Third of five planned DLC packs adds new challenge map and fresh Salvage mode.
If you've crept and hidden and and shivered and died your way through the entirety of Alien: Isolation and its first two bits of Survivor-focused DLC, you'll be pleased to hear that a third is out today. Safe Haven adds a new challenge mode, Salvage, and puts you in the quaking shoes of a guy named Hughes, Sevastopol's communications manager.
Plus more games based on other peoples' stuff.
Episodic story wranglers Telltale have a new CEO, and he's revealed some interesting titbits in his inaugural statement. Titbits like: they have an "original IP" in the works, along with more "partnerships" like what Game of Thrones and The Wolf Among Us are.
VRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM.
Get your gear stick ready, set your car-phasers to car-stun and clear the glove box out of all those sweet wrappers, because a new Forza is on the horizon. (ohhhh did you see what I did there?)
Another day, another news piece based on a job posting.
Hello, and welcome back to Kate Speculates About Job Postings. This week, we've got an interesting one - Microsoft Game Studios are hiring into their Decisive Games team, and they're looking for someone to work on "the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise". Ooooh, vague.
This news story brought to you by Twitter: because press releases are boring(TM).
Rogue Legacy! The game that teaches you that colour blindness and ADHD are valuable traits to have! The game that makes you want your children to have genetic mutations! IT'S COMING!
Voice actors spill the voice beans about upcoming releases.
Ah, voice actors. Apparently you can trust them as far as you can throw them, which is not very far, especially given that the little-known Eleventh Commandment is "Thou Shalt Not Throw Voice Actors".
Spoilers: may contain deceased royalty.
Dead Kings, the first lump of DLC for Assassin's Creed: Unity, was originally intended to be paid content. Of course, after everything went a bit poire-shaped for Ubisoft - with faceless horrors, endless bugs, framerate issues and the infamous #163;65 "micro" transaction - they decided that maybe they needed to sweeten the deal a bit.
Fingers crossed that means we can play 1 vs 100 again.
Two job adverts have gone up on Microsoft's careers site. Frankly, we're a bit disappointed to find out that Microsoft don't hire people using some kind of technology-themed Hunger Games, but there you go.
But it means letting go of the Kinect.
There's nothing that says "I'm having a great Christmas" like spending your time hacking into the networks of two beloved consoles. People everywhere went from smiles of joy to tears of not-joy as they quickly realised that their brand-new Xbox Ones and other such magical game boxes would not work over much of the Christmas break. Luckily, some good has come of it - if you care about processing power, that is.
We're all off to spend time with our Xbox Ones... er, family. We mean family.
It's pretty much Christmas, and if you're still checking OXM for updates - well, you're very dedicated and we like that, but you should be eating mince pies and feeling generally a little bit festive.
On the first day of Christmas, my... oh, we can't do that any more :(.
So you're lying in a pile of torn-up wrapping paper, gravy and shame; you've opened all your presents and you still can't get rid of this niggling little feeling that something's missing. We know what's missing... FREE GAMES! Yay.
And it's free if you've played MCC before 19th December!.
Bonnie Ross, Head of 343 Industries, announced over the weekend that any players who have been experiencing issues with the online content on Halo: The Master Chief Collection (i.e. all of them) will be getting a little something extra in their stocking by way of an apology.
Announced with the BEST. PRESS RELEASE. EVER.
Telltale are on a roll this year, after collaborating with Gearbox Software on the excellent Tales From The Borderlands, twisting fairytales in The Wolf Among Us and creating the political minefield of Game of Thrones. We thought they might have hung up their hats for the year and gone for a well-deserved nap, but no. They're still at it.
Microsoft will send a team to your house to scar you up good and proper.
To celebrate the release of Fable Legends, Lionhead Studios have been auctioning off artwork from the Fable series for charity. They've come to the final lot now, and rather than a piece of artistic history, they're selling - you!
Ubisoft advise Xbox One owners to "uninstall and reinstall" the game.
Oh, dear. It's all gone a bit poire-shaped for our friends at Ubisoft, hasn't it? First the whole "women are hard to render" thing, then a load of framerate issues, missing faces, dodgy co-op, a patch that didn't fix enough and an Internet furystorm that might as well have been called Hurricane Arno. Now, there's this - a patch that's 6.7GB on most systems but a whopping 40GB on the Xbox One - that's the size of the entire game.
New Year? More like New GAMES.
Black Friday only comes once a year, but sales are eternal. They keep the world turning. Quite literally, in fact - the mad dash of thousands of shoppers is strategically planned so that their forward momentum generates the earth's spin. That's why Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet - not enough surface area for shopping malls. True fact.
And so is Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition.
Updates of last-gen games keep on coming. Ninja Theory's reboot of classic Capcom brawler DmC Devil May Cry is coming to Xbox One from March 17 next year, proudly waving the twin flags of '60 frames per second!' and '1080p!' with a mess of extra content. And, if that's not enough for you action-slasher fans, Devil May Cry 4 will arrive a few months later.
Phil Spencer says "it's time for us to talk about gaming on Windows".
A consumer leak ahead of January's Windows 10 presentation has revealed an Xbox app on Microsoft's early build of their next operating system.
With a little help from our good friend Black Friday.
Xbox One has only just had its first birthday, and already the gifts are rolling in: bundles, iPlayer, special statues of Arno posing in front of a guillotine, and now the best-selling console in November - which means those Black Friday deals were tempting enough to bring a whole new bunch of Xbox fans into the folds. Welcome, new friends. You'll like it here.
And you get to vote for which hat you like best.
Have you been watching Sunset TV? Of course you have. You love its slightly awkward scripted humour and its insistence that the game world is real. So you'll have seen this video, announcing the new story-based expansion due on December 23rd, then.
