Microsoft "has a plan in place", "franchise will continue".
One of the highlights of the Xbox One launch lineup, free-to-play fighting game Killer Instinct, is moving to another developer after creator Double Helix was bought by, er, Amazon. Yes, the book Amazon.
Crytek's Gold-exclusive free-to-play shooter hits the Marketplace.
What are you up to this evening? Entertaining relatives? Burying contraband? Re-arranging your stamp collection? Wrong. You're going to play Warface, Crytek's preposterous free-to-play shooter for PC and Xbox 360. The console version's public beta is upon us - sign up here.
Xbox One project confirmed, hints amass.
Ubisoft's Montreal and Toronto studios have new games on the way, as communicated unto the discerning enthusiast public via LinkedIn portfolios.
This could be Final Fantasy's darkest hour.
If you thought Lara Croft had a rough time of things in last year's Tomb Raider reboot, just wait till you watch this video of the latest DLC costume for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It's kind of like falling onto a rusted metal spike while burning alive, only without the underlying sense of fun.
Out this month - second update to follow before Titanfall's release.
Microsoft will release an Xbox One system update on Tuesday 11th February, chief product officer Marc Whitten has just announced on Xbox Wire. Among other things, it'll fine-tune the console's dashboard, improve Kinect voice commands and introduce the ability to manage storage.
"We are not making decisions in order to extract value.".
How do you justify micro-transactions in a full-priced game? The trick, according to Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, is simply to make a game that's so abysmally good people won't mind paying a little extra on top.
No region locking, no cross-platform play, other stuff.
Like a dog trying to eat a bowl of cereal, Respawn has been spitting out Titanfall and Xbox One-flavoured newsbytes left, right and centre. Here's a round-up of recent Twitter happenings, exhilaratingly couched as a micro list feature because I lack the patience to write a proper article.
Three cars for free.
Vroom, vroom! Hark, the uncouth music of rapidly approaching savings. Turn 10 has released a free Forza Motorsport 5 DLC pack on Xbox Live, granting Xbox One petrolheads access to three classic Honda roadsters - the 1984 Honda CR-X Mugen, 1994 Honda Prelude Si and 2014 Honda Civic Si Coupe.
Forget flowers and chocolates, DLC is the way to a Vault Hunter's heart.
Two households, both alike in instability, in fair Pandora where we lay our scene. D'aww, can't you just feel the love in the air? No, wait, entrails. Those are entrails. Mind you, for a Valentines Day celebration in Borderlands 2, I'd expect nothing less.
Nine minutes of high-pitched giggling and puppet beatdowns.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 lacks the sheer brute graphical force of a Ryse or a Forza, but ye gods does it look pretty. Find a new nine minute gameplay video below - it depicts a spat 'twixt sulky leading man Gabriel/Dracula and a really unpleasant Toy Maker. Don't buy your Kim Possible playsets from this guy, kids.
Snake? Snake? SNAAAA - *Game Over*.
Oh Kojima. Only you could get away with these kind of rumours. If it were anyone else, people would be up in arms, but at the moment we're all just shaking our heads and chuckling at the audacity of it all. You cheeky cutscene-loving scamp, you.
Get the console, Kinect and a controller for 30% off the RRP.
Here's another saving you might want to take advantage of, before we bow out for the day - the Xbox One is on sale at Tech For Less (via Amazon) for $469.99, $30 or so off the RRP.
Non-Gold subscribers get a free seven day trial.
The Xbox 360 version of World of Tanks will finally rumble out of the garage on 12th February, Wargaming West has announced. Quick, rush me a tank metaphor! "Enough panzering around", perhaps?
Swap one of Xbox One's launch titles for this year's hottest FPS.
Still in possession of that unwisely acquired copy of Fighter Within, Ubisoft's shambolic motion controlled fight 'em up? Trade it in at Gamestop and you'll be able to buy either Respawn's Titanfall or Eidos Montreal's Thief for #163;14.97. Not too shabby.
"I think, me personally, that a lot of the more hardcore players will turn it off.".
Dark Souls 2 is shaping up to be one of the spring's best games - but can it topple the fearsome original? Aoife took an extended tour of From Software's new opus last month, and came away with seven reasons for Dark Souls fans to worry.
Already pretty game just got prettier.
Below, reader, lies a trailer for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, a next gen version of last year's triumphant (and eventually, profitable) reboot for Xbox 360 and PS3. Its contents: sparkly bits. Also dust motes and sun beams. Have a watch.
No "fall off" in sales of old gen catalog to report, apparently.
If you're holding out hope for GTA 5 on Xbox One, you'll probably be holding out for a while. The game's commercial performance on Xbox 360 and PS3 hasn't been affected by the release of next generation hardware, according to Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, and the company has nothing to say right now about the prospect of a port.
NBA game may also come to Xbox 360 too.
Take-Two Interactive president Karl Slatoff has announced that new WWE and NBA games are winging their way to next generation platforms, together with "other unannounced titles that promise to raise the bar for excellence". You can expect more news about all the publisher's upcoming titles "as we head into E3".
"Watch_Dogs is still being polished as we speak.".
Some upstanding member of the internet has tried to fake the abandonment of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs trademark, striking a mighty blow for the furtherance of idiocy at large. Ubisoft is now working with the Ubited States Patent and Trademark Office to have this attempt overturned, and assures us that development of Watch Dogs proceeds apace.
Take me down to Los Santos City.
Who fancies taking a quick city break to Los Santos or Liberty City this weekend? 2K have slashed prices on both GTAV, GTAIV, and its DLC this week, so there's never been a better time than now.
