"There is no way to make your Xbox One backwards compatible & performing steps to attempt this could make your console inoperable".
I remember when trolls used to be ubiquitous yet slightly terrifying plastic dolls with improbably large hair. These days you're likely to find them spreading all kinds of trouble and mischief on the internet, and lately they've been tricking people into inadvertently rendering their #163;400+ Xbox Ones inoperable.
Capy aim to release both Xbox One and XBLA versions at same time.
This is one of those bad news/good news scenarios. On the one hand, Capy's delightfully manic looking shooter Super Time Force for XBLA will not make its intended original release date of before the end of this year. On the other, the reason is they're now also bringing the game to Xbox One.
Insert obvious "Bungie's date with Destiny" strapline here.
What are your plans for next September? Perhaps you'll be getting back from your summer holidays and returning to work or school? Whatever you're doing, you might want to clear some space for some hot multiplayer sci-fi shooter action from Bungie, as they've just revealed the release date for the upcoming Destiny.
"Chat changed because the system is now able to do more than one thing at once".
Speaking with Polygon, Xbox Group Program manager Jeff Henshaw confirmed what Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb alluded to in a Reddit post earlier this week; Microsoft is aware with the air of discontent surrounding the Xbox One's chat functionality and is looking at ways to improve the feature.
"We're anticipating another update on its ETA for release very soon after the holidays".
With all this talk of The Walking Dead episode two, you best not have forgotten about Telltale's other ongoing comic book adaptation, The Wolf Among Us, which should be launching its second episode, Smoke and Mirrors, in the next few months.
Will you follow the Blue Sentinels, the Brotherhood of Blood, or the Heirs to the Sun?.
Praise the mostly invisible early December sun - new details on upcoming Xbox 360 title Dark Souls II have emerged. Developer From Software and publisher Namco Bandai have shared new details on how players can invade or willingly be summoned to each other's worlds for cooperative and competitive multiplayer via Dark Souls' official Facebook page.
Nuclear Winter is coming, though.
Here's a piece of advice, from me to you. Don't visit the mysterious Survivor 2299 site with headphones in. Otherwise you'll find that your usual Friday morning serving of Lazerhawk (or whatever the cool kids are listening to these days) is interspersed with particularly shrill morse code. What does all this noise and these random characters mean? Well, I was rather hoping you could tell me that.
"We don't want to take any chances and are addressing this issue head on".
Following on from numerous reports of over the summer, Microsoft's corporate affairs executive Brad Smith says that he is "alarmed" at the allegations of "a broader and concerted effort by some governments to circumvent online security measures," and promised readers that the company would strengthen security measures for all its services and products, including the Xbox One and all related services, like Xbox Live.
"For every feature you've seen in the launch titles, there are five features in the queue.".
Having fun hacking people's arms off in Ryse, or getting stamped on by Aoife's (she claims) unstoppable Drivatar in Forza Motorsport 5? The best is yet to come, you may be unsurprised to hear. Speaking to OXM as part of a lengthy piece on the future of Xbox One you'll read in our latest issue, Microsoft Studios exec Phil Harrison has promised that future Xbox One games will make use of the platform's various capabilities in far teresting ways.
"I'm Loving It" achievement in Battlefield 4 also nobbled.
Another day, another Xbox Live service alert. Curse these hardware launches and their attendant string of snafus and fudge-ups. Mmm, fudge.
It's all about "density", not size.
Do you know what I'm now looking forward to doing at some point in 2014? Hurtling through the channels of a dried-up, dessicated ocean floor in a heavily modified muscle car. Avalanche Studios' senior game designer Emil Kraftling has been chatting to Ausgamers about its Mad Max adaptation, which seeks to show that there's more to the post-apocalypse than desert.
Vlambeer reports "nothing but good news", but wants contract changed.
Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne will release on Xbox One following its appearance on PC and PS4, the developer's co-founder Rami Ismail has revealed to Joystiq. A top-down retro-styled shooter in which players tour an irradiated wasteland, the game will be self-published on Xbox Live as part of the ID@Xbox program.
Full change log through the cut.
What with all the upset over Battlefield 4, it's easy to forget that the latest incarnation of the franchise's ancient rival could do with a bit of a tune-up, too. Activision has released a new patch for Call of Duty: Ghosts on Xbox One, which purports to fix a number of crash and networking bugs, and also adds a "hardcore" option to the Domination leaderboards.
"We've been working on Xbox One games for a while now," says Iron Galaxy.
Iron Galaxy's previously PlayStation-exclusive fighting game parody Divekick is coming to Xbox One, the developer's Dave Lang has revealed as part of today's ID@Xbox news avalanche. The port will apparently "take advantage of all the platform's unique capabilities". Cloud-based? Kinect-powered? The mind just about boggles.
Double Fine, Slightly Mad, Comcept, NinjaBee sign up for the program.
Microsoft has announced the first developers who will publish games for Xbox One under the manufacturer's ID@Xbox program, unveiled at Gamescom this summer. According to the program's director Chris Charla, "thousands" of developers have expressed an interest, and Microsoft has now shipped development kits to more than 50 companies.
Applications cover downloadable games and online services.
We have incoming, ladies and gentleman. Possibly. EA has filed two trademarks for "Desert Strike", in what could be an indication that the venerated MegaDrive-era helicopter series is due a reboot.
"I think it worked out quite well for us," says Johan Andersson.
1080p, 30fps. 720p, 60 fps. 900p - well, you get the idea. There have been a lot of numbers thrown around in the last couple of weeks, and a lot of soul-searching as to how much those numbers actually matter. According to DICE's Johan Andersson, it's fundamentally a question of what you want to achieve with the game in general - as regards Battlefield 4, frame rate and player count took priority.
Rediscover the secrets of the Golden Age in Bungie's "totally not an MMO" shooter.
Destiny! At long, long last, you appear to be taking some sort of tangible form. Bungie has released a shedload of new details for the 2014-bound Xbox One and Xbox shooter by way of the latest issue of GameInformer, including the nitty-gritty on class customisation.
Skills, spells, Ultimates, morphing and more.
Pick your poison: a lightning bolt that stands a chance to disintegrate the target, a heal spell that also restores magicka or, erm, poison. That's just one of literally more than one choices you'll make in The Elder Scrolls Online for Xbox One, Poor Man's Xbox One and Office-Based Console, out in early 2014.
Adewale of a time.
Fear not, landlubbers. If you've finished everything there is to do in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, there'll be brand new single player content available to download on 17th December.
