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Halo 3, Mass Effect, BioShock, Rock Band, and More: Fall 2007 Was the Greatest Season in Xbox – and Also Gaming – History En IGN-kommentator argumenterer for, at efteråret 2007 var den stærkeste periode i spilhistorien, især for Xbox 360. På få måneder udkom en række markante titler som BioShock, Halo 3, The Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect og Rock Band, mens Super Mario Galaxy og andre platformsspil også gjorde perioden ekstraordinær. Artiklen ser tilbage på udgivelsernes betydning og eftermæle.

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Beyond Good & Evil 2 Adds Assassin's Creed Shadows Writer — And Yes, The Game is Still in Development Beyond Good & Evil 2 er stadig under udvikling hos Ubisoft, 18 år efter spillet først blev annonceret. Rik Godwin, tidligere lead writer på Assassin’s Creed Shadows, er tilsluttet projektet i en rådgivende rolle. Spillet overlevede Ubisofts omfattende omstrukturering, men selskabet har fortsat ikke offentliggjort en udgivelsesdato.

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The Marvel’s Wolverine Vinyl Is Now Available To Preorder Ahead of Its December Release Date – Here’s Where You Can Buy It Soundtracket til Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine udkommer på en gennemsigtig gul vinylplade den 11. december 2026. Udgivelsen er en Amazon-eksklusiv med en pris på 29,99 dollar, og forudbestillinger er allerede åbne. Pladen indeholder ni originale musiknumre komponeret af David Fleming.

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'I Don’t Think Starfield was Anywhere Near Successful Enough to do a Starfield 2' – Former Bethesda Dev Casts Doubt On Sequel Kurt Kuhlmann, tidligere lead systems designer hos Bethesda, tvivler på, at Starfield får en efterfølger. Han vurderer, at spillet ikke har været succesfuldt nok til at retfærdiggøre Starfield 2, selv om en efterfølger kunne have draget fordel af erfaringerne fra det første spil. Bethesda vil fortsat udvide Starfield med nyt indhold og opdateringer, mens studiet primært arbejder på The Elder Scrolls VI.

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Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2's New Class Is Finally Confirmed — and It's Exactly What Everyone Suspected Focus Entertainment har bekræftet, at Apothecary bliver den nye spilbare klasse i Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Klassen udkommer med Patch 17 i første kvartal 2027 og får senere et Champion-skin. År 3 byder også på nye missioner, våben, spiltilstande og kosmetik, mens Chaos Siege lanceres med Patch 15 den 1. oktober.

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There Are Over 30 Pikachu Cards in Pokémon TCG's 30th Celebration Anniversary Set, So We Ranked Them From Worst to Best Pokémon TCG’s 30th Celebration Collection indeholder 30 særskilt illustrerede Pikachu-kort, og IGN har rangeret dem fra mindst til mest attraktive. Rangeringen bygger primært på kortenes illustrationer, mens priser på TCGplayer bruges som tie-breaker. Artiklen fremhæver samtidig, at flere kort er blevet markant billigere siden udgivelsen, og gennemgår hvor samlere kan købe sættet.

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Activision’s New Halo Must Leave Behind Xbox’s 15-Year Quest To Recapture Bungie’s Magic – It’s Time for a Doom-Style Rethink IGN vurderer, at Halo-serien har haft svært ved at finde en stærk identitet og regelmæssig udgivelsesrytme siden Bungies afgang. Microsoft har derfor givet Activision ansvaret for det næste Halo-spil, hvilket ifølge analysen kan give serien en tiltrængt nytænkning. Artiklen peger samtidig på, at Activision skal finde en moderne retning uden blot at kopiere Bungies arv.

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GTA 6 Is Getting a $400 Collector's Set Filled With Tons of Merch, But No Game Rockstar Games har annonceret en samlerudgave til GTA 6 til 400 dollar, men boksen indeholder ikke selve spillet. Vice City Collection indeholder blandt andet Oakley-solbriller, en figur, en kasket, pins, en taske og andre genstande med tema fra spillets Leonida-univers. Udgivelsen er planlagt til 19. november, og forudbestillinger er allerede åbne.

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Amazon UK Just Slashed Prices on MTG Final Fantasy, Marvel, and TMNT Sets Ahead of Prime Day, Including Lowest-Ever Discounts on Popular Commander Decks Amazon UK har allerede sat flere Magic: The Gathering-produkter ned op til årets Prime Day. Tilbuddene omfatter blandt andet sæt med Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles og Marvel samt Commander Decks baseret på Final Fantasy. Rabatterne varierer fra 10 til 29 procent, og nogle af tilbuddene kræver et Prime-abonnement, mens andre er tilgængelige for alle kunder.

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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Story Comes to an End With Final DLC This December Owlcat Games afslutter historien i rollespillet Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader med udvidelsen Processional of the Damned, der udkommer i december. DLC’en tilføjer blandt andet en ny historie, ledsageren Stella, en ny nærkampsarketype, fjender og spilfunktioner. Udvidelsen bliver integreret i hovedspillet, mens studiet samtidig arbejder på Dark Heresy og The Expanse: Osiris Reborn.

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The Witcher 3 Is on Sale for Half Price Ahead of Next Week’s Free Remaster Upgrade The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition kan i øjeblikket købes til halv pris på PlayStation 5, Xbox og PC. Den kommende Remastered-opdatering udkommer 29. september som en gratis opgradering for ejere af originalspillet. Opdateringen forbedrer blandt andet grafik, traversal, fototilstand og skill tree samt tilføjer transmog, nye fjendeadfærdsmønstre og nye afslutninger.

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World of Warcraft: Forever Is Getting Heavy Rain — Here's How It Looks Blizzard vil snart tilføje kraftigere vejreffekter, herunder kraftig regn, i udvalgte betaområder i World of Warcraft: Forever. En video viser regnen i Elwynn Forest, hvor spillerne har taget positivt imod ændringen. Det nye Classic+-spil er fortsat i beta og udkommer officielt 4. november 2026.

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'One of the Very Few Games I'm Going to Be Buying': Control Resonant Has Leaked, But There's a Push Among Some Pirates to Pay For It Anyway Kopier af Remedy-spillet Control Resonant cirkulerer allerede ulovligt online efter udgivelsen til pc, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X/S. På piratfora og Reddit opfordrer nogle brugere imidlertid til at købe spillet for at støtte studiet, som har haft udfordringer med salget af tidligere titler. IGN har givet spillet 8/10.

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Here's When You Can Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered in Your Region CD Projekt Red har bekræftet de globale udgivelsestider for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, som lanceres 29. september. Remasteren udkommer til pc, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S og Nintendo Switch 2 og bliver en gratis opgradering for ejere af grundspillet. Versionen indeholder blandt andet forbedret grafik, kamp, bevægelse, monsteradfærd og en opdateret færdighedsstruktur.

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Age of Empires Studio Lost Almost Half the Studio and Had Its Next Project Canned, Before Being Handed Over to Activision World’s Edge, Microsofts studie bag Age of Empires, har mistet næsten halvdelen af sine medarbejdere i den seneste fyringsrunde i Xbox-divisionen. Studiet flyttes samtidig under Activision, mens det næste projekt er blevet aflyst. I alt er 268 ansatte berørt i den aktuelle runde, og Microsoft forventer op mod 3.200 jobtab i løbet af regnskabsåret.

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New Report Sheds Light on What Will — and Won't — Return to Destiny 2 When Bungie Adds Back Vaulted Content Bungie vil bringe udvalgte dele af tidligere fjernet indhold tilbage til Destiny 2 uden ekstra betaling. Det gælder blandt andet kampagner, destinationer og raids, mens spillets mere end 25 sæsoner ikke forventes genudgivet. Der ventes heller ikke regelmæssige opdateringer, nye udvidelser eller sæsonbaserede begivenheder, da studiet har begrænsede ressourcer.

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Injustice 3 Rumors Sparks Response From NetherRealm's Ed Boon NetherRealm-chefen Ed Boon har afvist rygter om, at studiet i øjeblikket tester Injustice 3, Mortal Kombat 13 eller Mortal Kombat 9. Han understreger dog, at manglende ekstern test ikke betyder, at et spil ikke er under udvikling. Det holder liv i spekulationerne om, at Injustice 3 kan blive annonceret senere på året.

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Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary Celebration Sealed Booster Bundles Are In Stock at Amazon, and Way Under Market Price Compared to TCGplayer Amazon har genopfyldt lageret af Pokémon TCG’s 30-års jubilæums-Booster Bundles, som kan købes for 45 dollar. Det er markant under den aktuelle markedspris på omkring 122,64 dollar hos TCGplayer, men stadig 20 dollar over den vejledende pris. Amazon forventes at sende produkterne i begyndelsen af oktober, mens lageret rækker.

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'This Has to Be a Sick Joke' — the Next Ace Attorney Game Is a VR Exclusive and Fans Can't Quite Believe It Capcom har annonceret Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies VR, en VR-udgave af 3DS-spillet fra 2013. Spillet udkommer i 2027 eksklusivt til Meta-platforme som Meta Quest 2, 3, 3S og Quest Pro. Fans har reageret skuffet, fordi de fortsat venter på et nyt Ace Attorney 7, mens denne udgivelse genbruger et 13 år gammelt spil med håndsporing og interaktive 3D-forbrydelsesscener.

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'I'm So Deeply Moved' — Artist Behind Pokémon 30th Anniversary Jirachi SIR Card Gives Tearful Response to Late Influencer's Heart-Wrenching Final Pack Opening Pokémon-influenceren Avery the Poké Kid døde 12 år gammel efter flere års kamp mod kræft. I sin sidste kortåbning trak han et Jirachi-kort fra Pokémon-seriens 30-års jubilæumsudgivelse, hvilket blev et følelsesladet øjeblik for fans. Kortets illustrator, Akira Egawa, har siden fortalt på X, at videoen rørte hende dybt og fik hende til at græde.

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Activision's Halo Takeover Causes Fan Debate Over Whether or Not the Franchise Should Be Rebooted Halo-fans diskuterer, om Activision bør genstarte serien helt eller fortsætte historien om Master Chief. Debatten bygger på et ubekræftet rygte, mens flere fans foreslår at bevare Bungies æra eller fortælle nye historier med andre figurer. Activision er samtidig ved at samle et nyt hold til det næste Halo-spil, efter at Halo Studios er blevet ramt af fyringer.

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'The Boss Is Supposed to Win!' — Watch Hard Difficulty AI Orks Wipe the Floor With the Creative Director and Senior Game Designer of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 Udviklerne bag Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 har offentliggjort en video, hvor de selv forsøger at besejre spillets hårde AI-styrede Orker. De to udviklere taber begge kampe som Space Marines, hvor den anden kamp ender med overgivelse efter 13 minutter. Videoen viser samtidig tospiller-samarbejde mod AI, og spillet udkommer til PC den 3. december 2026.

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Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Wants to Play GTA 6, Despite Not Being Much of a Gamer Game of Thrones-skuespilleren Kit Harington fortæller, at han ikke er den store gamer, men gerne vil spille Grand Theft Auto 6. Han har tidligere spillet blandt andet Tekken, Mario Kart og Hogwarts Legacy samt medvirket i Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare og Telltales Game of Thrones-spil. Rockstar Games planlægger at udgive GTA 6 den 19. november 2026.

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'Very Sad' — Marvel Tokon: Fighting Soul's PC Sales and Player Count Are Already Making Players Doom About Its Future Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls har efter lidt over en måned omkring 427 aktive spillere på Steam og en top på 791 det seneste døgn. Analysefirmaet Alinea Analytics vurderer, at 82 procent af salget er sket på PlayStation, mens spillet samlet har solgt cirka 750.000 eksemplarer. Den svage PC-lancering og problemer med matchmaking har udløst bekymring for spillets fremtid, selv om PlayStation-versionen klarer sig bedre.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Switch (IGN's 10/10 Rated "Masterpiece" and 2023 Game of the Year) Drops to $38.97 After Walmart's Hidden Coupon Walmart sælger i en begrænset periode The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom til Nintendo Switch for 48,97 dollar efter en automatisk rabat. Med koden “SAVE3X” kan prisen i nogle tilfælde falde yderligere til 38,97 dollar, men tilbuddet er primært rettet mod nye kunder og de første tre onlineordrer. Det er den originale Switch-udgave, mens en opgradering til Switch 2 koster 9,99 dollar.

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PlayStation Gave Out Grand Theft Auto 6 Merch for Free at Tokyo Game Show and It's Already Being Resold on eBay for Hundreds of Dollars Gratis T-shirts med GTA 6-motiv, som blev uddelt ved Tokyo Game Show 2026, bliver allerede videresolgt online for høje priser. Flere annoncer på eBay sælger trøjerne for omkring 140-200 dollar, mens stickers og karabinhager fra Rockstar Games’ stand også sælges dyrere end den oprindelige pris. Merchandise-salget sker efter stor interesse for spillets særlige immersive visning.

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Halo 3, Mass Effect, BioShock, Rock Band, and More: Fall 2007 Was the Greatest Season in Xbox – and Also Gaming – History

En IGN-kommentator argumenterer for, at efteråret 2007 var den stærkeste periode i spilhistorien, især for Xbox 360. På få måneder udkom en række markante titler som BioShock, Halo 3, The Orange Box, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect og Rock Band, mens Super Mario Galaxy og andre platformsspil også gjorde perioden ekstraordinær. Artiklen ser tilbage på udgivelsernes betydning og eftermæle.

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This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first quarter-century.

Sometimes, video game release schedules converge to create memorable superstorms that live on for years after the fact. The Fall of 1998 (Half-Life, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Doom 3, Metal Gear Solid, Grim Fandango) comes to mind, as does the Fall of 2004 (Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, World of Warcraft). But for my money, the greatest season in gaming history was the Fall of 2007. It was so unbelievably brilliant that you could take just the Xbox 360 releases from this window and it still probably takes the cake. But when you add in PC, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii releases, it’s an absolute murderer’s row of video games that will probably never be topped in a 3-4 month period.

At Official Xbox Magazine, we knew it was going to be big. But looking back and remembering our Game of the Year debate a few weeks after the dust settled (Rock Band won, and no I have no regrets about that), I’m not sure we were able to fully appreciate the gravity (gun) of the moment. One first-ballot Hall-of-Famer shipped after another. Take a look:

BioShock (August 21): If you tried to argue that August 21 is still the Summer…I’d say I respect your point of view, but lots of kids are already back in school by August 21, so it counts as the Fall! Anyway, the original BioShock is an often-imitated, never-duplicated narrative-driven first-person shooter classic whose stunning underwater setting in the failed utopian city of Rapture – with its terrifying Big Daddies and mysterious Little Sisters – took gamers on a ride fit for a great novel,complete with a huge, jaw-dropping plot twist. Its only blemish is its weak final boss fight, but I’ve never seen anyone try to argue for that being enough to disqualify BioShock from the list of all-time greats. Emergent gameplay possibilities abounded, with Plasmids that let you ignite the pools of oil beneath an enemy’s feet on fire or to electrocute bad guys standing in puddles of water. This is legendary game designer Ken Levine’s magnum opus.

Halo 3 (September 25): It’s wild to think about now, but for as successful as the Xbox 360 was, it didn’t launch with a big new Halo game. Instead, Halo 2 was a late release on the original Xbox, and thanks to Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 having their backwards compatibility baked into every Xbox 360, gamers were able to continue right on playing the first sequel. But when Master Chief’s first next-gen adventure finally dropped and it was time to “finish the fight” that Halo 2 had left painfully unresolved, it was hugely anticipated and it actually delivered. The Chief got a proper sendoff in the final cutscene, making it one of the few sagas that actually stuck the landing.

The Orange Box (October 10): Sometimes, Valve just does things, kinda like The Joker. The Orange Box was a ridiculous package of 10 out of 10 video games that any publicly traded game publisher would’ve split up and sold as a bunch of separately-sold 10 out of 10 video games. But not Valve. Steam makes Gabe Newell more money than he could ever know what to do with, so Valve, seemingly just for the love of the game, bundled Half-Life 2, Episode 1, and the then-new Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 into a single $60 package. We’ll probably never see anything like this ever again…unless Valve drops Half-Life 3 out of nowhere in a “Crowbar Crate” with Portal 3 and Left 4 Dead 3. Which, honestly, we can’t 100% rule out.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (November 5): Infinity Ward’s third Call of Duty (Treyarch handled Call of Duty 3) not only brought the series out of World War II for the first time and into the modern era, but it also catapulted the franchise from Very Big Deal to The Biggest Deal, putting it in the same rarified air as Mario, Zelda, Halo (at the time), and Grand Theft Auto. It boasts an incredible campaign and multiplayer on which the entire last 20 years of Call of Duty have been built.

Assassin’s Creed (November 13): You know it’s a killer list when this is the “worst” game on it. No one really spends time wistfully recalling the original. It was a heck of a four-hour gameplay loop that was more or less just repeated a couple of times, and most agree that Assassin’s Creed 2 – the start of the Ezio Trilogy – is where the series really took off. And more often than not, it’s a terrible idea to launch a new IP in the holiday season against established tentpole franchise sequels. That Ubisoft not only shipped Assassin’s Creed into the hurricane-force headwinds of Fall 2007 but the series gained a foothold and rose to become a megafranchise of its own speaks to how good the core idea of this “social stealth” game was.

Mass Effect (November 20): I’ve already shared my extensive memories of this one elsewhere in this Xbox 25th anniversary retrospective series. But everything I said about Assassin’s Creed above also applies here. Maybe the lesson here is that publishers should place more big bets on bold new ideas…

Rock Band (November 20): I’ve covered this one at length as well. You want to talk about a game that has aged beautifully? Rock Band is in fine-wine territory. The only hassle is finding functioning instruments to still play it with. It’s not a software problem, it’s an equipment problem. Even typing this makes me want to go play Rock Band immediately.

But even though the OXM offices had Xbox 360s on every desk, the staff were gamers who played every platform. So now let’s add in a PC exclusive, a PlayStation exclusive, and a Wii exclusive to really cement Fall 2007’s GOAT status:

Super Mario Galaxy (November 12): My personal favorite 3D Mario game was also a bold reinvention of the 3D platformer from the masters of the genre. At this point, there isn’t a superlative that hasn’t been written about Super Mario Galaxy. Heck, it was so monumental that Nintendo and Illumination based the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel around it earlier this year, almost 20 years after Galaxy debuted on the Wii.

Crysis (November 13): Let’s just say there’s a reason that “Can it run Crysis?” became a meme. This wasn’t just a technical showpiece for the ages. It was also a tremendously good first-person shooter from the team that originally created Far Cry before Ubisoft bought it and took it over.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (November 19): The first Uncharted not only launched Naughty Dog into the upper echelon of game developers in the world and eventually paved the way for a movie starring Spider-Man, it took the mantle of third-person action-adventure gold standard from Tomb Raider, the series that arguably invented the genre. You could also make the case that this was the beginning of PlayStation’s insane run of top-shelf first-party exclusives that helped propel the PS4 to nearly the same record heights as the PS2.

The fact that you can slice up the Fall of 2007 in so many different ways – best Xbox season ever, best PC season ever, best November ever – and the argument for its unmatched brilliance still holds up is iron-clad proof that it is, indisputably, the best season in video game history.

25 Years of Xbox

For more of my memories from across a quarter-century of writing about Xbox games, check out these other stories:

Efteråret 2007 Xbox 360 Halo 3 BioShock Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Mass Effect Rock Band Super Mario Galaxy

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