Xbox One backwards compatible games allow you to rediscover some of the greatest moments from the console’s history, or to experience them for the time on the latest consoles. Microsoft announced that no more games would be added to the Xbox One backwards compatibility library (opens in new tab) in …
Read More »Xbox 360 is the USs top selling console for 18 months straight
We knew that the Xbox 360 has been doing pretty well in the West as of late, but we didn’t realize Microsoft has kind of been dominating the Western console industry. In a financial release (opens in new tab) from Microsoft, they said that Xbox 360 has been the number …
Read More »Forza Horizon preview – How Turn 10 fixed the Forza problem
Forza had a problem. Though it had no issue courting those already indoctrinated into car culture, the focus on authenticity was a turnoff for anyone else. The physics, the beautiful graphics, the realistic gameplay – they were all lost on a majority of gamers. There was no easy solution. Turning …
Read More »Crysis 3 preview – First look at the urban jungle, bows, arrows, and hacking
At a recent EA press event we got a chance to check out the next iteration in the Crysis series, this time adding a new environment, a surprisingly low tech weapon and some handy new abilities. In Crysis 3, Prophet, the main protagonist from the first game makes a return …
Read More »Ghost Recon: Future Soldier co-op preview Learn to be a team player
The thing about military combat is that tactics is everything. You don’t sprint through the jungle spraying bullets onto enemy positions, survive more than three gunshot wounds, or single-handedly stop world ending nuclear launches. Either you work with your team or end up – you know – dead. Tom Clancy’s …
Read More »Another new Xbox rumour! Now it runs Blu-ray, blocks used games. And heres why thats 50% bull
You know the drill by now. Unconfirmed sources, might well be a load of old bollocks, but we might as well trot it all out for your perusal and consideration so that we can all speculate on how it might all turn out. Because even if though we’ll forget all …
Read More »Poll: Microsoft might be killing MS Points in favour of real, actual, money. Praise be for (much belated) common sense?
Making purchases on Xbox Live is a bit of a ball-ache. Aside from the fairly prohibitive lack of worthwhile content of late, the main stumbling block is those tricksy MS Points. Existing, let’s face it, as naught but a cheeky scam to a) make you overspend on purchases, and b) …
Read More »Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 achievement and trophy guide
It is entirely possible that you’ve already poured tens of hours into MW3’s multiplayer and have 0g or no trophies to show for it. That’s because Infinity Ward has once again decided to make all achievements attainable without ever hooking your console up to the internet. So we went off …
Read More »Secret World: Funcom launches beta-registration ARG
Wake-up call, citizen. The world you live in is a shallow simulacrum of the real one, with secret societies and back-room backstabbers controlling how you live, work and think. And now you’ve got the chance to play a videogame about them! Funcom’s action-MMORPG, The Secret World, is gearing up for …
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