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- This Week on Xbox: May 14, 2021
- Cosmic Top Secret Available Now for Pre-Order
- Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
- Next Week on Xbox: May 17 to 21
| This Week on Xbox: May 14, 2021 Posted: 14 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT We know you're busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we're talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you've got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We've pared down the past week's news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you'd rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Come back every Friday to find out what's happening This Week on Xbox!  Celebrating 20 Years of Xbox Free Play Days: NBA 2K21 and TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2  May Xbox Update Includes Quick Resume Improvements, Passthrough Audio, and More Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S  Mass Effect Legendary Edition Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Neverwinter Sharandar Episode 2: The Soul Keeper Now Live  Psychonauts Available Now with Xbox Game Pass Boomerang Fu: Grilling Spree Update Out Now  Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance is Coming to Xbox Game Pass on Day One Cosmic Top Secret Available Now for Pre-Order  Chernobylite: Preserving the Zone Rogue Company Season Two Starts Today  Learn the History and Lore Behind TESO's Gates of Oblivion with New Trailer Behind the Scenes of Zombie Army 4's Latest Season of Horror  Zeke and Julia Return in Their 16-bit Glory in Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol Heavy Metal Machines: New Metal Pass Season is Here with Sugoi Machines  Dungeon Defenders II Spring Cleaning Update Brings Big Changes to Etheria Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer is Now Live  Xbox Game Pass Helps European Gamers Stay Connected Creating the Atmospheric In Rays of the Light  Next Week on Xbox: May 17 to 21 This Week on Xbox: May 7, 2021 This Week on Xbox: April 30, 2021 This Week on Xbox: April 23, 2021  |
| Cosmic Top Secret Available Now for Pre-Order Posted: 14 May 2021 12:00 PM PDT Summary
Making Cosmic Top Secret has been an amazing journey that all started with a pinch of curiosity. My dad was part of the Danish Intelligence during the Cold War and one day he accidentally told me that he worked on DASK, the first computer in Denmark. I got seriously intrigued, “What did he calculate on that machine?” But he refused to tell me, because of his lifetime confidentiality pledge. Rather dramatically, he said I could either know “All or nothing!” and I decided it is going to be all! I wanted to turn this investigation into a game. I did not know at first what kind of game but just knew it had to include my dad saying "No! I can't answer you!" I started playing out with ideas, drawing characters and items, following my dad around and recording him.  The game started to take shape and people joined the production. I called the Intelligence and asked to get access to my parent's files. They were surprised but agreed to discuss it with the "Organisation." My parents were invited for a briefing about what they could talk about and or not. Then it became quite awkward – they were asking: "Well, Trine, go ahead and ask us: What do you really want to know?" and I was like, "I don't know what it is I don’t know and want to know." This became for me an important narrative aspect of Cosmic Top Secret:
These are the questions I hope the players will ask themselves while playing the game.  The art style of Cosmic Top Secret came up intuitively – I printed a photo of my dad in a rush, cut him out and drew some cartoony legs. Because of the fisheye angle from the photo, he ended up having huge hands and arms. Two fingers were bandaged together, like his real fingers were after an accident throwing hand grenades. It was important for me to keep those kinds of "leftovers" from reality and portray him as a real human being with all it implies of faults and scratches. Those were also the first signs that he would not stay with me physically forever. He became so much a character, that it was impossible to change it and in a way his design defined the style of the rest of the universe. The crumbling of the paper, the characters falling apart, the old documents with sensitive information etc., everything seemed to fit together in that structure. These big hands were also great fun for the animators. During the seven years of production, we researched and collected tons of old photos, videos, interviews, documents, items – and of course recorded many new ones too. The hybrid visual identity we settled with allowed us to present all this true content and sometimes let players directly interact with it.  To summarize, Cosmic Top Secret is an autobiographical adventure game about The Cold War that I grew up in and my parents protected me from while working secretly for the Intelligence. It is also a story of broken legs, unspoken things, and up-and-down feelings. Anyone might relate to it differently but personally it makes me think ultimately that despite our faults we should accept and love oneself and each other. What started as a personal project rolled into a paper ball that got larger and larger, grabbing some awards on the way, inspiring the creation of a life-size event at the Cold War Museum of Denmark, and ultimately making its way to Xbox One, where it launches on May 21! You can pre-order it now with a 10% discount. I cannot wait to share my amazing journey with you, in-game as Agent T!   Cosmic Top SecretNakana.io $9.99 $8.99 EXPERIENCE SOMETHING UNIQUE "Cosmic Top Secret" is the weird, but official, term NATO uses for top confidentiality. A fitting name for this game since it needed military clearance to be released! Cosmic Top Secret won multiple awards for the innovative ways it engages players in deeply documented plots. The game even inspired the creation of a life-size event at the Cold War Museum of Denmark. – "a fascinating means of storytelling" – Indie Game Reviewer – "beautiful, abstract papercraft art designs" – GameSpot – "will linger with you long after the credits roll." – The Indie Game Website SPIES, SOLDIERS & POLITICIANS Meet people who made history – spies, army leaders, math geniuses, fighter pilots and more – from both sides of the Iron Curtain and with incredible, absurd or thrilling stories. FIRST COMPUTERS & NUCLEAR THREAT Discover fascinating programs and devices designed to outsmart the enemy in a tense context of international espionage and fear of atomic war. This is the dawn of new technologies. DEEPLY PERSONAL, YET RELATABLE STORY "Like a million others, I'm an ordinary 'kid of the Cold War'. Just a very curious one with parents working in Intelligence services. By getting to know me and my family better, you might see yourself and even feel the itch to investigate your loved ones!" – Trine Laier ("T") PUBLISHED BY Nakana.io "We gather games that share a strong experience to remember. We'd never seen anything like Cosmic Top Secret before!" – Mikaël Bourget, founder of the publishing label. Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Next Week on Xbox: May 17 to 21 Boomerang Fu: Grilling Spree Update Out Now  |
| Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Posted: 14 May 2021 10:00 AM PDT As the person responsible for the creative direction of Subnautica: Below Zero, I've spent a lot of time trying to understand what makes the highly esteemed original, Subnautica, tick. Below Zero has been built on top of a game that many know and love, but we're not looking to play the same exact song each time. Below Zero must reflect the values that made Subnautica great, while also giving players something new and different. Subnautica is many things to many people. If I had to describe it in a sentence, I might say it's an open world, underwater, sci-fi, base building, survival-adventure game with a hint of primal terror. That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue…  So, what's different about Subnautica? What sets it apart from other survival games, and how do we approach design and development to make something special and unique? For me, at its core, Subnautica is a game about exploration and discovery. Our philosophy is that the experience is at its best when we trust players to discover this vast alien world – and its many secrets and surprises – on their own.  It's our belief that the thrill of discovery, encountering a strange lifeform at the bottom of the ocean, awakening an ancient alien intelligence, wandering into a brilliant and unexpected underwater cavern, is so much richer when players are driving the experience forward themselves. This filters into how we approach design. Our philosophy is to always try to suggest direction, rather than offer it up explicitly. One of the first things players notice is that Subnautica doesn't have missions or objectives. We don't tell you that you're 47% (or 110%) through the game. You can find a map of the world, but we don't show you your position, or even your orientation (until you build a compass) And what good is a 2D map underwater, anyway?  It's up to you to find your way through the world, finding new ways to survive and explore as you get deeper and further into this planet alone… or so you might think. In Below Zero, you play as xenobiologist Robin Ayou, who arrives on 4546B at great personal risk to try and find answers about her sister, who died under mysterious circumstances during a previous mission in Sector Zero.  Naturally, this quest for understanding doesn't go quite the way you might think and encounters with other lifeforms will take you in many unexpected directions. We've taken great pains to design a narrative for players to discover. We give some early hints to get the ball rolling, but then you're left to your own devices, searching for clues scattered throughout this vast world's deep underwater biomes and the far reaches of its icy tundra. In Below Zero, it's up to you to follow the dramatic threads and because of that, players can explore at their own pace. Perhaps you just want to build an underwater palace down in the Deep Lily Pads, where you can reflect on all the alien beauty while customizing your Seatruck. You can do so, without stress, in Creative Mode. Or, if you really want to raise the stakes, Hardcore Mode will ensure you don't get too casual whilst swimming among the alien fishes.  Subnautica: Below Zero will be available on May 14 for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. The original Subnautica is also available as an Optimized for Xbox Series X|S title alongside the release of Below Zero, and owners of the original (digital or physical) can upgrade the enhanced version for free thanks to Smart Delivery.   Subnautica: Below ZeroUnknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. $29.99 Xbox One X Enhanced Below Zero is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean world. It is a new chapter in the Subnautica universe, and is developed by Unknown Worlds. Return to Planet 4546B Submerge yourself in an all-new, sub-zero expedition in an arctic region of Planet 4546B. Arriving with little more than your wits and some survival equipment, you set out to investigate what happened to your sister… Uncover the Truth Alterra left in a hurry after a mysterious incident. Abandoned research stations dot the region. What happened to the scientists who lived and worked here? Logs, items, and databanks scattered among the debris paint a new picture of the incident. With limited resources, you must improvise to survive on your own. Discover Uncharted Biomes Swim beneath the blue-lit, arching expanses of Twisty Bridges. Become mesmerized by the glittering, mammoth crystals of the Crystal Caverns. Clamber up snow covered peaks and venture into the icy caves of Glacial Basin. Maneuver between erupting Thermal Vents to discover ancient alien artifacts. Below Zero presents entirely new environments for you to survive, study, and explore. Construct Habitats and Vehicles Survive the harsh climate by constructing extensive habitats, scavenging for resources, and crafting equipment. Blast across the snowy tundra on a Snowfox hoverbike. Cruise through enchanting and perilous biomes in your modular Seatruck. Research Alien Lifeforms Something undiscovered lurks around every corner. Swim through the giant Titan Holefish, encounter the haunting Shadow Leviathan, and visit the adorable Pengwings. Keep your wits about you. Not all creatures in this strange world are friendly. Survive the Chilly Temperatures Jump in, the water's warm. The below zero temperatures of this arctic region pose a new threat. New weather conditions blanket above-ground habitats. Craft a toasty cold suit, sip on piping hot coffee, and warm up next to Thermal Lilies to stave off the chill. An Ocean of Intrigue What really happened to your sister? Who were the aliens who came here before? Why were they on this planet? Can we find solace from grief in truth? Below Zero extends the story of the Subnautica universe, diving deep into the mystery introduced in the original game. Cosmic Top Secret Available Now for Pre-Order Next Week on Xbox: May 17 to 21 Boomerang Fu: Grilling Spree Update Out Now  |
| Mass Effect Legendary Edition Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Posted: 14 May 2021 09:00 AM PDT Relive the cinematic sci-fi saga today with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S! Experience the legend of Commander Shepard and the crew of the Normandy as you travel across the galaxy in a heroic tale of survival, betrayal, and hope where your choices carry through to the final moments of the epic three-game saga.  Start your adventure in the original Mass Effect as you set off aboard the SS Normandy as you race against time to stop a madmen hell bent on destruction. Then in Mass Effect 2, recruit an elite team of the galaxy's most skilled (and dangerous) characters as you lead a desperate assault. Finally, in Mass Effect 3, take back Earth from a nearly unstoppable foe on a seemingly impossible mission to save mankind.  Mass Effect Legendary Edition collects all the single-player content across all three games, including over 40 DLC, promo weapons, armors, and packs, all remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD with enhanced performance, visuals, and graphics in HDR.  This also includes enhanced models, shaders, FX, lighting, and depth of field plus full-resolution audio. In addition, you can choose to play in "Favor Quality" for increased resolution or "Favor Framerate" to boost your FPS on Xbox Series X|S. And it's not just visuals that have been enhanced. Enjoy improved aiming and weapons balance, SFX, input/controls, squad behavior, cover behavior, and gameplay cameras across all three games.  Best of all, you can create and customize your own Commander Shepard with an advanced character creator that includes improved hair, makeup, eye color, and skin tones helping you build out a personalized arsenal as you command your elite team across the Mass Effect universe.  Mass Effect Legendary Edition is available today for Xbox One and as an Optimized for Xbox Series X|S title on the Xbox Store.  Mass Effect™ Legendary EditionElectronic Arts $59.99 $53.99 One person is all that stands between humanity and the greatest threat it's ever faced. Relive the legend of Commander Shepard in the highly acclaimed Mass Effect trilogy with the Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition. Includes single-player base content and over 40 DLC from Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs – remastered and optimized for 4K Ultra HD. Experience an amazingly rich and detailed universe where your decisions have profound consequences on the action and the outcome. RELIVE THE CINEMATIC SAGA: Heart-pounding action meets gripping interactive storytelling where you decide how your unique story unfolds. • Three Games – One Launcher: Play through the single-player base content and over 40 DLC from all three games, including promo weapons, armors, and packs. • Remastered for a New Generation: Experience the trilogy in 4K Ultra HD with enhanced performance, visuals, and graphics, all available in HDR. • Visual Improvements on All Three Games: Updates include enhanced models, shaders, FX, lighting, and depth of field plus full-resolution audio. EXPERIENCE THE LEGEND OF SHEPARD: Create and customize your own character, from appearance and skills to a personalized arsenal then lead your elite recon squad across a galaxy in turmoil. • New Shepard Customizations: With improved hair, makeup, eye color and skin tones you can create your Shepard in a unified character creator with all options available across the full trilogy, or choose to play as the iconic Femshep from Mass Effect 3 now available in all titles. • Gameplay Enhancements for the First Mass Effect™ Game: Enjoy improved aiming and weapons balance, SFX, input/controls, squad behavior, cover behavior, and gameplay cameras. REFLECT ON YOUR CHOICES: Your choices seamlessly travel from one game to the next. Each decision you make will control the outcome of every mission, every relationship, every battle – and even the fate of the galaxy itself. • Performance Mode Options: Choose between "Favor Quality" for increased resolution or "Favor Framerate" to boost your FPS on consoles. INCLUDED CONTENT: Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition includes single-player base content for all three titles (Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3), your favorite single-player story DLC, promo weapons, armors, and packs: DLC: • Bring Down the Sky • Genesis • Zaeed – The Price of Revenge • Kasumi – Stolen Memory • Lair of the Shadow Broker • Firewalker Pack • Overlord • Normandy Crash Site • Arrival • Genesis 2 • From Ashes • Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut • Leviathan • Omega • Citadel • Equalizer Pack • Aegis Pack • Firepower Pack • Cerberus Weapons and Armor • Arc Projector • ME2 Alternate Appearance Pack 1 • ME2 Alternate Appearance Pack 2 • ME3 Alternate Appearance Pack 1 • Firefight Pack • Groundside Resistance Pack • Recon Operations Pack • Collector's Weapon and Armor • Terminus Weapon and Armor • M-21 Incisor • Blood Dragon Armor • Inferno Armor • Recon Hood • Sentry Interface • Umbra Visor • N7 Warfare Gear • AT-12 Raider • Chakram Launcher • M-55 Argus • M-90 Indra • Reckoner Knight Armor • N7 Collector's Edition Pack CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLY. SEE WWW.EA.COM/LEGAL FOR DETAILS. Next Week on Xbox: May 10 to 14 Designing the Felony System and Stealth Mechanics in Hood: Outlaws & Legends Watch Dogs: Legion New DLC and Title Update 4.0 Now Available  |
| Next Week on Xbox: May 17 to 21 Posted: 14 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! Here we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Windows 10 PC as well as upcoming Xbox Game Pass and soon-to-be released ID@Xbox titles! Get more details on the games below and click their profiles for pre-order details when available (release dates are subject to change). Let's jump in!  A snow-covered wonderland of platforming action awaits in 0 Degrees. Take control of a bundled-up pixel art climber as they make their way across icefields, up frosted peaks, through dark caves, and over treacherous pitfalls. Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield – May 19 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery  Survive a futuristic Tokyo-style Detroit in this 3D runner that tells the story of Wally who has uncovered the evidence that can change his city forever. Explore a game world with an amazing soundtrack featuring the authentic sounds of Detroit Artist.  A real-time management sim set in an original fantasy world of Delcrys. Build and manage your tavern, make visiting adventurers happy, and your services famous all over the land. Play freely in Sandbox mode or follow the rich story in a Campaign. Outbreak: Endless Nightmares – May 19 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery  Outbreak: Endless Nightmares twists the series’ survival horror gameplay by adding elements of roguelike gameplay. You’ll need to explore, hunt for supplies, uncover clues, and fight your way through each anomaly – each consisting of semi-procedurally generated instances where both the environment, and the undead, are out to kill you. Jay and Silent Bob – Mall Brawl – May 20 – Xbox One X Enhanced  A full 8-bit retro beat 'em up experience with big levels, big bosses, and irreverent references to the View Askewniverse. Mall Brawl can be played solo where you swap between both Jay and Silent Bob strategically or played with a buddy, in a co-op experience, where you fight your way through mallrats, delinquents, and security guards to find your way out of the mall and back to the Quickstop.  Welcome to Rust, where the only aim is to survive. Overcome struggles such as hunger, thirst, and cold by building fires and shelter, killing animals, and protecting yourself from other players from this acclaimed survival game. Sure Footing – May 20 – Xbox One X Enhanced / Xbox Play Anywhere  The world of Computra is under threat from the evil Ramrafstar and his ferocious minion Deletion Dave, who seek to destroy the partitions that hold everything together. Play as one of our four heroes: Pixel Pete, Polly Polygon, Blip, and Plunk as they try to find a way to stop Ramrafstar before their homeworld is destroyed. The Wild at Heart – May 20 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Smart Delivery / Xbox Game Pass  The Wild at Heart is a whimsical story centered around two children that escape to a fantastical land filled with magical creatures to befriend and an oddball order of guardians who've lost their way. Explore a beautiful, handcrafted world full of charming puzzles and deep secrets. Welcome to the Deep Woods.  "Cosmic Top Secret" is the weird, but official, term NATO uses for top confidentiality. A fitting name for this game since it needed military clearance to be released! Cosmic Top Secret won multiple awards for the innovative ways it engages players in deeply documented plots. The game even inspired the creation of a life-size event at the Cold War Museum of Denmark. Meet people who made history – spies, army leaders, math geniuses, fighter pilots and more – from both sides of the Iron Curtain and with incredible, absurd, or thrilling stories.  Four heroes are facing a horde of evil! Ultimate abilities, magic artifacts, hero upgrades and clever tactics… All these will help to defeat the Boss. In this unique turn-based battle system, command a team of 4 heroes, 3 of which are fighting on the front line, while the 4th is recovering health behind his team-mates. Knockout City – May 21 – Optimized for Xbox Series X|S / Xbox Game Pass Ultimate  Available Day One with EA Play and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate! Team up and duke it out in Knockout City, where epic dodgeball battlers settle the score in team-based multiplayer matches. Throw, catch, pass, dodge, and tackle your way to dodgeball dominance! Also, everyone is invited to join in on the fun with the Knockout City Block Party from May 21 to 30 which includes a 10 day free trial. Rising Hell – May 21 – Xbox Play Anywhere  Rising Hell is a vertical platformer rogue-lite filled with adrenaline-pumping action and tons of heavy gothic metal shreds. Fight your way through hordes of blood-lusting demons and escape hell as you unlock new characters and talents to create chaos in the randomly generated and ever-changing landscape of hell. Related:Cosmic Top Secret Available Now for Pre-Order Subnautica: Below Zero is Now Available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Boomerang Fu: Grilling Spree Update Out Now  |
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