Four minutes of Domination, from Russia with love.
It's not long now before both the Xbox One and Battlefield 4 are locked in our tight embrace, but some hasty so-and-so has already gotten a hands-on with both, and apparently enjoyed it so much that they've recorded the session and uploaded it to the internet so that they - and the rest of the world - could watch it back later without the need to put themselves at further risk of expo flu.
Proceed with caution when receiving warnings saying servers are unavailable.
I don't know about you, but I find Monday morning blues are more than tripled after a weekend spent under the Los Santos sun running amok with a few good friends. If you dabbled in a spot of GTA Online over the weekend, however, you or someone you know may have fallen prey to a new bug that causes players to lose their online character and all their hard-earned progress. If that's the case, don't despair - Rockstar wants you to know that it's working on a fix.
You're only supposed to blow the bloody oars off!.
Yup, it's another Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer, although this one has a rather cinematic flair about it.
So near, yet Zephyr?.
EA have put out another trailer for Need for Speed: Rivals, this time showing off some of the challenges you'll have to undertake as both a cop and a racer in the latest iteration of the racing series.
Recommended as part of a nutritious link-based diet.
The times, they are a changing here at OXM Towers. As you may have noticed if you've read the latest issue of the magazine (on sale now at all good retailers) the office is hard at work weaving our cocoons ready to emerge as beautiful next-generation encompassing butterflies in time for the next issue.
Konami offers apology, is "working closely with Microsoft" to solve the issues.
While Grand Theft Auto Online's technical problems have dominated the headlines as of late, spare a thought if you will for folks trying to get their football fix in Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, as it appears they're also having problems with online multiplayer match-ups.
First WWE title under the 2K banner aiming for a Yes! Yes! Yes!.
If you're a WWE fan, you're probably aware that next year marks the thirtieth anniversary of perhaps the company's most famous event: Wrestlemania. This year's video game tie-in - taken under the wing of 2K after the collapse of THQ - focuses on that fact, with the main event being a Thirty Years of Wrestlemania mode.
What does the fox say?.
4J are certainly churning out new content for Minecraft: 360 Edition at an impressive rate - this week saw the release of Title Update 13 and the Plastic texture pack that was only revealed last week.
Anyone can play guitar.
We're all for inclusiveness here at OXM, and one of the more common conditions that can sometimes provide somewhat of a hurdle to enjoying a game is colour blindness, particularly in titles that rely heavily on quick identification of objects via colour. For Rocksmith 2014, Ubisoft have done the very commendable thing and added a colour-blind mode so that everyone can learn to play guitar.
All the assassinating adventures so far.
Barely a month has passed since we spotted the Ezio Trilogy boxset of Assassin's Creed adventures coming towards the Xbox 360, but there was no word on a UK release date. Perhaps that's because Ubisoft were gearing up to announce this latest collection, which seems to be a bit more complete.
Rockstar also launch new GTA:O Social Club features.
Enjoying your time in Los Santos with friends in GTA: Online? Perhaps, like many, you've been waiting for that patch Rockstar promised yesterday? They're a little bit late, but as of this morning said patch should now be live, hopefully alleviating those darn connection issues for many of you.
Create your own AI teams and take them into competitive or co-operative modes.
As the Call of Duty machine rolls on, some often accuse the series of getting stuck in a rut and not providing much in the way of innovation. However, the latest trailer offers more details on what may be the most interesting addition to the series yet.
"I think it's the biggest differentiator we've got," says Kinect Sports Rivals developer.
Xbox One's overhauled, souped-up Kinect sensor is actually sensitive enough to work out when you're bluffing at poker, Rare's Simon Woodroffe has told OXM - the studio has knocked together a demo in which the device monitors player expressions for telltale signs of unease.
Download it here.
Battlefield 4's multiplayer beta is now freely available to all Xbox Gold subscribers. Use Bing to search for "Battlefield 4 demo" on the dash, or queue up the download here, after first shaving your head, tattooing your knuckles and adopting an appropriate air of military menace. The file's 1.56 GB in size.
And "you can be sure it wouldn't happen without the user having control over it".
Microsoft's planning and marketing director Albert Penello has chimed in on controversy over Kinect on Xbox One's viability as an advertising tool, commenting that he's unaware of any plans to gather data for advertising purposes. Should Microsoft ever allow advertisers to track user behaviour via Kinect, he went on, this will require your explicit consent.
"Rest assured, we are diligently working with our partner to find a fix!".
GTA Online's much-documented technical woes appear to be part or the cause of a general problem with Xbox Live cloud saves, as suggested by an Xbox Live Status update. otes that Xbox 360 users may have problems "accessing saved games and data in cloud storage". Have you run into any difficulties outside of GTA 5?
"We can all make a car drive down a street in a game, but can you do it in style?" says Benzies.
Speaking to Develop, Rockstar North boss Leslie Benzies has suggested that Rockstar's willingness to linger over the "last five to ten per cent of work" is key to Grand Theft Auto's success. Such delaying tactics are possible, he explained, because Rockstar doesn't waste too much time pondering the mere act of making money.
Mad Catz working on peripheral, which is expected to ship this winter.
Dust off your fight stick shelves, people, and make some room for a new addition. Gaming peripheral company Mad Catz is developing a custom Killer Instinct fight stick for the Xbox One, and it sure is looking purdy.
Look at Ascend as an example of a cloud-powered games, says Phil Spencer.
The fog is beginning to clear - we're beginning to get a better idea of just what exactly cloud support will mean for our games. Earlier this week, Microsoft's chief platform architect Marc Whitten told IGN that it was "a tool in a toolbox," though the practical applications of this particular tool are still vague at best.
"I'd say the majority of spaces are enterable.".
Dead Rising 3's executive producer Josh Bridge has shared a little more with OXM about how the game's "fully unconstrained" world is constructed, describing it as a sort of violently compressed composite of Los Angeles and its surrounding cities. "It felt like people would recognise it," he told us as part of a preview you'll read in issue 104. "So we smashed a whole bunch of cities around LA together."
