Rare builds up to launch day next week.
Rare's Kinect Sports Rivals will finally arrive on Xbox One next week - 8th April, to be precise, and you'll need to be precise indeed if you're to master the target shooting mode, which channels the spirit of lightgun classics like Namco's Point Blank. Or why not try your hand at tennis? Check out the below videos for more.
"Hopefully now that they have more time they will fix that mess.".
The man who led development on the very first Xbox console has chimed in on the Xbox One's past and present fortunes, observing that the console's original online policies might have been workable, had Microsoft "fixed" them rather than dropping the whole scheme.
Download now, bag yourself a Predator makeover.
The latest DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, for Xbox 360 and Xbox One, along with a sizeable patch. It costs #163;8.06, $11.99 or $14.51 AU, requires 1.34 GB of space on Xbox 360, and offers new maps, a new Extinction chapter and a new gun. Oh, and the Predator.
"I'm not likely to have one of our first party studios build Shenmue," says Spencer.
Newly promoted Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has once again taken to Twitter to field questions about Shenmue 3, a game Microsoft would love to have on Xbox One, but not a game that Microsoft is actually developing.
More news soon, says Microsoft.
Xbox Live appears to be experiencing difficulties this morning, as per the official Status page - Marketplace transactions and Xbox forum usage are currently "limited". If you're thinking of buying anything via a PC, tablet or phone, you should probably hold off till Microsoft sends the all-clear.
"We would definitely use ID@Xbox," says Dark Synergy.
Dark Synergy would like to release "next-generation sci-fi stealth-action shooter" Wake Up Call on Xbox One, though this will probably take place after the game's PC launch. Ever dreamed of stalking the corridors of a buried laboratory? This could be for you, then.
"You really have to ask yourself what's the best way to monetise.".
During a recent studio visit to Rare's middle-of-nowhere Twycross studio, I asked Kinect Sport Rivals director Danny Isaac how the game's pre-season trial went down, and whether it had ever spurred the studio into thinking about a free to play model of the game.
Will make updating easier in future.
The Xbox One's next system update will make it easier to download and install future system updates, according to an IGN report. It'll also allow you to automatically redeem any license codes you're sent, rather than copy-pasting them over. Exhilarating stuff.
"Are you crazy enough?".
Fresh off the back of the Call of Duty Championship last weekend, a shiny new 2GB patch has begun rolling out for Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox One from today.
Blade Runner director will produce this Halo not-a-movie.
Yes, it's as confusing as it sounds. Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free, has signed up Battlestar Galactica director Sergio Mimica-Gezzan to direct a live-action 'digital feature'. It's scheduled to debut before the end of this year, and is separate to the TV series that Steven Spielberg is producing for Xbox One.
Capture Creator out next week, High Life Update to follow.
Rockstar will add co-op Heists to GTA Online this spring, along with a new Capture mission editor and the High Life Update, which introduces new guns, weapons and vehicles. Quick, everybody assign heist film roles. I'll be George Clooney. Aoife can be Michael Caine. Jonty can be an East European hacker of some description, and Log can drive the getaway car. Sorted.
Out in October, is full of filthy Orcses.
Monolith's Tolkein-powered tale of vengeance Middle-Earth: Shadows of Mordor will release on 7th October in North America, France and Nordic regions, publisher Warner Bros Interactive has confirmed to OXM. There's a new trailer, Banished from Death, which explores how erstwhile ranger Talion was resurrected to hunt down the Orcs who slew his family.
4J Studios prepares to patch the patch.
Minecraft Xbox 360 title updates travel in pairs, it seems - a "real" update like title update 14, which introduced the world to Temples and the incredible Carrot on a Stick, and an update to fix any bugs caused by the first. According to 4J Studios, the next Minecraft patch will rank among the latter.
"We wanted to give Titanfall a chance!" says Rare.
The absence of Kinect Sports Rivals - well, most of it - from the Xbox One launch line-up was a bit of a blow for Kinect 2.0: in Rare's absence, it was left to Ubisoft's disastrous Fighter Within to carry the torch for motion sensitivity. Things could have been worse, though. Rivals almost came out on the same day as Titanfall.
Plus, Dead Island and F1 Complete Editions.
All hail Lifelower, scourer of internet listings! Bane of Amazon France! Defiler of Deep Silver's announcement schedule! Following our report on Metro: Last Light - The Complete Edition earlier this morning, the enterprising Twitter user has turned up mention of equivalent editions for Dead Island, Saints Row 4 and F1 2013, all of them seemingly bound for Xbox 360 this year.
Tom Clancy MMO rumoured to slide into 2015.
Speculation continues to swirl over Tom Clancy's The Division, swirling like the tides of precipitation generated by Ubisoft Massive's fancy-dan Snowdrop Engine.
Get the game and all its DLC at a budget price.
Oopsy daisy, Amazon France has let slip the existence of Metro: Last Light - Complete Edition for Xbox 360, as passed on by Lifelower. The new edition includes the downloadable Ranger Mode and all four DLC packs, comprising an additional "20 hours" of gameplay - all for a possibly provisional $19.99. Tickled?
Just what exactly is the "SHINASUTIMIKIRA Project"?.
Deathsmiles developer and former Cave head Makoto Asada has released a teaser site for his mystery Xbox One game, "SHINASUTIMIKIRA Project", which is being developed at 5pb subsidiary MAGES. Asada appears to have his own team now, "Div8" - the latter's logo is a skull and shotguns motif. That's about all there is to go on.
"We're working on next gen," reiterates Randy Pitchford.
Gearbox appears to be gearing up for a reveal of some kind, if a Tweet from lovable bossman Randy Pitchford is any indication. Which it may not be, if a second, follow-up Tweet from lovable bossman Randy Pitchford is any indication.
"I think it's going to be a bigger phenomenon than smartphones.".
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney is all systems go for VR, and says the company is "doing a huge amount of research in VR, working with Oculus kits," and they "see this as a technology that will influence every game and every platform."
