"So while it's PC for now...stay tuned.".
Sleeping Dogs was one of those games I admired - not least for actually making it to shelves after a mid-development change of publisher - but somehow fell out of love with. If I recall correctly, my own particular version of Hong Kong detective Wei Shen has spent the past year or so sitting glumly on a boat in the harbour, halfway through a sidequest. Sorry Wei.
Your dead dad is a right royal pain in the cart.
Charming puzzle-platformer Chariot is a tale of romance, co-operation and dead parents. You see, your dad - the King - has popped his clogs, or whatever the really posh version of clogs is, and you might be forgiven for thinking it all ends there.
Get literally inside Trevor's mind.
Reddit user DrOversight has provided a cache of a page on Rockstar's website which has since been deleted, which seems to detail new features for the GTA V update on Xbox One. Sounds like a bit of a Dr Oversight on their part, eh? EH?
Everyone's getting an Xbox One for Christmas, then.
The price of an Xbox One has dropped from #163;349.99 to #163;329.99, in line with PS4 prices. That's a whole #163;20 saving! What can you get with #163;20? We're not even sure any more with this inflation nonsense. Two loaves of bread? A litre of milkshake? A haircut? You probably do need a haircut.
Dark Souls II: Crown of the Ivory King, the third chapter in the Dark Souls II DLC, has had its release pushed back from 24 September to 30 September, Bandai Namco announced today.
It's Xbox None for China right now.
Originally planned to launch on Tuesday 23 September, the Xbox One launch in China has now been pushed back to the end of the year, with Microsoft citing the need for "a bit more time to deliver the best experiences possible for our fans".
10 minutes of Ori and the Blind Forest.
Man, I've only watched 60 seconds of this Ori and the Blind Forest video and I'm already tearing up. I mean, as far as I can work out, Ori is basically a flying kitten who befriends a happy bear, and they live together in a magic forest. Then the entire world starts to rot and the bear dies of starvation. It's like somebody got Cormac McCarthy to write a new version of Fern Gully.
Professor Broman shows you how.
If you don't have the time, patience or quantity of Xbox Live friends to master Destiny's Vault of Glass Raid - a gruelling odyssey that takes place on Venus - don't worry, because the goodly Professor Broman and his fellow Bromen have done it for you. The below video is one of the nippier specimens of Raiding we've seen, clocking in at just under two hours. One to bookmark for lunchtime, perhaps.
Pikes and Sparrows to join battle.
Here's something I didn't write about in my Destiny review: the game's vehicles are pretty scanty by Bungie's standards. The summonable Sparrow is nice, a big-bottomed landspeeder that wallows satisfyingly into corners while travelling at speed, and the Pike has its charms - wait, did I say "charms"? Because I meant guns.
Maya have this dance?.
Ahmahgerd, I love Maya already. She's flippy as hell, she's got a theme that could (almost) rival Orchid's from Season One, and I am living for that sassy ass head shake. Get it, gurl.
Dark Dreams Don't Die downloads directly; devotees dumbfounded.
Hidetaka 'Swery' Suehiro, the developer behind survival-horror game Deadly Premonition, has just announced the surprise release of his new, cel-shaded mystery adventure D4: tomorrow, Friday 19th September.
Big fan of that.
Footage has emerged of Halo 2's fan favourite multiplayer map Zanzibar, as it appears in Halo 2: Anniversary as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One.
Xbox One-bound blaster flexes its cooperative muscles.
Was anyone reading this actually born in a battle? Let's have a show of hands. OK, so that's... all of you, apparently. Hmm. OK, look - I hate to break this to you, but playing Destiny for 40 hours straight has evidently left you a bit fuzzy as to the difference between reality and fantasy. The below trailer for Gearbox's first Xbox One game probably won't help: it's crazier than a sack of cats thrown into the middle of a Mexican wrestling match.
Microsoft has announced a new version of the Xbox One controller, which can be used as a wired controller with Windows PCs out of the box without the need to download bothersome drivers from the internet.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean now costs substantially less booty.
This week's Deals have us positively jiggling with excitement - so much so that we were mistaken for jelly and served at a child's seventh birthday party. It was traumatic. Why so excited? Monkey. Freaking. Island. If you've never played Monkey Island, then surely 75% off will tempt you over to the seminal point-and-click adventure; if you've played it before, then you should buy it again, because it's 75% off. Everybody wins.
It'll Eu-rope you in.
Playground Games' open world racer Forza Horizon 2 has gone gold, meaning the game is off to be printed to disc and then shipped around the world. Today's also the day that the Forza Horizon 2 Xbox One demo screeches onto the console.
"We respect the brand and independent spirit that has made Minecraft great".
Developer Mojang, and by extension the entire Minecraft franchise, has been bought by Microsoft for a not-entirely-insubstantial $2.5 billion, it has just been announced. The acquisition was rumoured last week, but has just now been confirmed by head of Xbox Phil Spencer.
36% of total sales were for Xbox One, 14% on Xbox 360.
You may remember a rather cheeky marketing campaign from Microsoft last week, in which the company admitted that it couldn't technically advertise the game on its platform owing to rival PlayStation's exclusivity rights. Turns out that that didn't hurt Destiny's sales on Xbox all that much, as the game has sold right down the middle across both platforms on both last and current gen consoles.
52 seconds in the life of a would-be Rambo.
Just in case there was any doubt that making a loud noise in Alien: Isolation is, you know, a very bad idea, Sega and Creative Assembly have put together a quick video of the probable consequences. As with all Isolation videos, you might want to carefully move any cups of tea or other easily spilled bodies of hot liquid out of the way before hitting play.
Watch out for the Agent of the Nine.
If you've been schooling extra-terrestrials by way of Destiny's Strike missions this week, you may have stumbled on a mission reward known as a "Strange Coin". I've got a couple rattling around in my inventory, I think. Wondering what they're for? Wonder no longer.
