Purchasable currency won't "disrupt" game, house parties are griefer-free zones.
Grand Theft Auto Online will become available from 7am Eastern Time or 12pm British Summer Time, Rockstar has announced in a NewsWire post. The company has also taken a moment to further explain GTA 5 multiplayer's anti-griefing systems and economy, promising among other things that trolls won't be able to ruin your house parties.
Microsoft confirms Master Chief's Xbox 360 debut will drop its price tag.
Not so keen on Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes HD, October's first free downloadable Xbox game? Don't worry, there's something a tad more bombastic on the schedule for later in the month - Halo 3, as promised by Microsoft back at E3 this year. Better late than never...
Mathematics can be a cruel mistress.
Gentlemen! Ladies! I return from the internet's upper slopes with a dire and deadly warning: accrue more than $2,147,483,647 in Grand Theft Auto 5, and you'll find yourself billions of dollars in debt. As discovered by NeoGAF user OmegaDL50, there's a tricksy bit of underlying arithmetic that converts numbers to negative once they spill beyond a certain threshold.
Getting started in your online version of Los Santos.
The already sizeable GTA 5 is about to get a whole lot bigger. At some point in the next 24 hours, Rockstar will activate Grand Theft Auto Online, the game's much-sung multiplayer component. But how will you actually access said component? Fret not, brave warrior - here's Uncle OXM with a few pointers and reminders.
It has "to be someone who has some experience in destruction," says Boone.
After Red Faction Armageddon's disappointing sales figures in 2011, THQ quietly put the series to bed, not long before the publisher itself came to a messy and highly-publicised end. Nordic Games promptly snapped up the rights to the franchise, commenting that it had a "good concept" to work with, and is already discussing possibilities with as-yet unnamed developers.
"It begins once you get punched in the face," explains design director.
Killer Instinct for Xbox One is defined by speed, design director David Verfaillie has told OXM - but not to the extent that victory defaults to the combatant with the fastest thumbs. Double Helix and Rare have apparently created a "tournament viable" fighter that's as much about strategy and observation as pulling off six quarter-roll specials a second.
GTA multiplayer's global release adheres to American time zones.
Rockstar has confirmed with CVG that Australia won't be getting access to Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer component, GTA Online, any earlier than other countries due to its position on the international date line. The 1st October release date adheres to American time zones, Rockstar says, which means Australians won't get access until 2nd October.
Next gen transition and free FIFA 14 in Xbox One to blame?.
Alas, GTA 5's hopes of a second week atop the all-formats UK software sales charts have been cruelly dashed by FIFA 14, despite the latter's selling substantially less at launch than FIFA 13.
High value targets, mutinies and rank requirements.
DICE has been rolling on with formation on the upcoming Battlefield 4, with the full map list revealed earlier this week and now some more details on the returning Commander mode.
Play as Bruce Wayne before he donned the cowl.
Batman Arkham:Origins stalks ever nearer, and already the first information about future DLC is starting to appear from Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment as they announced the first details of the contents of the game's Season Pass.
Another week's worth of web wonders and weirdness.
Here at OXM we're revving up for the release of GTA Online next week - after two weeks in Los Santos we've been brushing up on our gang lingo and there's been a bit of a tussle between Log and Jonty over leadership of our GTA crew. Luckily they've sorted the issue over a nice cup of tea, a chat and calm rational discourse, as is the OXM way. (We might be in trouble come launch: can you hold up a bank by asking nicely?)
Major Nelson chats to Dan Greenawalt in latest video.
Cor blimey, as Ed mentioned earlier in the week there's a ton of Forza content on the site as of late. Hope you've got room for one more, as Turn 10 have been speaking to Major Nelson about how the game uses the Xbox One controller's new Impulse Triggers
Developer details working with Frostbyte engine and reveals cancelled Dragon Age 2 DLC.
Dragon Age Inquisition is one of a number of games that will be straddling the generational gap by releasing in both Xbox One and Xbox 360 flavours, but unlike most of them it's a single player RPG and is unlikely to see any sort of progress transfer ability. Instead, Bioware wants to ensure that whichever version you get, you won't feel like you're missing out too much.
"Trying to finish them both for the same day would lead to a compromise in quality".
Grand Theft Auto Online is of course set to launch this Tuesday, finally allowing us to cause havoc on the streets (and deserts) of Los Santos with our friends. But why have we had to wait the two extra weeks for it rather than when GTA V itself was released? According to Dan Houser of Rockstar, it simply wasn't possible.
Producer talks comparisons to Techland's previous work and that torso.
At first glance, you could describe Techland's upcoming Dying Light as a first person open-world zombie game and the comparisons to their previous work on the Dead Island series stand out like the exposed innards on a decaying zombie. The developers, however, are understandably keen to stress that it's actually much more than that.
Coming to over 75 cities around the world from Oct 1st.
The Xbox One bus is coming, and everybody's jumping. From London to San Francisco, one could say it resembles an inter-city disco. Microsoft are taking the Xbox One on the road before its release later this year, and they're inviting you to come and see them.
New shots look as pretty as a picture.
Bungie has been busy with their new online sci-fi epic Destiny, and they're just about ready to go into full on info-splosion mode soon with the return of their Bungie Weekly Update service next week. But before that, they've took it upon themselves to release a few new gorgeous looking shots from what they've got so far.
Original Pirate Material.
Assassin's Creed 4 sails ever closer to shore, and of course the latest episode of the saga features a whole new cast of characters in the long-running struggle between the Templars and Assassins.
"Simple, colourful and vibrant." No release details just yet.
4J Studios has announced a new Minecraft Xbox 360 texture pack, which is somewhat less showy - and 100 per cent less licensed - than the Mass Effect Mash-Up Pack we were treated to over the summer.
"Certainly in some areas it gets downright creepy.".
Right now, I'd say the most horrifying thing about Dead Rising 3 is that protagonist Nick Ramos looks rather like Christopher "Highlander" Lambert. It's all about the eyes, those awful, deadened eyes - eyes that have doubtless "smouldered" their way through an '80s sex scene or two. According to executive producer Josh Bridge, however, the game itself will be more terrifying even than its frontman - providing, of course, that's how you want to experience it.