This week’s new list of games hitting the Xbox One Backward Compatibility list have been revealed and it’s a pretty assortment. Leading things off is Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the cult-classic RPG from the now defunct 38 Studios. This comes just a few months after it was reported that THQ Nordic has acquired the Kingdoms of Amalur IP
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GRID Autosport is a Codemasters game all about racing, taking muscle cars to the mountains, Formula cars to the tracks, and more. It originally launched on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 and was later ported to iOS devices. While the press release states that there will be a “range of driving disciplines” we should expect to
Microsoft and Universal’s Gears of War movie has been in development since 2016, but like several video game film adaptations, not much has been heard about it since its initial announcement. That being said, The Wrap learned today that the Gears of War movie has received a brand new writer: F. Scott Frazier. While F.
Being deaf, I’ve often made jokes about bad subtitles that are too small to read. Just in the past few years we’ve seen a few examples of how games have stumbled when it comes to implementing proper subtitles, such as Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus with its tiny subtitles that blend, or walls of text in Fallout 4.
The developers for Yooka-Laylee, Playtonic Games, announced on Twitter recently that they hit 1 million players worldwide. Yooka-Laylee came out of Kickstarter campaign raised enough money for some former Rare employees to develop their own Banjo-Kazooie spiritual as Playtonic. Wahey! We’ve hit a milestone of over 1 million #YookaLaylee players! Have a massive thank you from all of us
As most of us already now, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the best days in terms of game deals each year, and 2018 looks to be no different. Personally, I snagged Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Dragon Quest XI, SoulCalibur VI, and Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition at heavily discounted prices this past weekend.
It seems that Ms. Splosion Man has returned for another round of chaotic fun. This time she’ll be taking her wild platforming antics to the Nintendo Switch. Originally released all the way back in 2011, Ms. Splosion Man is the satirical sequel to the equally insane Splosion Man. Featuring a thin pink deliberate caricature as
Console exclusives, which are usually first-party nowadays, have always been a hallmark of the gaming industry and are often some of the games hardcore fans look forward too most. This year has seen some standout exclusives including God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Forza Horizon 4, all of which received critical acclaim and sold well.
I’ve been recently making my way through the newest Tomb Raider game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I’ve been spending more of my game time pondering why I’m not digging this entry as much as the previous two than actually focusing on the digital world in front of me. I usually take that as a
Microsoft has discounted over 500 digital Xbox games as part of their Black Friday sale for Xbox Live Gold members. Those who aren’t Gold members will have to wait until November 19, 2018 to participate, or they can purchased a month of Xbox Live Gold for only $1 in Microsoft’s annual promotion during the holidays.
Microsoft unveiled a batch of “crazy” Xbox-related Black Friday deals, including console price drops and game discounts. Starting on November 22 an running through November 30, people can buy an Xbox One X at $399.99 and the Xbox One S at just $199.99. The Black Friday video and post also advertise $10 off on all Xbox One
Each month, several new titles are added to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, a Netflix like subscription service that gives players access instant access to a variety of Xbox One titles, including new first-party releases. A first wave of titles, including Sniper Elite 4 and OlliOlli 2, hit the service on November 1, and Microsoft has
Last week, Variety broke the news that Ubisoft Motion Pictures was planning on developing a live action TV show based on 2014 RPG Child of Light as well as a movie based on the 2016 VR game Werewolves Within. Today, Ubisoft confirmed this themselves in a new video featuring Tasha Huo and Mishna Wolff, the female writers
Strategy guide publisher Prima Games will be no more after Spring 2019 according to multiple reports from Variety and EGM Now. Parent company Dorling Kindersley announced the closure, which will see offices in Roseville, Indianapolis, and New York shutterring. Roseville will be closing very soon, in mid-November, Indianapolis will have a small selection of staff
During Take-Two Interactive’s earnings call for the end of Q2 fiscal year 2019, it was revealed that Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V has once again passed another major milestone. Take-Two announced near the start of today’s call that Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in (shipped to retail) 100 million units across all platforms. The last time that we
As is custom every Tuesday, Microsoft has today revealed the newest slate of titles that are joining the ever-growing Xbox One Backward Compatibility program. Today’s additions to the list include two Tom Clancy installments from the Xbox 360 that haven’t been heard from in quite some time. Tom Clancy’s EndWar, Ubisoft’s modern war RTS which actually turned 10-years
Last week Wales Interactive announced an upcoming horror title Maid of Sker which is set within a remote hotel known as Sker House. However, there’s been some legal issues as detailed by a report from Eurogamer. Sker House is actually a real property based in Wales, and while the house isn’t featured in the game it is instead
Ubisoft’s smash hit Just Dance 2019, who have slowly implemented a subscription-based service plus an annual fee to access some of the game’s content, has come under fire recently for a different matter this time. Reddit user and mother darkheartsmd has taken to the internet in concern over her six-year-old being repeatedly being asked, while in kids mode, to
With the release of Agent 47’s next outing being just around the corner, it seems that IO Interactive has teamed up with Hollywood star Sean Bean to create an amusing live-action trailer for Hitman 2. The trailer opens with the 59-year-old actor sitting in a luxurious leather chair as a waiter serves him a drink.
Another month, another line-up of free games for Xbox Live Gold members. The marquee title this time around would probably be Battlefield 1, the blockbuster first-person World War I shooter from last year. The DICE game is accompanied by indie endless runner Race the Sun, and Xbox 360 titles Assassin’s Creed (the original, that is) and
When we think of horror games, our minds usually swing immediately to the survival end of the genre’s spectrum with classic titles such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and more recently the Dead Space series. Rightly so, too, as these are phenomenal franchises and well-deserving of their placements as the pinnacles of horror within the video
With the calendar preparing to turn over to November later this week, Microsoft has now taken the opportunity to announce just which games will be coming to Xbox Game Pass to kick off the month. Perhaps the most noteworthy title hitting Xbox Game Pass in the coming days will be that of Sniper Elite 4, the
A new set of proposed rules from The Librarian of Congress and the US Copyright Office will make it easier for game preservation work for titles that rely on online servers to exist as well as helping independent repair work be done to old hardware. Users seeking to repair or perform maintenance on their devices
Usually, when new games join the Xbox One Backward Compatibility list, there’s some logical grouping of games that come to the service together. For instance, just look at last week’s additions, which saw the entire Crysis series becoming backward compatible. Or, you could look at a few weeks before when two older Tomb Raider games hit the list.
The Nintendo Switch, despite some hardware limitations, has been surprisingly friendly to Musou games. So far Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors and Warriors Orochi 4 have all hit the system, and today Koei Tecmo America announced plans to bring a definitive edition of Dynasty Warriors 8 to the hybrid console before the end of 2018.
There always comes a time when the servers must be shut down for older titles. However, Ubisoft is shutting down the servers for multiple Just Dance games, Assasin’s Creed II on the MAC, and others in one swoop. Most notably though is Just Dance 2014 on the Wii. Who knew that they were still hosting their own
Polish developer People Can Fly has had a very interesting decade. After rising to prominence through the cult classics Painkiller and Bulletstorm, the studio was acquired by Epic Games in 2012. While becoming a subsidiary under a large and safe company like Epic is a preferable situation for a lot of developers, People Can Fly
Microsoft just keeps on improving the Xbox One backward compatibility list, this time around by improving a handful of games from of the industry’s most heralded developers. Today, Microsoft announced that four of Valve’s most popular games of all-time have now been enhanced for Xbox One X platform holders. The games in question include Portal, The Orange
As was promised yesterday, Rockstar Games today released the launch trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 to continue to build hype towards next week’s release. This new video is one minute long in total and chooses to instead focus on the story that will be found within Red Dead Redemption 2. No gameplay is to be found this
This week’s additions to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility list have been revealed and it includes the entirety of the Crysis saga. Yes, all three Crysis games have now joined the list of Xbox 360 games now available for play on Xbox One starting today. If you aren’t familiar with Crysis, it’s a series of FPS titles that were developed
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