"It's time to ensure even more fans around the world can enjoy Xbox One.".
The Xbox One will finally become available in Belgium, Japan, India and 23 other regions in September 2014, Microsoft has announced. Better late than never...
"It turns out that stopping bullets in a first-person shooter is a ton of fun".
A GDC talk given by an EA DICE animator (via Polygon) has apparently outed the fact that a fancy two-handed ballistic shield is coming to Battlefield 4 as part of the upcoming Dragon's Teeth expansion pack.
Is it the angry chap from 2011, or something completely new?.
Epic Games lead animator Jay Hosfelt has released an artwork for a new unannounced IP at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It's a shot of a man with a stick, a gun, a cigarette and a big flappy belt. These are interesting times, indeed.
It's got something to do with that mysterious Fortaleza patent, apparently.
Forget the resolutions, hardware warriors! VR is where it's at nowadays, if a report from the Wall Street Journal is to be credited. The paper alleges that Microsoft has a secret virtual reality device in the works, drawing on the testimony of "people familiar with the project".
"Kinect Sports is locked into what Kinect does, that doesn't mean the next game has to be".
As part of my visit to the deepest, darkest reaches of Twycross last week, I spoke to Rare studio head Craig Duncan, and asked whether the company has considered using the tech it's developed for Kinect Sports Rivals for future games.
Blu-ray player, game saves, Kinect also being upgraded.
According to Gamepur and this Reddit thread, Microsoft has notified selected Xbox One owners that an Xbox One preview firmware update will roll out in the next few days.
Chief Product Officer departs for audio company Sonos.
Marc Whitten, one of the original Xbox staff members who has been at the company for more than 14 years, will leave to join Sonos. Whitten was partly responsible for launching all the Xboxes that ever were - that's the first Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One - and Xbox Live.
New map, new mode, new items for all characters, no cash needed.
EA will release the first Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare DLC tomorrow, 18th March, adding a new map, mode and customisation options to the game's superb but slender launch offering. Regional prices are as follows: #163;0.00, $0.00 and €0.00. Don't mind if we do, Popcap.
"We've had times where we've thought this is too hard - why are we doing this?".
Mondays are for cherishing a hangover, staring glumly at the schedule and wondering why you decided to become a chartered accountant rather than an astronaut. Cheer up, everybody. If Creative Assembly can put together a game as promising as Alien: Isolation despite relatively little experience with either survival horror, console development or the Alien license, I'm sure you can make it to half five without chewing off your own hand in a fit of self-disgust.
"That's just not the first party thing to do, and it's not the Rare thing to do.".
An important detail from Aoife's Kinect Sports Rivals preview: Rare's Twycross HQ spans four converted barns, three of which are off-limits because never you mind why they're off-limits, stupid journalist person. What could those barns contain? The lost treasure of Atlantis? The ghost of Don Mattrick? Or perhaps, one of those reboots Rare is often accused of working on - a new Banjo, Perfect Dark or Viva Pinata for Xbox One.
Plot details also discussed in latest Lionhead blog post.
This week's Fable Legends character breakdown is a minor double-whammy - Lionhead has also seen fit to post details of a new (playable?) area, the Deadlands, a "desolate corner of Albion" that's "patrolled by the Strangers, an elusive group of men and women who act as an army, police force and communications network for those travelling across or living along the edges of this harsh environment".
Respawn shooter pumps hardware full of adrenaline.
In what probably isn't the most surprising news you'll read all year, Titanfall's launch in the UK on Friday has shot Xbox One hardware sales full of vim and vigour. UKIE reports that sales are up a staggering 96%, with sales of the #163;399.99 Titanfall bundle accounting for 70 per cent of this figure.
Cammy cammy cammy cammy cammy chameleon...
Ultra Street Fighter IV's fifth new character has been revealed, and as previously suspected, it's one of M.Bison's Dolls. Decapre, to be precise.
Get medieval on your DNS settings.
Having trouble getting a match going in Titanfall on Xbox One? Not-so-proud owner of a Belkin router? Good news, camper: Belkin has a few tips to share.
"When everything collapses, your mission begins".
Bet you forgot all about this in the pre-Titanfall/Dark Souls II hype, didn't you? Well, Ubisoft wants you to know that The Division, its upcoming open-world post-apocalyptic multiplayer shooter, is still alive and kicking.
Extra development time allowed for more content so the new version had to be resubmitted.
Ubisoft's upcoming open-world crime romp, Watch Dogs, was recently reclassified with an R18+ rating in Australia. Because the game had been delayed and the content changed, the Australian Classification Board (ACB) required the game to be resubmitted so it could take another look at the game and classify it accordingly.
Further details on open world hacking adventure revealed via Twitter.
Jonathan Morin - creative director on the upcoming Watch Dogs - has been a busy man as of late. Not content with an interview earlier in the week about the density of the game, he's now taken to Twitter to answer a few fan questions about Aiden's upcoming adventures.
PC beta players felt beginning of MMO was "too constrained".
Though The Elder Scrolls Online is still a fair distance away for us over here in the land of Xbox, the Bethesda MMO has been going through final testing in preparation for its launch on PC in a few weeks. It's thanks to this testing we now know about a few changes we can assume have been made to the game before it comes to the Xbox One later in the year.
Our regular weekly collection of lovely links for you to look at.
This week sees the start of the annual games convention season beginning with the Game Developers Conference - also known as GDC - in San Franciso. Though as the name implies it's mainly a developer facing affair, it's also as of recent years become something of a showcase for a range of indie developers, and you can bet ID@Xbox will have a strong showing as we peek into what could be the Titanfalls of tomorrow.
Cutesy tower defence now yours to download until the 31st March.
It's the 16th of the month, which means it's time for the excellent Civilization Revolution to leave the Games with Gold rotation. But no sooner does it leave than another game steps up to the podium of free games goodness to take its place. The offering? Trendy Entertainment's XBLA tower defence Dungeon Defenders.
