Fancy a Magic Missile with your Potent Grog Nozzle?.
Borderlands 2's latest DLC, Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon's Keep, is a parody of table-top role-playing games. Fittingly, many of its new grenades and guns are named for the more popular spells in the D&D arsenal. Have a look. Nobody tell the lawyers.
"We're not going to just proceed blindly with something that isn't good enough.".
Bethesda VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines has finally broken the company's silence over why there has been next to no official word on Prey 2 for over a year.
Bungie details how latest creation's always-online features work.
Bungie's lead engineer Chris Butcher has been chatting to Joystiq about Destiny's vast array of mostly invisible online features, which conspire to make online environments feel like single player worlds.
Karl-Magnus Troedsson spills many a bean.
Now this is what I'm talking about, DICE. Not welcome but unsubstantiated assurances that Battlefield 4's single player won't be tragically rigid, but full disclosure on the game's multiplayer, which takes the whole concept of "earth-shattering spectacle" and, well, shatters it. Speaking to MP1st at E3, the studio's Karl-Magnus Troedsson has gone into detail about new and refined mechanics, modes and features.
Gears DLC, Spartacus, D&D, Microsoft Studios sale.
I can't tell you what a relief it is, right now, to write about some good old-fashioned, inoffensive current generation games. The past week or two has been a cavalcade of nastiness where the good ship Xbox One's concerned - hopefully, Microsoft is taking notes, and has already appointed a Vice-President of Being Down With The Kids to address matters. I'd recommend enlisting that Aisha Tyler lady from Ubisoft's E3 presser - she seems to be on the level. Anyhoo, on with the Marketplace discounts and additions.
New Xbox 360 is mostly a cosmetic revamp.
What kind of man would slice into a pristine new videogame console and gloat over its innards, doubtless rubbing his hands gleefully like a latter-day Jack the Ripper? The kind of man who works at iFixit, apparently.
Tanimura talks about trimming the fat so players can get to the good stuff.
So then: still think black phantom invasions were tough? Still having recurring bad dreams involving that devilish duo Ornstein and Smough? Reckon Sif or The Four Kings were as bad as it gets? Brother, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Get your filthy hands on a Ray Gun Mark II.
Next generation consoles come, next generation consoles go, and the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC train just keeps on chugging. CODOnline has spotted a new "Vengeance" pack (via VG247) which purports to add the usual slew of maps and Zombies features.
Cloud computing functions represent additional muscle.
Microsoft's Phil Spencer made a bit of a boo-boo on the Jimmy Fallon show recently, commenting that the Xbox One represents a threefold leap in power over Xbox 360. Only threefold, Phil? But we thought it had 8GB of RAM versus the Xbox 360's 512MB. What gives?
"It may lead to some very influential changes in gaming.".
Will Xbox One's cloud computing support render future console purchases needless? Will cloud computing triple or quadruple the console's built-in processing power? These are questions we'd love to know the answer to.
Zombie-dodging title is the fastest selling original game ever on XBLA.
The undead hordes of indie title State of Decay show no signs of shuffling to a halt, as the game has just surpassed half a million downloads on XBLA.
It's wired to the controller, as before.
The next generation of Xbox gaming headsets is black - blacker than a cloudy night in Hades. In less dramatic news, it also looks quite a lot like the current generation of Xbox gaming headsets.
Mattrick: analysts had forecast higher cost.
Xbox One's #163;429/$499 price tag is perfectly fair and justified, argues Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business president Don Mattrick, because the console and associated services represent "thousands of dollars" in value.
Ubisoft touts online single player features, new Game Lab.
Assassin's Creed 4's multiplayer will kick all that's gone before into touch - or rather, to pick a more appropriate metaphor, it'll stab everything that's gone before in the gizzard, then hurry off down a side alley, whistling innocently.
"Skills for Kills, Agent. Skills for Kills.".
When Microsoft aired the new Xbox Live storefront at Xbox One's reveal in May, discerning eyes were immediately drawn to the green Agility Orb tile in bottom left. Was this the first official hint at an impending Crackdown 3 announcement? Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer isn't saying, but he has just tweeted that it's a franchise he'd "like to see return".
"We're calling in the troops to get going on solving this problem immediately".
State of Decay's first patch was released last week, but an application error meant that potentially game-breaking bugs went unfixed. Any players who didn't encounter problems have their "good luck" to thank for it, apparently, rather than developer Undead Labs.
Next gen leap doesn't apply to game prices, it seems.
Amazon's decision to sell Xbox One games for #163;90 is not, thankfully, reflective of official Microsoft pricing. Speaking to Kotaku, the manufacturer has confirmed that it'll stick to the same old RRP of $59.99 for first party releases, with pricepoints for non-US territories to follow.
Oodles of add-ons for your helicopters, tanks, boats.
A bunch of new Battlefield 4 screenshots have surfaced, care of shady NeoGAF sorts, revealing new and, in many cases, returning customisation options for the game's multiplayer vehicles.
And Xbox One games will be playable long term, despite connection requirements.
There was a bit of a kerfuffle on Twitter over the weekend. Actually, there's never not a kerfuffle going on over on Twitter, so I'd better narrow that down. The issue in question involved Xbox Live bans on the new Xbox One console, and whether a ban would mean that a player would be locked out of their online games collection.
"Stay tuned," says Microsoft Studios boss.
If you're gloomily looking forward to the demise of your Minecraft Xbox 360 world once the Xbox One version appears, be of glad heart - Microsoft Studios head Phil Spencer is in talks with 4J Studios about enabling save transfers, having declared the idea unworkable in an interview with OXM last week.