Come back here, you silly goose.

You don’t need to go anywhere.

The Xbox Developer Direct livestream is actually one of three Microsoft marketing bonanzas hitting the internet today.

Promotional art for the Xbox Developer Direct 2024, showing Obsidian’s Avowed, Ninja Theory’s Hellblade 2, MachineGames’s Indiana Jones game, and Oxide’s Ara: History Untold.

Here’s a quick warm-up parade of Top Goss about all of those games.

It was alsoconceived as a co-op RPG, with Obsidian pivoting to single player in around eight months.

I do not envy any artist attempting to recreate the smouldering majesty of 1980s Harrison Ford.

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The latter is rumoured to be Valenwood, home to the Bosmer or Wood Elves.

Don’t expect anything from therecently purchased stables of Activision Blizzardbeyond Diablo today.

“you’re able to look forward to news from those teams later this year.”

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It remains only for me to say: what are you most looking forward to?

These things I must know.

We will, of course, be writing up any and all big announcements individually.

Graham is on the news desk tonight, so he’ll get first swing at Indy, curse him.