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Phil Spencer misquoted on late night show

For those that tuned into Jimmy Fallon's late night shenanigans the other day, you may have picked up on something that Phil Spencer said during his demonstration of the Xbox One to the boisterous host. As part of 'Video game Week', Phil Spencer had responded to Fallon's question about how much more...

Well we guess that makes it SORT OF backwards compatible, right? No? Ok.

In an interview with Reddit Games, Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb has confirmed that the Xbox One's HDMI input will allow you to plug all sorts of devices into it. Including the Xbox 360. In the interview, it was mentioned that you could plug a Windows PC in too, and as the port is...

Major Nelson clears it up.

Following on from Xbox Support's rather irresponsible trigger-finger tweet last week that seemed to confirm that if a user was banned from Xbox Live for any reason on the Xbox One, they would also lose access to their entire game library, Major Nelson has been trying to put gamers' minds at ease. The Major confirmed in an...

Some things don't have to change

Update: In our original story, we may have jumped the gun a bit on the pricing structure for first-party games on Xbox One. Our source came from the folks over at Polygon, which only indicated price in the US. The price was $59.99 which is the same as current game prices but nothing was mentioned about other region...

Share your game library with any ten people!

It seems like a bit of a strange policy - but hey, which of Microsoft's Xbox One policies are normal, right? - but Microsoft have confirmed that the ability to share your game library with up to ten people in your household, actually extends to...well...anyone! The official press release sent out last...

No contest.

Online retail giant Amazon.com have decided to put next generation console battle to the vote via their Amazon Versus platform on Facebook. The question is simply: "Which is your console of choice?" Needless to say, it has not gone well so far for Microsoft. At the time of writing, the Xbox One has garnered a pathetic 996 votes,...

But now a little more capable.

The original Xbox 360 edition of Earth Defense Force 2017 was technically passable, but generally much more fun that it really had any right to be. Blasting through insect enemies was never more enjoyable, and D3 Publisher and Sandlot are bringing another title in the series to Xbox 360. Earth Defense Force 2025 is...

Ubisoft to the rescue.

When THQ went belly-up last year, a fair few titles died and went to videogame heaven. One of the ones we were hoping had survived was Obsidian's take on the South Park universe - which looked pretty darned sharp. After having heard nothing about it for months, the game suddenly popped up at Ubisoft's presser, confirming that...

Shiny trailer, too.

One of the games that seems to be successfully slipping under the radar at E3 2013, is Tecmo Koei's Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. That's probably due to the fact that it isn't hitting next-generation consoles and everyone is looking in that direction, but in order to drum up some interest, Tecmo have released a massive batch of...

It listens, too...

We saw the announcement of Dead Rising 3 for Xbox One during Microsoft's E3 press conference and while most were taken by the new vehicular transportation/killing machine options, a few seem to be underestimating just how good this title could be. That's fair enough, given that the proof is - as always - in the pudding, but Capcom...

But not Xbox One.

One of the big titles shown at Sony's original PlayStation 4 reveal a few months ago was Blizzard's Diablo III. At the time, given the hoo-hah made by Sony about it, we assumed that it would only be headed to the PS4, but that isn't the case. However, that doesn't mean that the Xbox One is getting to see a version of the game...

FPS, Puzzler, Co-op Survival title all in one.

Nordic Games Publishing has confirmed that their upcoming title Deadfall Adventures will launch on Xbox 360 on September 27th this year. Deadfall Adventures claims to be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, featuring a single player campaign with its roots set firmly in the FPS genre - albeit with puzzling...

Cheap, cheap!

Square Enix have today released a big old bundle of Final Fantasy XIII-2 goodness via Xbox Live. The game itself is available for £14.99 (€19.99), and the waves of DLC packs that are available for the game have almost all been discounted to half price. This is a permanent reduction, we're told. As if that wasn't enough, the...

Surprise, surprise!

During Sony's E3 2013 Press Conference, a trailer for a new entry in the Kingdom Hearts series was shown off. Kingdom Hearts III features the return of a more mature Sora as the lead character, and is being released on a non-Sony home console for the very first time. After Sony's conference, we didn't think this would be the...

And they say people don't believe in heroes any more.

We all saw the trailer for Mad Max during the Microsoft press conference, but not a great deal of information was contained within said trailer. Fortunately, Warner Bros. have dropped a little more knowledge on us this afternoon. The game is a strictly single-player open world title which takes...

Right on cue.

Bethesda has confirmed that the next entry in the legendary Wolfenstein series will be coming to Xbox One in 2014. Wolfenstein: The New Order is already on the cards for a 2013 release on Xbox 360, and features American war hero B.J. Blazkowicz, a man tasked with defeating the odds and taking on the Nazi regime. The game is in...

Gamers without internet can buy an Xbox 360 and like it, apparently.

As if things couldn't get any worse for Microsoft and the Xbox One at this year's E3, Microsoft's usually fair and reliable Don Mattrick has been taking questions from the folks at GameTrailers. In response to questions about why the company is taking the online route with the...

How to lose an unwinnable war.

The preparation leading up to this battle was almost perfect. An industry-leading console that dominated the US and UK markets. An online service that people were willing to pay a significant amount of money for each year. An enviable lineup of independent developers making games for the console, and pricing those...

'Rysing' to the occasion in November

Crytek's bloody hack-and-slash action title, Ryse: Son of Rome will be gracing the Xbox One on launch day in November, as confirmed during Microsoft's E3 event yesterday. The demo showed the frantic, brutal nature of the game as players took control of Roman general, Marius Titus, tasked on taking over a...

Comes with one character.

One of the more impressive announcements at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference yesterday, revolved around the return of Killer Instinct for Xbox One. Today, it has emerged that the title will actually be free-to-play, with users getting access to Jago as their only character from the outset. Other characters will be...

Seeing double?

At their E3 2013 press conference, Sony marked their entry into the next generation by unveiling the PlayStation 4 hardware design. Initial comments on the social networks suggest that it looks a tad like the Xbox One design that people don't appear to be particularly fond of. Others have rushed to the system's defence. A sort of...

Dig, dig, dig.

The global sensation that is Minecraft is coming to Xbox One, it was revealed earlier today. The game, which is still topping Xbox Live download charts and has recently seen a retail release, will apparently not be present at the console's launch in November, but will follow early in 2014, we're told. Not much more information was...

Record breaking.

Amazon.com are reporting that they have "sold through most of (their) Xbox One Day One Edition inventory" in the first four hours of being available. The Day One Edition comes with a free 12-month Xbox Live Gold subscription, as we reported earlier, as well as a slightly less than impressive looking limited edition controller and...

Zoe Mode lines up the shot.

Another title that missed the cut (sorry) from the Microsoft conference at E3 2013, was Powerstar Golf, which is in development with Zoe Mode (the crew behind the fun Xbox Live Arcade Kinect title Haunt) and is due for release on Xbox One before Christmas. It looks a little closer to Hot Shots Golf than Tiger Woods PGA...