Mojang to bring a new IP to Xbox platforms.
Microsoft has announced that Mojang AB's shooter Cobalt will appear on Xbox 360 and Xbox One at some point. This is the same Mojang wot developed Minecraft PC and co-developed Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, yes. Calibrate your expectations accordingly.
"Before and after launch", apparently. What does this mean?.
Ubisoft is creating exclusive content for the Xbox One version of Tom Clancy's The Division, Microsoft has announced during its Gamescom presentation today. There's no word on what said content might consist of just yet, but we hear it'll arrive "before and after launch".
Microsoft unveils next generation Fable at Gamescom.
Microsoft has announced Fable Legends for Xbox One, confirming yesterday's domain-related rumours. Jonty's seeing it in action right this moment. Everybody try to stay calm.
Full details of Xbox One's next generation self-publishing program.
Microsoft has finally detailed its plan for developer self-publishing on Xbox One. The program is known as ID@Xbox, and will "enable qualified game developers to build, publish and make their games available" without paying any application fees and with full access to the console's resources. Microsoft plans to ensure "easy discoverability" for indies via new trending and promotion features, and will give out two free devkits to registered developers.
EA partnership will be revealed at Gamescom on Tuesday, sources allege.
Remember Phil Spencer referring to "Europe's biggest franchise" during a discussion of unannounced Xbox One exclusives? He may have been referring to FIFA, which certainly makes the cut from a sales perspective. MCV reports that the manufacturer will announce an exclusive FIFA 14 Xbox One bundle at Gamescom tomorrow.
"The best games are on Xbox One," boasts video.
Microsoft's come out on the Gamescom stage swinging with an incredibly bombastic sizzle reel, which blasts through a few of Xbox One's more anticipated exclusives - including Forza 5, Killer Instinct and Titanfall.
And it might actually be possible to build your own Titan.
Gamescom is upon us, ladies and gentlemen, but there's time nonetheless for a pinch sight from this year's E3 (Gamescom and E3 are, so you know, more or less equivalent to Battlefield and Call of Duty in the expo scale/rivalry stakes). Titanfall designer Fairfax 'Mackey' McCandlish has explained to Edge that the game's preposterous mechs aren't supposed to feel like fantasy - they're the result of extensive research into actual military technology, and may thus represent a practical possibility given, oh, a couple billion dollars in disposable cash.
Zune Marketplace will also be shuttered, Microsoft encourages users to spend their points.
Microsoft will begin retiring the Microsoft Points system in favour of real currency from 22nd August, according to an Xbox.com Q&A which also confirms that the Zune Marketplace is to be replaced by the Xbox Music and Video storefronts as a repository for TV shows, films and tunes.
New JRPG to launch this winter.
Ubisoft's got the hyper-macho side of things covered this week, with "primal" new IP Fighter Within for Xbox One; the publisher's also taking aim at the softer end of the spectrum with Child of Light, a side-scrolling JRPG that'll release this winter, possibly for next generation consoles.
Manufacturer to reveal all on Tuesday.
We appear to be mere hours away from the announcement of Fable: Legends at Microsoft's Gamescom media briefing tomorrow, as suggested by the registration of FableLegends.com and FableLegends.net in March - the listings in question were most recently updated on Friday, 16th August. Could this be Lionhead's long-rumoured, Unreal Engine-powered Fable MMO, a project that's said to be "more ambitious than ever before"? And is it, as Legends implies, a Heroes-style spin-off from the main series?
It's a "next-gen game that provides you the excitement of a real fight".
Ubisoft appears to have accidentally let slip details of Fighter Within, a new motion-controlled fighting game for Xbox One which offers "unprecedented 1 to 1 precision movement tracking", "real-time wounds" and all the sophistication you'd expect of a traditional fighting title. We can probably expect to hear more at Gamescom this week. Everybody be on the alert for "primal animations", now.
Players liked the responsiveness of Dragon Age 2 but preferred the "more tactical" aspect of Origins.
Bioware has been revealing more details on the combat in the upcoming third Dragon Age game by way of a video going behind the scenes of production of the RPG.
Team Dakota demonstrates how to make almost an entire game in just under an hour and a half.
We told you about Team Dakota's livestream of upcoming Xbox 360 and Xbox One free-to-play creation suite Project Spark earlier in the week, but if you missed it for whatever reason they've posted the recording on YouTube.
Gamescom inside for some lovely links...
Did you know Cologne is the fourth largest city in Germany? More relevantly to us it's the home of the Gamescom convention, which takes place this week. Naturally, we've got our best troops going over there to see what's what and get all the lovely juicy info on the Xbox One, what's still to come for the Xbox 360 and much more.
"We can make the player believe that when he does something, there are causes and consequence".
Ubisoft has made much of how Watch Dogs' themes of hacking and interconnectivity translate not just via the story, but through gameplay as well by talking about how having other players in your gameworld will enhance the open world action title.
Forecast looks stormy with a chance of tomahawks.
We've been expecting it for about a month now, but at last the next combatant in the upcoming Killer Instinct reboot has been confirmed as Thunder in a series of new screenshots.
Premium membership also set to return.
Battlefield 4 launches for the 360 this October. However, you're probably also aware that a certain next generation console is due out not too long after that, and the game is due for that too. So there's a dilemma - do you get the game on launch and join your friends in the battle right away, or do you hold out for the shiny new features of the Xbox One version?
You'll be spending a lot of Gs to get 1000G.
Those cheeky scamps at X360A have been up their usual hi-jinks and have come away with the list of achievements you can rack up when you play Grand Theft Auto 5 once it lands later this year. There don't appear to be any plot related ones, but be warned there may be slight content spoilers ahead.
"We never wanted to do a game like Symphony of the Night.".
Dave Cox is the producer of the upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, and he's aware that MercurySteam have expanded the sequel massively to ensure the new game lives up to not only it's direct predecessor but to the franchise as a whole.
Havana load of this footage.
There's a pretty strong case out there for suggesting that Assassin's Creed 2 has, so far, been the peak of the very popular AC series. It seems only right then that Ubisoft should build the city of Havana as a homage to the cities in the second game in the newest iteration, Black Flag.
