Xbox Bethesda Games Showcase: Top 10 Highlights

Bioware's Dragon Age series is set over three games, each focusing on individual storylines that interlink in the universe's grand design. The first game, Dragon Age: Origins , was released in 2009, winning Game of the Year and several Best Roleplaying awards. Dragon Age 2 followed in 2011, which was well-received by critics but less so by players. The latest installment, Dragon Age: Inquisition , was released in 2014 and also won several Game of the Year awa

Reading the above ideas about Diablo 4 may come off as pessimistic, but again, the point is to consider how a design for the next game would look with a revenue model that would satisfy Blizzard’s expectations, and that of its shareholders. Gone are the days of putting out a game with a single DLC pack and calling it a day. Blizzard, and many others, seek to produce games as a service, dlca and Diablo 3 simply did not cut it. Let us cross our fingers and hope for the best, that Diablo 4 both meets our expectations and Blizzard’s - though it’s hard to imagine such an ideal landing spot for the next game.


June is an exciting time for gamers as the litany of conferences that replaced E-3 dominate the first half of the month, and the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase provided the most E3-like presentation out of the whole conference. Streamed on June 12 at 1 p.m. EDT on the official twitchgaming channel, YouTube, and Xbox channels, the show gave many of the best gaming announcements of this sea


The release of Path of Exile 2 won't stop content updates, either. With new leagues, limited-time events with special mechanics, being added every 3 months it'll be hard for Diablo 4 to keep up with that update schedule. When players get bored with a current league, they can leave knowing to come back a month or 2 later for new cont


One way that invasive microtransactions snuck their way into the modern gaming scene was starting with cosmetics. However, as people spent more and more on them, MTX started to become almost essential to some extent to play through the entirety of certain games. Redditor Modal1 expressed their grievances with the practice, saying "The whole idea of loot for me is cosmetics. Grinding and trying to unlock high-end, cool-looking gear is gone if the coolest armor is just going to be bought for $10 in a store. What’s even the point of playing
This writer does not agree or appreciate the notion of any of the above ideas for how to monetize Diablo 4 in the long term, but it is absolutely in line with how Blizzard treats all their games. Seeing how successful Hearthstone, Overwatch, and World of Warcraft are, consumers have clearly accepted this as the status quo.


It would be interesting to see that fleshed out more heavily in Diablo 4 . Competitive matches between teams, tighter 2 vs 2 matches, tag teams, even some creative game modes. Players enjoy testing their mettle against each other and having that accounted for in Diablo 4 would give players a reason to gr


Fans of dark fantasy RPGs have been eagerly awaiting the release of FromSoftware's Elden Ring ** and Activision Blizzard's _Diablo 4** _ . However, with Elden Ring's February 25 release date still weeks away and Diablo 4 still only rumored for 2023, players might be looking for something else to play - or to find their way back to some similar RPGs they still haven't finished. Here is a look at several dark fantasy RPG series that could scratch the i


For whatever reason Diablo 3 stepped back to only supporting four player co-ops and this was frankly a mistake. Fans would love to see Diablo 4 return to the large co-op style of play and even introducing large raid dungeons for 10-20 players to tackle toget


Redditor GLaD0S11 said, "I'd be interested to see more about the single-player experience," and that they "don't mind random world boss type things having players around, but I want to be in my own world for the most part." Blizzard focused a lot on the new open and shared world of Diablo IV , but many fans will be hoping for a better look at the single-player experience before 2023's rele


Fans waiting for Elden Ring will find the themes in the Dragon Age series somewhat similar, albeit presented quite differently. FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have teased at Elden Ring's more abstracted themes of racism, politics, and citizenship in terms of the Tarnished and the Elden Lords, something that crops up regularly within the plot points of Dragon Age games . Fans of the Diablo series will note the familiar plot of brave heroes suffering to protect and save the world, while the Fade has some stylistic similarities, being a dream-like world where demons l


Diablo is undeniably a grind-focused series, but -- like with Capcom's Monster Hunter -- the grind is typically done in a genuinely fun gameplay loop. That's why paying to get better armor and weapons as MTX would be especially detrimental to something like Diablo


Scheduled to release in 2023, Starfield is an open-world RPG and the latest major project from Bethesda. In this completely new universe from the studio, the game takes place in the year 2330, and humanity can now travel across the universe and has settled in many planets outside of the solar system. Beginning as a space miner, the customized player character will join a group of space explorers known as Constellation, who search for rare artifacts across the gal