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Microsoft has dismissed complaints that eight years was too long between Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Ubisoft and EA have told MCV this year that they felt the console cycle had lasted too long and said they would rather a five to six year gap moving forward. But Xbox VP …

UK retail giant GAME has hailed last night’s Xbox One launch an incredible success, and says that the console’s sales will easily beat the launch of Xbox 360. The firm created a pop-up GAME store at Trocadero for the launch of the console, with 26 year-old Charlie Pulbrook from Kent …

As of next week UK gamers will be able to get their hands on all three Batman games in a single SKU. It’s called the Batman: Arkham Collection Edition and includes, as you would expect, 2009’s Arkham Asylum, 2011’s Arkham City and the recently released Arkham Origins. It will be …

Microsoft has confirmed that its Games With Gold scheme will indeed be coming to Xbox One. Games With Gold grants paying Xbox Live subscribers to access to one or two free games every month. It’s effectively a counter to Sony’s popular Instant Games Collection, which allows free access to a …

Warner Bros has a new Lord of the Rings game in the works for current and next-gen consoles. As revealed by GameInformer, it’s called Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and is being developed by FEAR, Condemned and Guardians of Middle-earth creators Monolith Productions. It depicts events set between those of The …

Microsoft Albert Penello questions whether cloud technology could make Xbox 360 games playable on next-gen hardware

It’s looking unlikely that Microsoft will bring Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One via its Cloud computing services. Sony has previously indicated that it will be doing exactly that to offer PS3 games on PS4, but Microsoft insists that existing online infrastructures simply aren’t up to the job. "It’s …

Blizzard’s dungeon-crawler Diablo III has passed the 14m sales mark across all versions. The figure includes the original PC edition, which launched back in May 2012, along with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, which debuted in September 2013. "We’re pleased with the response to the game’s launch on PlayStation …

The big hits just keep coming this time of year and tonight it’s the turn of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which arrives worldwide at midnight. Although it will have to perform far beyond expectations to topple Grand Theft Auto V’s record-breaking 2013 performance, Ghosts will undoubtedly be one of the …

Destiny developer Bungie is hoping to get a ton of testers in on the game’s beta in hopes to avoid many of the issues the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online faced. Speaking with IGN, Bungie senior writer Eric Obsborne discussed how the team needs a large number of gamers …