News Microsoft Teases "April Blockbusters" for Games With Gold
Place your bets now, please
News Two New Official Xbox One Controller Colours Due to Launch
Say hello to copper and dusk
News Is Microsoft Looking To Break The Console Cycle?
Keep Rollin, Rollin
News - March, 2016
Tuesday29th Mar 2016
Review Active Soccer 2 DX (Xbox One)
Red card
Back in the day, pretty much every game publisher had at least one football title on their books. That was certainly the case on the 16-bit systems and earlier, with every other big-name football star having a game featuring their name on the cover. Whether it was side-on (John Barnes European Football), isometric (Manchester United: The...
Monday28th Mar 2016
"I Give Up, This Whole Thing's Very Russian!"
Any game that will allow us to use a line of dialogue from the Schwarzenegger classic Red Heat as a tagline is already a long way to winning a place in our gaming hearts. The fact that the line fits the whole style of the game is just the icing on the cake. Coming from Rain Games, Teslagrad is a...
Friday25th Mar 2016
Review Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 (Xbox One)
High cheese
When it comes to a ranking of the most niche sports that have been turned into videogames, lacrosse is probably toward the top of the list. Following on from the relatively successful XBLIG release of College Lacrosse 12 for Xbox 360, Crosse Studio have been working on the next iteration. For Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 though, they've...
Wednesday23rd Mar 2016
Review TrackMania Turbo (Xbox One)
Mania is right
If there's one game that's been flying under the radar since it was announced, it's Trackmania Turbo. Everyone was aware that the series – which had a sizeable fanbase on PC - would be challenging to take across to consoles, mainly due to the fact that even though it ships with a healthy supply of tracks, Trackmania is known as...
Review Stranger of Sword City (Xbox One)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, that's a stranger!
The Xbox 360 made a hard push at tapping into the Japanese market with the likes of Blue Dragon and The Last Remnant. Stranger of Sword City - a dungeon role playing game - was a lesser-known title that also came to the platform. The Xbox One has seen nowhere near the same level of support in terms...
News Xbox 360 Store Comes to Xbox One Today Along With Other Updates
Backward compatible dreamland
This month's Xbox One firmware update will roll out today to all users. As reported earlier in the month, it will include some pretty large changes to improve functionality, including the ability to purchase backward compatible Xbox 360 games from the Xbox One store. The full list of changes are as follows:- Buy Xbox...
Monday21st Mar 2016
News Xbox Live Spring Sale: Xbox One Opening Day Deals List
Spring forward
It's Spring Sale time, and Microsoft has cut the prices of a big old load of games across both Xbox One and Xbox 360. The sale was due to start on the 20th, but it looks like Sunday's Halo World Championship got in the way and held things up. Still, offers are offers, and you'll find the full list of Xbox One deals below. The 360 list...
Review Cel Damage HD (Xbox One)
Racing back in time
Back in 2001, Cel Damage was released for the original Xbox. Offering a cartoony, cel shaded take on the then popular vehicular combat genre, it was an immediate hit and many people still have a soft spot for it today. Fast forward to 2016, and Frontline Games have produced an HD remake of the game, but has time been kind, or...
Review Blast 'Em Bunnies (Xbox One)
Blast 'em into the sun
When it comes to game concepts, the one supplied by Blast 'Em Bunnies couldn't be much simpler. You play a bunny, manning (bunnying?) a rotating gun turret. Other rabbits of various types – grenadiers, paratroopers, burrowers, walkers, etc. - are trying to get to you so that they can knock you out and take your stuff. You...
Friday18th Mar 2016
News No, Skate 3 and Black Ops Aren't Backward Compatible Yet
Well that doesn't help
Every single time we post a story about games being added to the backward compatibility list, we get a slew of Facebook comments all shouting "DUH BLACK OPS WHEN?" Folks are clamouring for the shooter (and every other Call of Duty game, because apparently they're the only games that exist) to be added to the back-compat...
Review Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (Xbox One)
A little goes a long way
Ori and the Blind Forest released back in March of last year, and by now, you're likely well aware of the indisputable fact that it's a phenomenal game. We awarded it a 9 out of 10 in our review and called it "one of the best games available for the Xbox One," a statement we stand by 100%. With the Definitive Edition...
Thursday17th Mar 2016
News Microsoft Teases "April Blockbusters" for Games With Gold
Place your bets now, please
Microsoft have fired out a little tweetaroonie yesterday that not only confirms that Lords of the Fallen and Supreme Commander 2 have been added to the Games With Gold program (as announced last month) but that they could be throwing a couple of haymakers when it comes to April's titles. [tweet 710202587258163201] "Next...
Wednesday16th Mar 2016
Review Tom Clancy's The Division (Xbox One)
Ubi squad lootin'
The Division doesn't make the best first impression. When the game begins, you're dropped into a section of New York City that's devoid of substance. There are few missions that show up on the map, and running through the lifeless streets from A to B is a chore. There are no unscripted moments, no random events to engage in, and...
Monday14th Mar 2016
News Two New Official Xbox One Controller Colours Due to Launch
Say hello to copper and dusk
Microsoft will launch two new official Xbox One controller colours in the form of Dusk Shadow and Copper Shadow, it has been revealed. Images started to crop up online late last week with no official Microsoft announcement in sight, but now the Swedish arm of giant European retailer MediaMarkt is listing both products,...
Take That, Jeremy, You Bounder!
Ironcast is an odd beast. After a successful Kickstarter campaign by its developers Dreadbit, the game was released on PC back in May 2015. The conversion to console is now here, and we can see what all the fuss has been about. At its heart, Ironcast is a simple colour-matching puzzle game, but the strategy and...
Tuesday8th Mar 2016
News Xbox Spring Sale to Return on March 20th
Get your wallet ready
Microsoft has confirmed that they'll be running a Spring Sale event which will kick off on March 20th. Details are thin on the ground of course, but it has been confirmed that the event will contain savings of up to 60% on Xbox Store games for Xbox One and Xbox 360, with Gold subscribers getting up to 10% more off. This year,...
News Mordheim: City of the Damned Opens the Gates on Xbox One
Turn-based RPG heads to consoles
Focus Home Interactive will release Rogue Factor's Mordheim: City of the Damned on Xbox One, it has been confirmed. The game was given an age rating by PEGI last week, after launching on PC at the back end of last year. Mordheim is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's tabletop game of the same name,...
Monday7th Mar 2016
Feature Getting to Know the Latest Mortal Kombat X Kombatants
The roster expands by four (or is it six?)
Last Tuesday, Mortal Kombat X received a brand new bundle of DLC. The Kombat Pack 2, as it's called, comes with four new kombatants (Alien, Bo' Rai Cho, Leatherface, and Triborg) and a few skin packs. We've spent the better part of the last week getting to know these fresh additions to the MKX roster, and...
News Fable Legends Cancelled, Lionhead Studios to Close
Just...what?
Microsoft have made a shock announcement that Lionhead Studios, developers of the Fable series and the upcoming Fable Legends, will be closed. Not only that, but with the studio closed, development will officially be ceased on Fable Legends, and the game cancelled outright. Hanno Lemke, General Manager of Microsoft Studios Europe,...
Thursday3rd Mar 2016
Henk, not Hank
Action Henk is a massive star that can do anything he turns his hand to. Well, you'd believe that to be the case if you took a look around the room in which he lives. He was kickflipping in Action Henk's Pro Skater 2, replaced Bruce Willis in Die Henk, and seemingly was a part of every other franchise that folks of a certain age will...
Wednesday2nd Mar 2016
News Is Microsoft Looking To Break The Console Cycle?
Keep Rollin, Rollin
During Microsoft's Spring Showcase, there was a slew of Xbox related news but arguably the most interesting news was Phil Spencer discussing the further unification of the Xbox and Windows Gaming platform. Internally, Microsoft has worked on collaboratively bringing together their Xbox and Windows 10 platforms under what they...
Tuesday1st Mar 2016
News Xbox One Finally Gets Ability To Purchase Backward Compatible Games From the Console
About time
Microsoft have announced details of their upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox One, and the main highlight is the ability to purchase Xbox 360 games from the Xbox One store. Apparently, fans have spent more than 30,000,000 hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One so far, and with the next system update, you'll be able to purchase Xbox...
