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Microsoft has announced that hit PC title Cities Skylines is coming to consoles – and it will be on Xbox One before other platforms. The city simulator was a surprise hit on PC earlier this year and is sure to find a big audience among console gamers. It’s not the …
Read More »GAMESCOM: Bloodstained will be cross-play between Xbox One and Windows 10
Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will be available to cross-play on both Xbox One and Windows 10. Castlevania creator KojiIgarashi, who led the game to Kickstarted success earlier this year, came out on stage during the platform holder’s Gamescom conference to reveal the functionality. Igarashi also unveiled …
Read More »GAMESCOM: Xbox One backwards compatibility rolls out in November
Xbox One’s backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games will be rolled out to all users in November. Furthermore, Microsoft has confirmed that from November all Xbox 360 titles given away with its Games with Gold service will be backwards compatible, increasing the monthly selection available to Xbox One owners.
Read More »GAMESCOM: TV recording and streaming, plus controller keyboard, coming to Xbox One
Xbox One is to receive full DVR functionality for HD TV in Europe. The subscription free service is due out in 2016. It will allow users to use their console much like they would a Sky+ or V+ box, recording, pausing or rewinding live TV. Furthermore, the recorded shows can …
Read More »Cloud tech provides Crackdown 3 with 20 times the computational power of Xbox One
New Dundee studio ReAgent Games working on sequel
Read More »GAMESCOM: Scalebound will have four-player co-op, coming late 2016
Platinum Games has revealed that its upcoming title Scalebound will allow up to four players to team up in a new multiplayer mode. DirectorHideki Kamiya introduced some footage of the action RPG, showing the lead character teaming up with a dragon to battle enemy knights and a beast known as …
Read More »GAMESCOM: Crackdown 3 confirmed for 2016, will use the cloud
Microsoft has at last detailed some of the features that it hopes will make Crackdown 3 one of the biggest games of 2016. With the bold claim that the game engine will change the way you play games forever”, the title will offer what it promises is a 100 per …
Read More »GAMESCOM: Quantum Break release date and cast revealed
Quantum Break is coming to Xbox One next April. April 5th, to be exact, as the game’s developer Remedy revealed on-stage during the opening of Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference for this year. That release date will see the Xbox One-exclusive sci-fi action title join the ranks of The Division, Uncharted …
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Read More »Watch Microsoft’s Gamescom 2015 Xbox conference here
Microsoft will kick off Gamescom 2015 this afternoon, and you can watch the whole event right here. The exact contents of the show remain a secret, of course, but we do know that three Xbox One exclusives will feature – Remedy’s Quantum Break, the new Crackdown and Platinum’s Scalebound. It …
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