XP Report

Lots of bad news for the industry with media shutting down, games being broken by patches and large corporations trying take every little thing they can from you.

Unreal 6 going to auto port for Fortnite

https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/epic-games-plans-for-unreal-engine-6-are-dividing-developers

Nintendo will brick your hardware

https://au.pcmag.com/gaming-1/110934/nintendo-we-can-brick-your-switch-console-if-you-pirate-games

Giant bomb buy themselves back

https://aftermath.site/giant-bomb-sold-new-owners-jeff-fandom

Polygon bought by Valnet

https://aftermath.site/polygon-layoffs-sale

This War of Mine Boardgame

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/awaken-realms/this-war-of-mine-second-edition

Revenge of the Savage Planet

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2787320/Revenge_of_the_Savage_Planet/

Darfall

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1961600/Darfall/

DOOM: The Dark Ages (2-day early access for pre-orders)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3017860/DOOM_The_Dark_Ages/

Despelote

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/despelote/

Drop Duchy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2525310/Drop_Duchy/

Vellum (1.0 Release)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/917950/Vellum/

Cash Cleaner Simulator

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2488370/Cash_Cleaner_Simulator/

Empyreal

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1377700/Empyreal/

The Midnight Walk (Handcrafted from Clay)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863640/The_Midnight_Walk/

Welcome to XP Report, this week its all about tariffs effecting every part of the industry we love so dearly, Discord is making changes and you probably won't like them, what is happening over at Microsoft?

Tabletop company who made wingspan/wyrmspan suing the president

https://stonemaiergames.com/we-are-suing-the-president/

Discord - CEO bye bye

https://www.theverge.com/news/654594/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam-sakhnini

Russia is trying to seize assets from developer that was owned by Wargaming, who support Ukraine

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/russian-regulators-are-trying-to-seize-assets-from-the-developers-of-world-of-tanks-202157310.html

Nexon (not blizzard) rumored to be making next Starcraft game

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starcraft-remastered/nexon-new-game

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33/

Dinkum: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062520/Dinkum/

Sunderfolk: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2414270/Sunderfolk/

Oblivion Remaster: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2623190/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV_Oblivion_Remastered/

Tempest Rising: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/

Badlands Crew: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2078230/Badlands_Crew/

Welcome to XP Report, where Keirron and Ronnie take you through all things gaming, analog to digital. This fortnights episode is goes over Nintendo Switch 2 release announcement, the incoming price rising of games and lots of new releases we got from Nintendo and Triple-i

https://tabletop.events/conventions/tagcon-2025

News:

Nintendo Switch 2

Unity Makes their own title https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250403302641/en/Unity-Announces-Development-of-Nintendo-Switch-2-Launch-Title-Survival-Kids-in-Close-Partnership-with-KONAMI

Marathon - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/

Tripli-i Initiative - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnNhA7vLgZ0

Releases:

Monaco 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063030/Monaco_2/

South of Midnight - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1934570/South_of_Midnight/

Crashlands 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401730/Crashlands_2/

Emissary 0 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3176060/Emissary_Zero/

Welcome to XP Report, where Keirron and Ronnie take you through all things gaming, analog to digital. This fortnights episode is goes over the many releases revealed from the recent Nintendo Direct, Keirron rants about pre orders, and the guys talk about why its getting harder to take risks in the game industry.

News:

Assassins Creed Shadows

Nintendo Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OqoRxXUjGA

Runescape Dragonwilds https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374490/RuneScape_Dragonwilds/

Youtube: Shorts view counting

ARK Aquatica - AI Trailer https://aftermath.site/ark-aquatica-ai-trailer-snail-games-studio-wildcard-youtube

Releases:

TTRPG - World Well https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stevedee/the-world-well-and-friends/description

The First Berserker: Khazan https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/2680010/

Atomfall https://store.steampowered.com/app/801800/Atomfall/

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch) https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition-switch/

Reignbreaker https://store.steampowered.com/app/2129810/Reignbreaker/

Dark Deity 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446600/Dark_Deity_2/

Which Way Up: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2318660/Which_Way_Up_Galaxy_Games/

Welcome to the first episode of XP Report!

To open up our first episode we have news from hot games that just came out and support for the tabletop industry, while one of the titans takes a fall. Join us each fortnight for more games news and opinions.

News

Paizo/Talsorian publishing smaller interesting projects https://www.rascal.news/paizo-and-r-talsorian-court-indie-designers-for-their-next-project/

Lego taking video game dev in house https://www.gamespot.com/articles/lego-could-make-a-big-change-to-future-video-games/1100-6530037/