News Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
Masses of moolah to be saved!
News - November, 2015
Thursday26th Nov 2015
News Linx Launches Windows 10 Tablet in UK With Built in Xbox One Controller
A strange beast
Hardware manufacturer Linx has released a new tablet in the UK which comes with a little bit extra as standard. The Linx Vision 8 Gaming Tablet (as some retailers are listing it, though the manufacturer just calls it the Linx Vision) is a Windows 10-powered tablet with an 8" display with 800x1280 resolution, Quad-Core Intel chipset,...
Tuesday24th Nov 2015
News December's Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games With Gold Offers Up Five Titles
Merry Christmas
It's Christmas time (almost) and Microsoft have announced that they'll be spreading the festive cheer by offering up five - count 'em! - titles via Games With Gold in December. From December 1st, you'll be able to download The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (which will be a new release) for Xbox One and CastleStorm on Xbox...
Monday23rd Nov 2015
Review Star Wars: Battlefront (Xbox One)
A New Hope?
There's been an awakening. Have you felt it? From soup commercials to comic books, toys to movies, it's impossible to ignore the force that Star Wars has over the entertainment realm this holiday season. The hype even extends to the video game world, as the beloved Star Wars: Battlefront series is making a return after a 10-year snooze...
Friday20th Nov 2015
News Here Are Your Xbox One and Xbox 360 Digital Black Friday Deals
Masses of moolah to be saved!
Microsoft's 2015 Black Friday digital sale has kicked off for Xbox Live Gold members, and a plethora of titles have seen their prices slashed on both Xbox One and Xbox 360. No preamble from us. The list of deals is below, complete with US pricing. If you're an Xbox Live Gold user, you can get these deals NOW. If you...
News Well, This Is One Way of Getting Round an Exclusive Advertising Deal...
Clever
Microsoft may have lost the battle to Sony over picking up exclusive marketing deals for EA's Star Wars: Battlefront, which launched yesterday in the UK, but they seem to have found a way around it in one UK newspaper. This morning's Metro contains a three-eighths feature on the game and on the facing page...well...you can see it below...
Wednesday18th Nov 2015
Review Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition (Xbox One)
Certainly not definitive
Considering how much better PC versions of games generally were in the last generation, it's been nice to see so many titles make the jump from Xbox 360 to Xbox One. Games such as DmC: Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition have seen huge improvements both graphically and gameplay wise. For the most part, these enhanced versions...
Review The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone (Xbox One)
Itchin' for more witchin'
CD Projekt RED sure knows how to treat its fans. Not only was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a fantastic and deep RPG, but fans were rewarded with a consistent trickle of free DLC that ranged from new quests, outfits, and even a "New Game+" mode. Now, Hearts of Stone — the first paid expansion for The Witcher 3 — has released...
Tuesday17th Nov 2015
Get those wallets ready
As we reported on Friday, Microsoft will indeed be partaking in the annual Black Friday madness next week and have shed a little more light on the sort of thing that will be going on. A new video promises savings on "over 150 games" where you'll be able to save "up to 40-60%." The video does show some boxart for a bunch of...
Sunday15th Nov 2015
Review Need for Speed (Xbox One)
Monsterous
We thought we'd take the "in-your-face" approach to reviewing Ghost Games' apparent "reboot" of the Need for Speed franchise, which we were disappointed to learn has very little to do with 1994's Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed. We will not apologise for it because nothing can hold us back. We're edgy. We're cool. We're...
Friday13th Nov 2015
News Yes, Microsoft Will Be Running Digital Black Friday Deals
No surprise
It should come as no surprise to anyone (but some folks asked, so we thought we'd clarify) that Microsoft have confirmed that they'll be running a range of Black Friday digital deals this year. Over on Xbox.com, a page has appeared that promises "Blockbuster games. Exclusive deals. No lines." although nothing else is specified beyond...
News Microsoft Takes Swing At Sony With New Backwards Compatibility Advert, Hits Nothing But Air
Poor execution from the big fella
Well, it seems that Microsoft have decided to start bellowing about Xbox 360 backward compatibility on Xbox One in a big way (as you'd expect) and their latest move is to create a video that it would be generous to call a parody of one by their main competitor. Back in the bad old days, Sony scored some major...
Thursday12th Nov 2015
Far from the bottom line
Good games are usually more than the sum of their parts. You can have an average story and average gunplay going on, but still find that the game as a whole is fantastic fun because of the way it all comes together. On the other hand, you can have the best suite of options and the greatest game world ever, only to find that...
Wednesday11th Nov 2015
News Microsoft Hints at Something Special For Preview Program Members
What could it be?
Microsoft are in the midst of one of the biggest weeks in their history as a console platform holder. The big (semi) exclusive release of Rise of the Tomb Raider, third party behemoths such as Fallout 4 and the exclusive early preview of Star Wars Battlefront head up an impressive week. There is also more to come with the launch of...
Tuesday10th Nov 2015
Review Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One)
Back but not better than ever.
Having three different developers at the helm of video gaming's biggest franchise has been an interesting move by Activision, and one that has put Call of Duty in a bit of an identity crisis. Last year, fans were treated to the excellent Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The first offering from Sledgehammer Games took an...
Not enough meat on its bones
Before setting off, let's get one thing clear: Fat City is not out there fat shaming anyone. It's a reference to the rich affluence of New Orleans' "Fat City" neighbourhood, as well as talking about all the fat wads of banknotes the game's main protagonist Chris Knox is banking as you play through this simple, yet at...
Monday9th Nov 2015
Review Rise of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
Rise again
It isn't really the job of a review to comment on the business decisions that led up to a game being released as a timed exclusive on a platform, so if you're hoping for us to praise or admonish Microsoft for throwing a bundle of cash Square Enix's way to bring Rise of the Tomb Raider to Xbox platforms first, you're going to be...
News First 104 Xbox 360 Titles to Support Backwards Compatibility on Xbox One Announced
104 announced with more to follow.
After months of anticipation, Microsoft have finally unveiled the list of the first batch of Xbox 360 games that will be playable on Xbox One when the the new dashboard update launches on November 12th. The full list of games comes to 104 in total, with a good mixture of retail games, arcade games and few higher...
Wednesday4th Nov 2015
News Pineview Drive Set to Bring More Horror to Xbox One
Keep the lights on
This news is coming via the German ratings authority USK, who have today certified the PC horror title Pineview Drive for an Xbox One release. As far as we're aware, the game hasn't been confirmed as coming to the platform until now, and there's very little information available regarding the port. As in, there isn't any...
Review Toto Temple Deluxe (Xbox One)
Partly party
Toto Temple Deluxe is yet another entry into the recently bulging "party game" segment of the Xbox One market. We all know the type of game that the description of the genre conjours up, with those titles generally being a bit limited in single player, but coming alive when like-minded friends pop round with some intoxicating liquor, or...
Tuesday3rd Nov 2015
News Initial Backwards Compatibility List of 100 Xbox 360 Titles Will Be Announced on November 9th
Will your favourite make the cut?
Phil Spencer has confirmed that the first 100 Xbox 360 games to be added to the Xbox One backwards compatibility list will be announced on November 9th, a few days before the service is launched alongside the new Xbox One dashboard. Spencer confirmed the date in a Tweet to a user earlier today;- [tweet...
Monday2nd Nov 2015
Review Guitar Hero Live (Xbox One)
Striking the right chord
Had you asked us two years ago if we'd be reviewing a Guitar Hero game in 2015, the chances are that we would have laughed you out of the building. So, we were as surprised as anyone when Activision announced that they'd be reviving the franchise this year and attempting to bring it into the current generation. And...
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