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The Sun
a day ago
- Business
- The Sun
Xbox owners handed free games worth £200 to play in event including latest Call of Duty game & Football Manager 2024
XBOX owners are being handed access to free games worth £200 as part of a special weekend event. Gamers using the Microsoft platform will be able to get their hands on a slew of games during the event this weekend. 4 The games will be free to access and play for Xbox owners between May 29 and June 1 as part of the Free Play Days event. It will include access to the latest Call of Duty and Football Manager 2024 as well as several other top rated titles. An Xbox game pass membership will be required to get access to most of the titles. Both the latest Call of Duty and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will be available until June 3. Football Manager 2024, Killer Klowns From outer Space: The Game and ARK: Survival Ascended will all be available until June 1. Gamers can get access to the titles by hunting them down in the Xbox store. Installing them onto your device will require you to be signed in, from their you can install the titles with your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership. Downloading the titles on console will require gamers to click on the subscriptions tab in the Xbox Store and navigating to the Free Play Days collection. Each of the titles available during the Free Play Days event will be available at a discounted price during the event. To keep the fun going gamers can purchase the titles at discounted rates and keep their achievements and Gamerscore earned during the free play event. Xbox has warned though that discounts, percentages and title availability may vary by region. Both the Xbox One and Xbox Series XS will have access to the Free Play Days event. 4 4 ARK: Survival Ascended, Football Manager 2024 and Killer Klowns from Outer Space are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members These titles will be available from Thursday May 29 until Sunday, June 1. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is free for all Xbox members to try from May 30 until June 3 Xbox Game Pass Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership not required for this title. Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is free for all Xbox members to try from May 29 until June 3 Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership not required for this title either. All points that are earned and downloadable content (DLC) that you bought during the event carries over if you buy the full game at the end of the free period.
The Verge
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Posted May 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM EDT 0 Comments
Free Zombies. Xbox Free Play Days weekend runs from today through Sunday, June 1st, with access to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (MP and Zombies only), no Game Pass membership required. For those with access to at least Game Pass Core, you can also play RK: Survival Ascended, Football Manager 2024, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. Meanwhile, The Division 2 is also available with no paid membership through June 3rd.
CNET
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
I'm a TV Reviewer, and This New OLED Made Gaming More Fun With One Key Feature
CNET's key takeaways The LG G5 series is the best and brightest OLED I've ever tested in the CNET Labs. At $3,400 for the 65-inch size, it's expensive compared to some of the competition. The G5's best-in-class brightness made gaming easier and more enjoyable than I expected. As a Call of Duty player, I know that quick responses can be the difference between clinching victory and languishing at the bottom of the leaderboard. But until I played Call of Duty Black Ops 6 on the new LG G5 OLED, I didn't know there was something else just as crucial. I've tested dozens of the best TVs over the years. My CoD session helped cement my opinion of the G5 as the best OLED I've ever tested. Why? One reason is this model's best-in-class brightness: It's the brightest OLED I've ever seen in the CNET TV lab. Its clarity ensured I was able to see both the bright and dark parts of the screen -- in a way the other TVs I've tested couldn't reproduce. For instance, it was harder for enemies to hide in murky doorways because the TV rendered shadows more crisply. Brightness for the win. My experience with LG G5 Evo AI OLED Carly Marsh/CNET Picture quality is so important when it comes to gaming because some of the latest advances, such as HDR10 and Dolby Vision, help to elevate the gaming experience in a meaningful way, and the G5 can take full advantage of these. Zooming around the Protocol map from Black Ops 6, I found out it was the clarity of the G5's images that really struck me. I toured the grounds of this map's old naval fort -- the sky was a brilliant blue and the buildings popped up out of the sea -- everything looked more lifelike, like in the way it would if you were actually wandering here on a fall afternoon. But in the middle of my reverie, I found that people were shooting at me. Like, a whole lot. Now Playing: LG C5 vs. LG G5: Which OLED Gives the Most for Your Money 03:03 As part of my testing, I compared the LG G5 against four other TVs, including the new Samsung S95F, the LG C5 and two LCDs, all connected to the same Xbox. (With five screens playing at once, it felt like I was starring in my own personal esports event.) I played several different games, including Doom, Ori and the Blind Forest, but Call of Duty was where I saw the biggest improvements. The thing that immediately stood out about the G5 when playing games was how bright it was. When combined with the TV's deep contrast, the G5's picture popped in a way that the competition didn't. The LG G5 is the best TV I've reviewed yet Ty Pendlebury/CNET That brightness I saw on the G5? That's thanks to LG's new four-stack panel, which literally stacks two blue OLEDS (and a red and a green) on top of each other for its dazzling light output. This is a technology that seems to be unique to the G5 for now, but it's not the only advantage it has over the slightly cheaper -- and slightly dimmer -- Samsung S95F. Unless something changes, a Samsung TV will never tick the Dolby Vision check box -- it's HDR10 only. So if you're an Xbox completionist, then the LG G5 (and others) will help you max out the Xbox 4K compatibility test. (Profile & system > Settings > General > TV & display options > 4K TV details). The specs Available screen sizes: 55-, 65-, 77-, 83- and 97-inch Screen type: OLED Native refresh rate 120Hz (165Hz variable refresh rate) HDMI ports: 4 Weight: 48.5 pounds without its stand (65-inch) CNET's buying advice YMMV Carly Marsh/CNET I can't say playing on the G5 in the CNET lab made me a better player -- there are other crucial factors, including networking, that can decrease lag -- but I had a blast revisiting old maps and new ones on this fantastic television. It's definitely a "must-see" for serious gamers. If you simply want a good TV for gaming, you don't need to spend $3,000; there are plenty of great budget TVs under a grand, and most of them will give you an enjoyable gaming experience. Even so, if you're looking for your ultimate gaming setup, then the LG G5 has everything you need.
Metro
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Blades Of Fire review - hammer of the gods
The makers of Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow and Metroid Dread return with an original game that has a very unique system for both using and creating weapons. Success in any medium can be a double-edged sword, from actors being typecast by certain roles to directors who can only get work making the same sort of films over and over again. It's even worse for video games, with some studios, like Call Of Duty's Infinity Ward, having been working on the same franchise, and nothing else, for over two decades. Spanish developer MercurySteam isn't quite in that position, but they have spent a significant portion of their 23 year existence making Metroidvania games, starting with the Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow series, before perfecting their art with Metroid: Samus Returns and the excellent Metroid Dread. It's unknown whether they'll return to work on a new 2D Metroid game for the Switch 2 but in the meantime, they've made Blades Of Fire. It's not a licensed game or something based on an existing franchise but a brand new action adventure that seems to exist purely because MercurySteam wanted to make it, and not because 12 months had passed since the last one. And that alone makes it an intriguing prospect. There are multiple influences on Blades Of Fire, including MercurySteam's previous work, the recent Zelda games, the work of FromSoftware, and the modern God Of War games. The plot is straight out of Breath Of The Wild, with all the swords in the kingdom being rendered useless by an evil sorceress. You play as a warrior who gains the ability to forge your own weapons, which comes in very handy when everyone else's has turned to stone. Unfortunately, the plot and setting are bog standard fantasy, and while there are a few interesting wrinkles, such as the occasionally inspired bit of art design, a lot of it could have come from any game in the last decade or so. Even if the oddly proportioned human characters are reminiscent of Lords Of Shadow and the weirder monsters are when the comparisons to Dark Souls et al. seem most obvious. Being able to forge your own sword is the most unique element of the game and, thankfully, works very well. You have a magic hammer that, unlike with Thor, is actually used for the sort of things hammers were invented for. Not banging in nails but tempering molten steel into various blades and other usefully sharp and pointy bits of metal. Defeating multiple enemies of the same type eventually unlocks a blueprint for whatever weapon they were using, from spears to swords. The enemy variety is already good but because you know there's a very useful reward for beating lots of the same kind it helps greatly in avoiding problems with repetition. The blueprint has lots of customisation options, depending on the type of steel you use and the length or shape of a blade – which has a small but measurable effect on things like power and how much stamina is expended when wielding it. Once you've made your choices you have to play a forging mini-game, to try and maximise the amount of time until the weapon becomes useless. This is not easy, or well explained, but after a few hours you begin to get the hang of it, and it becomes surprisingly satisfying. The problem is that you get the feeling the whole forging weapons aspect was the impetus behind the game getting made, with nothing else being as fully formed in concept or execution. The third person combat is fine, and relatively unique, but it's not involved enough to support a game where there are no other substantial gameplay elements. Combat is original in the sense that rather than just using light and heavy attacks the face buttons are mapped to what part of an enemy you're trying to attack: the head, left or right torso, or legs. As novel an idea as that is, there's not much more to the combat than that, expect for charged attacks and the inevitable parries and dodges. There are no proper combos and while you do sometimes have to target specific body parts, to avoid heavy armour or attack weak points, the whole concept feels undercooked. Blades Of Fire is a peculiar game, that flits between feeling impressively unique and disappointingly generic. Some of its ideas are entirely its own, while others, such as the way health potions work and having to collect dropped weapons after you die, are very obviously borrowed from Soulsborne games. More Trending And yet, the only truly bad part of the game is the terrible map, which is very easily the worst we've ever seen in a modern game. It's purely two dimensional and makes it almost impossible to tell where you are, where you've been, or where you're going. It also seems to be an awkward compromise between not wanting to have a map at all, like a Soulsborne title, and providing only the bare minimum instead. With a better story and more engaging characters this could've still been worth a recommendation but unfortunately the storytelling is no better than the game's cartography. What Blades Of Fire is left with is a collection of good idea that are never forged into an effective whole. In Short: A flawed but interesting attempt at a mash-up of everything from God Of War to Dark Souls, but where crafting weapons is often more fulfilling than using them. Pros: The core business of forging weapons works very well, including in terms of how you get blueprints and the level of customisation available. Weighty combat and memorable boss battles. Cons: The combat is interesting but too simplistic to sustain the whole game, while the storytelling is bland and cliched. Awful map system. Score: 6/10 Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), Xbox Series X/S, and PC*Price: £49.99Publisher: 505 GamesDeveloper: MercurySteamRelease Date: 22nd May 2025 Age Rating: 18 *Epic Games Store only Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Games Inbox: When will the new Tomb Raider be revealed? MORE: Nintendo Switch 2 is getting an old school midnight launch at major UK toy store MORE: Official PS5 price cut slashes up to £140 in upcoming PlayStation sale
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sarah Silverman met Rory Albanese through Call of Duty
Sarah Silverman was "happily single" before she met Rory Albanese. The 54-year-old comedy star actually thought she was "done" with dating before she met Rory during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to People, Sarah shared: "I went to GameStop, and I hadn't played video games since Nintendo 64, but I bought a console, and I figured I would learn how to do video games. "This is what I'm going to focus on. I'm going to sleep as late as I can. I'm going to go to bed as early as possible, and I'm going to learn video games in between and this is going to be my life." Sarah kept herself busy during the pandemic by learning to play 'Call of Duty: World War II', and her passion for gaming led her to Rory. She explained: "Rory who I knew, but I didn't remember what he looked like, we had hung out once. We knew each other through comedy a little bit, but I didn't really know him. "He direct messaged me and was like, 'I play that. Do you have headphones?' I said, 'Yes, but I don't know how to do it.' And he talked me through it. And so every night, I'd play Call of Duty with Rory Albanese." At the start, Sarah never actually imagined dating Rory, as she was "very peacefully and happily single" at the time. She said: "I felt done, to be honest. You just can't predict anything! You never know what's around the corner." Sarah has actually learned some important life lessons through her love life. Asked to reveal the biggest lesson she's learned, Sarah replied: "It's human nature to be afraid of the unknown, but don't waste anxiety on the unknown. The unknown is thrilling. We really should just be on the edge of our seat." Sarah split from actor Michael Sheen in late 2017. But the actress previously revealed that they've remained good friends. During an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!', Sarah shared: "I was with Michael. We broke up over Christmas. He moved back to the UK and his life is really there and my life is really not there, but I love him to pieces."
