All today's Xbox Developer Direct 2024 streams in one place
Today's the day of Xbox Developer Direct 2024, a select showcase of forthcoming Microsoft-published games, from sorcerous RPGs to intricate strategy games, which begins at 12pm PT, 3pm ET and 8pm UK. Wait, stop! Come back here, you silly goose. You don't need to go anywhere. I've embedded the livestream below, together with the key things you need to know about the games in question.
The Xbox Developer Direct livestream is actually one of three Microsoft marketing bonanzas hitting the internet today. First in line is Blizzard's Diablo 4 Developer Update at 9am PT, 12pm ET and 5pm UK, in which we'll be hearing about the action-RPG's recently announced Season of the Construct questline and areas, together with many, many quality-of-life updates and new features. I'm not sure anyone at RPS towers is hungry for more Diablo right now, but I personally am always up for one of Blizzard's flashy cinematic trailers, like the announcement one where Lilith does a Cirque Du Soleil plunge out of a demon blood trapeze.
Still, I'm much more eager to lay eyes on the games slated for the main Developer Direct livestream: Oxide's simultaneous-turn 4X strategy game Ara: History Untold, Ninja Theory's bleak period action game Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Obsidian's first-person fantasy RPG Avowed, and MachineGames' forthcoming Indiana Jones adaptation, which is almost certainly titled Indiana Jones And The Great Circle.
Here's a quick warm-up parade of Top Goss about all of those games. Avowed was originally pitched as Obsidian's take on Skyrim, but will seemingly be more story-driven and less about open world exploration. It was also conceived as a co-op RPG, with Obsidian pivoting to single player in around eight months. The new Hellblade, meanwhile, is set in Iceland, still preoccupied with mental illness, and abundant in kneecap-based executions, sort of. I enjoyed the original Hellblade, for all its occasionally dodgy reads on psychosis, and Ninja Theory have a lot more cash to
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