The Xbox Live Arcade games of Microsoft's E3 2022 Press Conference

E3 2022 Arcade Lineup

Nosotros've already touched on the retail Xbox 360 games appear during yesterday'due south E3 2022 press conference, but Microsoft too announced several exciting Xbox Live Arcade games. (XBLA refers specifically to downloadable Xbox 360 games, not Windows Telephone titles.) Those games included Ascend, Lococycle, Affair, and Wreckateer.

Ascend: New Gods is undoubtedly the most promising XBLA title for Xbox 360 gamers who too happen to be Windows Phone fans. Why? It'southward coming to both XBLA and Windows Telephone. Both versions feature non only asynchronous multiplayer merely the ability to compete against players from either platform. Transferring progress from the Windows Phone game to the XBLA game will definitely exist supported, merely nosotros don't know whether the reverse is true yet. The presence of cross-platform multiplayer would seem to bespeak that mobile Ascend will exist a direct adaptation rather than a companion game ala last year's disappointing Fusion: Sentient.

Ascend: New Gods is an action-RPG that pits players against gigantic Titans besides as each other. From what we've seen, it resembles the God of State of war series and (to a lesser extent) Bloodforge. Nosotros promise to speak with Bespeak Studios (who besides made the beloved XBLA Toy Soldiers games) over the class of E3 and written report back with farther details.

Lococycle will be the first new game developed by Austin-based Twisted Pixel Studios since the developer was acquired by Microsoft late last yr. Evidently too early on in development to share gameplay details or screenshots, all nosotros have to become by is this official description:

"Presenting I.R.I.S.: Two-time Valedictorian of the illustrious Big Arms Academy'south School of Assassination. Skilful in over twoscore forms of unarmed combat, earning Sensei status in Jiu-jitsu, Aikido, Krav Maga, and Jeet Kune Practise. Equally mortiferous with blades, handguns, and the latest in nuclear engineering. Fluent in over fifty languages and nigh every local custom. Can blend in and disappear at a moment'due south find in whatsoever land around the world. The first female person buck to break the four minute mile...by three minutes and forty seconds. All this, and it won't fifty-fifty run down her batteries. Twisted Pixel Games proudly presents "Lococycle." Today'south criminal requires tomorrow's hero."

In improver to Lococycle, Twisted Pixel is hard at work on the upcoming Windows Phone port of Ms. Splosion Human being, an XBLA game that Daniel Rubino and I both relish very much. No word on whether the mobile Xbox alive version of Ms. Splosion Human being volition exist on the evidence floor, but we'll definitely keep an middle out.

Details on Matter, the Microsoft Studios-published start game from picture show director Gore Verbinsky, are as well in short supply. We were treated to a video of a silver sphere floating around a futuristic setting, simply no actual gameplay. Could that sphere exist the thespian graphic symbol? Only time will tell. Considering the championship's origins, we tin certainly expect a cinematic approach and a smattering of narrative to accompany the gameplay.

Wreckateer is thankfully much closer to release, as evidenced by an actual gameplay presentation on stage. Iron Galaxy's game could easily be described equally a Kinect version of Aroused Birds, as players apply their bodies to aim and burn catapults at Goblin-infested castles. We saw a diverseness of interesting shot types, including ane in which the cannonball split into 4 pieces and another that allowed players to steer the ball after launch for greater precision. Not just does Wreckateer'due south gameplay look fun and easy to learn, but the 3D graphics and fully-voiced characters are a cutting higher up what nosotros'd see in mobile games of this genre.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo officially opens in about an hour. Stay tuned for more E3 2022 coverage from Windows Phone Central!

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android eleven

Subsequently a very long wait, the original Surface Duo is now eligible to receive its over-the-air OS update to Android 11. Here is what is new and fixed with the biggest update yet for Microsoft'southward first dual-screen Android device.