Tag Archives: Xbox

When Rare Replay was announced at E3, it immediately became one of the most highly anticipated releases of the year – and for good reason: Rare is one of the most iconic developers in the world of video games. In 1982, Tim and Chris Stamper established Ultimate Play the Game, a small development group that would be reborn as Rare in 1985. ...

Just a few months ago, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One will be capable of playing certain Xbox 360 games with just a simple update. At Gamescom, a release window for the backwards compatibility update has been announced. Sometime in November, you will be able to play from an initial list of 100 Xbox 360 games on your Xbox One. It has ...

Rico Rodriguez returns in Just Cause 3 with a vengeance, and at Gamescom, a new gameplay trailer for the game was unveiled. As usual, another dictator is the main antagonist, and he wants to burn down the town of Costa del Porto and basically kill a bunch of people. Naturally, Rico will have to stop him, though the dictator apparently ...

A new gameplay trailer of Rise of the Tomb Raider was shown off at Gamescom, this time putting Lara Croft in a jungle environment. In it, it is revealed that you will be going up against a mysterious organization known as Trinity, who is far better armed than the band of shipwrecked band of Solarii in the Tomb Raider reboot. ...

While no gameplay was shown off, a short cinematic trailer of Halo Wars 2 set the tone for where the new game will be taking the crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire. As most trailers start off these days, a wounded Marine was being dragged by his fellow Marine, firing his pistol at an unknown threat. Eventually, he runs ...

While Homefront on the last gen consoles had an interesting premise, where North Korea successfully invaded and occupied a large amount of the continental United States, the game failed to stand out from a gameplay standpoint. In Homefront: The Revolution though, things are promised to change. For starters, there will be a co-op element to the campaign. Furthermore, it is ...

As expected, the flagship title of Xbox showed off another gameplay trailer, this time mostly concentrated on multiplayer. As such, a lot of the trailer showed off things like shotgun sliding and ground pounding, a clear indication of the faster gameplay that 343 Industries is focusing on. Once the trailer was over, some gameplay of a CTF game between two ...

The long awaited continuation of the Crackdown series debuted a trailer at Gamescom, which was rather short, but revealed a significant new gameplay mechanic being added into the series. Like the other games in the Crackdown universe, you take on the role of an Agent in your fight against crime. Unlike the other games in the series however, environmental destruction is ...

For the first time since Quantum Break was unveiled at E3 with a trailer many years ago, some Quantum Break gameplay was unveiled at Microsoft’s briefing at Gamescom 2015. For starters, it is a cover based third person shooter not unlike Gears of War. Unlike Gears of War though, cover isn’t quite as important, though that can probably be attributed to ...

If you’ve got Xbox Live Gold, here are the games that you can get for free for the month of August, as announced by Major Nelson. Overall, it appears as though the Games with Gold games offered for the Xbox 360 are more enticing than the games offered for the Xbox One, featuring the well acclaimed Metro series. Xbox One ...