"It's that weird kind of first date thing going on.".
Infinity Ward designed Call of Duty: Ghosts to run on the Xbox One in the first place, then considered which features would make sense on current generation platforms, Infinity Ward's Mark Rubin told OXM's Aoife at the game's multiplayer reveal event in Los Angeles last night.
Providing the publisher takes part in Microsoft's Season Pass Guarantee program.
Microsoft has announced the Season Pass Guarantee program, which allows you to use the same Season Pass to access content for both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of a game - providing the publisher in question agrees to participate.
"Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor" trademarked by Tolkien rights holders.
It's been a while since we laid hands on a Lord of the Rings title - well, it's been a while relative to the rate at which they were knocking them out a few years back. Kotaku's snoop-for-hire Superannuation has uncovered job listings and trademark registrations that suggest a new Tolkien game is in the works, possibly at Monolith - developer of flawed Xbox Live Arcade MOBA Guardians of Middle-Earth.
Get yourself some exclusive DLC, a head-mounted camera and an OST.
Activision has announced and detailed two Call of Duty: Ghosts Special Editions, via Dan Amrich. He used to write for the US edition of OXM, you know. How things change.
Microsoft to give those affected a free game as recompense.
Microsoft has announced that Xbox One will miss its November 2013 release in eight of the previously announced 21 launch markets - that's Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Can it oust Minecraft and Black Ops 2 from atop Xbox Live?.
Thought you were done with videogame news for the day? Think again. Activision will formally unveil Call of Duty: Ghosts' multiplayer component in Los Angeles at 6.30pm sharp UK time, and the publisher has been kind enough to furnish us with a livestream video, embedded below.
Might want to switch your phone off before visiting this place.
Ubisoft has released a new Watch Dogs gameplay walkthrough, the first of a series, titled "Hacking is your Weapon". Watch the video, and you'll learn that guns, cars and wicked telescopic nightsticks are also your weapons, and in a more direct sense. Hacking certainly helps, though.
"We want time investment to be rewarding, but 'grind' is a bad word," says Massive.
Time for another in our (inexhaustible?) series of insights from Tom Clancy's The Division game director Ryan Bernard, who promises that the Xbox One and 2014-bound always-online shooter won't pad out playtime like certain older, less respectable MMOs on PC.
First episode in Fables comicbook series titled "Faith".
Telltale has released the first trailer for The Wolf Among Us, an episodic adaptation of the Fables comic book series from Bill Willingham, in which a feral-looking chap known as Bigby Wolf attempts to police fairytale ghetto Fabletown. Watch out for the dirty fingernails. They're a bit of a clue.
"We can't prevent misuse of the product, but we can certainly anticipate it.".
Worried that Xbox 360's dreaded Red Ring of Death circus will recur with Xbox One? Worry no more. Much like a PC, the console can detect when it's getting a little too hot for comfort, and will adjust its own power usage to compensate.
Rockstar talks moving past "our first headlong jump into current-gen consoles".
Here's another not-so-little snippet from that Buzzfeed interview with Rockstar North's art director Aaron Garbut I wrote up just now, about how GTA 5 and GTA 4 differ. In short, the new game's world is both larger and far more detailed than that of its illustrious predecessor.
"The trick is to compromise on the right things.".
Buzzfeed's got a rather good, if rather manicured interview with Rockstar North's art director Aaron Garbut about Grand Theft Auto 5, that backwater open worlder nobody's heard of. Within, Garbut explains how Rockstar's gone about creating its grandest, most ambitious open world yet from a technical standpoint - and what it had to sacrifice in the process.
It'll be the "biggest booth we've ever had", says Phil Spencer.
Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer and honorary military man Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb have been chatting about Xbox One's Gamescom line-up, via the Major's latest podcast. The conversation plays it safe for the most part, but there's talk of a "unique exclusive" and "Europe's biggest franchise", to debut during the manufacturer's presentation on Tuesday morning.
Check out the vehicles, see the sights, run somebody over.
Rockstar has released 12 new Grand Theft Auto 5 screenshots alongside a tourist's guide to Los Santos and Blaine County, the game's larger-than-ever-before setting. Slip right down the page there for details of the economy, public transport, local politics and where best to shoot a wildcat.
"It's definitely on our list. One of the many things that are on our list.".
Payday 2 will receive a year's worth of downloadable content, Overkill's David Goldfarb has told OXM, and that could extend to female characters.
More deals coming throughout the day - stay tuned.
This week's Deal of the Week is a motley, but excellent assortment. Leading the charge is Deus Ex: Human Revolution, now #163;8.99 for Gold subscribers, accompanied by three Hitman games for #163;15 or so and Just Cause 2 for #163;8.99. The deals apply from today till 19th August.
Bring The Knife of Dunwall's "twisted narrative" to a close.
Dishonored's (final?) story add-on The Brigmore Witches is now available to download from Xbox Live. It costs 800 MP, weighs in at 1.94 GB, and concludes the tempestuous tale begun by The Knife of Dunwall. Queue up your download here.
But isn't necessarily set in the same universe.
Tom Clancy's The Division was already shaping up nicely, and now I have this appealing image in my head, an image of Sam Fisher clambering all over disease-shot New York like some sort of really understated Tarzan. The MMO shooter isn't necessarily set in the same universe as other Tom Clancy titles, game director Ryan Bernard has told OXM, but the developer aims to reference them nonetheless.
"It's important that more companies get broader viewpoints from within their own teams".
David Gaider, lead narrative designer for BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, has been a vocal supporter of sexual equality within games ever since making romance options openly available to all orientations in the Dragon Age franchise.
"Our plan is to have new content coming out on a really frequent basis.".
The Elder Scrolls Online for Xbox One is going to be a regular content banquet, buried in a mountain of presents, straddling a digital geyser. Er, that's to say it'll get hefty post-release digital support, rather than that it's a mass of soggy food and paper. ZeniMax Online's Paul Sage has discussed update plans with Shacknews, and revealed a little more about the plot.