Sea of Thieves is full of jerk players and giant sharks, but the game has never felt all that dangerous. The latest update, Cursed Sails, mostly corrects that. The addition of terrifying skeleton threats, battles packed with cursed cannonballs, and a brand new player ship brings a welcome sense of urgency to a game…Read more… […]
August’s Xbox Live Games with Gold is pretty good this month. It features a few games I keep meaning to check out, like For Honor and Dead Space 3. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Whenever I’ve interviewed a games industry executive over the past few months, I’ve asked them what single thing will revolutionize video games in the next five years.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
After briefly getting the world excited over the prospect of a new hardware announcement at Gamescom next month, Microsoft has changed a line in its blog post from promising “all-new Xbox hardware and accessories” to “new Xbox One bundles and accessories.” Whoops!Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Rocket League and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 came to Xbox Game Pass this week. Game Pass lets you pay $10 a month for access to a library of over 100 Xbox games. As long as you keep your subscription active, you can download and play any of them. Game Pass was an interesting idea when Microsoft […]
There’s nothing too exciting in July’s Xbox Live Games With Gold. I will confess a deep fondness for Splinter Cell Conviction because when it came out in 2010 I’d never seen a game that projected the objective text into the world, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I still kinda think that. […]
I think we all took the Xbox 360 for granted. Other all-time greats like the SNES and PS2 seem to be remembered more fondly than Microsoft’s console, which tends to be recalled as more of a thing that happened than a platform to be treasured.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
First spotted earlier this week at E3 2018, Microsoft has officially unveiled the Xbox x Air Jordan 1 Mid. According to Microsoft, the shoe was seeded to “spokespersons and key influencers in the gaming and lifestyle space.” These shoes were custom made by Jordan Brand using premium suede for a clean finish. A closer look […]
In addition to the PlayStation x Nike Air Force 1 that surfaced this weekend at the Drew League, another video-game inspired sneaker collaboration was also spotted at the E3 convention. Worn by XBOX employees was this new colorway of the Air Jordan 1 which features a combination of black and green on the upper with […]
The next Assassin’s Creed is going to turn heads. That won’t just be because it’s set in ancient Greece, nor simply because it lets you play as a man or a woman. It’s also changing the series’ combat yet again, offering more options for stealth, and even fleshing out the modern-day stuff that’s been lacking […]
Forza Horizon, the XBOX version of what goes on in your head when you’re procrastinating at work, is taking the fourth installment of the franchise to Great Britain later this year. Being a UK native, and having driven around a large chunk of the actual UK, I have a decent idea of what the game […]
We’re two press conferences into E3 2018, and there’s already so much to talk about. Won’t you join us?Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
Microsoft just showed off a ton of stuff at their E3 2018 Xbox press conference, including new Halo and Gears of War games, Fallout 76, The Division 2, Dying Light 2, a shiny Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, and a new samurai action game from the makers of Dark Souls.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
Microsoft announced Gears of War 5 at its E3 Media Briefing today with a story trailer. But that’s not all: Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition is also working on two Gears of War spin-offs, Gears Pop, a mobile game, and Gears Tactics, a strategy game.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
Announced for an October 2nd release, Microsoft dropped this Forza Horizon 4 official trailer during the E3 conference today. Where previous titles have been based in the US, southern Europe, and Australian outback-style open world locales, the fourth installment is promised to reflect a uniquely United Kingdom look.…Read more… Continue Reading at http://jalopnik.com
Parkour zombie game Dying Light is getting a sequel. We don’t know much about Dying Light 2 but based on the trailer it looks like a colorful return to another violent undead world. And you thought the sustained flood of zombie games had ebbed.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
Microsoft kicked off its E3 2018 press conference with a small teaser for the next Halo, called Halo Infinite. If you thought Halo 5 could have used more Master Chief, Microsoft says you’ll get more play time with the series’ protagonist this time around.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
E3 continues today with Microsoft’s press conference at 1pm PT/4pm ET. What’s next for the Xbox One X? Will we see some Gears of War? Will playing with my Xbox friends on my PC ever get easier? Let’s find out together!Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
First planned for November 2017, then delayed to 2018, the long-troubled open-world action game Crackdown 3 will now be out in 2019, according to two people familiar with the game’s release plans. It’s an unusual move and another blow to Xbox’s already weak first-party lineup for the rest of 2018.Read more… Continue Reading at http://kotaku.com
E3 fast approaches, and you know what that means: New game announcements and all the gaming news you can handle are headed our way. It also means it’s time to rewind to 2017, when the three console makers made a plethora of promises during last year’s E3 festivities. Did they keep them? Let’s find out. […]
