Xbox One News, Xbox One Features

Allegedly.

We don't know what he's referring to specifically, but Major Nelson has posted an official statement regarding the sale of used games on the Xbox one, apparently in response to comments and message board posts. The statement is as follows:- The ability to trade in and resell games is important to gamers and to Xbox. Xbox One is...

Company isn't backing down against the competition

For those that follow other territories, it's common knowledge the Xbox 360's impact on the Japanese market hasn't generated the same success like it does in the UK and North America. Before the Xbox One announcement on Tuesday, many industry vets were speculating that Microsoft wouldn't compete...

Just like the PS4. Sort of.

According to a report from Polygon, the Xbox One will feature the ability to allow a friend to take over the controls of your game via Skype, in a similar fashion to the way that you can on the PlayStation 4. In the same report, it's been revealed that Kinect could well be able to talk back to you via an in-built speaker...

Brace yourselves.

Microsoft has confirmed to UK gaming magazine Edge that the Xbox One will provide television content from Sky UK, and Canal+ in France. Little is known as to what form that TV content will take, but we're relatively sure that things will pan out much as they have with the Xbox 360 versions of those services, with the Sky app in...

Contrary to apparent popular belief

How can we put this? The Xbox One Reveal was not to everyone’s tastes. OK. It wasn’t to the majority of people’s tastes. Despite the chortling at the name, the look of the console, the fact that Kinect needs to be connected at all times, and that playing a preowned game will cost you more than it used to,...

Snazzy!

The great and good Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb has just posted the first image of an Xbox One game case on his WhoSay account, and we have to admit that it looks quite snazzy. Forza Motorsport 5 is featured on the case in question. The traditional Microsoft green is - as you'd expect - very prevalent, and the whole thing doesn't look a...

All in one place.

It's hardly uncommon knowledge that Microsoft didn't show a lot of games during their Xbox Reveal event. They were never expected to, really, with the games lineup due to be debuted at E3 in a couple of weeks. For now though, we thought we'd cobble together a list of all of the games that have been CONFIRMED as coming to Xbox One,...

Tearing up the track.

EA has confirmed that they'll be releasing the next entry in the Need For Speed series on November 19th for Xbox 360, and that they're also bringing it to Xbox One. Need For Speed: Rivals allows you to play either as a racer or a cop, and seemlessly transition between single player, co-op, and other multiplayer modes. In...

Off the island.

Polish game developer Techland is working on an all-new title for Xbox One and Xbox 360, which is set to be published by Warner Bros. in 2014. Dying Light is the name of the new title, and the Dead Island developers promise that the game will be a first-person survival horror title, featuring an open world, free running, and a...

You won't have to buy a second membership

In case you are wondering whether your current Xbox Live Gold membership can be transferred from your Xbox 360 to the new Xbox One, you can now breathe a sigh of relief because yes, it will. Speaking with the folks at Polygon, Microsoft confirmed that Xbox One owners won't have to cough up the cash for a...

But could Rash, Pimple, and Zitz now be coming to Xbox One?

After news broke that Rare may be bringing one of their many beloved franchises to this year’s E3, we decided to dig a little further to see if we could find any hints as to what they could be working on – besides the rumored Killer Instinct. While we didn’t happen to score anything...

And that's an understatement.

During Microsoft's hardware reveal event yesterday, not much was said about the new Kinect device itself. Sure, we saw what it could do in terms of navigating through menus and switching between The Price Is Right and the big NFL football match of the week, but what do we call the new device? "Kinect 2 for Xbox One"?...

Surprise, surprise!

To follow on from the wave of new information from last night's Xbox One reveal, new game announcements are slowly crawling out of the woodwork today. This time, it's the turn of Eidos-Montreal, who have announced that the much-awaited THIEF - the fourth game in the franchise - is in development for the new machine. Stephane...

Could be released in this millenium.

We first saw it at E3 back in 1842 (or so it seems), but Crytek's formerly-Kinect-only-formerly-first-person-formerly-RPG Ryse has been confirmed as an Xbox One title. The game's official site has changed to show a countdown to the Microsoft press conference at E3, where more will be revealed. Also, a message...

Jumping into the next generation feet first.

Welcome to the next generation, everyone. How are you liking it so far? If you took social media’s word for it, you’d think that Microsoft had turned up at their custom-built Xbox Reveal tent in Redmond, lined up a bunch of kittens on stage, and offered everyone in the crowd the chance to take...

Non-removable, but you can add more.

Engadget are reporting this morning that Microsoft's Albert Penello has confirmed some of the specifications of the storage contained within the Xbox One. The system will ship with a non-removable, non-replaceable 500GB HDD, although external storage devices can be added via one of the machine's three USB 3.0...

...sort of.

Yesterday, we ran a story confirming that Microsoft will prevent gamers from playing used games on their Xbox One console, unless they pay a fee. This threw up some harsh scenarios, such as not being able to loan a game to a friend, or not being able to take your favourite game over to a friend's house for a bit of offline multiplayer...

Or anything else, for that matter.

It's hardly show-stopping stuff, but Microsoft has confirmed that although the new Xbox One controller looks very similar to those that you'd use with your Xbox 360, you won't be able to use Xbox 360 wireless peripherals with the new device. An official Microsoft statement says:- Xbox One was designed from the...

A Rare return to form?

Way back in 2002, Microsoft acquired developer Rare from Nintendo and brought beloved series such as Conker, Perfect Dark, and Banjo-Kazooie to the Xbox and Xbox 360. Since then, they've mostly been developing Kinect-based titles and neglecting all of that juicy IP that fans have been clamoring for. Well, it looks as if the...