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Xbox One owners will soon be able to pre-order titles via the Xbox Live marketplace. That’s according to Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac, which in an episode of Sunset TV – as spotted by Joystiq – has said: If you pre-order the game digitally, you will get the Day One Edition …
Read More »Devs are asking for Xbox Early Access program, ID@Xbox boss says
A Steam-style Early Access programme is a common request amongst ID@Xbox developers, the platform holder’s Chris Charla has told Develop. Reports have been bubbling for some time about a similar program for PS4 and Charla told Develop in an interview last week that it’s a talking point at Xbox as …
Read More »Frontier says it would be ‘stupid’ not to bring Elite Dangerous to PS4 and Xbox One
Elite Dangerous is coming to PS4 and Xbox One, it seems. Speaking to Eurogamer Frontier boss David Braben said in no uncertain terms that he was not announcing a console port of the game. But then pretty much did. "I’ve just got to watch out," he said. "I don’t want …
Read More »Charla: Devs are asking for Xbox Early Access
And Xbox is listening really closely to those developers
Read More »Xbox One update introduces improved game demo support
Xbox One’s latest update adds the ability to download a title’s demo and subsequently unlock the full version of the game from the same file. In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s ID@Xbox head Chris Charla stated the feature arrived as part of the console’s latest update – adding that he …
Read More »Xbox exec ‘defies you to see resolution and framerate differences on sub-60 inch screens’
The UK marketing boss of Xbox has said that one of Microsoft’s challenges is to overcome the disparity between the perceptions and realities of differing framerates and resolutions. Xbox One has since launch been troubled by the fact that several cross-platform titles offer either a lower resolution or framerate on …
Read More »Microsoft sees Xbox One ‘momentum shift’
Xbox One’s difficult start is still well and truly behind it, Microsoft has said. Discussing elements such as the dropping of Kinect, the recent price drop and the beefed-up Xbox One Games With Gold offer, Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle told CVG: "It’s the cumulative effect of all those …
Read More »Shadow Warrior reboot arriving on PS4 and Xbox One in September
The 2013 reboot of Shadow Warrior is coming to current-gen consoles later this year. The distributors for the game, Devolver Digital and Majesco Entertainment, confirmed that Flying Wild Hog’s resurrection of the bloody 90s first-person shooter would be released on PS4 and Xbox One this September. The studios added that …
Read More »Microsoft insists that every Xbox One can still be a dev kit
Plans remains in place for every Xbox One unit to have the facility of being transformed into a development station. Microsoft said way back in July that any Microsoft-authorized Xbox One unit can be converted into a debug console – the advantage to developers of course being the ability to …
Read More »PS4 remains the favoured platform amongst European developers
Sony’s PS4 has for the second year in a row been named as the console platform of choice amongst European developers, GDC data suggests. The GDC Europe State of the Industry 2014 Survey found that 18 per cent of respondents are currently making a game for the machine versus 13 …
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