Trone Dowd

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Video Game Trends Writer at Inverse

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Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting The Most Swashbuckling Star Wars Adventure

6 days ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

At Star Wars Celebration this week, players finally got a proper peek at the upcoming second expansion for Star Wars Outlaws, including our first look at the grand return of beloved space pirate Hondo Ohnaka.
Nintendo and Steam Should Straight Up Steal Xbox’s Newest Feature

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

Xbox players just got a handful of new features this week, several of which improve the overall user ecosystem experience and make good on Xbox’s “Play Anywhere” mantra. But one feature in particular has me wondering why more gaming companies aren’t stealing the idea or pushing the feature harder. Xbox’s April update includes the ability to purchase games via the surprisingly useful Xbox smartphone app.
'Mario Kart World’s' Secret Weapon Might Be Hiding In Plain Sight

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

Nintendo’s brief Direct on Mario Kart World gave anxious players another small peak at the upcoming Switch 2 launch title. From specific tracks, items and moves, and social features, Mario Kart World seems chockful of new additions that could make it a worthy successor to the best Mario Kart of all time. Since its reveal earlier this month, however, I haven’t been entirely convinced of the game’s top feature: its open world.
PlayStation Just Finally Got Xbox's Best Recent Exclusive

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

In 2025, console exclusives are rarer than ever before. But last year delivered one of the best examples of one in a long time. The developers behind the two beloved Wolfenstein games took their expertise in slaughtering fascists to the next thing that made sense — an adaptation of film’s greatest archeologist in game form. The results were stellar.
Assassin's Creed Is Finally Delivering On Its Long-Lost Promise

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

After several recent flops, Ubisoft needed its next big Assassin’s Creed title to be a runaway success. It bet all its chips on the open-world RPG, even delaying it twice to ensure it was as polished and refined as possible. It seems those efforts have paid off, as Assassin’s Creed Shadows is now the second-best-selling game of 2025.
Deliverance 2' Captures The Bethesda Magic That Had Me In A Chokehold Years Ago

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

I’ll never forget what I felt the first time I escaped the underground prison at the start of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Like many players experiencing Bethesda’s work for the first time in 2006, I’d never played this style of role-playing game.
‘Baldur's Gate 3’ Pulls Off What Many Said Was Impossible In Its Final Update

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

A year and a half after releasing one of the best role-playing games ever made, Larian Studios is finally winding down its post-launch support for Baldur’s Gate 3. Still, the developer is making sure it’s going out with a bang. Not only will the latest update add brand new subclasses that will make yet another playthrough worthwhile, but it also makes good on promises that many developers would’ve thought impossible.
15 Years Ago, Gaming’s Most Thrilling Espionage Series Had Its Assassin’s Creed Moment

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

The Splinter Cell series was never for everybody. The original trilogy may have been a critical darling, but it never reached the heights of popularity of its stealthy competitor, Metal Gear Solid. Heading into the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era, a game about a slow a methodical special agent behind enemy lines had even less commercial appeal, as more bombastic action series like Call of Duty and even other games in the Tom Clancy-verse like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
Xbox Game Pass Just Added 2025's Most Original Action Game

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

Xbox Game Pass is one of the best things going in gaming right now. Not just in deals, as $20 a month grants you access to decades worth of the industry’s biggest and most interesting hits, but because it gives Xbox’s in-house developers room to deliver some of the most unique experiences that would otherwise be considered a risk in today’s crowded gaming market. Few games showcase this underrated strength of Game Pass as Compulsion Games’ latest title, South of Midnight does.
'Indiana Jones And The Great Circle' Just Got A Lot More Fun

1 week ago | inverse.com | Trone Dowd

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle was one of the best games of 2024. Machine Games’ remarkable fusion of stealth gameplay, detailed open-ended levels, and a dogged faithfulness to the film series was a match made in heaven. Now, just a week ahead of its PlayStation 5 debut, The Great Circle is getting a few new additions that will make re-experiencing this modern classic worthwhile.