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I’m a Bit Worried About Halo 5’s Campaign

You can always rely on the Halo series to have great music, and even though it was a piece from the original game, hearing it kick in as Master Chief and the other three members of Blue Team hurtled through space towards a Covenant-infested ship in Halo 5 did make me go all gooey inside.…

How Cross-Play on Xbox and Windows 10 Will Work

With the release of Windows 10, one of Microsoft’s new headline features is Cross-Play between Xbox One and PC players. This isn’t the company’s first foray into cross platform play. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Back in 2007, FASA studios, which had a first-party publishing deal with Microsoft, released Shadowrun, a fast-paced shooter…

Microsoft Will Put Its Own Games On Xbox Early Access

Since announcing Xbox Game Preview (Xbox’s version of Early Access) at E3, Microsoft has had “a mad rush from the game development community” to be part of its pilot program, says the company’s head of publishing Shannon Loftis—even Microsoft itself plans to release its own first-party games through the service. This post originally appeared on…

Skylanders Is Getting Online Multiplayer

Activision revealed today that they’re adding online multiplayer to Skylanders: Superchargers. The game’s getting online land, sea and air races for up to four players, along with an online co-op story mode. Skylanders never had any sort of online multiplayer and fans have been really clamoring for it for a while now. So it’s good…

The deliciously creepy looking indie game We Happy Few got a great new trailer today at Microsoft’s Gamescom presser, meaning the game is now coming to Xbox One. Watch it here, and check out Evan’s impressions from PAX East.

Watch Things Explode In Crackdown 3

“It’s not just what you can do with a gun; it’s the opportunities you can create with destruction.” Woooooo! We got a tiny glimpse at Crackdown 3 this morning during Microsoft’s Gamescom presser. The narrator in the trailer mostly spoke in open-world jargon—talking about how much freedom you’ll have to blow stuff up, and so…

Watch The Big Xbox Gamescom Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Suffering from E3 withdrawal? We’ve got your fix right here, thanks to Gamescom, which kicks off this morning in Germany with a big ol’ Xbox press conference. Straight out of Cologne, the folks behind Xbox will be sharing news and trailers for games like Scalebound, Quantum Break, Crackdown, Halo 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider,…

All the Gears of War Games Will Be Backwards Compatible on Xbox One

Microsoft is re-mastering the first Gears of War game for Xbox One. And while the other Gears games won’t be getting the same treatment, you will be able to play them on the company’s newest home console. An morning announcement from Microsoft says that people who get Gears of War: Ultimate Edition this fall will…

You Might (One Day) Be Able To Stream PC Games To An Xbox One

Microsoft’s Xbox boss Phil Spencer has told The Verge that the company is working on a way for users to be able to stream their PC games to an Xbox One console. We knew that Windows 10 (which is out today) would let you do theopposite (Xbox One-to-PC), but PC-to-Xbox One streaming is new. “We…

New Tomb Raider Will Come To PC and PS4 In 2016

Windows players will be able to play Rise of the Tomb Raider a few months after it launches on Xbox. PS4 gamers will have to wait a year. There’s been anger and disgruntlement at the exclusivity of Rise of the Tomb Raider, which was initially announced as an Xbox platform exclusive last August. Turns out…

The Witcher 3 Fan Animation Sums Up The Game Pretty Well

An animated parody of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, made by Matthew Shezmen, proves that being Geralt is not easy when there’s so much drama going. Dealing with monsters is the last thing to worry about: To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Now Everybody Can Stream Xbox One Games To Windows 10

With only a week and change to go before the July 29 official release of Windows 10, Microsoft has gone ahead and enabled the ability to stream games from the Xbox One to Windows 10 devices. With the feature emerging from preview into the hands of the masses, all one needs to remote play Xbox…

Japan, the Xbox One Isn’t Giving Up on You Just Yet

Even if it seems that Japan already has. The Japanese Xbox One launch was an utter disasterand recent console sales have been shockingly bad. No wonder that today in Tokyo, newly minted Microsoft Japan boss Takuya Hirano was asked during in a Q&A whether or not the Xbox One was going to be pulled from…

Nothing Says Intel and Computers Like Anime Art

As part of an promotional effort, Intel is holding a “personification contest” online in Japan. You know, see which anime style characters be resemble computers that run Intel. Or something. But! This kind of thing isn’t that unusual in Japan. Microsoft, for example, has hadseveral anime style mascot characters. The idea here, though, is that…

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Phantom Dust Has Quietly Disappeared

At E3 2014, Microsoft thrilled hardcore gamers by announcing a reboot of the Japanese cult classic Phantom Dust. E3 2015 was somewhat less thrilling: the new Phantom Dust has vanished, and it’s unlikely we’ll see it again. In February, we reported that Microsoft had cut ties with Darkside Games, the studio they’d hired to develop…

Xbox One Reaches a New Low in Japan

Just when you think Microsoft could do no worse in Japan, the console proves that, yes, it can do even worse. Much worse. After a dismal Japan launch and thenhorrible sales, the latest weekly Xbox One sales for Japan are, simply put, awful. During the week of June 8 to June 14, Microsoft sold a…

Gears of War Ultimate Edition is coming to PC. The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson announced a PC version of the game tonight during the PC Game Show at E3 2015. Fergusson could not comment on the chances of Gears 4 coming to PC as well at this time.

Now that the Xbox One is backwards compatible, Microsoft is conducting a poll to see which Xbox 360 games should come to the new console first. You can chime in at the Xbox feedback website Contact the author at [email protected]

A Guided Tour Of The Pricey Xbox One Elite Controller

This fall’s Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller ispacked with killer controller tech, but $150? Perhaps a live walkthrough with Xbox senior marketing manager Navin Kumar can shed some light on the hefty price tag. Mind you most of the light being shed in this video is blue, thanks to the venue’s bad decisions, but the…