Microsoft decided to drop the entry price of their Xbox One video-game console in order to boost the demand for the device. The Xbox One was released last year in November with an entry price of $499, while its greatest rival Sony PlayStation 4 was released with an entry price of $399. Costing $100 dollars less, Sony’s PlayStation 4 was ...
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Microsoft will refund Xbox Live Gold subscriptions
With the changes in Xbox Live policies that will debut in June, Microsoft decided to reimburse anyone who bought an Xbox Live Gold subscription and wishes to cancel it. This decision was made to better align the services with the new developments. Apps don’t require a Gold subscription anymore, so anyone who wants to back out of that and still ...
Read More »Kinect-free Xbox One coming June 9 for $399
Microsoft has apparently listened to customer feedback and decided to offer a Kinect-free version of Xbox One starting next month. This unbundled version will be available for purchase in all regions on June 9 for the price of $399. The regular version of Xbox One will still be priced at $499 and sold side-by-side with the Kinect-free console. Microsoft also ...
Read More »Microsoft announces Games with Gold for Xbox One
Along with the announcement that the Xbox One will start shipping without Kinect, Microsoft also revealed the Games with Gold program for the new console. Every user that has a Xbox Live Gold subscription will receive two games for Xbox 360 and two games for Xbox One, starting next month. The first two games that will be offered for free ...
Read More »Diablo III: Reaper of Souls coming to consoles in August
The expansion to Diablo III, Reaper of Souls, has finally received a release date. Blizzard announced that the game will come to consoles old and new on the 19th of August. Yes. That’s right. The game will not only release for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as was initially announced, but will run on older hardware like PlayStation 3 and ...
Read More »Wolfenstein: The New Order has a branching storyline
In an era when shooters tend to focus almost exclusively on online features, Wolfenstein: The New Order dares to be a single player only game. Considering that most FPS experiences in recent memory have had campaigns that last 4 to 6 hours, the fact that Machine Head claims that their game has about 20 hours of gameplay AND also has ...
Read More »Lords of the Fallen – Leaked footage emerges
Lords of the Fallen has started to get attention worldwide in the past few months, in part thanks to the trailers Deck 13 and CI Games have released recently. But we all know by now that everything that is released via trailers is heavily scripted and/or choreographed in order to make the game look better than it can be in real ...
Read More »Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive gets a gameplay trailer
Insomniac Games, the people behind the Ratchet and Clank video game series has released it’s first gameplay video of their new game and IP Sunset Overdrive. The Xbox One exclusive is a third person shooter with focus on zone traversal and high-powered weaponry. One of the key definition points of the game is, according to Insomniac, velocity as wall-running, spring ...
Read More »Minecraft for current-gen still limited
Minecraft has been around for a few years on the PC, and has recently jumped to mobiles and consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Although the gameplay is almost identical on all platforms, the only version of the game which features infinite worlds is still the PC. Fans of the game on consoles hoped that the Xbox One ...
Read More »Console version of The Elder Scrolls Online possibly delayed
The Elder Scrolls Online might not be coming out on Xbox One and PS4 in june, as many expected. A – now taken down – FAQ by Bethesda noted that the project for the two recently released consoles is suffering a delay of “about six months”, in order to allow the developer time to make the game acceptable for release. ...
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