YesterdayMon, 26th Oct 2020

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  News Ubisoft Confirms Performance Details For Its Upcoming Xbox Series X Games

  Here's the full rundown

  Ubisoft has today unveiled a full next-gen rundown for its upcoming titles on Xbox Series X, providing performance details in terms of resolution, frame rate and other visual/audio enhancements. To kick things off, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Far Cry 6

  • 7 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Series X
  • Ubisoft
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  10

  News Get Your Hands On This Official Star Wars Mandalorian Xbox Controller

  Walk the Way of the Mandalore

  Hello there! Yep, we've got another officially licensed Star Wars product to share, this time in the form of the Mandalorian Wireless Xbox Controller & Xbox Pro Charging Stand Set! The controller and charging stand are described as "armour-clad in a Mandalorian pattern reminiscent of beskar steel," boasting...

  • 9 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Star Wars
  • The Mandalorian
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  48

  News Phil Spencer Wants More Single-Player Games From Xbox Studios

  "We've kind of grown organically to be more multiplayer-driven"

  As part of a huge interview with GameReactor, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has suggested that he would like to see more single-player games from Xbox's first-party studios moving forward. Spencer made the remark when asked about Microsoft's strategy for determining whether its projects...

  • 10 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Game Pass
  • Phil Spencer
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  13

  News Xbox Boss: E-Rated Content Is Not A Strength Of Our Portfolio

  'We're missing casual content with a broad appeal'

  Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been talking to GameReactor about a variety of topics in a new interview, including Xbox's first-party output and its overall strengths and weaknesses. When asked about whether a certain genre or type of studio was still missing from the Xbox portfolio, Spencer admitted...

  • 11 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Phil Spencer
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  4

  News Battletoads Celebrates Over One Million Unique Players

  Check out these impressive stats

  Rare and Battletoads developer Dlala Studios have confirmed that the 2020 reboot has enjoyed over one million unique players to date, having only been released back in late August. In celebration, the two studios have unveiled an accolades trailer which you can see above, as well as a bunch of stats about the game...

  • 11 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Game Pass
  • Battletoads
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  9

  News Dynamic Backgrounds Will Be Exclusive To The Xbox Series X|S

  With multiple colours to choose from

  We got our first taste of Dynamic Backgrounds back in August when Microsoft revealed they would be part of a revamped Xbox user interface, and now they have been confirmed to be next-gen exclusive. Speaking in the official Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S walkthrough video, principal program manager Harrison...

  • 12 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Series X
  • Xbox Series S
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  41

  Video Here's The Official Xbox Series X|S Walkthrough

  Everything you can expect from the new systems

  Here we go! Microsoft has today unveiled a 15-minute official Xbox Series X|S walkthrough demonstration, giving us a very in-depth look at how the console performs ahead of its release on November 10th. The video is hosted by Xbox community program manager Malik Prince and principal program manager...

  • 13 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Series X
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  News These 14 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass Soon (Oct 27 - Nov 17)

  It's a massive batch of titles!

  The latest batch of Xbox Game Pass titles has arrived! Microsoft has today unveiled another 14 (!) games coming to the service in late October and early November, available across console, PC and Android. Here's a list of what's on the way over the next few weeks: Date Game Platform Oct 27 Carto Console,...

  • 14 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Game Pass
  • PC
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  2

  News My Time At Portia Sequel Heads To Xbox One, Xbox Series In 2022

  Build up a brand-new workshop

  Pathea Games has announced that it's working on a sequel to the 2019 farming sim RPG My Time at Portia, set to release on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S (along with other platforms) in 2022. The game, entitled "My Time at Sandrock", will see you "build up a brand new workshop and help out a struggling town...

  • 14 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X
  • My Time At Portia
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  News Team Xbox Teases The Possibility Of A Discord App On Console

  Would you like to see it?

  It's been a couple of years now since Microsoft and Discord announced a partnership to "connect gamers across Xbox Live and Discord," but as of yet, there's still no official Discord app on Xbox One. The topic was brought up on Twitter this past Friday when Xbox social media manager Josh Stein responded to a Discord tweet...

  • 15 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Discord
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  News PUBG's Performance Is 'Extremely Smooth And Stable' On Xbox Series X|S

  "With faster loading and little to no frame drops"

  With the release of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S now just two weeks away, the dev team for battle royale PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has unveiled how the game will run via backwards compatibility on the new systems. First, the specs. The Xbox Series X version will leverage the Xbox One X...

  • 16 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Series X
  • Xbox Series S
  • PUBG
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  2

  Feature These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (Oct 27-30)

  The fate of London lies with you

  Welcome to your weekly Xbox roundup! The big release over the next few days is Ubisoft's Watch Dogs: Legion, but we've also got some other highly-anticipated titles on the way, with three LucasArts classics joining Xbox Game Pass! Let's take a look at the full list of upcoming games below: Carto (Oct 27) (Xbox...

  • 18 hours ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Features

Sunday25th Oct 2020

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  News Indie Adventure The Touryst Renders At 6K On Xbox Series X

  With an optional 4K, 120FPS mode

  Highly-regarded adventure puzzler The Touryst released for Xbox One back in July, and while it already plays and looks great on that system, it's going to perform even better on Xbox Series X|S. As confirmed by Digital Foundry in the video you see above (which also provides a closer look at the recently revealed...

  • 2 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox Series X
  • The Touryst
  • Xbox Game Pass
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  13

  Random Master Chief Had An Evil Twin In Guillermo Del Toro's Halo Movie Pitch

  "brother against brother"

  At one point in Halo's history, it was going to be a live-action movie directed by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. While we know Hollywood likes to do things differently, during a chat with IGN recently, Halo: Combat Evolved environment artist Paul Russel shared some worrying details about what this movie might have...

  • 2 days ago
  • Random
  • Halo

Saturday24th Oct 2020

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  27

  Random Snoop Dogg Shows Off His New Xbox Series X Fridge

  Update: And so does YouTuber iJustine

  Update: YouTuber iJustine has also now posted a video of her receiving the huge Xbox Series X fridge, complete with a console style unboxing! You can check it out above. Original story: Sony has recruited Travis Scott as a "strategic creative partner" to help promote the PlayStation brand, so who does...

  • 2 days ago
  • Random
  • Xbox Series X
  • Xbox
  • Microsoft
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  11

  News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Hints At The Potential Return Of 1 VS. 100

  Or something very similar

  Xbox hosted its first trivia event of the new all-digital Xbox FanFest last night, and while it unfortunately suffered some technical difficulties, it also featured a notable appearance from Xbox boss Phil Spencer. Commenting on the issues, which prevented the trivia from functioning as intended, Spencer admitted that...

  • 3 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X
  • 1 Vs 100
  • Xbox Fanfest
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  34

  News Halo Fans Voice Their Concern Over Halo Infinite's 'Armor Coatings'

  They're replacing the old colour system

  343 Industries unveiled a brand-new 'armor coating' system coming to Halo Infinite in a Waypoint blog earlier this week, and so far it's drummed up quite a bit of controversy to say the least! So, what's all the fuss about? Firstly, here's how 343 describes a 'coating' in the game: “A seven-layer shader...

  • 2 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X
  • Halo Infinite
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  News Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's 'Zombies Onslaught' Mode Won't Be On Xbox For A Year

  It's a timed PlayStation exclusive

  Activision has revealed that a new two-person, fast-paced 'Zombies Onslaught' mode is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, but unfortunately it won't be on Xbox for an entire year. This is due to the mode being a PlayStation timed exclusive, set to launch on November 13th for PS4 and eventually PS5, but...

  • 3 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Call of Duty
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  27

  Feature Pick One: Which Of These Xbox Fallout Games Is Your Favourite?

  Remember, you can only pick one!

  It's time for another round of Pick One! This week, to mark the current Fallout 76 Free Play Week and Fallout series sale on the Microsoft Store, we're looking back at the history of the franchise on Xbox. There have been six Fallout games released on the platform to date, starting all the way back before Bethesda...

  • 2 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox One
  • Fallout
  • Bethesda
  • Pick One
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  News Maneater Dev: The Speed Of The Xbox Series SSD Can't Be Understated

  'We’re extremely excited to start fully realizing our vision'

  Tripwire Interactive's 'ShaRkPG' Maneater proved highly popular when it chomped its way to Xbox One back in May, and it's one of the titles that will be getting a day one Xbox Series X|S enhancement on November 10th. In preparation, product director David Amata has been talking about...

  • 2 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Maneater
  • Xbox Series X
  • Xbox Series S
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  32

  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Oct 24th)

  It's a happy-go-Lucky few days for us

  Welcome to the weekend! It's been another relatively busy week in the world of Xbox, with five more Xbox Game Pass additions (including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege), three more Free Play Days offerings, a couple of ongoing sales and a whole bunch of

  • 3 days ago
  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One
  • Talking Point
  • Features