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To me, Halo has always felt like a T rated series what with the mild fantasy warfare, but in fact, every title up until this point (besides Halo Wars),

When it was announced that Total War developer Creative Assembly was working on Halo Wars 2, I was very happy. The developer are some of the very best,

Halo 4 is still a personal favorite of mine. I know it rubbed fans the wrong way for various reasons, but to me, it was just a ton of fun. But one of the

For my money, Ori and the Blind Forest is still the best game this year. There is a lot of stiff competition for it to stay top of my through list this

Crackdown 3 is going to be a huge title for the Xbox One, and it has one hell of a gimmick to boot. In multiplayer, the game has a "100% destructable"

Another Microsoft Conference can only mean one thing More Halo 5 At E3 in June, we saw how the co-op work in the story mode will work, as well as the new multiplayer mode Warzone. This month for the Gamescom conference, we were treated to more focus on multiplayer, and particularly on e-sports Here is a[...]

We've only seen it once since then too, but the game just made a new outing at Microsoft's Xbox press conference. The play looked very timey-wimey and is also sporting a new cast with Shawn Ashmore, Dominic Monaghan and Aiden Gillen all along for the ride You can take a look at it in action now.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHs-xlED6So Thanks to IGN[...]

At Microsoft's Gamescom conference, we caught the first look at gameplay, and it is pretty eclectic It is a game where you fight alongside a dragon, killing dudes who are scared of you and other monsters who want to eat you It plays something like Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy infused with heavy techno[...]

Crackdown is back which is quite weird. I assumed that the real enthusiasm for the franchise would have dissipated by now, yet it seems everyone is pretty

In a pretty bizarre move that I don't think anyone was expecting, Microsoft announced at their Gamescom Press conference today that Halo Wars 2 is coming in late 2016 on Xbox One and PC For those of you who don't remember the game, that was the RTS console Halo game I know, like I said,[...]

Microsoft have announced that all four games in the series will come with the title These will be accessed through the recently announced backwards compatibility service coming this fall on the Xbox One. That does mean that they will only run at their native frame rate and resolution, but hey It is a neat incentive[...]

Things look healthy for Microsoft and Xbox One owners have every reason to be excited. The Rise of the Tomb Raider coup by Xbox at last year's Gamescom was almost certainly the biggest news to come out of the conference Taking a franchise that was synonymous with PlayStation at one point and wrapping it up for[...]

I don't seem to remember Tomb Raider (2013) being that small. The island it took place on felt fairly large and I appreciated the depth and detail of the

Rare Replay is just a few days away, bringing 30 Rare games to the Xbox One to celebrate 30 years of the developer. This should be enough to satisfy just

Halo has been a series that is synonymous with splitscreen multiplayer. You could probably make a convincing argument that the series wouldn't be as big

Another month looms and that means it is time for more free games in just a few days. Microsoft have now announced their titles for Games with Gold first for August On the Xbox One, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will make up the triple AAA title of the month This is the prequel to the[...]

Microsoft will have just finished their conference, in which we actually suspect quite a lot of surprises. Crackdown is one of the games we know will be there and it will show gameplay footage during the show Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that we will see the game in motion over Twitter when replying to a fan[...]

Phil Spencer has never been shy about praising his competitors. He doesn't pretend they don't exist or only refer to them as 'our competition', which is

Microsoft had one of the stories of E3 this year when they announcing the Xbox One would support backwards compatibility of Xbox 360 titles It was a huge move and has left many fans very pleased with the prospect. Ever since the feature was announced, the most asked for game on the official Microsoft poll was[...]

That is likely a relic of when the console was going to be much more focused on entertainment as a whole, but as Microsoft have moved back to games exclusively, it doesn't feel quite right. That is why I'm happy to hear that the Xbox One is getting a dashboard overhaul This will come with a[...]

Rare Replay sounds like a serious deal. To celebrate the studio's 30th anniversary, the developer is putting out an anthology of 30 games for 30 bucks.

I've spoken previously about how surprised I was by Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. I was expecting a rather uninteresting up-rez, but from what I have played, there has been a serious amount of work to bring the game up into the new generation. Microsoft today revealed that the game has gone gold, meaning that the game[...]

We've been expecting this announcement for a while now, but today it finally came, officially. Square Enix have now revealed that, yes, Rise of the Tomb

The first games initially launched alongside the Xbox 360 on the platform, so it is a nice courtesy to see Microsoft release the PC version again. Sadly, that version won't be launching alongside the Xbox One version next month Responding on Twitter, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that the PC version wouldn't be coming until a[...]

Two new major franchises at Microsoft's E3 press conference were ReCore and Sea of Thieves ReCore is coming from developer Armatage and MegaMan alum Keiji Inefune, while Sea of Thieves is Rare's new MMO Pirate game. If you were hoping to see either at Gamescom though, sadly, we won't be Speaking on Twitter, Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed[...]

The console has been on top more consistently in monthly sales and coming into this holiday period, it just has more first party exclusives releasing than the PlayStation 4. In the Q4 financial report, Microsoft revealed a 2.1 billion overall loss, but sung the praises of the growing Xbox market Microsoft revealed that the brand saw[...]

At the same time though, its cool to see Microsoft get behind such an obscure title and experiment I'm still not convinced that I will one day be able to buy this game, but I'd be interested to be proven wrong. Phantom Dust has been a weird one ever since it was announced at E3[...]

EA Access is a pretty cool little service. If you have an Xbox One, you can pay a monthly or yearly fee to get access to a select EA's library of games at

Windows 10 official launch is less than two weeks away and I'm sure many of you are are already using an early version of the operating system. If you are

There has been a bit of a storm in a tea cup brewing on the internet regarding the Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition recently. While the