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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.

​Are You Still Playing Titanfall?

Titanfall has been out for a little while now, and it’s settled into a normal rhythm for an online shooter. There are some new maps, some new modes, and a lot of people who have gotten very good at it. But the question remains: How many people who were playing in March are still playing…

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.

It’s Games, Games, Games As Microsoft Plans To Close Xbox TV Division

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. Re/Code reports that the shutdown comes as part of a massive restructuring that will see Microsoft eliminating 18,000 jobs over the…

Survey Says Chinese Gamers More Interested In PS4

With the Xbox One dropping in China in Septemberand 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. Hidden at the bottom of an article about the first major public showing of the PlayStation…

An In-Depth Look At Metal Gear Solid V‘s Mother Base

We’ve already seen some footage from Metal Gear Solid V, including a tour of one of the most famous oil platforms in gaming, the Mother Base, that will serve as the main hub of the game. YouTuber YongYea is here with a detailed analysis of the Mother Base, along with the inevitable theories—it’s a new…

The Sopranos‘ Opening, Remade In Grand Theft Auto V

Tony Soprano and his family might not live on the West Coast, but 8-bit Bastard‘s remake of the classic opening of the show in Grand Theft Auto V makes me want to load up the original again. This time Tony’s not driving from New York to his home in New Jersey, but from Los Santos…

Microsoft Says They Didn’t Reverse Course On Xbox One Dev Kits

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. Earlier this afternoon, reports emerged that Microsoft had cancelled plans to turn Xbox Ones into video game development kits. But somewhere, wires…

​Watch Halo: The Master Chief Collection In Action

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. Members of Microsoft’s 343 Industries team and dev studio Certain Affinity showed the Master Chief Collection at…

​Sniper Elite 3 on Xbox One vs. PS4 vs. PC

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. One sequence from the stealthy WWII game gets captured on…

Project Spark, Microsoft’s video game about making video games, is coming out on October 8th. The company said in a press release that it will be available for the Xbox One and Windows 8.1 computers. Learn more about the game here

That Must Hurt

Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is indeed the master of stealth. YouTuber Baconman shows us how to properly get rid of not one but three (that’s a lot in Ground Zeroes) soldiers using a ladder and some stealth. The Greatest Soldier of the 20th Century [YouTube] To contact the author of this…

The Xbox One with Kinect bundle sure is pricy in South Korea! Today, it was listed at 598,000 Korean won ($592), but that’s slightly cheaper than what was listed earlier this month. The console’s set to arrive “this year” in South Korea, but we can probably expect a firm release date soon. [Thanks for tip,…

Super Time Force is coming to Steam soon. Formerly an Xbox One and Xbox 360 exclusive, the time-screwing action platformer hits Valve’s digital storefront this summer as Super Time Force Ultra. Yeah, that’s STFU for short.

​Sunset Overdrive Co-Op Looks Pretty Damn Fun

Imagine a Tony Hawk game with crazy guns on a Horde Mode-style map. Insomniac Games did more than imagine. They built something very much like it for Sunset Overdrive‘s Chaos Squad multiplayer. Looks crazy enjoyable. The trailer above offers the first details about the online co-op component, which you can jump into straight from single-player…

Rest In Peace, Age Of Empires

Today, July 1, Age of Empires Online is no more. Few will mourn its passing, but many more will nevertheless look to its demise as a sad event, given the attachment people once had to the words “Age of Empires”. The first Age of Empires, released in 1999, was amazing. As was its medieval sequel.…

The Best Games of 2014 So Far

So far, 2014 has felt like a year of surprises. Some of them have been good while others—like the growing crop of games that have been pushed to next year—are bummers. But, there’ve been standouts among the games that have come out. Let’s talk about them, shall we? This has been the year where the…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Done Perfectly in Under Four Minutes

This is how Snake would handle things in real life. It’s a 3:54.870 run, to be exact, with an S Rank, so that means Mimalmo didn’t really make any mistakes and managed to finish the game perfectly. He says it’s the world record for an S Rank run, and while there are faster runs out…

Only One Minute to Play. Only One Life.

If this was 1985, Sixty Second Shooter Prime would be draining quarters from players’ pockets all over the world. Thankfully, in 2014, you only have to pay for it once. After debuting as a browser game and then moving to PlayStation Mobile/Vita as Sixty Second Shooter Deluxe, the latest mutation of Happion Labs‘ abstract twin-stick…

Why Mortal Kombat X Is So Gory

If you, like me, were in the front few rows of Sony’s E3 press conference when they showed off Mortal Kombat X on stage, you would also have been deafened by the loud cheers of excited gamers. They were oohing and aahing at decapitations and exposed organs and lost limbs. This isn’t new for a…