Category Archives: Microsoft

Saints Row 4 is the stupidest game you’ll play this year. Phil Owen spent some of E3 punching haters in the dick and speaking to Volition’s creative director. As you do.

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Fallout 4 is the rumor du jour today, with Bubblenews reporting that Bethesda showed the game behind-closed-doors to select press at E3 last week. Follow through the break for more on this, along with your daily dose of salt.

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Microsoft has updated it offerings coming to XBL Marketplace, and it kicks off today with deals on PopCap games, a Sega Publisher Sale, and a Black Ops Sale and more. Full update below.

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Mars: War Logs was released in late April on PC and the console versions were to follow soon, however, developer Spider Studio held off onthe release in order to fix English localization issues which plagued the PC release.

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GAME has announced it will open an Xbox specific store in London in order to showcase Xbox related products.

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Microsoft has said Fable 3 will be free until June 30 through Xbox Live Gold, and it is not part of its Games with Gold incentive which was announced during Mircosoft’s E3 briefing last week. Come July 1, Gold subs will get two free games as per the announcement: Assassin’s Creed 2 and Halo 3. Microsoft hasn’t said whether both games will be released in tangent or not, but upon availability, the digital download will be the players to keep as long as they wish “no matter what.” Via Gamespot.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is heading to PS4 and Xbox One some time after the game hits current-gen formats on November 5. However, Infinity Ward’s executive producer Mark Rubin has said that the creation of next-gen AI is taking longer than the game’s visuals due to the studio not having final consoles yet.

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Killer Instinct has received a bit of flack since it was announced for Xbox One, mainly because it’s now a free-to-play game that charges players for additional character. Everyone gets Jago for free, but developer Double Helix Games has argued that the game’s fight roster has been kept small because gamers don’t want a lot of fighters.

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State of Decay is the monstrously fast-selling XBLA title from Undead Labs, and although they’ve done gangbusters already, the team isn’t stopping just yet. The studio has confirmed it is working on a pure sandbox survival mode and a Steam edition as well.

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FIFA 14 is heading to PC this year, but it won’t be powered by EA’s next-gen Ignite Engine. The reason, the publisher says, is that too many people still have low-spec rigs that can’t handle the PS4 and Xbox One version of the game.

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Xbox One was showcased on Jimmy Fallon recently, and during the show Microsoft’s Phil Spencer said the console was three times as powerful as Xbox 360. Given the leap of 512MB RAM to 8GB those maths simply don’t stack up. Spencer has now taken to Twitter to correct what he said.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2′s third DLC pack is rumoured to be called ‘Vengeance’, as suggested by a piece of promotional art spotted online.

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Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment is using Xbox One and Windows 8′s cloud computing technology to enhance its debut shooter. Announced at E3, the game is heavily interwoven with online aspects, and studio founder Vince Zampella has discussed the power of the cloud in a new interview.

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Microsoft’s ecosystem across Windows and Xbox formats isn’t encouraging the influx of indie-to-small developments as it should, former Microsoft Game Studios exec Peter Molyneux has cautioned.

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has strategy fans in a cold sweat over whether or not 2K Marin can deliver a tactical experience. VG247′s Dave Cook talks with the studio to get some clear answers.

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Crimson Dragon is heading to Xbox One after a long development schedule, but Panzer Dragoon creator Yukio Futatsugi hopes it will be successful enough that he can make an RPG follow-up. Fans of Panzer Dragoon Saga might want to hold on to something.

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Avalanche Studios’ Mad Max utilises an actor with an American accent, something which has disappointed fans of the Australian-grown film franchise. Ausgamers asked the developer about the choice and was told that the team wanted someone “generic”, so it has opened a petition to request an Australian actor be brought on board. You know what to do. Mad Max is coming to PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in 2014.

Dark Souls 2 director Yui Tanimura is pleased with the new graphical flourishes From Software is able to implement now that it has upgraded the RPG’s engine.

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If you get caught by guards in Thief, you won’t just be able to hole up in a nearby bin and wait out the alert; if you don’t know the level layouts you could be in a lot of trouble.

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Microsoft has announced that State of Decay holds the somewhat mysterious title of “fastest selling original game ever on Xbox Live Arcade”.

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