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- 10 Tips and Tricks to Help You Hit the Ground Fighting in Samurai Warriors 5
- The Forgotten City’s Journey From a Mod to a Standalone Game
- Summer Spotlight 2021: Over 75 New Games Coming to Xbox
- New Games with Gold for August 2021
- Xbox and 20th Century Studios’ Free Guy Celebrate Non-Player Character Awards
| 10 Tips and Tricks to Help You Hit the Ground Fighting in Samurai Warriors 5 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 02:00 PM PDT Samurai Warriors 5 smashes its way onto Xbox One consoles today (playable on Xbox Series X|S via Backward Compatibility). But since the series hasn't been seen on any Xbox system since Samurai Warriors 2 back in 2006, we wanted to provide beginners a quick guide for dominating the world of Musou gaming. Here are 10 tips to get you started… Let's Get Down to Basics The most basic way of dealing with hundreds of oncoming enemies is to strike them all at once in a giant sweeping motion. When you begin playing the game and encounter a horde running your direction, hit the attack button at least three times before unleashing the bigger charge attack (referred to as a Power Attack in-game). This normal-normal-normal-charge combo serves to strike many enemies at once, helping clear a path to the next group of soldiers.  It Takes Two Nobunaga and Mitsuhide are the two main characters featured in Samurai Warriors 5, and therefore should be everyone's first priority when it comes to training and upgrading characters. The faster you can achieve higher ranks for Nobunaga and Mitsuhide, the easier your life will be when it comes to fighting through some of the more difficult battles in the game. Stunning Fashion Stunned enemies are left vulnerable to bigger combo attacks, and this is especially important when fighting enemy warlords who are ready and waiting to strike back with counterattacks. Depending on the weapon employed, most fighters can stun opponents with a combo hit of 2 regular attacks followed by a Power Attack. Once stunned, follow up with more powerful attacks to take the warlord down without fear of counter measures.  Why Can't We Be Friends In Citadel mode, you can utilize different troops to defend against invading enemies. As characters battle together, their Friendship level will increase. Once their Friendship level reaches the maximum, you will be able to view special scenes not featured in the regular story (Musou) mode. Ultimate Skills to Pay the Bills If you want to play like a pro, master the art known as Ultimate Skills. Four types of Ultimate Skills can be equipped at any one time, from Recuperation (refills Musou gauge) to the Avalanche that sends a giant spear into the ground in a giant shockwave to stun all nearby enemies. Master these Ultimate Skills to hit better combos and destroy enemy units in the flashiest, most dazzling way possible.  Time to Get Hype(r) Hyper Attacks allow you to round up your enemies into one place and then follow up with a standard attack and a devastating Power attack. This allows you to experience the exhilaration of defeating a large number of enemies at once, while also continuing your combo. Your character will also receive a boost in strength from increasing your combo counter. I've Got the Power By equipping a weapon that your character is proficient with, some Power Attacks will turn into a unique Power Attack. As this is a very strong attack, characters that learn their unique Power Attack earlier will be much easier to use.  Gold Rush There are some enemies that can be more easily defeated by specific Ultimate Skills. By using the right Ultimate Skill against the right enemy, you can defeat them in one hit, the amount of time until you can use your next Ultimate skill decreases, and the amount of gold they drop goes up! Time to Train You can efficiently strengthen your characters by using the rewards you receive from battles, such as Stock EXP and Stock Weapon Mastery. As soon as you gain access to a new character, you should head to the Dojo and start strengthening them up!  Elements of Surprise Try to focus on acquiring skills for your characters that increases their Musou Gauge. This will allow you to freely use your powerful Musou Frenzy Attack and allow your character's weapon to activate its elemental effects, making you much more of a threat on the battlefield! As part of a free limited time bonus, gamers who purchase Samurai Warriors 5 will be able to download the Samurai Warriors Costume Set, including new outfits for Nobunaga Oda and Misuhide Akechi. To redeem, the limited time bonus must be downloaded by August 9th. Related:Next Week on Xbox: July 26 to 30 How an Esports “Master” Landed His Dream Job at Team Ninja to Help Players Be Great Ninja Gaiden Master Collection Brings Back the Baddest Bosses in the Business  |
| The Forgotten City’s Journey From a Mod to a Standalone Game Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT In 2016, The Forgotten City was a big story-driven expansion for a popular RPG and the first mod to win a national screenwriting award. You discover a mysterious underground city in a state of ruin, travel back in time and meet its inhabitants. Then you learn about a terrible curse: If one person sins here, everyone dies. So you try to figure out who’s responsible for the sin that destroys the city, and prevent it – all while caught in a Groundhog Day-style time loop. The mod was downloaded more than 3,000,000 times, and IGN called it “simply amazing,” but as popular as it was, I’d made it in my spare time on a budget of $0, and I knew I could do much, much better. So, way back in 2017, I decided to develop it into a standalone game, bigger and better in every way possible. I just had 3 small problems: 1) I had no time 2) I had no budget 3) I had absolutely no idea how to make an entire game Despite all that, it is now available on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and this is a story about how it all came together. So let's travel back in time, shall we?  My first problem – no time – I solved by quitting my job. It was insanely risky, of course, especially as I was in the legal profession, where taking a few years out usually means you can’t get back in. It felt like jumping out of an airplane, and my plan was to learn to fly by the time I hit the ground. My second problem – no budget – I solved by dipping into my savings and applying for grants. After making a rough prototype, I managed to land grants from a benevolent arts funding body (Film Victoria), as well as an Unreal Dev Grant from Epic. The mod and its reception really opened a lot of doors. My third problem – no experience – I solved by hiring Alex, a programmer who’d just finished making a VR spacewalk sim in collaboration with NASA – a one-man-army who’s done the work of an entire team of programmers over the last four years. We met by chance at a party. Remember parties? Right place, right time. The highlight of 2018 was seeing the game revealed on stage at E3’s PC Gaming show. After a lifetime of watching E3 it was mind-blowing to see my little game up there. We even managed to win an Unreal E3 award: “Unreal Underdog” for being brave (read: crazy) enough to compete with the big dogs of E3. It felt like a win at the time, but we later realized we’d made the mistake of announcing the game way earlier than we should have, because we kept finding ways to make it better, and ended up having to delay it a few times. The highlight of 2019 was exhibiting the game at GDC and PAX East. We were just about out of funding, when I met a publisher called Dear Villagers, who gave us the support we needed to make the game we always wanted to make. Later they told me one of their scout’s key criteria, in deciding who to publish, is “Would I like to have a beer with this person?”, so never underestimate the importance of relationships. I couldn’t visit them in France because of the pandemic, so I sent them a nice case of beer with a “thank you” note anyway.  2020 was a blur, but two things stand out: First, we got to work with a couple of extraordinary historical consultants to make sure our game world – an ancient Roman city – has historically authentic art, architecture, costumes, and customs. One, Dr. Philip Matyszak, has a D.Phil from Oxford, teaches at Cambridge, and has written 17 books. The other, Dr. Sophie Hay, has spent the last 20 years excavating the ruins of Pompeii. They’re both really smart, lovely, and down to earth, and helped us immensely. Second, we finally figured out how to make good dialogue animations, thanks to a call with Shon Stewart, the Lead Animator at one of my favourite devs, Obsidian. No, our animations aren’t Triple-A motion capture, but considering we’re a core team of 3 devs, I’m super happy with the way they turned out. That brings us to 2021. The game launches later this month.  The last 4.5 years have been terrifying, exhilarating, creatively satisfying, and all-consuming. They’ve also been super productive: We’ve re-written the script (it’s now twice as long), and added new characters, quests, twists, endings, gameplay mechanics, as well as professional voice acting and a new orchestral score. Whatever happens next, I’m really proud of how The Forgotten City turned out, and I’m really glad I took the leap! Thanks for reading! Related:Inside Xbox Series X|S Optimized: Sniper Elite 4 Machines and Guardians of War Devastate Armies in Orcs Must Die! 3 Next Week on Xbox: July 26 to 30  |
| Summer Spotlight 2021: Over 75 New Games Coming to Xbox Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:00 AM PDT Summer Spotlight is back for its seventh year and we are excited to bring you a ton of new digital games every week for six weeks. Every year since its inception, we have brought dozens of new Xbox games to fans over the summer. In 2015, we were proud to announce that we would be bringing over 25 new games and this year we are releasing a whopping 75+ titles between July 27 and September 6. What's more, the Microsoft Rewards and Gift Card combo was so popular last year that we decided to bring the offer back for buying Summer Spotlight titles, which will also include some popular selections from Microsoft Movies & TV. As an added bonus, spend $50 on eligible titles and you will receive 5,000 Microsoft Rewards points and a $5 gift card. The deal gets even better for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members who will receive a $10 gift card. Here are a couple of Summer Spotlight titles that are either currently available or coming soon to get you pumped for a fantastic season of gaming Death's Door – This console launch exclusive has released to a ton of critical success with IGN rating the game 9/10 and GameSpot claiming the game is a "delight every step of the way". Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous, but it’s honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death – where creatures grow far past their expiry and overflow with greed and power. Explore the world of Death's Door, optimized for Series XIS, and unlock all its secrets. The Ascent – The Ascent is another highly anticipated Xbox console launch exclusive optimized for Series XIS and launching into Xbox Game Pass on Day 1. The Ascent is a solo or co-op Action-shooter RPG, set on Veles, a packed cyberpunk world. The Ascent Group arcology is a corporate-run metropolis stretching high into the sky and filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. You play as a worker, enslaved by the company that owns you and everyone else in your district. One day, you are suddenly caught in a vortex of catastrophic events: The Ascent Group shuts down for unknown reasons and the survival of your district is threatened. You must take up arms and embark on a new mission to find out what started it all. Hades – Another critically acclaimed title, that recently won Game of the Year honors at the Game Developers Choice Awards, makes its way onto Xbox and Day 1 into the Xbox Game Pass catalogue this summer. Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion. Twelve Minutes – Featuring the voice talents of Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy and (the quintessential villain) Willem Dafoe. Twelve Minutes is an interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. What should be a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police detective breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death… only for you to find yourself immediately returned to the exact moment you opened the front door, stuck in a Twelve Minute time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again, unless you can find a way to use the knowledge of what's coming to change the outcome and break the loop. Twelve Minutes blends the dream-like tension of "The Shining" with the claustrophobia of "Rear Window" and the fragmented structure of "Memento" and has been on many waitlists since its debut at the Xbox E3 briefing in 2019. The Forgotten City – The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction, and a re-imagining of the critically acclaimed mod that won a national Writers' Guild award and racked up over 3 million downloads. Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. Unravel the mystery at the city's heart by exploiting its deadly time loop, questioning locals, exploring, and solving puzzles. Aliens: Fireteam Elite – Set in the iconic Alien universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival shooter that drops your fireteam of hardened marines into a desperate fight to contain the evolving Xenomorph threat. This is just a small taste of all the great games releasing this summer. There will be new games every week so be sure to check the Microsoft Store every Tuesday to discover all the new games to play. We will be streaming the latest Summer Spotlight titles on our Xbox Twitch Channel every Wednesday from 11am – 12:30pm PST. Tune in for a chance to win a code of whatever game we are playing that week. And be sure to follow Major Nelson on Twitter to get weekly updates and find out about special giveaways including a chance to win a token for every single Summer Spotlight game! See the full list of games at Xbox.com. Related:Join the UNTURNED Beta on Xbox One beginning August 4th! A New Microsoft Store Experience is Coming to Xbox Insiders CrossfireX Open Beta Begins June 25, Play 3 Days Early Starting Today  |
| New Games with Gold for August 2021 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT The August Games with Gold lineup is here! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, and embark on an epic adventure in Yooka-Laylee.And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, discover the hidden truths of Lost Planet 3, and become the ultimate fighter in Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Xbox Live Gold members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. So will Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, who receive all the fantastic benefits of Gold plus access to over 100 high-quality games with Xbox Game Pass.
Darksiders III In this hack-and-slash action adventure, assume the role of Fury, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in her quest to hunt down the Seven Deadly Sins. Explore an open-ended, living world, and use your whip and magic to restore the balance between good and evil. Yooka-Laylee Explore huge, beautiful worlds and meet an unforgettable cast of characters. As buddy duo, Yooka & Laylee, embark on an epic quest to thwart the corporate villain, Capital B, and his devious scheme to absorb all of the world's literature. Lost Planet 3 Delve deeper into the history of the Lost Planet universe. In this prequel to the previous entries, relive the adventures of Jim Peyton as he reveals the hidden truths within the environments of E.D.N. III, in a highly engrossing single player experience. Garou: Mark of the Wolves As the last entry of the classic Fatal Fury series, select over a dozen different fighters to participate in the King of Fighters: Maximum Mayhem tournament. Featuring the T.O.P. fighting system, and a defense and counter mechanic, prove to your opponent that legends don't die…they get better! Read more about our Games with Gold program here and stay tuned to Xbox Wire for all the latest news on Xbox. Like we said before, if you're an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate member, you get all the benefits of Xbox Live Gold, over 100 high-quality games you can play on console, PC, and Android devices with cloud gaming (Beta, where available), and access to EA Play at no extra cost. New games are added all the time, so you're never without something new to try when you're looking to find your next favorite game. If you're new, or if you're an existing Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for Console member, join or upgrade today for just $1. Related:New Games with Gold for July 2021 New Games with Gold for June 2021 New Games with Gold for May 2021  |
| Xbox and 20th Century Studios’ Free Guy Celebrate Non-Player Character Awards Posted: 28 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT Have you ever played a game and walked right past a character in the background thinking "Wow, they must feel so sad and underappreciated?" Well not anymore! Announced today, Xbox Game Pass and “Free Guy” are proud to present the first-ever Xbox Game Pass Non-Player Character (NPC) Awards to celebrate and honor the greatest unsung heroes in video games. This comes ahead of the highly anticipated U.S. theatrical release of “Free Guy” on August 13, 2021, about a bank teller named Guy (Ryan Reynolds) who realizes he's in an open world video game that will soon go offline.  The nominees of the NPC Awards are all aptly found in games available with Xbox Game Pass (excluding a very special NPC) and include:
Fans all over the world can vote for their favorite NPC by voting on the official NPC Awards Twitter poll. You can only vote once (even though we know Guy would love for you to vote for him multiple times) and you'll be able to follow along with live polls as votes are submitted. Fans have until August 3, 2021, to get all votes submitted, when Xbox will announce the winner across social channels that afternoon. The 20th Century Studios’ epic adventure-comedy “Free Guy” stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi. For more information ahead of the U.S. theatrical release on August 13, visit https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/free-guy. For more information on Xbox Game Pass and to become a member with access to a library of over 100 high-quality games for console, PC, and mobile phones and tablets all for one low monthly price, visit https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass. Related:Microsoft Flight Simulator Available Today on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Game Pass Microsoft Flight Simulator is a Fantastic Flying Experience on Xbox Series X|S Next Week on Xbox: July 26 to 30  |
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