Among the best gifts for gamers you can give this holiday season, video games are always sure to be high on the list. Be that a gaming console or an accessory that takes the gaming experience to the next level, you can certainly make someone’s holiday a special one depending on your selection. The selections are quite vast with multiple consoles to account for that doesn’t even...
As we scour the web for the best deals, it's been pretty easy to find fantastic discounts on some of our favorite products. We already narrowed down the best smartphone deals, now we're doing the best gaming deals. Most of the deals are already live and will be hot sellers come Black Friday. You can snatch them now or wait until the big day, but whichever you choose, you will score...
While it’s hard to argue that Sony’s nailed down the win for exclusive games with the PlayStation 4 – God of War and Spider-Man in one year? Dang – Microsoft has been hard at work trying to make gaming more accessible and more affordable. Part of that has been Microsoft’s $10/monthly Xbox Game Pass, a Netflix-style service that puts a whole bunch of games under one simple and digestible...
Microsoft is developing another Xbox model and it doesn't require physical discs. The new Xbox One version will rely on digital downloads for gameplay, according to Thurrott. It takes advantage of the same technology inside the Xbox One X and the Xbox One S, but you'll be able to store everything on the console or in the cloud. It won't be part of the next-generation Xbox models,...
As rumored last month, Microsoft has announced that it has fully acquired popular RPG developer Obsidian Entertainment. The studio, best known for Fallout: New Vegas, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and its recent indie hit Pillars of Eternity, joins a swath of companies that have been summoned to fly under the Xbox brand. Obsidian...
Now, nobody is going to squeeze your arm and force you to do anything you don't want, but you can now play the entire Final Fantasy XIII trilogy thanks to backward compatibility on the Xbox One. Microsoft added Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII to the heralded backwards compatible list over the weekend alongside Civilization Revolution...
We suspected some big news over the weekend once the original Crackdown went on sale on the Xbox Marketplace, and Microsoft certainly delivered. Crackdown 3 has been given an official release date of Feb. 15, 2019, bringing to a close a development cycle that has lasted the entire generation of out current consoles. Crackdown 3 was first revealed at E3 2014 but immediately went cold...
It’d been bugging me for a few weeks, maybe a month. At first, I thought it was a bug. My suspended Xbox One games kept closing. I’d have to reboot them from scratch each time, going through long loading sequences far more often than I remember doing. It turns out, that’s not a bug; it’s a feature. Microsoft has quietly started allowing apps to close suspended games to capture more...
If you own a PlayStation 4, there’s a pretty good chance you picked up Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man this fall. It’s one of the best games this year and one of the best games on the PlayStation 4. But many PlayStation owners and most PC gamers don’t own Xbox One consoles, and that means tons of people missed out on the previous game from Insomniac, Sunset Overdrive. It was an Xbox One...
The way you use your Xbox One is about to change for the better – again. Microsoft announced this week that keyboard and mouse support is coming to the system and it’s not just real, it’s coming soon. “We’re enabling mouse and keyboard support for select Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks,” Microsoft said in the announcement. While most wired or wireless USB keyboards and mice will...