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China Does Not Require Region Locked Consoles

Back when the Xbox One was announced for China, one thought came to mind: would it be region locked? When the console was released earlier this year, it was region locked and completely neutered. Now, it turns out, the region locking put into effect by Microsoft might have been self-imposed. Sina games reports that over…

PSN Still Having Big Problems Two Days After Christmas Outage [Update]

Two days following the Christmas day outage that laid low both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, users are still having trouble connecting to PlayStation Network services on PS4 and PS3. Update: Sony points to disruptive traffic as the cause of its network issue. While a tweet posted early this morning gave PlayStation Network users…

Christmas Will Last Longer In GTA Online, Due To Xbox Live, PSN Outages

Rockstar Games has changed its plans and decided to continue to give out Christmas gifts in Grand Theft Auto Online at least a day after Christmas, since so many players were unable to grab them on the 25th. The studio just announced this on Twitter following a day full of questions (including from us) about…

Day After Christmas Outage, Xbox Live Back, PSN Down For Maintenance 

Xbox Live is working across the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms this morning, a day after the service was down for many. But the PlayStation Network was down for “maintenance” on the PlayStation 4, according to a system message. Xbox Live appeared to come back to something close to normal functionality late Christmas night,…

Xbox Live And PlayStation Network Knocked Offline For Much Of Christmas [Update 3]

We hope you weren’t planning to play many games online on Christmas. Xbox users in North America and Europe are having difficulties logging into Xbox Live today, and PlayStation owners are suffering similar problems. Some Internet troublemakers are claiming they knocked both offline. Bah humbug to this. While most of our team are away from…

Sony’s The Interview Now On Xbox Store, Coming To PlayStation Network [UPDATE]

Sony Pictures’ controversial comedy The Interview, pulled from theatrical release last week in the fallout of a massive hack of the studio, is now officially viewable in a variety of places, among them, on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. Above is a screencap of Microsoft’s Xbox Video service on the Xbox One, where you can watch the…

Destiny Glitch Tells An Unexpected Story

It’s not too often that a glitch plays out as more than just a funny moment or even an exploitable trick. But this Destiny glitch is…exceptional. Player leftyfl1p shares the video above that tells the story of Billy, the adventurous Thrall that wanted to lead his fireteam to a chest filled with potential armor and…

Assassin’s Creed Initiates, the semi-reliable web-based service used to track players’ progress in Assassin’s Creed games, will be down for extended maintenance over the holidays according to Ubisoft, which is making—good news—all those Initiates-tied gold treasure chests accessible to all players with online connections. (The chests usually require players to be at certain Initiates ranks…

Hitman Is The Official Worst Host Of A Christmas Party

You probably don’t want to attend a Hitman-hosted Christmas party. Unless you like tons of murder and awkward physics, of course. Then I guess you do. Playful YouTuber Robbaz celebrates Christmas once again by playing through video games for us, this year wandering through a Christmas party in Hitman: Blood Money. The mission—You Better Watch…

Sony Celebrates Yakuza Zero with Tattooed PS4s

The new Yakuza game will be out in Japan in Spring, and it looks like Sony will be releasing matching PS4s around the same time. The consoles will cost ¥41,980 ($350), coming in two editions, named after Yakuza Zero’s two protagonists. In addition to that, each edition will be available in both Glacial White and…

The PlayStation Vita Makes A Lovely Little VR Headset

Ukrainian developerBeatshapershas access to Sony’s Project Morpheus PlayStation 4 VR headset and various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, but those weren’t enough to sate their virtual reality madness, so they strapped a PlayStation Vita to their heads. Speaking to the lovely folks over at Push Square, Beatshapers founder Alexey Menshikov explains how the PlayStation Vita…

Assassin’s Creed Unity‘s New Patch: Wait, There’s A Difference?

There’s no doubt that Assassin’s Creed Unity had technical problems, otherwise Ubisoft wouldn’t have apologized for the game’s performance and issued a series of ever-larger patches. So what’s it mean if the graphics, then and now, seem to in many ways be the same? This might seem like a strange point of view. You’ve heard,…

New Minecraft Game Coming from Makers of The Walking Dead Game

Minecraft is getting a story, and it’ll be told through the lens of a narrative-driven game by Telltale. Minecraft: Story Mode won’t lay down the groundwork for any official lore, Mojang has said, but it will include characters and themes from the Minecraft universe. Here’s the announcement from Telltale: Minecraft: Story Mode will be an…

Evolve’s open beta will be running between January 15-19 on the Xbox One, accessible to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Two monsters, the Goliath and the Kraken, and eight hunters will be available to play across 12 maps. There will also be smaller, invite-only closed tests on the PC and PS4 around that time.

Flying Jetskis And Other New GTA V Myths

With the new gen versions of Grand Theft Auto V released and tons of new content added to the game, it was inevitable for the GTA Mythbusters series to return and confirm a bunch of new tricks and funny little exploits. This time it’s all about invulnerable monster trucks, pigeons avoiding wanted levels and military…

Report: A New JoJo Fighting Game is Coming to PS4

JoJo fans rejoice, it looks like there’s a new game coming your way. Let’s hope it’s not as DLC-ridden as the last Revealed online via Korean website Daum 루리웹, in what looks to be a leaked scan of an upcoming issue of Jump Comics, is a full page article advertisement for a new “stylish JoJo…

A Duel Between Two Destiny Snipers

This battle between snipers goes through many stages, all of them hilarious. At first, I’m expecting MoneyLoo to land a crazy shot off a camping sniper through the tiniest crack between stacks of crates. Then it’s a silly back and forth while the two snipers strafe between hiding behind cover and trying to kill each…

Anyone Want To Vouch For This $10 Dragon Age: Inquisition Upgrade?

Owners of the “deluxe edition” of Dragon Age: Inquisition, have you sat on the Skyhold Throne or ridden the Bog Unicorn? Standard edition schlubs like me can now buy the deluxe edition’s extra content (listed above) for $9.99 today. I’m thinking this is a pass. But if you have this stuff and think it’s worth…

6.7GB Assassin’s Creed Unity Patch Issued To Fix Framerate, Other Stuff [UPDATE: Unexpectedly 40GB on Xbox One]

Delayed just one day for most players, Patch 4 for Ubisoft’s premiere fall 2014 release, Assassin’s Creed Unity, is out today for Xbox One and PS4 (PC later this week). It’s massive. Ubisoft explained the need for a super-sized patch on the official Assassin’s Creed website: Part of the team’s effort to enhance frame rate…

In China, The Xbox One Is Now $80 Cheaper

Microsoft’s Xbox One has had a pretty rough time in China. Despite good early sales, the system is having problems, and now with the looming PlayStation 4, Microsoft and its retail vendors have resorted to dropping the price of the console. According to Sina.com‘s gaming channel, Microsoft has dropped the price of the Xbox One…