secret agents about your target. As a sniper, you must have a good memory to find and eliminate the target in the crowd before it gets away.

Super Woden GP – November 9
Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery

Feel the excitement of ‘90s racing, isometric style! Your story in Super Woden GP will see your career grow from limited resources and budget to championships across a multitude of intense racing events. Buy a cheap car and sign up for your first race, then use your winnings to acquire better vehicles, compete in bigger races, and advance to the top.

Geometric Feel the Beats – November 10

Geometric Feel the Beats describes itself as a fun and competitive, geometric arcade shooter accompanied by frantic music. Fulfill the mission requirements and accumulate points; the accumulated rank points can be used to purchase ship upgrades as well as display your overall rank.

Kaiju Wars – November 10

Play out a Kaiju movie as the mayor of Floatio city, tasked with holding off the overwhelming strength of a Kaiju attack with (hopelessly) outclassed military. Defend your city as five unique and devastating Kaiju grow in power with every attack. Unfortunately, they can’t be killed, but can be slowed down and forced to fall back… for now.

Lord of the Click III – November 10

LotC 3 concludes the epic story of our Clicker General who wages war against all enemies of the peaceful and prosperous kingdom. With new features like a new way to summon units, plenty of meaningful upgrades, and updated visuals so you can enjoy the pastoral cartoonish landscapes with fierce battles raging on.

Vampire Survivors (Console) – November 10
Game Pass

Jump straight into the action, mow down thousands of night creatures, and survive until dawn! The gothic-horror world of Vampire Survivors will throw relentless hordes of monsters at you: make the right choices or rely on your skills and favorite weapons to turn the tide and quickly snowball against your enemies.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration – November 11
Smart Delivery

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes you on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games. This massive selection of over 100 games spans seven different platforms: Arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, and, for the first time ever on modern consoles, Atari Lynx and Jaguar! Play the classics like Tempest 2000, Asteroids, and Yars’ Revenge, or dive into some deeper cuts.

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager – November 11

In this original mix of Dungeon Management and Roguelite, you will lead your career as a Dungeon Manager! Plan your defense against a group of adventurers. Check their stats and resistances, then place the best traps and monsters to defeat them. When you think your dungeon is ready, let the crawl begin!

Paper Flight – Speed Rush – November 11
Xbox One X Enhanced

An interactive game experience that is designed to ease your mind and have fun popping innocent balloons. Jump into the role of a little paper plane and rescue the world from evil balloon demons by dashing through them.

“Every challenge brings opportunity;” that’s what we thought when we started working on the next expansion for Surviving the Aftermath. With Shattered Hope we went back to the core of the game,

focusing more on the survivors, testing their limits instead of aiming for a grand adventure or end goal. The new scenario revolves around the moon, which went through a major collision event that ejected big parts of its outer layers into space. Most of that debris is orbiting Earth and falling down in meteor storms and survivors must, once again, adapt to a new cataclysm. We’re excited to release Shattered Hope on Xbox today!

What is Surviving the Aftermath? Well, our game debuted first in Early Access in October 2019 and launched in November, 2021. It is a survival colony builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where the player starts with nothing except a handful of survivors. It is a combination of colony building and world exploration where colonists must first learn to survive through the day, before becoming a thriving society in the wasteland, for any survivor looking for a place to call home. It’s a pleasure to talk to players and fans again, revealing what’s behind the scenes of Shattered Hope.

With Shattered Hope, we wanted to dive deeper into the human mind. If it wasn’t enough to survive in the aftermath of civilization, now our survivors have to deal with the Moonfall. That’s right, the moon’s destroyed and its fragments are showering down from the sky, leaving behind destruction, but also some very convenient moon rock deposits. By gathering and refining lunar fragments, survivors can improve buildings’ production and increase their chances of survival. This “boost mechanic,” as we call it, allowed us to add more depth to the whole colony management, providing you, the players, with more opportunities and choices.

With the new expansion, we introduce Hope: a new challenge that is affected by the flow of time and any catastrophic events in the colony. We know that people can work wonders in extreme conditions, even when the only thing that keeps them going is the power of their will. While exploring the persistence of one’s mind, we decided to turn this invisible force into a concrete mechanic. This means that small actions and decisions will have an impact on your colony’s chances to thrive or doom your colonists into the final downfall. Want to boost your colonists’ Hope? Put together a feast and let them enjoy a few moments of peace, fun, and even some good food.

Shattered Hope is the second expansion of Surviving the Aftermath and we definitely hope you’ll enjoy playing it on Xbox starting today!

Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope

Paradox Interactive

☆☆☆☆☆ 1

★★★★★

The Moon is shattered. Broken. Lost in the vast space above planet Earth. What was once a beacon of hope in the sky has now left survivors to deal with a new, catastrophic void in “Shattered Hope”, the new Expansion for Surviving the Aftermath. Use the Moon’s fragments to your advantage and make sure to keep your hopes up (literally!) to survive. Key Features Face the Moonfall and use it to your advantage with the new Building Boost mechanic
The Moon is shattered in the sky and its fragments are crushing down on Earth leaving behind them devastation – but also moon rock deposits. You can refine lunar fragments and obtain lunar dust which will be used to increase the production of your buildings for a limited time. This new building boost mechanic is called overtime. Keep your hopes up, and feast! Hope is a new global value that decreases over time and when catastrophes happen in the game. If kept too low for too long, it will trigger a new condition called anguish that, if left untreated, may turn your colonists hostile. So, keep your hope as high as possible by holding feasts at the new colony square building! New production chain: take care of your colonists!
When colonists experience anguish, you can help them by building a trauma center where they will heal. They will recover faster thanks to a brand new medicine called antistress. To make it, you’ll have to grow raw resources on the mushroom farm, then refine them into the actual medicine in the med hut building.

Are you ready to open your mind and find out who you truly are? The Chant is now available on Xbox Series X|S and it’s going to take you on the ultimate journey of self-discovery, unlocking parts of your mind that you didn’t even know existed.

Set on a remote island at a spiritual retreat, The Chant is a single-player, third person horror action-adventure game that will stay with you long after you put down the controller. The main protagonist, Jess, arrives at the retreat seeking to come to terms with past trauma. But her quest for inner peace will soon turn into a desperate struggle for survival.

Taking inspiration from the psychedelic horror movies of the late 70s, The Chant leaves you to explore an unknown and unsettling landscape awash with negative energy. You will have to craft, fight, and make your escape from the horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong.

The Chant tells the story of what happens when you toy with things that aren’t meant to be toyed with. There’s a recurring cast of characters that will help you untangle the complex history of the island, but it’s very much up to you to fight off the evil creatures, reason with the survivors, and set about reversing the ritual.

The unique, interactive soundscape coupled with the use of color and negative space creates a deep sense of unease and sets up moments of sheer terror. The haunting electronic rock soundtrack is composed by the award-winning Paul Ruskay, and Siobhan Williams, star of “Sacred Lies” and AMC’s acclaimed series “Hell On Wheels”, leads a talented cast of actors.

Will you be able to elevate your spirit to meditate and access supernatural abilities? Or will you succumb to panic and flee?

Find out if you have what it takes to keep yourself together – in the face of dark forces determined to tear you apart – in The Chant, now available for Xbox Series X|S.

The Chant

Prime Matter

☆☆☆☆☆ 23

★★★★★

A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror. A Spiritual Nightmare A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote island spiritual retreat. A peaceful weekend soon turns to dread after a group chant opens The Gloom, a psychedelic dimension of terror that feeds off negative energy. Interact with a recurring cast of characters, untangle the complex history of the island, and witness terrifying revelations about the cosmos. Only you can fight off the creatures, reason with the survivors, and unravel the legacy of a cult from the 1970s to reverse the ritual. EXPLORE AN ISLAND FILLED WITH COSMIC DREAD Interact with the other members of the retreat as they slowly become consumed by their own negative energy. Survive against an array of prismatic creatures and cultists released from The Gloom as you piece together the weird history of the island. FIGHT OR FLIGHT You must choose your fights and battle for survival with spiritual weapons and abilities. Collect, craft, and manage your resources to take your chances in close combat – or succumb to panic and flee. MIND BODY SPIRIT Balance is everything. Steel your mind against horror and panic; Protect your body against physical threats; Elevate your spirit to meditate and access supernatural abilities… MODERN PSYCHEDELIC HORROR Inspired by the psychedelic horror of the 1970s, experience a landscape of colored lighting and an electronic rock soundtrack, composed by the award-winning Paul Ruskay.

WRC Generations marks a turning point in the history of the license and intends to mark this moment with a white stone. For this, KT Racing, the studio in charge of development has worked hard to offer you the ultimate Rally experience on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S!

 The Last of a Generation

2022 will see WRC transition to the hybrid era. A revolution for the rally world, significantly affecting performance, changing strategies, and making drivers and teams adapt. Not only that, WRC Generations adds new mechanics, improved physics, the ability for players to share their liveries and a new game mode – the Leagues!

 Welcome to the Leagues

The Leagues Mode is the main competitive mode of WRC Generations. You will be able to play in parallel Solo Leagues and Team Leagues. The Leagues mode is divided in Seasons, split into weeks and at the end of a season, the best players will access the Hall of Fame.

In Solo Leagues, the points you’ve earned will determine your place in the standings. In Team Leagues, the points earned by all members in your team (up to 8 players) are added together to determine the team’s ranking.

The goal is for you to reach the highest ranking on the leaderboard in one of the different Leagues:

• Beginner
• Junior
• Rookie
• Professional
• Champion
• Legend

There are 3 levels per League with each level being divided into groups of players or teams, for human-sized competition:

• 30 players per group in Solo Leagues
• 8 teams per group in Team Leagues

How the Progress Works

The Leagues mode works in Seasons, each season is made of 11 weeks with Season One starting on November 28! At the beginning, a Qualification Phase takes place for one week. The goal is to rank as high as possible from the start.

From this first ranking, the progress of the leagues follows its normal process. During the remaining 10 weeks you will have to participate in Daily and Weekly Events to move up in your group ranking.

If you are familiar with how the Daily & Weekly Challenges worked in previous WRC titles you will feel a certain familiarity as they are randomly generated through the stages, cars & weather conditions available in WRC Generations.

Enter the 2022 World Rally Championship and the League’s Hall of Fame with WRC Generations now on Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S!

WRC Generations Fully Loaded Edition

Nacon

☆☆☆☆☆ 24

★★★★★

The Fully Loaded Edition includes:
– Sébastien Loeb’s Citroën C4 WRC (2010) – The “Career Starter Pack” with 6 extra crew members
– 2 Porsche 911 GT3 RS RGT liveries
– A pack of 36 stickers for the Livery Editor – Free access to WRC+ for 3 months* Buying this edition before August 31, 2023 grants 3 months of free access to WRC + All Live, the official streaming video platform of the FIA World Rally Championship. Visit https://www.wrcthegame.com/ for more details about this offer.

WRC Generations – The FIA WRC Official Game

Nacon

☆☆☆☆☆ 24

★★★★★

2022 will see the WRC transition to the hybrid era. This is a revolution for the rally world, significantly affecting performance, changing strategies and making drivers and teams adapt. In terms of gameplay, new mechanics have been integrated to represent the demands of the hybrid engines. In order to win, you have to carefully manage your battery by adapting your engine mapping throughout the special stages you take part in. As community satisfaction is always a priority , you can now share customised livery and stickers with other players. The best creations will be rewarded and highlighted. For fans of competition, the new Leagues mode lets players challenge opponents with a similar level online. Finish ahead of your competitors to move up the ladder in the Legends category. WRC Generations includes more content than ever before in a rally game.
• 750 km of unique special stages in 22 countries • 49 teams from the 2022 season (Rally1 / Rally2 / Junior WRC)
• 37 legendary cars plus additional bonuses
• 165 timed special stages In order to make the representation of the championship even more realistic, a completely redesigned Rally Sweden environment has been added, with 6 brand-new special stages in the Umea region. New features: • The new hybrid vehicles
• New, even more realistic vehicle physics
• A LEAGUES mode in which you can challenge other players
• A new Rally Sweden environment with 6 brand-new special stages
• Share livery and stickers with the community
• In-game team creation and management

It’s almost time for Xbox FanFest Trivia! We’re gearing up for your next chance at great prizes and, most importantly, a great time! Hosted by Xbox’s Kelly Lombardi and Malik Prince, Xbox FanFest Trivia will be a fun community challenge that will put your Xbox knowledge to the test.

Xbox FanFest Trivia will kick off on twitch.tv/xbox on November 12, 2022, at 2pm PT. This 90-minute global livestream event will be available for anyone to watch and Xbox FanFest fans who sign up to play by November 8 will be eligible to play and win prizes. You can learn more and sign up at xbox.com/fanfest (see official rules).

Participants will have the chance to win an Xbox Series S, 12-month subscription to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Microsoft Rewards points, Xbox Gear Shop gift cards, and more! Whether you want to play along, or just want to tune-in and watch, we hope to see you there!

Why should I sign up as an Xbox FanFest fan?

Xbox FanFest gets you special access to things like our FanFest email list that will make you one the first to hear about upcoming FanFest exclusives like select Xbox events, experiences, and merch drops. Being a fan also means exclusive access to curated digital and in-person experiences, and sweepstakes created just for FanFest! And did we mention a one-time use 20% off discount code to the Xbox Gear Shop? Yeah, there’s that too. So what are you waiting for? Sign up today!

Stay tuned to Xbox Wire and follow @Xbox social channels for all the latest on Xbox FanFest!

Hi, I’m Catalin Marcu from GrimTalin, one of the two developers of Last Days of Lazarus – a dark post-communist adventure that tells a disturbing story about family, loss and sin. George, our game director from Darkania Works, and myself are extremely excited that our game is finally releasing on Xbox Series X.

While I joined the development of the game about a year into its making, I have instantly resonated with its setting into not only our country, Romania, but also in a difficult period for us: the post-communist transition period. I feel we have achieved our goal of highlighting, through a supernatural distorted lens, what our life was during those difficult years, as we ourselves were growing from kids to teenagers.

I was four and half when communism in Romania fell. While there wasn’t much unrest in the small town I grew up in, the big cities and our capital, Bucharest, were in a full Revolution. I remember one of those nights, as my dad was leaving for his night shift at the factory, he told me and my older brother: “Stay inside and behave. They’re shooting in Bucharest.” I don’t know how much I understood at that early age the gravity of what was happening, but my dad’s worried face conveyed it was something important and those words stayed with me.

What followed was the period of transition. A sacrificial generation as they called it. Our parents were supposed to sacrifice themselves to poverty and continuous struggles so that my generation would have a real chance at democratic life. Quite inspiring! What that really meant was the right people with the right connections got a free pass at looting almost everything from the country. It meant corruption ran rampant. It meant a generation that was still blocked and kept into the old way of thinking and surviving.

Communism didn’t disappear from our country overnight. Neither did all the cultural and commercial Russian influences. We still imported a lot of stuff from all the countries in the old communist bloc. That is the main reason there are so many items in our game that look like they’re from Russia. That’s why there are texts in Russian here and there. Some people might mistakenly think the game is set in Russia or that we placed those items in the game in error. In fact, that’s what our lives in Romania looked like back then.

During communism, one of the ways people coped was through religion and that remained a defining feature for us into the transition period. Our Orthodox Christianity has always been blended with many traditions, many of them of pagan nature. We are religious while also believing in ghosts, curses, disenchantments, fortune tellers and so on. For people on whom life has been particularly hard, it was common to become obsessed with religion and the belief in our superstitions. We wanted our game to illustrate as best we could this distorted view of Christianity.

Our country has always been praised for its beautiful scenery. This is also something we worked hard to bring in our game, with some eerily beautiful locations inspired by our real places and architecture, like the monasteries and the Bran orphanage, blended into lush forests.

I personally am super happy to have been given the chance to work on a game that highlights our country, its traditions and its difficult past. It’s a rare setting in games and I hope you will take the chance to explore it and take in all the details. And, of course, help our titular Lazarus find out the truth about his family’s troubled past and the fate of all of its members. Last Days of Lazarus is out now on Xbox Series X|S!

Last Days of Lazarus

GrimTalin

☆☆☆☆☆ 4

★★★★★

Set in a post-soviet Eastern Europe, Last Days of Lazarus tells the story of a troubled man, long estranged, returning to his childhood home after his mother’s death to spend some time with his sister Lyudmila. But as the country around him seems to fall apart, so does reality itself, with a series of unexplainable events leading him on a quest to find out more about his family’s disturbing past. Last Days of Lazarus is a first-person adventure game with a strong narrative, rich visuals and supernatural elements, heavily inspired by post-communist Romania, its troubled history, eerie locations, religious beliefs and strange superstitions. As the story unravels, you’ll meet questionable characters whose corrupted version of the truth you’ll need to navigate. With a troubled past yourself, you’ll struggle not only with solving the mysteries laid upon you but also with keeping alive any sliver of hope for salvation.

Here are this week’s games and add-on deals available from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through November 07, 2022 (actual end date varies by sale).

Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Deals

*These offers are only valid for Xbox Live Gold members.

Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region. Content Type varies by title and some titles may have multiple types not listed. Check the title’s individual product page for specific details about the game.

Xbox 360 Deals

*These offers are only valid for Xbox Live Gold members.

Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region. Content Type varies by title and some titles may have multiple types not listed. Check the title’s individual product page for specific details about the game.

Paris needs a hero… or two! Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx, inspired by the beloved animated television series, “ZAG Heroez Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir”, lets you play as the titular heroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. As the game opens you must stop Pigeon Man from causing chaos in the streets of Paris. Dodge the attacking pigeons and counter his attacks to take him down as you uncover a new sinister plot in the Miraculous universe.

Hawk Moth and his devious cronies have hatched a plan to unleash a giant sentimonster on Paris, and you must squash it before it’s too late. Dive into the magical world of Miraculous and face off against infamous and never-before-seen foes from the series. Power up your heroes across your journey, and upgrade Ladybug’s yo-yo and Cat Noir’s staff to unleash powerful attacks on waves of evilized-cronies. As you master the abilities of both characters, try your might at defeating the ultimate evil: The Sphinx!

What would this game be without an iconic villain? The Sphinx has revealed himself to you as your ultimate challenge, but there are plenty of obstacles keeping you from thwarting his master plan. You will have to conquer Clonika, Gamer, Weredad, and many more before your ultimate showdown.

Swing or vault into action across the rooftops of Paris. Combat and platform your way through six iconic chapters. Explore the streets of Paris as the alter egos of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Marinette and Adrien. Catch up with your friends for unique story moments and check out the iconic landscapes including the Eiffel tower, Notre Dame, local markets, coffee shops, and of course the infamous College Francoise Dupont.

Playing solo not your thing? Then team up with a friend, brother, sister, or parent and each take on the persona of one the iconic heroes. Enjoy this immersive world together and experience the joy of the series as you leap your way across Paris, and with some luck defeat the ultimate evil, The Sphinx.

To learn more about Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx, visit Miraculousgame.com.

Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx Ultimate Edition

GameMill Entertainment

☆☆☆☆☆ 4

★★★★★

$59.99 $49.79

Be Strong…Be Brave…Be Miraculous! Paris needs a hero! Once again, the city of lights is in trouble as it faces a new menace—the most threatening sentimonster ever created is about to take control! As you take on the personas of the globally renowned superheroez Ladybug and Cat Noir, you’ll need to unveil the diabolical plan hatched by archvillain Hawk Moth—and squash it! Immerse yourself into the magical world of Miraculous and level up your superpowers as you embark on your biggest journey yet! Transform with the Ultimate Edition featuring the base game of Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx and 3 exclusive costumes! De-evilize the streets of Paris in style with 2 exclusive Ladybug and 1 Cat Noir costume. Key Game Features: • Epic Adventure! Immerse yourself in an original story as you take control of everyone’s favorite heroes, Ladybug and Cat Noir. • Team Up! Experience the thrill of teamwork as you battle villains and de-evilize akumas together in local co-op. • More Villains! Come face to face with familiar villains Hawk Moth, Gamer, Weredad, and Mr. Pigeon, and some new enemies too!
• Discovery! Explore the streets of Paris as Marinette and Adrien and uncover the story behind their alter-ego’s Ladybug and Cat Noir. • Super Gadgets! Use Ladybug’s fast flinging yo-yo and Cat Noir’s magical versatile staff to swing or vault into battle! Upgrade the gadgets to unlock powerful new moves!
• Master Fu! Visit your friend and mentor Master Fu whose words of wisdom help you to learn new powers. • Kwami Shop: Discover the many treasures of the Kwami shop as you unlock never-before-seen artwork, music, and more.
• Friendship Quest: As Marinette and Adrian, you’ll need to catch up with your friends for clues to progress the story and unlock special friendship moments.

Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx

GameMill Entertainment

☆☆☆☆☆ 4

★★★★★

$49.99 $39.99

Be Strong…Be Brave…Be Miraculous! Paris needs a hero! Once again, the city of lights is in trouble as it faces a new menace—the most threatening sentimonster ever created is about to take control! As you take on the personas of the globally renowned superheroez Ladybug and Cat Noir, you’ll need to unveil the diabolical plan hatched by archvillain Hawk Moth—and squash it! Immerse yourself into the magical world of Miraculous and level up your superpowers as you embark on your biggest journey yet! Key Game Features: • Epic Adventure! Immerse yourself in an original story as you take control of everyone’s favorite heroes, Ladybug and Cat Noir. • Team Up! Experience the thrill of teamwork as you battle villains and de-evilize akumas together in local co-op. • More Villains! Come face to face with familiar villains Hawk Moth, Gamer, Weredad, and Mr. Pigeon, and some new enemies too!
• Discovery! Explore the streets of Paris as Marinette and Adrien and uncover the story behind their alter-ego’s Ladybug and Cat Noir. • Super Gadgets! Use Ladybug’s fast flinging yo-yo and Cat Noir’s magical versatile staff to swing or vault into battle! Upgrade the gadgets to unlock powerful new moves!
• Master Fu! Visit your friend and mentor Master Fu whose words of wisdom help you to learn new powers. • Kwami Shop: Discover the many treasures of the Kwami shop as you unlock never-before-seen artwork, music, and more.
• Friendship Quest: As Marinette and Adrian, you’ll need to catch up with your friends for clues to progress the story and unlock special friendship moments.

Hello to all the cool cats and kittens reading this blog post right now. My name is Grace Bruxner, I’m the creative director of Frog Detective which was made with our studio Worm Club. You might be thinking, “This is a weird game for Xbox PC Game Pass to be promoting…” and you’d be right. However, it’s also a masterpiece and the best game ever made (don’t fight me on that), so I thought I’d give you a run down on what the series is all about.

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery has you playing as the world’s second best investigator. Question suspects, find clues, look through your (allegedly useless) magnifying glass and solve three thrilling mysteries. The first mystery is a bite-sized conundrum, with Frog Detective heading to a remote island which has been plagued with reports of a very spooky ghost. Is there really a supernatural force at play, or is there perhaps something even more sinister going on? Or (more likely) nothing sinister at all. Experience the silliness that made Frog Detective into a modern indie classic.

Hot off the case, Frog Detective has no time to rest! It’s time to solve The Case of the Invisible Wizard, which has our polite mannered detective whisked away to Warlock Woods, where a parade has been ruined right before it’s about to start. Featuring mind-blowing new notebook technology, and the introduction of an iconic character, Frog Detective: the Entire Mystery is even more action packed than the first adventure.

The third and final case, Corruption at Cowboy County, is Frog Detective’s biggest yet. Fans have been asking for years for this conclusion, and we’ve made it worth the wait. Jam-packed with laughs, twists, spooks and shocks, the third case is the pinnacle of what Frog Detective can be. You’ll start by making your way to Cowboy County, where Frog Detective has been asked to help find a sheriff for the town. On arrival, the case has already been solved, and it seems like the fun is over before it’s begun. Not to worry though, as the new Sheriff has a task for the Detective—solving the first real crime that society has ever seen. But something is amiss here… Can you figure out what’s wrong before it’s too late?

All three cases are scored masterfully by the wonderful Dan Golding. The soundtrack is so magnificent that it makes me self-conscious about the rest of the game’s quality in comparison, but I’ve been assured that all three cases are a delight to play. Frog Detective can be played by yourself, but we recommend bringing some friends over and sitting on the couch together to play, reading out the dialogue and performing as you go.

If that sounds fun to you, then you can play Frog Detective: the Entire Mystery right now with Game Pass for PC.

I hope you love our silly adventures, and I’m so thrilled to be able to introduce the game to a new audience!

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery

Worm Club

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

PC Game Pass

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Launch marks the start of content through the beginning of Season 01 and the release of Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0. Read on for a look at the highlights.

Campaign – Globe-Trotting, Single Player

Dive into the continuation of Modern Warfare’s (2019) storyline, which grows the in-game universe further with unprecedented global conflict. Check out the blog from last week for more details on the Campaign.

Multiplayer – Innovative, Immersive, and World Class

Modern Warfare II Multiplayer defines emergent gameplay with a focus on variety. On day one, there will be 12 unique modes: 10 traditional modes on Core Maps and two Ground War modes on Battle Maps.

These maps are grouped into one of three regional categories:

Al Mazrah

This metropolitan area and its outskirts within the Republic of Adal serve as the main region for Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0.

Several Core Maps and Battle Maps will be based in this region, making Multiplayer a phenomenal place to learn the various points of interest.

Las Almas

A major place of interest within the Modern Warfare II Campaign, Las Almas is a Central American region with a similar footprint to Al Mazrah.

In Multiplayer, the region will host a similar split of Core Maps and Battle Maps.

Other Locales

The last group of Multiplayer locales represents a mixture of Campaign environments and locations outside the main storyline, rounding out the universe with glimpses of what is happening in regions other than Al Mazrah and Las Almas.

Special Ops – Replayable Co-Op, Raids Coming in Season 01

An evolution of the Special Ops mode from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). It will feature three missions at launch, all taking place in Al Mazrah:

Bad Situation

Infiltrate a town in the dead of night to uncover intel and evidence left behind by Al Qatala before exfiltrating. Stealth is key to survival.

Vehicle Escape

Multiple SAM turrets are preventing reinforcements from entering Al Mazrah. Drive through the winding streets of a suburb to destroy them, and then speed over to the exfil plane to escape.

Observatory Defense

A bona fide survival mode. Defend the observatory from increasingly difficult waves of enemies attempting to detonate bombs. Between each wave, Operators can spend cash to get items such as Killstreaks, Self-Revive Kits, and armor plates.

In Special Ops, Operators will equip a Backpack to store equipment and choose from one of three available kits: Assault, Medic, and Engineer. Each offers a variety of items and abilities built for different strategies. Level up your Kits by earning Stars through missions and mission-related challenges.

We recommend completing all three Special Ops missions with three stars and leveling up at least one Kit to Rank 5 before Raids are introduced to Special Ops later in Season 01.

Prepare for Warzone 2.0 and Season 01, Dropping on November 16

Through Modern Warfare II Multiplayer and Special Ops, familiarize yourself with the core of Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0:

Operators – 25 Available at Launch. Eighteen can be unlocked during the Modern Warfare II pre-season. Plus, get two Mil-Sim Operators with four unique outfits unlocked by default and four unlocked via the Vault Edition.

Weapons – Over 30 Weapon Platforms at Launch for Over 50 Unique Weapons. Get anywhere from one to six unique weapons per platform. Vault Edition owners gain access to the FJX Cinder Weapon Vault (Weapon Vault design limited to Weapon Vault contents at launch), which contains all Receivers and attachments for one of the Weapon Platforms available at launch. Beta participants will have access to both their Weapon Blueprints, if unlocked during the Beta period.

Operators – Meet SpecGru and KorTac

Following the events of the Campaign, two private military contractors – SpecGru and KorTac – are founded as special forces for hire.

These two factions are ready to deploy in Modern Warfare II Multiplayer and Special Ops at launch. All players will automatically have access to the default Mil-Sim Operators for each faction.

Eighteen more Operators can be unlocked through Campaign, Multiplayer, and Special Ops challenges. In addition, four more Operators are available via the Vault Edition’s Red Team 141 pack.

Once unlocked, all these Operators will also be available in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, alongside new Operators arriving in Season 01 and beyond.

Weapons – Weapon Platforms and Gunsmith

At launch, there are over 30 unique Weapon Platforms available to unlock through the Military Ranks. Each Weapon Platform contains up to six weapons, which can be obtained by leveling up specific weapons within a Weapon Platform.

By unlocking all these Weapon Platforms and completing all applicable Weapon Platform progression thresholds, you will have 52 Primary and Secondary Weapons in your arsenal.

RICOCHET Anti-Cheat on Day One

Modern Warfare II launches with a new unified security platform that features new and returning mitigations to promote fair play.

Read the update from the RIOCHET Anti-Cheat team here for more information.

Additional Launch Intel

Get exclusive Modern Warfare II content for free by watching your favorite streamers play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on Twitch! Simply link your Call of Duty/Activision account to your Twitch Prime account and earn up to seven item unlocks as you watch.

Also, visit the Call of Duty Shop for new Task Force 141 gear celebrating the release of Modern Warfare II, including an anime-inspired hoodie and dozens of other fits for the whole squad.

Squad Up Today

Modern Warfare II is available now on the Xbox Store. Purchase the Cross-Gen Bundle for $69.99 (MSRP) or the Vault Edition for $99.99 (MSRP). Players who buy the Vault Edition of Modern Warfare II will receive additional benefits including the Red Team 141 Operator Pack, FJX Cinder Weapon Vault, Season 01 Battle Pass, and 50 Tier Skips.

Stay frosty.

Note: Battle Pass and Tier skips, or equivalent versions, will be accessible in Modern Warfare II once the Season 01 Battle Pass, or equivalent system, is made available in game. Battle Pass redemption applies to one season of Modern Warfare II Battle Pass, or equivalent system only. For more information, please visit www.callofduty.com.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II – Vault Edition

Activision Publishing Inc.

☆☆☆☆☆ 848

★★★★★

The Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II – Vault Edition includes the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game. Existing Modern Warfare® II Digital Cross-Gen Bundle owners can upgrade to the Vault Edition as part of a limited time offer. Includes: – Cross Gen Bundle of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II
— Includes Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game
– Red Team 141 Operator Pack:
— 4 Operators: Ghost, Soap, Farah and Price
– FJX Cinder – First-Ever Weapon Vault*
– Battle Pass (1 Season) + 50 Tier Skips** Welcome to the new era of Call of Duty®. Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the return of the iconic Operators of Task Force 141. Infinity Ward brings fans state-of-the-art gameplay, with all-new gun handling, advanced AI system, a new Gunsmith and a suite of other gameplay and graphical innovations that elevate the franchise to new heights. Modern Warfare® II launches with a globe-trotting single-player campaign, immersive Multiplayer combat and an evolved Special Ops game mode featuring tactical co-op gameplay. *Weapon Vault design limited to Weapon Vault contents at launch. **Battle Pass and Tier Skips, or equivalent versions, will be accessible in Modern Warfare® II once the Season 1 Battle Pass, or equivalent system, is made available in game. Battle Pass redemption applies to one season of Modern Warfare® II Battle Pass, or equivalent system, only. For more information, please visit www.callofduty.com. © 2022 Activision Publishing, Inc. ACTIVISION, CALL OF DUTY and MODERN WARFARE are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. This product contains software technology licensed from Id Software (‘Id Technology’). Id Technology © 1999-2022 Id Software, Inc.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II – Cross-Gen Bundle

Activision Publishing Inc.

☆☆☆☆☆ 709

★★★★★

Includes: – Cross Gen Bundle of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II
— Includes Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game Welcome to the new era of Call of Duty®. Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II drops players into an unprecedented global conflict that features the return of the iconic Operators of Task Force 141. Infinity Ward brings fans state-of-the-art gameplay, with all-new gun handling, advanced AI system, a new Gunsmith and a suite of other gameplay and graphical innovations that elevate the franchise to new heights. Modern Warfare® II launches with a globe-trotting single-player campaign, immersive Multiplayer combat and an evolved Special Ops game mode featuring tactical co-op gameplay. For more information, please visit www.callofduty.com. © 2022 Activision Publishing, Inc. ACTIVISION, CALL OF DUTY and MODERN WARFARE are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. This product contains software technology licensed from Id Software (‘Id Technology’). Id Technology © 1999-2022 Id Software, Inc.