Introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is id Software program’s subsequent foray again into hell. [Also available for PS5 and PC.] Doom: The Darkish Ages is a medieval spin on the Doom franchise, taking the Doom Slayer again to the start. It is coming to Xbox Recreation Cross on day one, someday in 2025.
Microsoft’s first trailer for Doom: The Darkish Ages exhibits the frenetic, precision gameplay we have come to count on from the franchise — there’s lots of blasting and taking pictures and a chainsaw. Oh, and the Doom Slayer can journey a dragon?
“Earlier than he turned a hero he was the tremendous weapon of gods and kings,” says the trailer (which showcases the sport’s crazy-good graphics…) The 2020 recreation Doom Everlasting offered 3 million copies in its first month, based on Polygon, with its recreation director telling the positioning in 2021 that “our hero is considerably timeless — I imply, actually, he is immortal. So we might inform every kind of tales…”
Different upcoming Xbox video games have been revealed too. Engadget is happy concerning the reboot of the first-person shooter Good Darkish (first launched in 2000, however now set within the close to future). There’s additionally Gears of Conflict: E-Day, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, State of Decay 3, and Murderer’s Creed Shadows, based on Xbox.com — plus “the announcement of three new Xbox Sequence X|S console choices.” [Engadget notes it’s the first time Microsoft has offered a cheaper all-digital Xbox Series X with no disc drive.] “And on high of all that, we additionally introduced the gameplay reveal of a brand-new Name of Obligation recreation with Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6.”
In the meantime, Friday’s Summer time Recreation Fest 2024 featured Star Wars Outlaws footage (which based on GamesRadar takes place between Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi, that includes not simply card video games with Lando Calrissian but additionally Jabba the Hutt and a frozen Han Solo.) Engadget lined all of the bulletins from Recreation Fest, together with the upcoming recreation Mixtape, which Engadget calls a “reality-bending journey” with “a killer ’80s soundtrack” about three cusp-of-adulthood youngsters who “Skate. Social gathering. Keep away from the regulation. Make out. Sneak out. Hang around…” for Xbox/PS5/PC.