News Watch Dogs 2 Release Date Just Got Leaked
Put it in your calendar
E3 2016 Microsoft Conference Liveblog
The next year of Xbox gaming, revealed!
E3 2016 Xbox One S Has No Kinect Port, But Don't Worry
Don't worry, Kinect fans
News New Xbox One Dashboard Update On the Way
But what does it contain?
News - June, 2016
Monday20th Jun 2016
Site News So Long, And Thanks for All the Clicks
Game Over
On July 18th, 2012, I took over as editor of the very site you're reading. Back then, of course, it was a Kinect-focused publication by the name of KINECTaku. Within a relatively short space of time, it was obvious that we needed to refocus on the bigger picture. There's only so many times we can write articles about the different voice...
Thursday16th Jun 2016
News New Backward Compatibility Releases Teased for This Week
The fog lifts
Update (16/06 17:54 UK): Well, it's not even remotely as we'd imagined. So far today, Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, Flashback, Babel Rising, and Brain Challenge have joined the backward compatibility list. There may be more to come... Original Story: Back in May, Amazon US listed a whole wave of new backward compatible titles that were set...
Wednesday15th Jun 2016
News Xbox One Prices Crash in Wake of Xbox One S Announcement
Rock bottom
Microsoft announced the upcoming Xbox One S console at their E3 press conference on Monday and, as expected, that's had a knock-on effect at retail with regards to the price of the currently available models. With the new console due to launch in August at varying price points (depending on the size of HDD you go for), retailers are...
Monday13th Jun 2016
E3 2016 Microsoft Conference Liveblog
The next year of Xbox gaming, revealed!
The show starts at 5:30PM UK time, so we'll be back then...feel free to chat away in the comments box! [liveblog=XboxE32016]#XboxE32016
Tuesday14th Jun 2016
E3 2016 Xbox One S Has No Kinect Port, But Don't Worry
Don't worry, Kinect fans
Earlier on today, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One S will be launched in August. Being 40% smaller and yet somehow containing on-board power, so you don't need that ugly external power brick anymore, you'd expect some things to have been cut. It seems that everything has survived, with the exception of the dedicated...
Monday13th Jun 2016
E3 2016 Xbox One S Release Window and Pricing Confirmed, Stand Sold Separately
Well, sort of
Update: The Xbox One S with 2TB drive and the streamlined controller is actually $399.99, according to Amazon.com, who are accepting preorders now. The $299 model is the base device containing the 500GB drive, while the 1TB drive bundle is $349. It will also include a 4k Blu-ray drive, so will play 4k Blu-rays, as you'd sort of...
Sunday12th Jun 2016
E3 2016 Xbox One S Details, Image Leaks Ahead of Microsoft Conference
With a vertical stand
Those intrepid devils over at NeoGAF have turned up the first image of the much-ballyhooed Xbox One Slim, ahead of Microsoft's E3 Conference tomorrow. The new console - called the Xbox One S - will be available in (at least) white, with a black base. The machine is 40% smaller than the original Xbox One, will come with a 2TB...
Review Homefront: The Revolution (Xbox One)
Brotherly Loathing
Homefront: The Revolution has had a rocky road during its development, and that's putting it nicely. Employees went unpaid, although Crytek claims they were totally never on the verge of bankruptcy, and eventually the game switched not just publishers, but developers too. It's pretty incredible that the game exists in a finished...
Saturday11th Jun 2016
News Microsoft Adds New Free Xbox Live Gamerpics For All
Spice up your profile
Microsoft has released a whole batch of free Xbox Live Gamerpics for players to use on their profile. From right now, you can get your hands on new pics from Minecraft, Killer Instinct, Quantum Break, Gears of War 4, Tom Clancy's The Division and a fair few others. All you need to do is hit up the profile customization page on...
News You Didn't Get Fallout 4 For Free, Collect $10
You have won a beauty contest
On Thursday evening UK time, there was a bit of a bug on the Xbox Games Store that set the price of both Fallout 4 and the Fallout 4 Deluxe Edition to approximately $0.00. A whole stack of people obviously cottoned on as soon as it was posted on Reddit and waded in to get their free game. The price was fixed an hour or...
Friday10th Jun 2016
Review Hard Reset Redux (Xbox One)
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto!
Hard Reset Redux is a remake of a PC FPS that was first released back in September 2011, created by Polish developers Flying Wild Hog. It received an expansion entitled Exile in 2012, and now the whole shooting match has been released into the crowded Xbox shooter market. Story driven, the game is a single player experience,...
No Rubik in sight
The puzzle genre is not the most fondly tended in the gaming universe. Standout titles such as Portal, The Witness or Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut are often differentiated from the narrow pack because they offer something more than mere puzzling. This is sadly not the case with Cubikolor which, at it's most basic, is a simplistic...
Wednesday8th Jun 2016
News Microsoft Ditches Xbox One DVR Plans to Focus on Gaming
Cord cut
Last year, Microsoft announced that they were working on adding a DVR feature for over-the-air TV to the Xbox One. Reaction to the announcement wasn't particularly what the Redmond giant expected, with most people sweating over the fact they'd doubtless need to buy another external drive. That, and the fact that more and more people are...
Shine on
In a world where top-down shooters aren't exactly thin on the ground, it takes a brave developer to release one these days and hope that it draws money. With Neon Chrome though, developer 10tons have mixed things up somewhat. Rather than dealing in the sort of relatively throwaway fun the likes of Crimsonland and Polychromatic (amongst many...
Tuesday7th Jun 2016
News Watch Dogs 2 Release Date Just Got Leaked
Put it in your calendar
In a day already brimming with E3 leaks, the release date for Watch_Dogs 2 -- Ubisoft's anticipated stealth-action sequel -- has just been revealed. As indicated by the above image, a site banner over on IGN shows a release date of November 15th, 2016. It appears to have been uploaded a day early before the world reveal of...
Wednesday8th Jun 2016
Soul survivor? It's in your hands...
Soul Axiom is a first person perspective puzzle game, first released for the PC back in February this year by Wales Interactive. Now released on to the console market, can this story driven puzzler cut the mustard, or does it earn itself a raspberry? The game begins as it means to go on, as your character...
Saturday4th Jun 2016
Review Dangerous Golf (Xbox One)
Out of bounds
They say that golf is a good walk spoiled. The ex-Burnout developers at Three Fields Entertainment have attempted to put paid to all that walking nonsense though, instead opting to take the sport largely indoors. With Dangerous Golf, their goal is clearly to take the essence of Burnout's "Crash" mode and apply it to a very different...
Thursday2nd Jun 2016
News New Xbox One Dashboard Update On the Way
But what does it contain?
It seems that Microsoft are gearing up to resume their periodical dashboard updates for the Xbox One, at least according to a message that has been doing the rounds from the Xbox Live team in the last 24 hours. The message, which has been sent to select Preview Program members, has been sent via the Xbox Live messaging...
Wednesday1st Jun 2016
Review Dead Island: Definitive Collection (Xbox One)
There and back again
While fans of the Dead Island franchise try to work out exactly what is happening with Dead Island 2 – a game that's doing a great impression of being a feline owned by Erwin Schrödinger – Deep Silver and Techland have decided to hold back the hordes of rabid fans by releasing this remastered collection of the first two...
Review Azkend 2: The World Beneath (Xbox One)
Not a love match.
Azkend 2: The World Beneath is the latest assault on the Xbox market from the prolific guys over at 10tons Ltd and unsurprisingly, its another match-3 (or more) puzzle game. Much like their last two attempts to crack the puzzle fanbase, Sparkle Unleashed and Sparkle 2, this is a relatively simple puzzler that is unlikely to stretch...
