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Gears of War 4 Announced For Holiday 2016

We’ve known there was a new Gears of War coming for a while now, and it’s Gears 4. The game is coming “holiday” 2016. On stage, Microsoft called it Gears 4, but in the official press release, it’s Gears of War 4 The short demo featured two characters—one man, one woman—working their way through a…

Microsoft’s Holographic Minecraft Demo Is Stunning

Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new. You can start a new world on any surface you’d like—as you can see in the GIF above. Magical. Here’s the full demo. The amazing stuff starts at the…

It’s now official: Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is coming to Xbox One on August 25th. It’ll run at 1080p and 60fps, and there’ll be a one-week public multiplayer beta starting today.

Wait, It’s Pronounced Mo-Yang?

As part of a Minecraft presentation at today’s Xbox event, Mojang brand director Lydia Winters revealed the biggest megaton of all: Mo-jang is pronounced Mo-yang. My world has changed. Contact the author at [email protected]

Rare Is Making A Pirate Game, And It Looks Rad

Rare calls it their most ambitious game yet: introducing Sea of Thieves, an Xbox One/PC game all about being a pirate. That means: sailing, ships, swashbuckling sea captains. The best parts of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, but playable with your friends, judging from the footage debuted today. Awesome! Some deets: You’ll have access to land…

Rise Of The Tomb Raider Has Some Serious Next-Gen Ice

Microsoft just showed off more of Rise of the Tomb Raider during their press conference, and damn, that ice. Things get dicey quick with Lara scaling a frozen-un-solid cliffside and nearly falling to her doooooooom. But Rise of the Tomb Raider would be a pretty shitty name for a game exclusively about Lara Croft falling…

The Rare Collection Is Now Official

As we told you this morning, Microsoft is releasing a compilation of Rare games for Xbox One. It’s called Rare Replay and it’ll cost you just $30. For 30 games. Not bad! Here’s a list of every game: Atic Atac Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Tooie Battletoads Battletoads Arcade Blast Corps Cobra Triangle Conker’s Bad…

Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Is The Good Kind Of Crazy, Costs $150

Much more than just a stereo headphone jack, Microsoft’s newly-revealed Xbox Elite Wireless Controller is a modular, remap-able and tweak-able work of engineering art. We knew there was a new Xbox One controller coming, but this is much more than wse expected. Bits come off and move around. Steering wheel controller-style paddles in the back…

DayZ Creator Is Making An Xbox One MMO

Dean Hall, one of the minds behind DayZ, debuted a game called Ion during Microsoft’s E3 presser. It’ll come to Xbox One’s early access program, too. Have a look. From the YouTube description: “ION” is an emergent narrative massively-multiplayer online game in which players will build, live in and inevitably die in huge floating galactic…

We just got a look at Cuphead, a side-scrolling platformer from Studio MDHR. It looks like an old-school Disney cartoon, and I would like to play it. It’s coming to Xbox One and PC in 2016.

Xbox One Is Getting Early Access

Wow, this is big. It’s called “Xbox Game Preview,” and it’s starting today with Elite: Dangerous and The Long Dark The first games coming to Xbox One’s take on Early Access are: Sheltered Day Z The Long Dark Elite: Dangerous It’s not up just yet, though. Technically, it launches at 5:30PM PST today. Both Microsoft…

Ashen sure looks pretty. And Ico-inspiried. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home.” Also the world has no sun. Bummer. Damn, though, that art. It’s coming to Xbox One and PC.

Rainbow Six: Siege is coming on October 13, 2015, Ubisoft announced today at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. It’ll include copies of Rainbow Six Vegas and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on Xbox One.

Shot by Evan Narcisse at today’s Xbox E3 press conference.

Dark Souls 3 Officially Announced, Will Be Last Dark Souls Game

Bandai Namco finally confirmed what we all suspected: Dark Souls 3 is coming in early 2016. The company showed off a CG trailer for the latest sequel in From Software’s brutal action RPG series. We didn’t learn anything about the leaks from a few weeks ago, but hey, the game’s gonna kill you. We know…

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is getting a sequel. The hyper-colorful shooter is coming to Xbox One in spring of 2016. No word yet on whether or not it has a dog.

Xbox One users get Fallout 3 free with Fallout 4 Suppose that’s one of the benefits of backwards compatibility. From the official press release: “All purchases of Fallout 4 on Xbox One will include a token for Fallout 3 through the first 90 days after Fallout 4’s release.”

Xbox One Jewelry?

Folks attending at the Xbox press conference have been given LED necklaces that change colors at different moments. That’s a close-up on me. Here’s a a wide shot:

Fallout 4 On Xbox One Will Have Mods [UPDATE]

Any mods created on the PC version of Fallout 4? Xbox One players will be able to play that too, Todd Howard announced during Microsoft’s E3 presser. Wow! Howard didn’t share any specifics, but regardless of how the modding situation works, it does mean that console players will get a taste of just how bonkers…

Xbox One Gets Backwards Compatibility; Microsoft Takes Shots At Sony

Xbox boss Phil Spencer just announced that the Xbox One is getting backwards compatibility with 360 games later this year, which is pretty damn cool. You’ll be able to access your digital collection of 360 games on Xbox One, as well as put discs in and download games you already own. The service will be…