Microsoft have announced As Dusk Falls, an interactive narrative game about two families that cross paths multiple times over some pretty dramatic and emotional circumstances. It’s the debut game from Interior/Night, a studio founded by Caroline Marchal, former lead game designer at Quantic Dream on games like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. The studio’s goal is “to tell relatable, inclusive stories, grounded in real life”, and from the sounds of things they’ll be tackling some pretty tough themes about overcoming your past and moving on.

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So, as of this evening’s Xbox Games Showcase, we’ve finally seen footage of Halo Infinite, and it looks good! There was indeed a grappling hook, more mobility in general from the Chief (he can climb on boxes now!), and a couple of new guns. There was also some classic Warthog action, some dependably stirring music, and a couple of genuinely sublime moments of looking-out-across-a-halo-at-sunset beauty.

Despite lots of talk about Infinite being the first truly open-world Halo, I didn’t see enough to make a call either way – an HUD map showed some kind of open area, but it looked like it might have been broken up into several large arenas, rather than being properly free-roam. We’ll see. And indeed, I’ll have more to say tomorrow, after I’ve spoken with the developers. But for now, I want to talk about the best bit of the Infinite demo, which was the horrifyingly intense space gorilla ASMR video it ended on.

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I had looked away from the Xbox Games Showcase for a mere couple of minutes when the new Psychonauts 2 trailer dropped, so you may understand my surprise when I started hearing Jack Black’s voice blaring through my headphones. That’s right, Double Fine’s sequel to the bizarre brain-exploring platformer will feature songs performed by the School Of Rock teacher himself.

Here’s that trailer with the, admittedly, pretty cool song he’s done for it:

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They’ve gone and done it, team. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 developers Fatshark went and put their rat-smasher in space, announcing Warhammer 40,000: Darktide at today’s Xbox Games Showcase. Frankly, it’s about damn time someone made a rock-solid FPS in the 41st Millenium – and who better than the folks who turned a stodgy old fantasy wargame into a stellar Left 4 Dead successor?

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Square Enix today announced Balan Wonderworld, a new 3D platformer from a team including two of Sonic the Hedgehog’s creators – who also did Nights Into Dreams together. It’ll send us through a weird theatre into the magical Wonderworld, where we’ll run, jump, climb, and oh you absolutely better believe we’ll collect some glowing gems. You know, platformer stuff. It is very cheery-looking, as you can see in the announcement trailer below.

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Microsoft announced a slew of new PC games this evening as part of their latest Xbox Games Showcase for the Xbox Series X and PC, and we’ve rounded up all the new trailers and game announcements right here. From our first look at Halo Infinite’s campaign to the long-awaited reveal of a brand new Fable game, here’s everything you need to know from the Xbox Games Showcase 2020.

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The first chapter of Dontnod Entertainment’s Tell Me Why comes out on August 27th. Announced last year, Tell Me Why is another episodic game series in a similar style to their previous game, Life Is Strange. This time, however, the story is all about two twins, Alyson and Tyler Ronan, who reunite over a tragic event, and discover that they both had very different memories of their childhoods.

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From my understanding of Greek myths, you’re not supposed to look directly at a Gorgon. That doesn’t seem to be how The Outer Worlds‘ tales work, then, because there’s a bloody asteroid of the same name that’s crawling with baddies. Arriving this September, Peril On Gorgon brings in a whole new world full of conspiracies, subterfuge and good ol’ fashioned gunfights in The Outer Worlds’ first proper piece of story DLC.

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Here it is, the one you’ve been waiting for: Microsoft have announced a brand new Fable at tonight’s Xbox Games Showcase. It’s being made by Playground Games, known for Forza Horizon, but it doesn’t sound like Fable 4 – it sounds like reboot. “Fable returns with a new beginning for the legendary franchise,” the trailer description says.

Here’s the teaser telling us all about how nature and magic live in “perfect harmony”, sort of:

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Will wonders never cease! Microsoft’s NotE3 stream has brought the first trailer for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, of all games. It’s still hard for me to believe the long-awaited post-apocalyptic FPS-RPG sequel really is real, given that developers GSC Game World basically burst a few years back, but evidently Microsoft are convinced. Come watch the trailer yourself.

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