Try out Crytek's free-to-play shooter ahead of release.
The Warface Xbox 360 beta has been thrown open to all Xbox Gold subscribers - you can download it right now, free of charge, from the Xbox Live Marketplace. What's in store? Guns! More guns! Chokepoints! Death! Quick, queue it up now before Great Aunt Guinevere takes umbrage.
Microsoft details the price of bad behaviour.
Microsoft has announced a few adjustments to the Xbox Live reputation system - that fearful existential barometer, slicing Xbox Live up into the Deserving and the Not So Deserving. Players who sink to the lowest reputation rank, "Avoid Me", now face a number of penalties, such as losing access to Twitch broadcasting.
Got #163;109.99 to spare? There's a baseball cap in it for you.
If you like your Special Editions masked and behatted, look no further than the Watch Dogs Premium Vigilante Edition, which is exclusive to GAME in the UK. Besides a copy of the Xbox One version, it comes with an Aiden Pearce-approved hoodie, baseball cap and face mask, so you can leave the shop in an aura of menace and mystery (which will probably lead to your being arrested when you cross the road).
4J drops long-awaited patch.
Minecraft Xbox 360 update 14 should be with you right now, assuming all has gone to plan. As revealed by 4J Studios in the small hours, the roll-out began at 9am UK time - the update may take a while to filter through to all Xbox Live territories.
No release date for the first pack yet.
Are you weary of yanking flags from the hands of cooling corpses, dangling from the wall over a Hardpoint with your cloak enabled, squishing recently ejected Pilots in Last Titan Standing? Rejoice, for Respawn is working on new modes for Titanfall - and they'll all be free.
Phil Spencer open to idea if ID@Xbox fails to "fill the gap".
You guys heard the talk this morning that Facebook just bought $2BN worth of Octopus? Ridiculous. Meanwhile, in more important news on Twitter, Phil Spencer has reiterated his support for the ID@Xbox program whilst hinting that the Xbox Live Arcade may one day make a triumphant return to our consoles.
"The team didn't want to release the new content until they believed it was quality content".
Battlefield 4's newest water-based expansion, Naval Strike, which was originally billed to launch on 25th March across Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, PC and Xbox One platforms, has been delayed on both Xbox One and PC platforms, and DICE has stepped in to assure fans that they won't be in for too much of a wait until they can go shoot some motherlovers from the back of a boat.
Five-part series explores Geralt of Rivia's universe.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may be delayed until February 2015 but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying the game in comic form. Or, at least that's what CD Projekt would like, anyway.
No more catapulting soldiers! Higher flying on Gulf of Oman!.
Here are some things you might want to do, after downloading the latest Battlefield 4 title update on Xbox 360: (1) fail to die of explosions while standing outside the combat area, (2) walk into a steep surface in order to accelerate to warp speed, and (3) glitch your way into the ceiling on Operation Metro. In theory, all of those actions are now impossible thanks to the latest patch. I know. I'm outraged too. Find patch notes at the bottom of the page.
$9.99, #163;7.99 or $13.45 AU.
Microsoft has slashed the price of the already cheap and cheerful spin-off Halo: Spartan Assault across Xbox 360 and Xbox One - it'll set you back $9.99, #163;7.99 or $13.45 AU. The manufacturer has also announced that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Thief and the Standard and Hardened Editions of Call of Duty: Ghosts will be on offer for Xbox One players this weekend.
Microsoft sends out second service alert.
Ladies, gentlemen, I bring good news and bad news. The good news is that this morning's Xbox Live service alert is no more - you should be able to access and play Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer and GTA Online just fine.
Off-screen footage from last week's event.
Microsoft announced DirectX12 - a new instalment of its long-running graphics Application Programming Interface - at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. During the presentation, Turn 10 software architect Chris Tector played footage of Forza Motorsport 5 running on PC with various DirectX12 benefits enabled. The folk of Bright Side Network were kind enough to film it. Have a watch.
Infinite DLC and Walking Dead also slashed.
This week's Xbox Live Deals of the Week are Bioshock 1, 2 and Infinite, backed by NBA 2K14, a lone Just Dance 2014 DLC track and the fairly dreadful Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.
Scheduled maintenance in progress for GTA Online and COD: Ghosts.
Hold, brethren, these times are sent to test us. Xbox Live is currently being hit by online performance issues, but rest assured that Microsoft is already aware and on the case.
Get $50 off the Titanfall bundle.
Denizens of the US, it would appear your time is nigh. The Xbox One Titanfall bundle RRP has been reduced by a full fifty bucks on the official Microsoft store, in what seems to anticipate the announcement of a price cut for North America.
Microsoft product planning director shoots down stubborn rumour.
Morning all! It's me, recently returned from an entirely game and wireless-free holiday in Devon, notable for its hidden gorse bushes and stealth-capable cows. Let's celebrate my glorious return to the frontline of news reportage by blasting one of the more persistent Xbox One rumours clean out of the sky.
New York has never looked better.
Ubisoft is still quietly working away on Tom Clancy's The Division, the open-world post-apocalyptic survival sim that'll pit players against the environment and one another in a virus-stricken New York. I say quietly, but every so often they like to release a round of screenshots, just to make sure we haven't forgotten about it.
Is this one of the Xbox exclusives due for reveal at E3?.
Nothing like a touch of intrigue to round out the working day - Microsoft has filed a trademark application for a new game called Secrets and Treasure.
Players from around the world to compete for a $10,000 grand prize.
The Kinect Sports Rivals Championship, the world's "first ever global motion-sports competition," will begin online from 11th April in the UK, Microsoft has announced.
"I want to show everyone something never seen before," says Spencer.
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, has been speaking out on Microsoft's renewed interest in the Japanese market for quite some time. He's promised exclusive Xbox One games for the market before, and during GDC last week he brought it up again, and pointed towards this year's Tokyo Game Show as the time we'll get a more concrete official announcement.
