Ubisoft's co-op shooter goes RRP-less for Christmas.
Morning all. Apologies for the shortage of updates this morning - we've had a few technical hiccups, whoopsies and assorted snafus to work through. You don't care, do you? All you care about is Free Xbox Gamez (TM). The latest of these is Shoot Many Robots, a four-player run-and-gunner from Demiurge and Ubisoft. Got 593.48 MB free on your hard drive? Download here.
Do they serve Undead Burgers?.
Let's end the weekend with the news that a Dark Souls-themed cafe is opening in Japan. Yes, you did read that right - a cafe, themed around the world of Dark Souls, in Japan. I think that sound is Ed already hurriedly booking a flight.
"We're hoping we will be able to put something up in the first quarter, at minimum second quarter".
It's been a while since we heard anything on Microsoft's Xbox television plans, but now the Xbox One is out of the door it seems they're ready to talk more when exactly we'll see the promised original programming such as the previously announced Halo TV series collaboration with Steven Spielberg.
Like an advent calendar of link-y treats.
It's been a while. A mixture of new console launches, technical issues and an avalanche of new trailers have meant our weekly round-up has been on a brief hiatus for the last couple of weeks. Luckily we return sort of like an early Christmas present to you. Although we'll probably save the other festive references until next week.
Sci-fi shooter taking a leaf from Dark Souls' book.
Some formation has trickled out on the upcoming Destiny next year, and of all the games you'd expect the former keepers of the Halo series to be taking crib notes from, Dark Souls doesn't seem a likely candidate. However, according to Bungie - that's exactly what they're doing.
New footage fresh from the Capcom Cup.
OK, we'll admit it - even we've made a few jokes at just how many versions of SF IV there have been by this point - but a trailer shown at last night's Capcom Cup finals shows that the latest refresh, known as Ultra Street Fighter IV, also includes some impressive new features that might make it a worthwhile upgrade.
We don't think he's Lion about this, anyway.
If you're releasing the wonderful cartoon capers of Rayman Legends on next-gen consoles, who would you get to promote it? If you said "Snoop Dogg" then you're probably Ubisoft because that's exactly who they've got in the latest trailer that was released this week.
Clementine versus the Walkers.
Can you feel that? Those are the feels building up inside you. It's only natural, as next week finally sees the release of All That Remains, the first episode of the eagerly anticipated Season Two of The Walking Dead.
Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ultimate MvC3 and all DLC disappearing on 26th December.
If you're looking to buff up your fighting game collection you may want to take note of news coming out of Capcom today, as the company have announced titles in their popular comic crossover biff-'em-up Marvel vs Capcom are to leave the Xbox Live Store.
"The game wasn't working, so (they had) to start again".
Remember Rainbow 6: Patriots? Revealed all the way back in 2011, the latest entry in this particular Tom Clancy series was supposed to see the light of day sometime this year. As you've probably guessed by this point, it hasn't. So what's up?
Individual texture and skin packs on one-day 50%-off sale to celebrate.
10,000,000. It's a huge number and it's one that 4J Studios and Mojang are celebrating this weekend as they announced that the Xbox 360 version of the block building smash hit has sold a phenomenal ten million copies in the eighteen months since it's been on sale.
New mission, character, weapons, vehicle and costume.
Dead Rising 3's very first DLC add-on has been unveiled. Titled Operation Broken Eagle, it stars Spec Ops Commander Adam Kane, a man tasked with finding and capturing the President of the United States. It's like Air Force One, but backwards! Or something like that. I hope the President turns out to be Harrison Ford.
Pit your wits against Capcom Vancouver's open world zombie murderer.
A Dead Rising 3 demo is now available to download from the Xbox One Games Store, according to Microsoft's Larry Hryb. You'll find it in the New Game Demos section - alas, it doesn't appear to be visible on Xbox.com. Bear in mind that availability may vary by region.
Is this Creative Assembly's new Alien game?.
The very first in-game screenshots of what appears to be Creative Assembly's unannounced Alien game have surfaced on Twitter, care of XBLA snoop lifelower. They show off a motion tracker, space suits and environment design that's strongly redolent of the original 1979 film. How about those chunky keyboards and CRT screens, eh?
"I would love to see a game I can play in Snap mode while watching TV.".
Will any of the games released under the ID@Xbox self-publishing program be exclusive to Xbox One? Program director Chris Charla isn't sure just yet - but certain games will, apparently, be hard to replicate on platforms that don't support Kinect or SmartGlass.
"Players may experience some downtime as we upgrade our services.".
DICE and EA have released a new Battlefield 4 Xbox One update on Xbox Live, according to a Battlelog post. You may have trouble getting into the multiplayer while the developer fiddles around with the back-end.
"It was sad when I saw people's responses that this game seemed small to them," says Greenawalt.
Weary of Forza Motorsport 5's on-disc track selection already? Alas, the first round of DLC tracks seems to be a fair way off. Speaking to Eurogamer, Turn 10's creative director Dan Greenawalt has suggested that it could take several months to prepare new tracks for the game - apparently, the developer spent the best part of a year updating one of the courses from Forza Motorsport 4 for the new game.
Drag Racing and Tag mode to join multiplayer roster.
Ask and you shall receive. Turn 10 will release a free Forza Motorsport 5 update this month which reduces the price of the on-disc cars by 45 per cent. A $6 million Ferrari 250 GTO, for instance, will cost $2 million when the patch goes live at some point this month.
New screenshots also revealed.
Lionhead's HD Xbox 360 remake Fable: Anniversary will launch on 4th February 2014 in North America, 6th February in Asia and 7th February in Europe. The first copies of the game will come with a free download code for in-game outfits, weapons and an Avatar costume - if you're interested in the latter, you'll want to preorder now.
Creators of Max and the Curse of Brotherhood have secrets to share.
Microsoft-owned Press Play has a number of new IPs in development alongside the Xbox-exclusive Max and the Curse of Brotherhood, OXM can reveal.
