Orc Warchief: Strategy City Builder

Matthew Ball predicted a rise in ad-supported gaming before joining Xbox, and he still thinks it's a good idea.

Today's Xbox Games Showcase was the first under the leadership of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who has pledged to consider making changes to Xbox's exclusivity strategy. Now, another Xbox executive, chief content officer Matt Booty, has clarified Microsoft's position on exclusives going forward. He told Gamertag Radio, "Our big multiplayer games [and] live-service games are going to continue to be multiplatform." So why isn't Gears of War: E-Day going to be on PS5, and is instead an Xbox console exclusive? The game has multiplayer, after all, and it's expected to get ongoing updates over time. Booty

Xbox's new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says he was asked a direct question about the brand's future by recently-installed CEO Asha Sharma: "Is it fixable?"

Theos: Cities of Myth is a charming indie city builder that had me laying out roads, providing housing, taking advantage of godly boons, and managing resources as concrete as food and as abstract as philosophy. I wasn't able to build a polis to rival the height of Athens just yet due to demo restrictions and some odd pathing bugs, however.

Whatever kinds of games you favor, you’re probably aware of Age of Sigmar, Games Workshop’s flagship fantasy battle game, thanks to its stores' up and down global high streets. You may be less aware of its kissing cousin, Spearhead which uses a stripped-down version of the rules and fixed army lists to allow faster, more furious fights that are also more newbie-friendly. It’s proved extremely popular.Now there’s a new starter set for the format, Spearhead: City of Ash, with pretty much everything you need to play in one single box.What’s in the BoxLike most Games Workshop products, the ini