New Xbox One System Update Promises Some OS Fixes
A new Xbox One system update will go live tonight at 8pm Eastern, Microsoft says. The update will address issues involving SmartGlass and multiplayer functionality, among other things.
A fix that addresses a Battlefield 4 bug "accounting for a quarter of the crashes on PS4," is now live, reports DICE, which also opened a "Top Issues Tracker" thread for all platforms, describing what in the game has been fixed, what is being fixed, and what is under investigation.
People Might Actually Be Able To Emulate The PS4 And Xbox One
You might think emulators only exist for retro consoles, and for the most part that's true, but we might some day be seeing PS4 and Xbox One games - regardless of the legality of the move - on a PC near you.
We'll Be Playing Halo On Xbox One Come December 24, Sort Of
So it's not what immediately comes to mind when you think of the Halo franchise. Spartan Assault is still as close as you can get to playing Halo
Work on making Battlefield 4 the game it was supposed to be
Ubisoft Is Asking Surprising Questions About Assassin's Creed's Future
We already know
Idea: Let Cats Decide A Winner In The Console Wars
Reader Gareth decided to settle the console wars the only way he knew how: by getting his cat to decide. Gareth, your Nobel Peace Prize is in the mail.
The Week in Games: Peggle For Your Thoughts
The year still has a few delights in store for us, beginning tomorrow with Peggle 2 on Xbox One. Doki-Doki Universe lands on Tuesday for all PlayStation platforms that access PlayStation Network. Angry Birds, inevitably, gets its kart racer on Wednesday. Here's the week in games.
Ubisoft Shows Off The Division's Next-Gen Engine
This is the "Snowdrop Engine" powering The Division, which spent about three minutes at the Spike VGX boasting of the detail it will deliver to "a chaotic and decayed New York City."
Bungie's Destiny Gets Another Gorgeous Trailer
Fresh off its big cover in Game Informer this week, Bungie's next space opera, Destiny, got this closeup premiere video at tonight's Spike VGX. The game arrives Sept. 9, 2014.
A Closer Look At Xbox One Exclusive Quantum Break
Time stands still and stutters after an experiment gone wrong in Quantum Break, the first next-gen title from Remedy, the makers of Alan Wake. The studio showed off the game with a trailer at tonight's VGX. Here it is.
Tomb Raider Gets A Next-Gen Facelift
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will come to PS4 and Xbox One by the end of January, updating this year's Tomb Raider reboot for the next-gen platforms. A specific date was not announced. [Update: Here's the trailer!]
NBA 2K14 Keeps Crashing, but 2K Sports Says It Knows What's Wrong
A recently released patch for the Xbox One version of NBA 2K14 appears to have done little to solve the repeated crashes occurring in the game's MyCareer mode. While 2K Sports says it knows what the problem is, it has no timetable on when a solution may arrive.
Sheriff Offers Xbox One as Reward to Catch BB Gun Vandals
A shrewd lawman in a town outside of New Orleans has a novel approach to putting a stop to a recent wave of pellet-gun vandalism: Offer an Xbox One as a reward. Maybe that'll get someone to fink on these twerps.
What's Your Game Streaming Channel?
Now that the PS4 (and soon, the Xbox One) offer built-in streaming capability, the world of online video-game streaming got a big injection of new users. Maybe you're one of them?
Destiny Will Be Out On September 9, 2014
Bungie's big new multiplayer shooter, Destiny, has a release date. September 9 of next year for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4.
Don't Fall For This Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Prank
A spurious image has been making the rounds and implying that you can use the Xbox One's developer tool menus to make the Xbox One play Xbox 360 games. Problem is, the image is dead wrong and you could brick your Xbox One. Don't do that.
Today's Battlefield 4 Update Gives All Players Once-Exclusive Gear
The developers of Battlefield 4 have acknowledged that their
FPS is facing significant issues
Not Sure if Dance Moves or Assassin's Creed IV Glitch
Weird things can happen during Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's fights, and while the game is about pirates, which means barrels full of rum, these moves might be too much even for Edward Kenway.
Teenager Pays $735 For A Picture Of An Xbox One
English teenager Peter Clatworthy made some very bad decisions during an Xbox One auction on eBay, paying £450 (USD$735) and not even getting a console. He got a picture of a console.
Capy—the indie studio behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery—will release their next game, Super Time Force
South Park's Japanese is Truly Horrible, Yet Hilarious
This week's episode of South Park contained scenes of un-subtitled Japanese. I can't tell if it's intentional or not, but the Japanese was hilariously bad. Take a look and see for yourself.
Every Xbox dashboard, leading up to the current dashboard on the Xbox One—neat to see how much stuff has changed, no? GIF via (r/gaming)
EA Won't Work On New Battlefield 4 DLC Until Flawed Game Is Fixed
Flagship first-person-shooter Battlefield 4 is so troubled that the game's development studio won't proceed on development of any new, planned expansions until the game's problems are sorted out, BF4 publisher EA told Kotaku in a statement today.
Two-button fighter Divekick is coming to the Xbox One. Buried at the bottom of a long list of developers self-publishing via ID@Xbox, Dave Lang of Iron Galaxy confirmed the scrappy title for Microsoft's latest console.