Exclusive maps, cars, swords and costumes.
Microsoft has released details of the Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse: Son of Rome Day One Editions, special game SKUs that are only available via pre-order at launch, or via digital download in the two weeks following release. If you're dedicated to the cause, you might want to invest - there are exclusive goodies to be had.
Publisher "has been in talks with Microsoft about that very thing".
The Elder Scrolls Online got a whole lot more contentious last week, when it emerged that the game would adopt the monthly subscription revenue model widely considered to be a dead duck, given the explosive growth of free-to-play MMOs. Speaking to OXM at Gamescom, lead gameplay designer Nick Konkle and Bethesda Softworks marketing boss Peter Hines have discussed the move, revealing that Bethesda and ZeniMax have asked Microsoft to make the game available to non-Xbox Gold subscribers, so you won't have to swallow an additional monthly fee.
Gamescom demos using "real, final, retail kit".
Microsoft's head of product development, Albert Penello, has said that the console's delay in some European territories is due to the complexities of localising its new voice-control features, and pointed to its use of near-final retail kits at Gamescom as proof that there are no supply problems.
Also, those pricing details we forgot to tell you about.
Somebody's about to take issue with the comicbook comparison I've drawn in this headline, but I'll be too busy marvelling at the latest Killer Instinct character reveal to care. Did I say "reveal"? Because Double Helix Games has yet to give away the character's name and backstory. I'm calling her "Dame Sticky-Stabalot" for the moment.
Drug busts! Docks! Male nudity!.
There's just something about an embargo-breaking trailer that makes the footage contained therein all the sweeter. A new GTA V video introduces you to the seedy underbelly of Los Santos you're sure to be up to your eyeballs and elbows in come 17th September.
Blood will out in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online.
Rockstar has released more details of the Grand Theft Auto 5 Special and Collector's Editions, which can be preordered now from Gamestop and Amazon. Here's a thing: you can choose to be the son of GTA 4's Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto Online, the game's sort-of-standalone multiplayer component. Gosh.
The whitest white creatable?.
Disappointed with the look of the standard black boxes soon to take up space underneath your TV? Turns out a lucky few Microsoft employees will receive something different; they're set to get a blindingly white Xbox One console instead of our uniform glossy black retail iterations.
Existing points still redeemable for a period.
It's finally happened - Microsoft has called time on the Points system that has sustained Xbox Live Marketplace since inception. Download the latest Xbox 360 update, and you'll be confronted by actual, real-world pound and dollar signs next time you open a Marketplace listing. A bold new world, gentlemen and ladies. A bold new world.
The next generation of Nug revealed.
Fear not, comrades - EA and BioWare are putting all that next generation console horsepower to good use. To whit, it's being used to render high fidelity pinkish hairless rodents. Two new cutscene screenshots tweeted by cinematic director Jonathan Perry attest to the presence of juvenile dragons and Nugs in Dragon Age: Inquisition, out on Xbox One and PS4 next year.
Walmart company conference call email hints at early November launch.
Not a peep was made about the Xbox One's release date at Gamescom, despite the console's main competitor PlayStation confirming its next gen launch on 29th November in the EU, and 15th November in the US.
We're assuming it'd cost an armour leg to buy one.
Bear with us here, as the following news piece admittedly doesn't give us much formation on the game as such, but we have to admit it's a pretty good way to keep us excited about Dark Souls 2. (Not that Ed needed any more encouragement)
Beta servers now running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Good news if you're a fan of hot tank-on-tank action and you live over here in the UK or Europe, as Wargaming have announced you can now join in on the ongoing World of Tanks beta with our American cousins.
We've gone and spilled science all over our round-up.
Welcome to another OXM news round up - how have you been? Our troops are back from a hectic Gamescom enjoying the well deserved long weekend before the manic scramble to collate all the interviews, peeks and bountiful info-gatherings from the last week in Germany into so much awesome stuff that'll be coming to you via the magazine and website. You're in for a treat, you lucky people.
First in a series of episodic trailers released.
Being dead doesn't have to be all pushing up daises. If you're Ronan O Connor, star of upcoming supernatural detective game Murdered: Soul Suspect, you'll be too busy trying to solve your own murder to be resting in any kind of peace anyway.
The best creators to receive an Xbox One and launch games.
Fancy yourself as the next Syndicate? Think you can make better videos than the people of Yogscast? Fancy an Xbox One? Microsoft might have the opportunity for you...
Future content a possibility, but microtransactions are "not us".
Microtransactions are a controversial topic - to some, they're useful timesavers that allow those with the cash to skip elements that would otherwise be a grindfest. To others, they're like paying for cheat codes and take away from the effort of actually playing the game. Respawn Entertainment have decided to avoid the argument completely by not going down that route for Titanfall.
SmartGlass integration also shown at Gamescom.
Do you remember that bit in every episode of the A-Team where they'd get captured, locked inside a shed and then burst out after affixing everything to a vehicle to make a haphazard tank? Dead Rising 3 wants to let you do that against hordes of the undead.
Lead Designer of the controller talks precision, comfort and realism.
As promised, there's been a pretty substantial information blowout on the Xbox One coming out of Gamescom, not least this video released by Microsoft showing off some of the smaller but no less important changes to the controller of the new console.
"This game has an activity for every mood.".
There's a lot riding on Bungie with their huge legacy to live up when it comes to the world of first person sci-fi shooters. Luckily, the Washington based collective appear to have a lot to be confident about in a new video showing off some of the features of Destiny.
We've got the eye of the tiger. Or at least an Ocelot.
Good news everyone! If you've been eagerly awaiting the release of Title Update 12 for Minecraft Xbox 360 edition, then wait no longer. After being successfully certified by the secret Microsoft testing laboratories it's now been unleashed into the wild.
