Independent extreme sports games developer Easy Day Studios announced that their upcoming skateboarding game, Skater XL will release on the Xbox One in 2020.

Launched into Early Access for PC last December, the game has already seen players logging thousands of hours. The game has spawned a robust modding community of over 30,000 players on Discord, with players sharing mods for everything from skateboard deck designs, clothing, new maps, and gameplay tweaks.

With an emphasis on physics-based board control and freedom of expression, the team has worked closely with the skateboarding community to capture the feel and experience of skateboarding to make it accessible for anyone with a passion for skateboarding culture and/or game genre.

Incorporating extensive motion-capture, Easy Day built a custom animation system that composes real-time animations on the fly (versus canned animations), which are under the user’s control moment-to-moment, ensuring that no two tricks or sequences look alike. This gives the player freedom to be as creative as they like in putting together tricks and lines. A process known as photogrammetry was used to capture the new character model and a variety of gear, clothing and accessories for character customization.

Skater XL is already racking up an impressive library of online videos, thanks to the community-created Replay Editor mod, and the feature will be incorporated into the game’s release. Much in the tradition of homemade videos in the skateboarding community, players can make their own video edits, mashups and highlight reels.

In addition to announcing the game’s first console platform, new screenshots reveal a second skateable environment modeled after a real skatepark in Southern California, and the new customizable character.

SKATER XL will be released for the Xbox One in 2020.

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'Smoots Summer Games' is now available for digital pre-order and pre-download On Xbox One.

Smoot Summer Games is a sports arcade game for 1-4 players where you can play 18 athletics events. Play with your favorite Smoot character in practice, Special Challenge and Championship game modes. Smoots Summer Games is the perfect game to play with your friends and family.

Developed by Kaneda Games and published by JanduSoft, "Smoots Summer Games" will be avaliable on August 21, 2019.

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File Size: 805.23 MB
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FMV/Adventure hybrid 'Headspun', a game about recovery, discovery, and the ongoing battle between logic and emotion, is now available for digital pre-order and pre-download on Xbox One.

After waking from a five week coma, Theo Kavinsky finds his life in disrepair. With no memory of the accident, it’s up to Ted and Teddy – the conscious and subconscious voices in his head – to work out what happened, and put his life back on track.

Headspun Features:

Developed by Superstring and published by Wales Interactive, Headspun is heading to Xbox One on August 28, 2019.

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Price: $11.99
File Size: 4.36 GB
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Need For Speed HEAT (@NeedForSpeed) is now available for digital pre-order and pre-download on Xbox One.

Need for Speed Heat sends fans to Palm City, a brand-new open world where street racers have gathered to make their names known. By day, players compete in the Speedhunters Showdown, a sanctioned competition where they earn Bank to customise and upgrade their garage of high-performance cars. At night, players risk it all to build their Rep in underground races where a rogue police task force roams the streets, ready to take racers down and swipe all their earnings. The roads, the risks, and the rides never end in this street racer where a player can roll deep with their crew, build their garage full of hot cars, and make the city their nonstop playground.

There are 2 digital editions of Need for Speed Heat available to pre-order:

• Need for Speed Heat Standard Edition ($59.99/£59.99/€69.99/AU$89.95) - PRE-ORDER the Standard Edition and get Need for Speed Heat with the K.S Edition Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X as a starter car.
  
  
• Need for Speed Heat Deluxe Edition ($69.99/£69.99/€79.99/AU$109.95) - PRE-ORDER the Deluxe Edition and get noticed in Need for Speed Heat with a K.S Edition starter car, 3 additional K.S Edition cars unlocked through progression, 4 exclusive character outfits and a REP and BANK boost.

Need for Speed Heat will be available for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on November 8, 2019.

Jump into the game first on 5th November, 2019 with EA Access and Origin Access Basic to enjoy up to 10 hours of play time as part of the Play First Trial, or sign-up for Origin Access Premier to get full access on PC.

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Watch Gamescom 2019 (@Gamescom) from the world’s largest gaming convention in Cologne, Germany with Inside Xbox on Monday, August 19, at 5 p.m. CEST / 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT.

With the release of Gears 5 less than a month away, Inside Xbox will unveil the game’s Horde Mode! Microsoft has announced that they will also premiere nearly a dozen never-before-seen trailers and have big news and reveals on Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Wasteland 3, Empire of Sin, Greedfall, The Surge 2, Vigor, Metro Exodus, Blair Witch, Xbox Game Pass, X019, new accessories, and much, much more.

Watch live next Monday on Mixer, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, or check out highlights and the full show on-demand after it airs.

Inside Xbox Attendance & Xbox Open Doors

Fans have the chance to see Inside Xbox live on Monday at the Gloria Theater in Cologne. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis and you need to be at least 18 years and older to attend (ID will be checked at the entrance). Additional details on how to attend will be posted on Xbox Dach’s Twitter and Facebook accounts later this week. The Gloria will also host Xbox Open Doors from Wednesday August 21 through Friday August 23 from 5-10PM local time each night, with games, gear, tournaments and more. Additional Xbox Open Doors details will also be available on Xbox Dach’s social channels.

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