With the holiday season now in full swing, choosing what gifts to get for the gamers in your life is less challenging now thanks to the addition of Xbox’s new Game Gifting feature, which everyone can now enjoy to send games to their friends and loved ones. Microsoft has announced that the Game Gifting feature
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Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, November 20. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% on several full titles and DLC expansions. Highlights featured this week include D.C. Universe Online 3-Month Membership
During interviews published before the launch of the Xbox One X, Xbox Console Marketing Senior Director Albert Penello and other Microsoft executives mentioned that the Xbox One X has the most launch ctitles ever for a console. Questioned on this statement on the Resetera forums, Penello explained the reasoning behind it: Serious question. Most modern
Today Microsoft released a new trailer to advertise its recently-launched service Xbox Game Pass. The trailer features the service as a drive-through, with customers asking for this or that game, only to react incredulously when they are told that they can get them all. Yeah, it’s a lot funnier when you actually watch it, as
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, November 13, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% on several full titles and DLC expansions. Highlights featured this week include Blood Bowl 2 – Legendary
Xbox One X is finally available in most markets worldwide, and to show off what the new console can do, Microsoft released a batch of trailers showcasing enhanced games. We get one trailer for Forza Motorsport 7, one for Halo 5: Guardians, and one for ARK: Survival Evolved. While the trailer for Halo and Forza are
Microsoft already publishes Minecraft on multiple platforms, including Sony’s PS4, Nintendo’s Switch and mobile handsets. That being said, Minecraft was a special case, as its multiplatform nature was already established before the house of Xbox acquired Mojang. Yet, an interview with Xbox Division Head and Executive Vice President of Games Phil Spencer published earlier today on the
The Xbox One X launches tomorrow (November 7th) in Japan, alongside the rest of the world. In order to get a better insight on the pre-order situation, the local website Game Watch inquired with pretty much all the major local retailers, including Yodobashi Camera, Bic Camera, Yamada Denki, Nojima and Joshin. All mentioned that the initial
While the list of Xbox Play Anywhere games continues to grow, there are still games that support and thrive from their independent platform audiences. Now, just like Rocket League, Halo Wars 2 will support Xbox One and PC crossplay. The announcement was made as a part of their November 2 patch notes, which also outline several
Back in September, Xbox Division head Phil Spencer joined Microsoft’s senior leadership team as Executive Vice President of Gaming. In order to learn more on what this means for the Xbox brand, we asked Xbox Games Marketing General Manager Aaron Greenberg for his insight on the situation. Greenberg mentioned that Spencer’s appointment and the fact that he now
Microsoft is on the verge of a new console release, and no, it’s not a jump into the next generation. Instead what we have here is a super-charged mid-cycle refresh known as the Xbox One X. With its release, the “X” cements itself as the new top-shelf option within the Xbox One family and, for
Hear ye, hear ye! The Xbox One X’s launch is fast approaching, and we already know what is on the minds of readers — when can we read DualShockers‘ official impressions of the hardware? Anyone familiar with the gaming (or any) review industry and journalism surrounding it knows that embargoes exist — hard deadlines that
Yesterday at Paris Games Week, PUBG Corp. revealed new information for their critically-acclaimed battle-royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. According to the press release, the Xbox One version will launch as a console launch exclusive via the Xbox Game Preview program on December 12, 2017 while the PC version of the title will be exiting Steam’s Early Access at
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, November 6, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% on several full titles and DLC expansions. Highlights featured this week include The Escapists: The Walking Dead
With the recent close of Visceral Games, gamers are once again reminded of all of the franchises that are near and dear to them — especially of all of those franchises that have had their studios closed. While the game development studios remain closed, the General Manager of Global Games Publishing for Microsoft – Shannon Loftis
With the addition of game gifting on Xbox One (at least for insiders, for now), there have been a few questions hovering around in the community, and Corporate Vice President Xbox and Windows Gaming Platform Mike Ybarra took to Twitter to answer. First of all, if you gift a game token to a friend who
Microsoft just made a new Xbox One system software update available to alpha circle insiders. The new release numbered 1711.171024-1923 comes with a lot of interesting goodies, even if the most important is certainly the ability to gift games, DLC and subscriptions to others. Of course the feature is not 100% complete yet, but it’s plenty
The Xbox One X has been the talk of the town, one way or another, and DualShockers recently received a review unit from Microsoft. As we prepare to put it through its paces and see how all those teraFLOPs perform on actual games, we had to share with you the moment in which the beast
During Microsoft’s quarterly financial conference call for investor and analysts related to the period between July 1st and and September 30th, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood talked about the outlook for the Xbox business, and in particular the launch of Xbox One X. First of all, Hood explained that new services like Mixer and Xbox Game
During Microsoft’s quarterly financial conference call for investor and analysts related to the period between July 1st and and September 30th, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella provided an overview of the Xbox and gaming business and its outlook. “We’re mobilizing to pursue our expansive opportunity in the hundred billion-plus gaming industry, broadening our approach on
Today Microsoft released its quarterly financial results related to the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, which corresponds to the period between July 1st and September 30th. Of course, that included information about the performance of the Xbox business and Xbox Live. In the slide below you can see the results of the “More Personal
Today, Microsoft announced the games that will be distributed to Xbox Live Gold subscribers in November. The first on the menu is Ubisoft’s Trackmania Turbo for Xbox One, followed by Tales from the Borderlands for Xbox One by Telltale Games, Sega’s NiGHTS into dreams.. for Xbox 360, and The Farm 51’s Deadfall Adventure for Xbox 360. As
While the Xbox One has focused on delivering Ultra HD visuals and more this year with the upcoming Xbox One X, Microsoft is officially saying goodbye to one of its attempts to broaden the capabilities of the Xbox consoles with the official end of the Kinect. Speaking in an interview with Fast Company’s Co.Design, Microsoft’s Alex
Microsft is offering several fantastic titles at a discounted price in a major flash sale this week. From now until Tuesday, October 31st (11 pm UTC) you can save big on more than 100 games available on Xbox One and Xbox 360. Due to the final quarter of the 2017 gaming year fully being underway, Microsoft’s Shocktober
Today Microsoft released four video showcasing the new backward compatibility features coming to the Xbox One family. First of all, we learn that the Xbox One X will offer additional improvements for select Xbox 360 games. Showcased in the videos we two different maps of Halo 3, High Ground and The Pit. Both look remarkably
Earlier today, Microsoft itself leaked the Japanese version of the full “Feel True Power” Xbox One X TV commercial, but as the time for the official release came, so did the final English ad. The commercial, which will air on TV stations worldwide, gives a look on some games that will support the upcoming console,
While the full Xbox One X “Feel True Power” commercial appears to be already out in the wild (at least in Japanese), Microsoft’s offices this side of the Pacific Ocean are still releasing teases. This is the fourth trailer of a series of teasers started two days ago and continued yesterday. The first trailer was
Microsoft released quite a few teasers in the past few days of the TV commercial dedicated to promoting the Xbox One X with the slogan “Feel True Power.” Apparently, the Japanese version of the ad has been released earlier, and you can check it out below. While the teasers were actually a bit underwhelming due
Today Microsoft released a third teaser trailer for the Xbox One X, with the slogan “Feel True Power.” This is the third trailer of a series started yesterday and continued earlier today, but while the first one focused on the fact that the Xbox One X’s power will make your eye dilate, and the second shows the console
Today Microsoft released another teaser trailer for the Xbox One X, with the slogan “Feel True Power.” This is the second ad of a series started yesterday, but while the first one focused on the fact that the Xbox One X’s power will make your eye dilate, this one has the console making the actor