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You’ll Pay A Monthly Fee To Play The Elder Scrolls Online

Putting an end to speculation that the massively multiplayer entry in Bethesda’s award-winning role-playing franchise would be free-to-play, Zenimax Online’s Matt Firor has confirmed The Elder Scrolls Online will follow a subscription-based business model. The general manager of Zenimax online confirmed monthly subscriptions for the eagerly-anticipated game during a pre-Gamescom interview with German site Gamestar.…

Not All New Skylanders Split In Half. Some Are Sabertooth Turtles.

More of a sabertooth turtle dinosaur, I suppose. This is Slobber Tooth, and he’s one of the latest non-splitting Skylanders champions, joining the fray when Swap Force hits October 13. The whole Swap Force mechanic is nice and all, but I’m a sucker for a well-designed one piece with a focus on function. I had…

Defiance ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ Adds Playable Creepy White People

Nothing plays on the TV screen quite as well as an alien race whose defining feature is cake makeup and contact lenses. Defiance‘s dorkiest extraterrestrials look much better as playable characters in today’s ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ release. The ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ is a two-pronged bit of downloadable content for the video game portion of trion…

The Fix For Disney Infinity PlayStation 3 Problems Is In

After two days of PlayStation 3 players being unable to play Disney Infinity properly without the game locking up and save game corruption, patch 1.03 has arrived to make things all better, mostly. The previous patch, 1.01, caused the game to lock up shortly after launching, as well as corrupting game saves. A workaround for…

With Xbox One Gaining Momentum, Sony Still Has Confidence

The most remarkable thing about Sony’s Gamescom press conference today wasn’t the big game announcements (Sony still loves indie games) or the PS4 feature demonstrations (the new menu looks like a video game console menu). It was Sony’s overarching, at times infectious confidence. While the event didn’t have the same razzle-dazzle of their PS4 reveal…

Xbox One Kinect Can Be Used For Motion Capture In Your Living Room

Project Spark, the games-creation toolkit for Xbox One and PC, drew a lot of attention at E3 for a deep feature set. That includes all kinds of motion capture, using the Kinect 2.0 sensor. You can mo-cap in your own living room. Team Dakota, Project Spark‘s makers, told a Gamescom audience today that full-body motion…

You Can Smoke Pot In GTA V, According to Ratings Board

We had a hunch it was going to be possible, and, now, the people who rate video games are letting the cat out of the dimebag. You can smoke pot in GTA V, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That same group has offered a bunch of other mild spoilers for GTA V, if…

Ubisoft Clue Hints At a Late-November Xbox One Release Date

If you’re trying to figure out when Microsoft’s next console will come out in North America, today has provided a new clue. Note that the following post is all educated guesswork and observation. This is what we know: The Xbox One will be released in November. When in November? Microsoft hasn’t said yet. We also…

Battlefield 4 Is Doing Its Best To Impre–Watch Out For That Ship!

This is what competition gets you. It gets you a development studio, DICE, trying to convince you that they are making the best military first-person shooter of the year. Today, they’ve made their latest pitch while uttering the word someone in their studio or in the EA marketing team cooks up the word—”Levolution”—in order to…

The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.

Minions! Moral Decisions! Dragon Age Inquisition Is Sounding Good.

Is the third time going to be the charm for BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise? If this dev diary is accurate to how the game is turning out, it just might! You’re an inquisitor. You run the place. You send minions on quests. You make moral decisions. And the game you’re in looks damn good. Inquisition…

Killer Instinct Characters Are $5 A Pop, But Wait — There’s More

How much would you pay for classic characters like Sabrewulf, Glacius and the newly-announced Thunder in the upcoming free-to-download Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct? Microsoft has slapped a $4.99 price tag on each character’s head, but why buy piecemeal when you can get the whole shebang for $20? In case you missed it at E3,…

Here Are the Xbox One’s Launch Games

Microsoft confirmed the the Xbox One’s launch line-up. It’s over twenty games strong. If you were wondering what games you can pick up at launch, read on. Courtesy of Xbox.com and barring any last minute delays or surprises, this is the list of what they call “launch day” games: Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag (Ubisoft,…

Fighter Within Lets You Punch People in the Face

Ubisoft’s upcoming Kinect game Fighter Within for Xbox One puts you in a fighting game. Literally. It’s out this holiday. Check out the trailer above. The game is an Xbox exclusive, it seems. First the game is headed to Xbox One, and then Xbox 360. Fighter Within – Gamescom Trailer [PlayTheGame] To contact the author…

Now that’s dedication. Call of Duty Ghosts will have dedicated servers for Xbox One, Microsoft revealed. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft

Europeans Get FIFA 14 For Free if They Pre-Order Xbox One

Today, Microsoft announced that FIFA 14 would be bundled with the Xbox One at launch in Europe. For free! But wait, there’s a catch: You gotta pre-order. The game will hit the Xbox 360 this September and the Xbox One at a later date. European gamers who pre-order the Xbox One will get FIFA 14…

Like Peggle? Well Peggle 2 is an Xbox One launch title. And Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is hitting the console next year. Both are coming to Xbox One first.

Cobalt is headed to Xbox One, Microsoft announced today. Cobalt is a platformer developed by Oxeye Game Studio in collaboration with Mojang of Minecraft fame. The game is currently in alpha and can be downloaded for PC and Mac. via @Graeme Selvan [Twitter] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find…

The Next Fable Is Called Fable Legends

There’s a new Fable! Lionhead Studios is working on an exclusive new entry in its action role-playing series. Called Fable Legends, the game is headed to Xbox One as an exclusive. You can play with up to three friends via co-op or alone with three A.I. companions. The game also lets you play as the…

Xbox One’s Indie Games Program Revealed At Last

After months of offering little more than variations of “don’t worry, we’ll have one,” Microsoft is using their kick-off of the big Gamescom event in Germany this week to detail something called ID@Xbox. That is their indie games program. It’ll roll out in stages. “When we talk to developers, what we hear is they want…