Xbox One users unaffected.
Microsoft has posted an Xbox Live service alert, warning of potential problems with multiplayer, friends features and game performance thanks to the arrival of Battlefield 4 DLC pack Second Assault on Xbox 360. This doesn't extend to the Xbox One, thankfully - Second Assault has been available on the younger console for a while.
More details about the next generation of Twitch.
Microsoft's Major Nelson has been fiddling around with the latest iteration of Xbox One's Twitch app, due to arrive on 11th March. Have you got room in your life for just over an hour of Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, running at a cool 30 frames a second in 720p? There's the embed, if you do.
MW4 info shared by same YouTuber to leak Call of Duty: Ghosts last year.
Details on Sledgehammer's new Call of Duty game would appear to have leaked online via sources close to the project, a COD YouTube personality has claimed.
Treyarch also releases Black Ops 2 Personalisation packs.
Activision will release a Makarov Legend DLC pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox Live today, which lets you play as "arguably the darkest villain in COD lore", complete with his own bespoke weapon camo, patch, reticle, player card and background.
DICE Los Angeles steps up to the plate.
DICE Los Angeles will create the next two Battlefield 4 DLC packs - Dragon's Teeth and Last Stand - after this month's Naval Strike, according to a mod-validated DICE developer on Reddit.
Castlevania: LOS Mirror of Fate HD also going cheap.
Roll up, roll up. Get your oven-fresh games discounts here. You there sir, you look like a man that needs more Xbox Live Gold discounts in your life.
Fills up 2.8GB, introduces Duels mode.
PopCap has released a 2.8GB update for Peggle 2 on Xbox One that adds a Duels mode to the game, as promised in December.
Anonymous slide shows "Darkness of Tyvia".
A sequel to Bethesda's 2012 stealth title Dishonored is rumoured to be revealed at E3 this year, according to a slide on AllGamesBeta.
The saga continues.
Battlefield 4 has come a long way since that lamentably buggy launch in November, but there are still problems. Players running into walls at a bone-crushing velocity, for instance. Vehicles that won't go "boom" no matter how many rockets you throw at them.
Microsoft to launch big cross-platform push soon, claims report.
Microsoft will soon extend Xbox Live functionality to iOS and Android games, according to a report, allowing players on those platforms to earn achievements, find friends and possibly even engage in cross-platform multiplayer.
Enric Alvarez not keen on "blind", "stupid" Edge review.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 game director Enric Alvarez has accused certain reviewers "a lack of honesty" and "professionalism", castigating our sister magazine Edge's review as "blind and stupid". Somebody fetch me a bucket of water, please.
High expectations made delay to polish up game possible.
Who's to blame for the Watch Dogs delay? You are. Well, in a manner of speaking. According to creative director Jonathan Morin, the development team chose to postpone release because it felt the game fell short of the hype.
EA hosts hands-on event for dedicated fans.
Can't wait for Titanfall? Based in London, or happy to make the trip? EA will throw a super-limited access hands-on event in Shoreditch across 12th-13th March, allowing players to try out the game up to 48 hours before it hits UK shelves.
Danish developer won't return to XBLA classic for the moment.
Remember LIMBO? It's one of Xbox Live Arcade's more treasured platformers - the oppressively introspective tale of a boy's journey through a Stygian landscape in search of a mysterious girl. The possibility of a sequel was bandied about following the unearthing of a mysterious "Project 2" in 2012, but alas, it appears that Playdead has other plans for the moment.
A round-up of newsbytes from last week.
My Serious Churnalistic Enquiries as to the Xbox One's first crop of ID@Xbox titles continues. Alas, not everybody has been as forthcoming as Iridium, which is working on an Xbox One version of There Came an Echo, or Crunching Koalas, which may bring MouseCraft and Wordtrap Dungeon to the console. Still, the below may be of interest.
He's pretty handy with a blade, too.
With Fable Anniversary out of the way, the avuncular Demon Door that is Lionhead has begun to whisper of Fable Legends, the developer's first game for Xbox One. There's a lot of firsts where Legends is concerned, actually. It's the first boxed Fable game to give players a choice of heroes, for starters. Would you like to meet one of those heroes? His name is Sterling, and he's quite the charmer.
Bioware has "discussed that internally".
Who wants a Mass Effect trilogy remastered re-release on Xbox One? You do? Well apparently Bioware wants one too, so much so that they've "discussed it internally." Could some more concrete news be that far over the horizon?
"Play as Alucard and reveal a whole new aspect of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2".
Dracula's imaginatively-named vamp son Alucard may be getting a starring role in Castlevania: Lord of Shadow 2's upcoming story DLC expansion, if rumours floating around on the internet are anything to go by.
Choose from Ryse, Dead Rising 3, Zoo Tycoon or Forza Motorsport 5.
Quick, UK-based Xbox fans - to the Impulse-Purchase Mobile! Zavvi has a #163;399.99 Xbox One on sale that includes both Titanfall and one of four launch games. If you've been waiting for an opportunity to take the plunge, this is one of the best deals so far.
Info and screenshot on generations, ziplines and turrets.
Titanfall is almost in our grasp and info is pouring out that details ziplines, turrets, game modes and more.
