More rumours as to next gen Xbox connected features surface.
Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth and Bioware designer Manveer Heir have had a bit of a spat on Twitter (thanks Gematsu) about Ye Olde Always-Online Gaming, beginning with Orth's declaration that he doesn't "get the drama around having an 'always on' console".
Reboot developer addresses the obvious comparison.
Thief isn't Dishonored, but you could be forgiven for thinking so on the strength of the screenshots alone. Sinister man with funny eyes? Check. First-person throttling? Check. Brothel infiltration level? Check. Absolute mastery of the horizontal and vertical plane? Check and indeed mate. But despite Arkane's indebtedness to the original Thief, there's more clear, blue water between Dishonored and Eidos Montreal's reboot than appearances suggest.
4J investigating the problem.
Stone the crows! And other relevant avian wildlife. Microsoft has released Minecraft Xbox 360 update 9 a day earlier than advertised, meaning you can jump onto your Xbox 360 right this moment and commence smacking dragons around with item frames. Or if you prefer, sofas.
CD Projekt tracks tiny aspects of player behaviour.
Hear that, Mass Effect 3? Put that in your tricoloured pipe and smoke it. Speaking to Polygon (via Joystiq), CD Projekt's Adam Badowski has revealed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will track and account for over 300 minor and major variations of player behaviour when generating the game's 36 concluding "world states".
Project reset rumoured following id Software management problems.
Id Software's long-awaited Doom 4 is being rebuilt for next generation consoles, multiple insiders have told Kotaku, following five years of mismanagement and an ultimatum from parent company ZeniMax.
"Connected and social components" will define next gen leap.
This news update comes to you from the front car of a speeding train, flying through English countryside for Reasons of Mystery. What could I be going to see? While you ponder, read Ubisoft Montreal boss Yannis Mallat's thoughts on the next generation Xbox.
A great disturbance in the Force.
Disney has announced that it is formally closing the historic LucasArts development studio, following its acquisition of LucasFilm last year. The studio's two announced games, Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault, have been cancelled.
Get your hands on Batman, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor.
Warner Bros and NetherRealm have released a demo for upcoming superheroic brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us on Xbox Live Marketplace, which is exclusive to Gold subscribers. It weighs in at 459.32 MB. Hey Superman! My fist craves a prolonged and intimate rendezvous with your face!
"Maybe we don't need forty first-person shooters," suggests Avalanche.
If you want a sense of how ridiculously high-risk so-called "triple-A" development has become, consider this: Square Enix has branded Tomb Raider a failure off the back of 3.4 million sales (not including sales from digital distribution). According to Stefan Ljungqvist, CEO of Avalanche Studios, ludicrous break-even points will result in fewer big budget blockbusters over the next few years, and that's absolutely fantastic if you're a fan of diversity.
ASA upholds customer complaint, disclaimers added to footage.
Aliens: Colonial Marines - the controversy magnet that carries on giving. As detailed on Reddit, SEGA has conceded to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency that online demo footage for the much-maligned game doesn't "accurately reflect" its quality, following a customer complaint. As a consequence, said videos will include disclaimers from here on out.
Reports indicate Microsoft are sticking to what they know.
According to a recent article on Kotaku, prototypes for the next-gen Xbox are making very questionable fashion choices.
Retailer CEO doesn't believe next gen consoles will undersell current gen.
Gamestop CEO Mark Raines is a hallowed person, touched by the divine; like EA's Frank Gibeau, he's among the Elect who have Lain Their Mortal Eyes upon the next generation Xbox console. First impressions? All good, it seems.
Ain't no rest for the wicked.
The latest update for Borderlands 2 goes live today, and with it comes a brand new Ultimate Vault Hunter mode, unlocked once a character completes the main story missions in True Vault Hunter Mode and reaches level 50.
Move over Mozart.
The Classic FM Hall Of Fame, an annual chart compiled by listeners of the traditionally stiff-upper-lipped radio station, has recently been published, and games have managed to make their presence very much known. 2013's ranking sees several gaming soundtracks achieve their highest ever position thanks to hundreds of votes from dedicated fans generated through several passionate online viral campaigns.
Deals apply till 8th April.
Today is a special day, and not just because the week rarely starts on a Tuesday. There are two whacking Xbox Live Arcade sales on the boil, lopping no less than half the price off such downloadable doozies as Puzzle Arcade, Mark of the Ninja, Swarm and A World of Keflings.
New Zombies Mode also on the wa - OH GOD IT'S AARON ECKHART.
Are you ready for "Treyarch's most terrifying Zombies experience to date"? Because the date in question is reportedly 16th April, going by the below photograph of a Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC poster. There are new maps on the way, too - Vertigo, Magma, Studio and Encore - including what could be a remake of a cancelled Modern Warfare 2 map.
First CGI footage of stealth opus rings a little familiar.
Eidos Montreal's first Thief trailer leaked a few hours ahead of time over the weekend, and there was accordingly much gleeful punning from headline writers. Think "Thief trailer sneaks past guards", "Garrett breaks curfew", etc. Thing is, Garrett's been in the wild for quite a while longer - the trailer is an extended version of Eric Wong's lighting and compositing portfolio reel, first spotted online in June 2012.
Not long before Call of Duty release week.
Battlefield 4 will arrive on 29th October, or so sayeth the mighty Xbox.com, which prematurely outed the date in a blog post over the weekend. Fortunately, AGB was on hand to take a picture.
It's out this week.
I DO believe in fairies! I do! I do! 4J Studios has just announced that Minecraft Xbox 360's next update has passed Microsoft certification testing, and will launch on Friday, 5th April.
Probably isn't an April Fool's joke. Probably.
Gathering news-thread in the wake of April Fool's Day is a hazardous business. Global salt suppliers are on high alert, as writers fall over themselves to add pinches of the stuff to dodgy-sounding headlines like, oh, the one above. You won't get any truth-mitigating sodium chloride from me, wasters. I take my journalistic blunders on the chin.