Tag Archives: xbox one

Despite landing in hot water on launch for its lack of expected content, The Sims 4 has seen a steady string of support from its developer with the latest addition being toddlers that rolled out in January. So far, the title has been exclusive to PC users, but a recent …

Microsoft has been keen to include its PC user base in future gaming plans as shown by the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative, which debuted last year.  This year, Microsoft will be expanding that even further as not only is Xbox One set to get backwards compatibility with original Xbox games, …

Ever since the start of this console generation, game sizes have only gotten bigger. With the jump to higher resolution assets and 4K games, console players are going to need more hard drive space. With that in mind, Seagate has launched the Game Drive Hub for Xbox One and Xbox …

EA held its quarterly earnings call last night and as usual, some interesting information came out about the publishers plans and view of the market. We already know that Bioware's new IP has been pushed back of FY 2019, but it seems EA has also been surprised by growth in …

While we usually tend to focus on gaming peripherals for the PC specifically, today we are taking a look at the Kingston HyperX CloudX Headset, a revision of the Cloud II designed with the Xbox One in mind. The HyperX Cloud II is widely considered to be one of the …

One of Microsoft's big surprises for 2015 was the announcement of backwards compatibility for the Xbox One. A year later, there are now over 300 Xbox 360 games playable on the Xbox One with more being added on a regular basis and as it turns out, the feature has become …

Last month, Oculus and Microsoft announced that their Xbox One VR streaming app would finally be coming to the Oculus Rift. This streaming app allows console owners to stream their Xbox One games directly to the Oculus Rift to be played in a virtual cinema environment. It has taken quite …

The Oculus Rift will soon be able to support streaming games from the Xbox One, in a cinema-mode that puts the user in front of a giant virtual screen. That means the games themselves won't be automatically turned into VR experiences, but you can play them in a variety of …

Anthony Clarke, one of four individuals arrested as part of an investigation into FIFA 14 Coin hacking, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He now has a few months to wait until sentencing, but potentially faces as long as 20 years in a federal prison for his …

Seagate is looking to give you more space and more speed with your Xbox One, with its new Game Drive for Xbox SSD. It comes packing 512GB of storage space, letting you install around 15 games on the device. They should load quickly and efficiently too, thanks to the device's high-speed …

Head of Xbox at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, is so confident in the company's new “Play Anywhere” initiative, that he thinks other big publishers will get on board with it in the future. Presumably he means giving players free copies of their games for the PC if gamers buy them for the …

Way back in July of 2015 Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, confirmed plans to bring mouse and keyboard support to the Xbox One. This was reiterated earlier this year at E3, though Spencer admitted at the time that support was still “months away”. Well, months have now passed and …

Not too long ago, Microsoft loosened up on its Xbox Live restrictions a bit and gave developers free reign to implement cross-platform multiplayer for games between Xbox One, PC and if Sony allows it, PS4 too. Now it turns out that there are two developers ready to roll-out cross-network play …

With the season finale of Game of Thrones now complete and the world struggling to come to terms with what happened (and that we need to wait another nine months to find out what happens next), Microsoft is hoping to ease that pain with some special hardware: a Game of …

Let's face it, Fallout 4 was a bit of a letdown when it comes to its RPG elements. Fortunately, we still have some excellent older titles in the series to turn to for our RPG fix, with one of the best being Obsidian's Fallout New Vegas. If you happened to …

When it comes to online store listings, mistakes happen pretty much all of the time and people tend to be pretty quick to jump on them. This week, Fallout 4 was mistakenly listed as a free download on the Xbox One and while those that downloaded it won't get to …

It looks like we might see Microsoft turn the tables on Sony mid-generation this console cycle as both companies are currently rumoured to be preparing upgraded hardware versions of the Xbox One and PS4, but Microsoft's could end up being the more powerful of the two. When the Xbox One …

On the back of previous news that Phil Spencer was considering ‘upgrades' for the Xbox console, a new report is saying that Microsoft actually has two new Xbox One consoles in development at the moment. The first one is set to be a slim version of the Xbox One hardware …

One of the best aspects of Rocket League – beyond doing sweet, wall-ride aerials – is that it's allowed PlayStation 4 and PC gamers to face off against one another in titanic match ups of console vs PC from the get go. Xbox owners missed out on that phenomenon, but …

While we know that at least Sony and Nintendo will be facing off soon with the PS4 NEO and the Nintendo NX, we haven't heard much about Microsoft's plans. However, according to reports, a “variety” of new Xbox prototypes are currently being tested, some of which do have upgraded internal …

The Xbox 360 is ten years old at this point and while it has served many over the years, it can't stay around forever. Today, Microsoft officially announced that it is discontinuing the Xbox 360, so once the existing hardware stock runs out, there won't be any more left to buy. …

It's been clear for a while now, that by the numbers, the PS4 has proved to be the most popular console this generation. In-fact, it might be far and beyond the most popular, as numbers leaked by EA suggest that the PS4 might have sold almost double that of the …

A few weeks back, Phil Spencer threw out the idea of an Xbox One mid-generation hardware upgrade and the reaction was pretty mixed. Since then, Microsoft has been going back on that idea, with Phil Spencer now saying that there won't be an Xbox 1.5, instead the company wants to …

One of the big promises Microsoft made back when it first launched the Xbox One was the ability to turn any retail unit into a development kit. Now, after a couple of years of working on it, Microsoft is rolling out the feature but it does come with some fairly …

Following a few weeks of building up, Microsoft has finally spoke out about universal apps coming to the Xbox One at the Game Developers Conference this week. At GDC, Microsoft announced that developers would soon be able to publish Universal Windows Platform apps (UWP) to the Xbox Store, on top …

Earlier this week, Microsoft issued an open invitation for developers to create cross-platform games between the PC and Xbox One. The company also noted that it would be open to games being cross platform with other networks, like the PlayStation Network and since then, Sony has answered a few questions …

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would be opening up Xbox Live to allow developers to implement cross-platform multiplayer on certain games. While Fable Legends was originally set to be the first game to show off this feature, that game has now been cancelled, so Rocket League will be …

Although there are always debates about who would win in certain titles: console gamers or PC gamers, it's not often been feasible, due to a variety of reasons, to have them find out. However now Microsoft may open it up to many more games, suggesting that theoretically, there's little stopping any …

Microsoft is all set to finally unveil which Windows 10 universal apps will be coming to the Xbox One this year. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, an announcement should be coming this month, with a number of apps set to debut alongside a new initiative to open up …

Back in November last year, Sony announced that it would soon be allowing PC owners to stream games from the PlayStation 4 console using the Remote Play feature. Now, that functionality is finally arriving and will be included in the upcoming V3.50 update for the PS4. This will allow PS4 …