Readers hungry for more one-on-one information about the upcoming XBox One have an answer in IGN’s “Ask Microsoft Anything About XBox One” feature, updated most recently on Monday, August 12. Most of the currently-posted information is tidbits fleshing out what we already knew. A few noteworthy bits worth mentioning are: confirmation that XBox One will
Months after its initial announcement, Microsoft has finally stepped back from the brink. In the aftermath of a lukewarm (at best) E3 reception, Microsoft’s President of Interactive Entertainment Business Don Mattrick announced the reversal of the embattled XBox One’s most onerous DRM features. No longer will consumers require a regular Internet connection to authenticate and
Until this week, the veteran industry crew at Respawn Entertainment have kept the lid on their first project Titanfall. The first-person infantry/mech shooter had really only been mentioned by name, slated for the cover of this month’s Game Informer, but now it’s out there in the wild, and goodness is it beautiful.
This is a quick and dirty breakdown of Microsoft’s 2013 E3 Press Conference. As such, we shall eschew many of the bells and whistles that we normally append to our work. You can watch the highest points of the conference in it’s entirety in the following link:
Earlier today, Microsoft released a short and thankfully straightforward statement, addressing many of the questions resulting from the clumsy and vague handling that characterized their post–XBox One-announcement audience attitude. You can find several full texts with the full details here. I’m often a fan of full disclosure. I find it refreshingly rare in a market
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Well the Next Generation has officially been announced. As Microsoft took center stage with its One device. Will it be the One Console to rule them all? Join our heroes and heroine as they go Next Gen with a discussion of the
The XBox One has already given us many reasons for disappointment but the used game situation stands out as especially dire. And Ben Kuchera of the Penny Arcade Report, supposedly a bastion of critical coverage in the oft-troubled arena of videogame trade journalism, has – astonishingly – told us it could be good news. The
The first volley of the next generation console war has been fired, and as the smoke clears, it becomes apparent that we know far less about the imminent release of the Playstation 4 and the Xbox One than is customary for hardware releases of this size and importance. We’ve put together a comparison of what
Today sees the announcement of Microsoft’s next generation of gaming console, and the stakes are high. Microsoft has lost a lot of consumer faith over the last six months due to a number of crippling rumors about the features of the new Xbox – and perhaps more importantly, a lack of response to these rumors.