Warhammer 40K Darktide dev reveals why the Xbox version took so long – and the personal pain of "Xbox when?"

It seems like Warhammer 40,000: Darktide never truly got its moment in the sun. Its late 2022 release was highly-anticipated, but circumstances leading up to the launch, the subsequent (and seemingly indefinite) delay of the Xbox version sort of made it start on the back foot. It didn’t help that, once players got their hands on the game, they ran into myriad problems: performance issues on PC, lack of cross-play between Steam and Game Pass, and a stacked in-game store with the same sort of prices you’d see in a free-to-play game were just some of them. All of it painted a really grim, cynical picture – especially coming from Fatshark, one of the most player-friendly developers in the business. But it’s been nearly a year, and Darktide is a much more confident game, and a more a compelling product. Read more