Over 240 licensed songs, 15 music stations, 20 hour "original, dynamic score".
Conscious that it's Monday morning and we're all feeling a bit low on sparkle (well, I certainly am - your sparkliness may vary), Rockstar's released the first proper details of GTA 5's soundtrack and radio stations along with some audio samples. I've embedded them below. Get ready for a wake-up call.
"We've certainly looked at options like that," says producer.
Morning all. In case you missed it, Dragon Age: Inquisition went large on the site over the weekend, following unveiling of new footage and screens at PAX Prime 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Speaking to OXM at a preview event in London last week, producer Cameron Lee shed a bit of light on elderly rumours that the new RPG features a multiplayer mode. The short answer is: there is no answer, not yet.
Microsoft's product planner also confirms cloud save space will be 'unlimited'.
Microsoft's head of product planning Albert Penello has put a damper on our hopes of seeing our own living rooms transformed through the power of Illumiroom, the device that would allow game environments, weapon effects and HUD to journey beyond the edges of our TV screens.
4J Studios confirms trailer for 10:30pm tonight.
Last week's Title Update 12 brought along a block full of new things to the world of Minecraft. One of these things was the eagerly anticipated support for custom textures and sounds in collections known as Mash Up packs. However, the packs themselves were conspicuous by their absence due to waiting on a "legal sign-off".
Contents include the War Games map pass, Champions DLC bundle and more.
It seems there's Game of the Year editions popping up all over the shop - earlier in the week it was Borderlands 2, and now Master Chief's latest adventure and the start of the Reclaimer Saga is getting a fancy bundled up package.
These links are too cool for school.
It's September, so it's back to school time here at OXM. Headmaster Jonty has his sternest face and a lesson plan for the whole year (which will go out of the window within a week) while Log's busy drawing rude things all over his exercise books. Ed's been making stink bombs, but didn't count on Aoife who's up on the roof with her catapult and beret in the style of Minnie the Minx.
Yes, it's a story involving Mountain Dew and Doritos.
Another day, another Xbox One release date rumour, this time coming from the rules of a promotion run by the folks behind Mountain Dew and Doritos in which they offer the chance to win an Xbox One every two minutes.
Behind the scenes of a pre-order exclusive.
The final Black Ops 2 DLC is only just out of the door, which of course means it's time for Activision to swing the marketing for the next Call of Duty game into full swing beginning with this trailer giving a behind the scenes look at the first piece of downloadable content.
How many Rhodes must a soldier walk down before he becomes a man?.
If there's one sure-fire way to get us excited about your game, it's showing off big cybernetic soliders ker-biffing aliens all up in their tentacle parts. And that's exactly what 2K delivers in this new trailer for the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Within - the expanded re-release of last year's superb XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Loyalty scheme replaces Microsoft Points for Reward Credits.
One of the casualties of Microsoft's recent retiring of Microsoft Points was the Xbox Live Rewards loyalty scheme. In case you weren't familiar, this allowed gamers to earn free Microsoft Points just by taking part in regular actions that they would normally do while using Xbox Live.
Three is the magic number.
Are you starting to run out of shelf space, but would like to revisit some of Ubisoft's older titles? You might be in luck as Ubisoft have revealed a pair of trilogy collections coming to the 360 later this year themed with two of their most popular series.
"The system you're going to race on launch day is different from the system two or three weeks later.".
We've heard lots on how the upcoming Forza 5 is to utilize the Xbox One's cloud computing capabilities are going to enhance the fancy Drivatar system, and as the launch of the game (and console) gets nearer, Xbox have been giving a little formation on the additional benefits afforded by the cloud.
Increases level and adds Digistruct Peak Challenge, out this Tuesday.
Gearbox is just about ready to launch even more content for Borderlands 2, as unveiled last month. First up is the Ultimate Vault Hunter Pack 2: Digistruct Peak Challenge, which lands on September 3rd.
Shadowrun free again in South Africa.
Microsoft has announced September's free Xbox games for Gold subscribers. You can expect Magic: The Gathering 2013 on the 1st, as rumoured this morning, followed by Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas on the 16th. Xbox Live users in South Africa will receive Shadowrun for free in place of Rainbow Six.
"I think it wants them to go on their journey.".
Microsoft has sunk around one billion dollars into Xbox One games development, and a healthy chunk of that has gone towards acquiring development studios, such as Max and the Curse of Brotherhood developer Press Play, or founding studios, such as cloud gaming specialist Lift London. The manufacturer doesn't view an acquisition campaign as the safest way to consolidate its first-party line-up, however - according to Lionhead's creative director Gary Carr, it would rather developers approach it after completing "their journey".
Our latest issue is on sale now.
Let me introduce the latest issue of OXM by discussing the less obvious stuff, the pieces we'll hope you'll find time for once you've slaked your thirst for Battlefield 4, Watch Dogs and Grand Theft Auto 5. One, Dan Gril's mammoth Final Fantasy XI post-mortem on page 68 - a thorough investigation of Square Enix's (would you believe) most profitable Final Fantasy.
Fantasy card outing is next on the giveaway calendar, apparently.
The next free Xbox game you'll receive as an Xbox Gold subscriber is Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planewalkers 2013, according to a snap of Xbox Australia's home page picked up by Reddit user TheGesio.
Project Soul's digital re-release features two of the three former platform exclusives.
Spawn and Heihachi, previously platform exclusive characters, will both feature on the XBLA re-release of Soul Calibur 2 HD Online, Namco Bandai has announced.
"At least there's got to be a chicken, surely.".
Peter Molyneux might not work at Lionhead any more, but he's quite happy to discuss the recently announced Fable Legends, an always-online, party-based action role-player that's due on Xbox One no earlier than 2014. Speaking to IGN, Molyneux confessed that he's a little disappointed by Lionhead's decision not to make a narrative sequel to Fable 3, observing that there's a "great prize" to be won by continuing the numbered franchise's experiments with emotive storytelling.
"Xbox on" will only work in 5 countries on day one.
Xbox One's voice controls will be limited to just eight languages in the console's thirteen launch locations, it has emerged.
