"Those that have followed this studio know they have bigger plans for the franchise.".
Microsoft Studios big cheese Phil Spencer has said he'd like to release recent XBLA hit State of Decay on Xbox One, though in what capacity remains to be seen.
Hack or be hacked with Aiden and friends.
At a hands-on preview with Watch Dogs in Paris, Ed chatted to the game's creative director Jonathan Morin, who teased aspects of the game's multiplayer mode, but refused to give too much away as a lot of its allure lies in its secrecy.
"They've made it painfully clear they don't want my ilk on their platform," says Fish.
Fez 2 won't appear on Xbox platforms till Microsoft allows developers to self-publish on Xbox Live, Polytron's Phil Fish has announced via Polygon.
Get access to swashbuckling single and multiplayer content.
Details on Assassin's Creed 4's planned Season Pass content have surfaced online at Best Buy, spotted by the eagle eyes over at AllGamesBeta.
Players will contend with time limits, inventory management, economics and more.
Claire Farron was a bit of a glum girl to begin with, but if recent reports on her upcoming game Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII are anything to go by, more complex and punishing mechanics may threaten to make her gloomier still.
It's "great news for gamers around the globe and the industry as a whole".
UK retailers GAME has joined GameStop in applauding Microsoft's DRM and always-online policy reversals, which mean that customers will be able to buy, play, and resell their Xbox One disc-based games exactly as they do on the Xbox 360.
"Community will dictate what retail looks like, not the retailer.".
GAME has launched the UK's first dedicated Xbox concept store at BOXPARK in Shoreditch, London today. The store, which features playable gaming pods, head-to-head challenge areas and a wide selection of Xbox hardware and software, is being described by GAME as a new milestone in the evolution of their brand presence.
"There's something here that's really powerful we can use.".
Eurogamer's got a good piece on Xbox One's vaunted cloud functionality, from which I do hereby extract the following choice observations from Titanfall's lead artist Joel Emslie, and Watch Dogs senior producer Dominic Guay.
"Folks need to understand that we have a very certain way of going about things.".
Bethesda's Pete Hines has cautioned fans to go easy on the old Fallout 4 drum, telling Polygon that worlds as vast and content-packed as the Capital Wasteland don't exactly grow on trees.
Execs chip in on the conversation via Twitter.
Microsoft execs are all warmth and humility on Twitter this morning, as the ramifications of Xbox One's online DRM reversal sink in. They did it for you, people - and for cute little puppies, and for mom's apple pie.
Say goodbye to Family Sharing too.
Well that was quite an almighty turnaround last night, wasn't it? The internet has spoken, and Microsoft has listened, and it seems like now we're all a little torn as to whether we've won a great victory or taken a step backwards in the race to the next generation.
Retailer happy that Microsoft "understands the importance of the pre-owned market".
GameStop has responded to Microsoft's rather shocking U-turn on Xbox One's game licensing policies. Unsurprisingly, the US mega-retailer is happy to hear that its lucrative game trade-ins business will no longer be subject to digitally imposed restrictions.
"Play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360".
Well, here's a thing. Microsoft has removed the always-online requirement from Xbox One, and the restrictions on disc-based games, following community feedback.
Are you Team Doggy Live or Team Doggy Die?.
Let's be honest: ever since Riley was first introduced at the Call of Duty: Ghosts gameplay debut in May, we've all assumed that the sword of Damocles is dangling over the doomed little doggy.
Pre-E3 shot of Uncle Pey'j was "misinterpreted", says CEO.
Earlier today we wrote about Half-Life 3 and how it's possibly a Real Thing, that will be playable on a videogame console at some point before you expire of grief and frustration. Now, here's your routine update on Beyond Good & Evil 2. Once upon a time we'd have dug up something on Mirror's Edge 2 to round the afternoon off, but that particular nugget of vapourware is vapourware no longer, thank the gods.
Loads of fighters, platformers and arcade hits discounted.
In case you missed yesterday's Xbox Live update, Sega's got the mother of all Marketplace sales on the boil, spanning two decades of the good (Virtua Fighter 5!), the slightly less good (Sonic Unleashed!) and the ugly (Condemned: Criminal Origins! But, you know, in a fun way). Like an absolute bloody hero, I've rounded all the reductions up for your attention.
Naming conventions, next gen advantages, platform ports and more.
First announced at E3 2006, the title formerly known as Final Fantasy Versus 13 underwent official transformation at E3 last week, re-emerging as the action-heavy Final Fantasy 15.
"It certainly does open up opportunities for sure," observes studio GM.
BioWare continues to say not terribly much about Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, which has been pushed back from launch this year to release in late 2014.
Killer is Dead developer affirms his support for the platform.
Grasshopper Manufacture's Goichi Suda - creator of Shadows of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw and the upcoming bizarro slash 'em up Killer is Dead - has spoken of his hope for the future of Xbox in his native Japan, where support for the brand has traditionally been, shall we say, muted.
Care for another ride on Gordon Freeman's roundabout of hype and despair?.
Shocking news: Valve appears to have demonstrated that it's physically capable of typing the words "Half-Life 3", in what's surely the most concrete piece of Half-Life intel since, oh, 2009. Respected fansite ValveTime claims to have secured temporary access to the innards of Jira, Valve's internal bug-tracking and management platform, and has discovered mailing lists that refer to Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3 and Source Engine 2.