Introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is id Software program’s subsequent foray again into hell. 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 numerous blasting and capturing and a chainsaw. Oh, and the Doom Slayer can experience a dragon?
“Earlier than he grew to become a hero he was the tremendous weapon of gods and kings,” says the trailer (which showcases the sport’s crazy-good graphics…) The 2020 sport Doom Everlasting offered 3 million copies in its first month, in keeping with Polygon, with its sport director telling the location 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 had been revealed too. Engadget is worked up in regards to the reboot of the first-person shooter Excellent Darkish (first launched in 2000, however now set within the close to future). There’s additionally Gears of Struggle: E-Day, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, State of Decay 3, and Murderer’s Creed Shadows, in keeping with Xbox.com — plus “the announcement of three new Xbox Collection 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 sport with Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6.”
In the meantime, Friday’s Summer season Recreation Fest 2024 featured Star Wars Outlaws footage (which in keeping with 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 sport 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 legislation. Make out. Sneak out. Hang around…” for Xbox/PS5/PC.
