Plus 11 other titles on sale all week.
The Xbox Live Ultimate Sale rolls onward and, it turns out, upward - today's offerings are the stuff of pixie dust and goldmines indeed. The standout is probably The Orange Box - that's Half-Life 2 and its two add-on Episodes, Team Fortress 2 and Portal - for under a fiver. Already bought it? Perhaps I can tempt you with Forza Horizon for #163;12, or The Witcher 2 for #163;9.
But adding a multiplayer co-op mode to existing game is "not feasible".
Responding to overwhelming fan feedback, State of Decay developer Undead Labs has been hard at work figuring out a way to add a multiplayer component to the bestselling XBLA game post-launch. Recent reports suggest, however, that the outlook isn't promising.
"Don't worry, it's not you, it's us and we're on it!".
Looks like Xbox Live's run into a spot of technical bother, comrades. According to the official status page, you may experience difficulty signing into Xbox.com this evening.
DPS, healing or tanking? Choose your poison.
Bethesda's released new details of how Elder Scrolls Online skills and monsters operate, commenting that it doesn't want to impose too many role or class restrictions on players.
Co-op and multiplayer effort aims to take things up a Gear.
UFO Interactive and Tragnarion Studios shooter Scourge: Outbreak is now available to download from Xbox Live Arcade. It costs 800 MP, weighs in at 1.87GB and is a fully-featured Gears-style squad shooter with co-op and multiplayer elements.
Yet more games go cheap as the summer deepens.
The savings! WHO WILL STOP THE SAVINGS? I'm heartily sick of writing about them, but I'm certainly not sick of taking advantage of them. Here are links to the latest rather Borderlandsy Deals of the Week, which run till 8th July.
"It killed us to cut it, and we had hopes for the future.".
Undead Labs once dreamed of releasing a multiplayer component for XBLA hit State of Decay, but the odds are increasingly against it, the developer's Sanya Weathers has confessed on Twitter.
Xbox Live boss touts "cutting edge" solutions to cheating.
Speaking to OXM at Xbox One's press-only reveal in May, Microsoft's senior product manager Mike Lavin has discussed how Xbox One's online services will help multiplayer titles get round some of this gen's more common imbalances.
"I'm confident that we are going to deliver something special.".
Activision's still keen on the whole Call of Duty thing, readers, despite lavishing the lion's share of E3 limelight on Bungie's forthcoming Destiny. According to the firm's Eric Hirshberg, the franchise is still the one to beat.
Connecting console and mobile players "is really where we innovate".
You may have noticed a trend evolving in upcoming Ubisoft games. Four of their new titles - Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, The Division, Watch Dogs, and The Crew - have a second-screen mobile app, that connects to the main console game in some significant way.
"Our intent is that you will be able to play the single-player without an online connection," says Insomniac.
Insomniac's Ted Price has been speaking to Game Informer about Sunset Overdrive, the Ratchet studio's surprise Xbox One exclusive. According to he, the gaudy open worlder is designed to be connected - it'll be updated continually, and offers extensive community features - but Insomniac doesn't intend this to be a requirement.
Bulletstorm, Mass Effect, Dragon Age still cheap too.
Day 2 of the Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale is upon us, and while the offerings aren't quite as scintillating as yesterday's, there's much to like. Chiefly, two top drawer LEGO offerings and Rockstar Table Tennis.
One's flaming, the other's falling.
Morning, all. Two new screens from Battlefield 4 have been unveiled over on the Battlefield Facebook page, via Gamestop.
Five connected short stories will flesh out universe ahead of Season 2.
Are you ready for another outbreak of heart-wrenching survivalism? Because The Walking Dead: 400 Days hits Xbox Live Marketplace on Friday, and we've just taken receipt of an extremely moody launch trailer.
At least 8 GB of hard drive space required.
GTA 5 will ship on two discs for Xbox 360, Rockstar has announced, and you'll need to install the contents of disc one in order to play multiplayer without switching discs. Got 8GB of hard drive space to spare?
Rockstar promises an "incredible Online experience".
Rockstar has published a few official responses to frequently-heard Grand Theft Auto 5 questions on the Newswire. There's not a whole lot there that's new, but there is talk of the mystifying online component, which smells more and more like a standalone dealio. Why else, after all, would the functionality be granted a formal title of its own?
New fact sheet also explores world-altering decisions.
Ubisoft's aim with Tom Clancy's The Division is "is nothing short of completely changing the way people play online RPGs", according to executive producer Fredrik Rundqvist - but that doesn't make it a complete break from the MMOs of old. A new factsheet (via Electronic Theatre) offers a tad more detail on the game's plague-ridden, war-torn New York, which is apparently home to a bustling trade in guns and gadgets.
"We are more focused than ever," says Andrew Wilson.
Last August, EA's Frank Gibeau confessed to Bloomsberg that his company had a "rocky start" on Xbox 360 and PS3, but added that it would dominate the next generation thanks to DICE's battle(field)-proven Frostbite technology. In an interview published today, EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson has said more or less the same of the Ignite Engine, which powers the next gen version of FIFA 14 among other Xbox One games.
Shiny shiny pictures await, through the jump.
Is your living room coffee table insufficiently equipped with bling? Do you keep tripping over it in low light conditions, for want of some incomprehensibly shiny piece of electronics, shimmering in the gloom like a small, ergonomically friendly lighthouse?
CD Projekt RED "talking" to Microsoft on how to make cross-generation save transfer possible.
The continuation of Gwynbleidd's story on the Xbox One may take the decisions you made on the Xbox 360 into consideration, developers CD Projekt RED has hinted.