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However, now at Microsoft Studios, he will take Lead writer duties on ReCore it was announced in the New York Times In the article, which is about female characters in video games, Staten said: The male gender does not have the monopoly on heroism Joule is emblematic of this conviction, and we hope she's a character who[...]

I like the Xbox One quite a bit, but there is no denying that it is a total monster. It's a bulky machine that resembles more a VCR than what you'd expect

The controllers have been sold out everywhere meaning that the hot ticket item has been hard to pick up for many of the dedicated. Speaking to Windows Weekly (via Geekwire), Microsoft CMO Chris Capossela said that this was due to the company not expecting the demand They had good reason to believe that though[...]

Before breaking for the holidays, Microsoft has revealed their plans for January's Games with Gold. On the Xbox One, we'll be getting the fighting game Killer Instinct Season 1Ultra Edition for free for Xbox Live Adding on top of that, the indie brawler Zheros will also be available for Xbox One players. On the Xbox 360, Dirt Showdown and Deus[...]

Xbox One's backward compatabillity seems to have done pretty well since the first batch of titles were approved on the system. There are still titles

Rise of the Tomb Raider is certainly one of the best games to have hit the Xbox One, especially in exclusive department. It won't be an exclusive forever

Halo 5 is getting a massive update next week titled the Cartographer's Gift. Building the multiplayer experience, this will add a ton of new content to

Microsoft said in a statement: As a service-based title in closed beta, we're always working to make sure that when we open 'Fable Legends' to everyone, that it's a great gameplay experience We are continuing to expand our closed beta and will have more details to share in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! Hopefully "coming weeks"[...]

Ark: Survival Evolved has been a bit of a quiet phenomenon since it hit early access this year. The dinosaur (and other cryptid) survival game has

When Rare Replay launched earlier this year, there was a title quite obviously missing from the collection and it's arguably one of the most important in

Quantum Break will finally be with us in the first half of 2016, and with that, the marketing campaign has started to pick up. Since E3, we've seen it a

What will the moment to moment of using it be like? How big a presence will games have? What can it really do? However, this new video from Microsoft project manager Varun Mani does at least show how games and media should work in a practical sense It shows Halo 5 first being played on a[...]

Rocket League is one of the most fun times I've had with a game this year. The game exploded on PlayStation 4 when it was given away with PlayStation

The game's performance in reviews has left Square Enix and Microsoft happy On the TombRaiderForums, game director Brian Horton responded to concerns that the game wasn't performing very well, saying: I didn't mean to go off topic or patronise, but there was suggestion in the thread that the reported sales numbers reflect poorly on the dev[...]

If Microsoft can't capture that all important Millennial market with great exclusives when the competition has none, I don't know how you do it. So, lets get all silly and talk console wars. A report by Infoscout has said that it looks like the PlayStation 4 might have reclaimed Black Friday off of Xbox One, who took[...]

The Xbox 360 back-catalog just started to open up on Xbox One, with the recent launch of the new UI bringing backwards compatibility. It's an exciting

We're coming into the last month of the year, which means we're moving into the last batch of free games on both consoles for 2015 too. As is usually the

Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool… This is something happening with more and more games, especially Microsoft first-party titles After Halo 5: Guardians and Rise of the Tomb Raider, it seems Forza 6 now has microtransactions, as the eagle eyes of TeamVVV spotted. They noted: At time of writing, one Token is the equivalent of 500 in-game Credits[...]

Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool... Rise of the Tomb Raider is out now, and very bloody good. But did you know that it was written, in part, by Rihanna

Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool… Microsoft are (rightly) making a lot of noise about backwards compatibility coming to the Xbox One, but there are a lot of huge, popular games missing still Usually it'd be because there's a HD remake available, which seems obvious. But Red Dead Redemption is one of Rockstar's most beloved games, and[...]

Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool… Over on their official YouTube channel, Microsoft has published a video showing how backwards compatibility works on the Xbox One (which we saw via VG247), and in doing so took a heavy handed shot at Sony's lack of that same functionality. "How much does it cost?" Ellen Rose asks, before being[...]

Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool… According to the NPD figures for October, Microsoft dominated sales, with Halo 5 and the Xbox One console itself being the winners. Halo 5: Guardians topped the charts, though new release sales decreased 4% year on year (although this only includes physical copies sold, and as we reported previously, for example, Uncharted was[...]

The Xbox One dashboard has long been a bane of mine. It's unattractive, unintuitive and it's performance is a little sketchy. That is why I've been

By Adam Cook File this one under "kinda cool marketing-type things", but Microsoft has sent four YouTubers to Siberia for 48 hours in celebration of the release of Rise of the Tomb Raider, and under the guise of challenging them to survive like Lara Croft. They'll be climbing rocks, hiking up mountains in blizzard conditions, and more[...]

By Adam Cook Have you been a part of the Xbox One preview program, and experienced the multitude of dash-updates thanks to that new experience? I have, and it's been… fine, actually, since it all updates while I sleep. But Microsoft have acknowledged on Twitter (via VG247) that it's been annoying for some, and Director of Program Management at Xbox, Mike[...]

I was in the auditorium when it was announced at Microsoft's E3 briefing, and the roars were deafening. As announced by Xbox, here is a list of the first 104 Xbox 360 games that will get the treatment These will be available to use on November 12th Take a look: A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Alien[...]

There have been two major questions following Overwatch around since it was announced. Would it be on consoles and would it be free to play? We now know

Rise of the Tomb Raider is out next week, bringing the titular tomb raider Lara Croft out exploring...well, the tombs of the world. Crystal Dynamics have

I was a little worried that Halo was dropping off in the public innocuousness as Halo 5, in my experience, had received a more muted release compared to

I'm going to be going deep into spoilers here, so if you haven't played the game yet and have any intention to, I suggest you turn back. So, I've been