Developer posts pic after cover blown online.
We didn't report this earlier as it seemed a little suspect, but Xbox One box art for Quantum Break surfaced on cdon.com and NeoGAF.
Get Call of Duty, FIFA 14 for twice the price of current gen.
Xbox One games are at least twice as powerful as Xbox 360 games, people. They must be, or Amazon UK wouldn't be charging over twice the price for them. Colour the details "strictly provisional" and "highly unappetising" for the moment.
Green Man Gaming boss feels Microsoft has been "unfairly slammed" for lack of info.
A number of UK retailers have thrown their weight behind Xbox One, in the face of on-going upset about Microsoft's mostly unexplained approach to pre-owned software, allegations that Kinect 2.0 breaches the user's privacy, and that once-a-day internet connection requirement. MCV's rounded everything up for your inspection.
But company CEO sympathetic to complaints about lack of games at reveal.
Christofer Sundberg, co-founder and CEO of Avalanche Studios, has expressed his opinion on the Xbox One console, whilst also revealing that his team have been working with the next-gen tech for "quite some time".
Our most ambitious game yet, says Remedy.
Speaking to Polygon, Microsoft Studios' corporate vice president Phil Spencer has discussed how Microsoft and Remedy are "trying to push the boundaries of how people think of live action and gaming today", echoing a recent Reddit AMA by developer Sam Lake.
Manufacturer is refining indie game selection process.
The big M's fightback against the unjustified slur "Xbox One hates indiez" continues. Microsoft Studios corporate vice-president Phil Spencer has told Polygon that, contrary to internet speculation, the publisher is a huge fan of independent and indie-styled software, and you can expect plenty of the stuff next gen.
New controllers survive upwards of 3 million button presses.
Microsoft claims that Xbox One controllers will last you seven to ten years, if not longer. Provided you don't hurl it anywhere in a fit of rage, the pad may just last you the entirety of next gen's proposed 10 year lifespan.
"We're essentially just moving our client between consoles.".
This is rather an old story, but I consider it highly relevant to your interests, reader. After all, everybody who reads OXM likes Defiance, right? That's why we have that big old forum thread on the subject. Good news: the Trion Worlds MMO shooter is probably going to rock up on Xbox One.
UPDATE: Mirror's Edge 2 help page spotted at EA.com.
When a listing for Mirror's Edge 2 appeared on the German Amazon site not so long ago, we didn't dare report on it for fear that our fragile hopes would be promptly and cruelly shattered. But now that a listing has also cropped up on Amazon's Italian branch too, we're thinking that the existence of the much-longed for sequel might not be so far-fetched after all.
Plus, South Park: Stick of Truth is still alive.
Huzzah! After much speculation and much uncertainty, we can confirm that South Park: The Stick of Truth will indeed be among Ubisoft's shopfront titles at this year's E3, along with mysterious next gen projects.
Spin it right round.
Some clever individual has created a 3D model of the Xbox One console, along with the new Kinect and controller, using 3D modelling and publishing tool Sketchfab.
"Indie creators exist right inside our ecosystem," claims Mattrick.
It was widely reported last week that Xbox One would continue Microsoft's existing Xbox Live publishing policies, which has led some to accuse the manufacturer of snubbing independent game developers. In an interview with Kotaku, Xbox head honcho Don Mattrick has categorically stated that this is not the case.
"The key to this, from a legal perspective, will be transparency.".
We've just been sent a nice, smiley email by Vanessa Barnett, a technology & media partner at "full service law firm" Charles Russell LLP, on the subject of a Microsoft patent that theoretically empowers Xbox One to monitor your TV consumption. According to Barnett, uproar over the implications for privacy in the mainstream press is unfounded - providing, that is, the functionality is both transparent and optional.
New features revealed, but "there's a long way to go" till release.
Shut up with your next gen console nonsense already - 4J's released more details of the forthcoming Minecraft Xbox 360 update 12. Actually, they've tweeted a picture with new features cunningly hidden away within it. Go on, hit the expand image button. What can you see? Because I can see jungle and Redstone blocks.
"You're probably thinking of Resident Evil 4, right?".
The Evil Within will reportedly be Shinji Mikami's last project as a director, so it's only right that he's returning to where it all began for him, attempting to once again reinvent the genre he helped define. At a recent preview event, producer Masato Kimura spoke to the assembled press on the game's influences, its aims, and its particular brand of psychological horror.
A continually updated list of where to buy it cheapest.
Hankering for an Xbox One? Alas, Microsoft has yet to nail down a release date and price, but rest assured that the second it does, you'll read about it here - on our Xbox One pre-order hub.
"It's a fine line when you define a new engine, and augmentations to an engine.".
Call of Duty: Ghosts runs on a brand new game engine, eschewing the much-rewritten Infinity Ward tech that has powered every instalment since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Oh no it doesn't! Oh yes it does! Good grief, another one of those messaging mix-ups appears to be happening. Let's take a look at the nitty gritty.
Could this be one of Microsoft's 15 exclusives?.
When a listing for Mirror's Edge 2 appeared on the German Amazon site not so long ago, we didn't dare report on it for fear that our fragile hopes would be promptly and cruelly shattered. But now that a listing has also cropped up on Amazon's Italian branch too, we're thinking that the existence of the much-longed for sequel might not be so far-fetched after all.
"Mood is positive, good to be able to start sharing what we are doing," says Greenberg.
Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has taken to Twitter to thank the gaming community for its, ahem, forthrightness about Xbox One, and promised that the firm will clear up unanswered questions at E3 in a couple of weeks.
Latest Deal of the Week is the stuff of hardcore daydreams.
The latest Deal of the Week is live on Live, and I rather like the cut of its gib. Smartly outfitted cover shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and its various DLC packs have been price-slashed to the tune of 60-67% off. Dark Souls has also been chopped by variable sums, and you'll get the Artorias of the Abyss DLC for 50% off.