Headlines for December 5th, 2024

Every day after Headlines airs I’ll give a text-based rundown of the show with links to each of our sources used. For those who prefer to read and to give thanks to all the hard work people around the industry are doing. Here are the video game headlines for December 5th, 2024.

It’s Indiana Jones launch day (for early access)

One of our topics was about everyone’s favorite murdering archaeologist:

Today, developer MachineGames and publisher Bethesda Softworks dropped the PC specifications sheet for their coming first-person adventure game ‘Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’. Alongside that, we also get a look at how big the game will be on both PC and Xbox consoles when Indiana’s latest adventure launches next week (this week for folks who buy the higher tiers). Check out all of that below along with a brief tidbit on our hand-on preview of the game a month or so back. The game will be a bit taxing, but nothing a few settings changes won’t fix.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will also launch Day One on Game Pass for PC and Xbox on the 9th of December—and later on PlayStation 5 consoles in 2025.

Indy’s latest journey will take you to stunning locations around the globe on the hunt for answers to one of history’s biggest mysteries. Make sure you’re ready to dive into the adventure by checking out the Minimum, Recommended and Ultra PC specs above.

On Xbox the base game install size at launch is roughly 87 GB (with some variation), along with an optional Higher Resolution Textures package which is 45 GB (with some variation). The Higher Resolution Textures package auto-installs on Xbox Series X by default.

Earlier this month, the lovely folks at Bethesda invited me along to a recreation of Marshall College, except this one was in London. I got to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous archaeologist and finally get some game time for this Indiana Jones and the Great Circle hands-on preview.

I’ve got to give the Bethesda team some serious credit for taking the time to really make us feel like we’re in the world of Indiana Jones. They transformed a neo-gothic mansion built in 1895 into a pretty convincing facsimile of Indy’s ‘Marshall College’ – as seen in films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade.

After a short presentation (featuring a new updated featurette that I hope you folks get to see sooner rather than later) from Machine Games developer and Creative Director Axel Torvenius, we were sat, lecture hall style – to get stuck in.

The preview focused on 3 different locations from the game – one, a journey to the Vatican to meet with a contact there, as well as the larger area of Gizeh, Egypt.

But where better to start our adventure, than in Marshall College itself? Cont…