Surprise! Microsoft says the Destiny beta has opened a day early for Xbox One and Xbox 360. It's also back online for PS4 and PS3. Time to hop on your speeder bikes and get them XPs. » 7/22/14 6:42pm Yesterday 6:42pm

Here's Halo's newest character. Played by actor Mike Colter, Agent Locke will be showing up in the live-action Halo: Nightfall series being produced by Ridley Scott. The character will then appear in next year's Halo 5: Guardians. Variety has more details. » 7/22/14 10:38am Yesterday 10:38am

We can't tell who she is, and it's unlikely that she's playable. But it nevertheless looks like Assassin's Creed: Unity, like earlier games in the series, will have female assassins. No comment from Ubisoft. » 7/21/14 8:40pm Monday 8:40pm

Um, I don't think anybody is saying that. » 7/21/14 7:45pm Monday 7:45pm

Reminder: the Destiny beta's going bye-bye for a bit, for scheduled maintenance. The preview test of Bungie's sci-fi shooter will be down starting today and returns on 7/23, the first day Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will have access to the beta. » 7/21/14 11:35am Monday 11:35am

We didn't see the new Doom that was shown exclusively to Quakecon attendees in Dallas this week. You probably didn't either. But all the people in a video shot by the folks at the unofficial Quakecon Forums did. » 7/18/14 2:50pm Friday 2:50pm

You'll finally be able to buy games and add-ons for your Xbox when you're away from the console. Mobile purchasing via SmartGlass or Xbox.com is one of the features coming to the Xbox ecosystem in a future update, which will roll out next week in early-access form to select XB1 owners. » 7/18/14 1:49pm Friday 1:49pm

Creating romances in a BioWare game isn't just a matter of writing and art. It's also a matter of math. That's one of several insights in a really good 48-minute talk delivered by the writers of Dragon Age Inquisition at last week's GaymerX2 convention. The topic was romance (read: who your character can eventually… » 7/18/14 10:40am Friday 10:40am

One thing I noticed playing Alien Isolation was its unpredictability. Multiple replays showed the alien and other characters never did the same thing twice, which is entirely the point, explains creative lead Alistair Hope. » 7/18/14 9:00am Friday 9:00am

Ubisoft has created an official Assassin's Creed obstacle course minus any bales of hay or annoying guards. You can run through it at San Diego Comic-Con next week (location info here). Cool or not? What do you think? » 7/17/14 7:30pm Thursday 7:30pm

Less than three months after Microsoft had a big splashy debut for their Xbox Entertainment Studios division, the company is shutting down the unit tasked with making original TV shows for their game console. » 7/17/14 2:38pm Thursday 2:38pm

There are no rooftop guards in Assassin's Creed Unity? Cool. That's going to make this next game feel very different. This official tidbit (that we missed...a month ago) is part of a handy round-up of ACU facts that you can read over at the Assassin's Creed subreddit. » 7/16/14 6:55pm 7/16/14 6:55pm

What do two overlapping rectangles and three parallel lines mean to you? They're the labels on a pair of buttons on the Xbox One controller, but eight months since that console's launch, you'd be forgiven if you failed to predict what pressing them actually does. » 7/15/14 4:00pm 7/15/14 4:00pm

Here's a new educational Assassin's Creed Unity video from Ubisoft that is partly historically accurate. The French Revolution didn't have Arno the Assassin in it, of course! » 7/14/14 12:20pm 7/14/14 12:20pm

With the Xbox One dropping in China in September and the PlayStation 4 dropping some time later, Chinese news portal NetEase took the chance to survey netizens on their preferences. Turns out, Chinese users are more interested in the PS4. » 7/14/14 5:40am 7/14/14 5:40am

The Xbox One beta for Bungie's next big game isn't supposed to be launching for two weeks. But what appears to be footage of Destiny running on Microsoft's newest console is out there in the wild. » 7/11/14 10:57pm 7/11/14 10:57pm

The Shadow Warrior reboot is coming to Xbox One and PS4, publisher Devolver Digital announced in a blog post. The ports will be arriving in late September. The video above is the launch trailer from about a year ago—but it's good enough to warrant another watch. Easily one of the best things about the game. » 7/10/14 7:30am 7/10/14 7:30am

Microsoft says they didn't pull another 180, despite headlines you might have seen today on various gaming news sites. The company still plans to add dev-kit functionality to retail Xbox Ones, they say. » 7/09/14 2:45pm 7/09/14 2:45pm

This past E3, Microsoft announced that four games from their blockbuster Halo franchise would be getting collected as The Master Chief Collection. Here's the first taste of how the anthology will look when it comes out this fall. » 7/09/14 12:50pm 7/09/14 12:50pm

Sniper Elite 3 seems like a perfect summer-doldrums game, a guilty pleasure that will keep you occupied while not much else is on the horizon. Wondering which platform should you get it for? You should watch these comparison videos first. There is a clear loser. » 7/09/14 11:15am 7/09/14 11:15am