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CultureXbox 360 Users Are Getting Free Cloud Saves To Help Upgrade To Series X/S
As Microsoft gears up for the release of the fourth generation of Xbox game consoles, it throws a bone to the likely few and probably quite proud gamers who’ve stood by the second generation for 15 years. Xbox 360 users will soon be getting free cloud saves, to make upgrading to Xbox Series X/S easier.…
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CultureOdds and EndsXbox Deletes Tweet Dunking On PS5 For Having A Removable Stand
The UK Twitter account for Xbox fired some shots at PS5 yesterday in one of the silliest ways possible because it’s 2020 and these are the console wars we deserve. It all began after Sony released a tear-down video of the PS5 highlighting all of the next-gen console’s internal components. The first step in that…
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CultureMicrosoft Is Beating Sony At Cross-Generation Save Transfers
As is often the case between video game generations, several high-profile PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X games will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But when it comes to the ability to start a game on a last-gen console and pick right up where you left off in the game’s next-gen…
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CultureFallout 76 Will Let Players Create Their Own Vaults, For A Price
New underground building spaces are coming to Fallout 76 sometime later this year, but the best and biggest will be gated behind its premium currency. Bethesda went into more detail about how shelters will work in Fallout 76 over on its website, ahead of when they’re slated to go live on the game’s PC testing…
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CultureOdds and EndsThat’s Not Right…
Flight Simulator pilots discovered a trippy glitch over the weekend that causes the earth to open up and warp space-time like a black hole. The glitch is located in Brazil, around the coordinates 6°02’19.9″S 36°27’17.1″W. Things look normal at first as players pull off the rugged, country airstrip, but immediately ahead is a vortex of…
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CultureToday’s Xbox Series X Previews Revealed Mostly Good News
Over the past week or so, Xbox Series X preview units were made available to select members of the media. Microsoft did not send us one of these units. I’m not sad, but, earlier today, I was cutting onions and peppers while listening to Phoebe Bridgers, and then, without thinking, I rubbed my eyes. True…
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CultureMorning MusicViva Piñata‘s Soundtrack Makes Me Happy To Be Alive
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we look back at a game that is the exact opposite of 2020: the nice, soft, fun, and colorful world of Viva Piñata and its fantastic soundtrack. Before Rare was making a game about pirates,…
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Games On Xbox One External Drives Will Be Instantly Playable On Xbox Series X / S
Yesterday I wrote about downloading the entire Xbox Game Pass library to one external Xbox One hard drive. According to today’s storage-centric Xbox Wire post, I’ll be able to plug that drive into an Xbox Series X / S come November and instantly access all of those games. Additional super-speedy SSD storage for the Xbox…
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CultureXbox Series X Expandable Storage Costs $219.99
The price for 1TB of expandable storage on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles has finally been revealed and it’s a whopping $219.99. That’s based on a listing that recently went up over at Best Buy and was first spotted by The Verge. (Update – 11:34 a.m., 9/24/20: Microsoft confirmed the price over on…
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CultureMorrowind Completely Rebooted Your Xbox During Some Loading Screens
The latest episode of the official Xbox podcast features a discussion between Microsoft and Bethesda executives about the console manuracturer’s recent acquisition of the Elder Scrolls developer for a whopping $7.5 billion. While the video is mostly about hyping up a massive business deal, Bethesda’s chief software engineer Todd Howard did share a neat anecdote…
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CultureI Downloaded All Of Xbox Game Pass To One Hard Drive (And It’s Not Even Half-Full)
Western Digital’s WD_BLACK D10 game drive is a 12 terabyte, 7200 RPM, powered external hard drive for the Xbox One. In order to test the drive out, I downloaded every game available for the console on the Xbox Game Pass, somewhere around 250 games. It took a week and my ISP is pissed, but I…
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OpinionAmazon’s Error Dogs, Ranked
The video game world spent a significant portion of the morning trying to score an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S. More often than not, folks were met with error screens telling them their efforts were in vain. While certainly frustrating, at least evil megacorporation Amazon gave folks some great dogs to look at…
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CultureXbox Series X Pre-Orders Have Been A Debacle So Far [Update]
Despite advance notice, a set time, and links set up for all of the retailers who would be selling the Xbox Series X and Series S today, trying to pre-order Microsoft’s next-gen console has been a massive headache. Pre-orders in the U.S. were set to start at 11:00 a.m., which is also about the time…
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CultureFuture Bethesda Games Will Come To Other Consoles ‘On A Case-By-Case Basis,’ Microsoft Says
Following the announcement that Microsoft is buying Bethesda’s parent company, ZeniMax Media, Xbox boss Phil Spencer opened up the possibility that some of the newly acquired publisher’s future games could become exclusives. In an interview with Bloomberg, Spencer said that upcoming Bethesda games like its single-player sci-fi RPG Starfield will come to Xbox, PC, and…
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CultureMicrosoft Buys Bethesda Parent Zenimax Media For $7.5 Billion
Pending the closure of a $7.5 billion cash sale, Microsoft has purchased Zenimax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. According to a press release posted by Bethesda this morning, the sale is expected to be finalized by…
By Mike Fahey
