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Crystal Dynamics took to the stage at the E3 Xbox media briefing to show off the first gameplay from the upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider. The footage featured Lara and a friend climbing a perilous icy mountain in a quest to find a lost city. Other locations include a …

DayZ creator Dean Hall is going beyond Earth with his new game. Appearing on stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Hall outlined a title built upon emergent gameplay, rather than scripted events and characters. "I want a game that is not a game, I want a game that is a …

New IP will debut as part of Xbox Game Preview

Steam’s popular (but controversial) Early Access program now has a console equivalent. Xbox Game Preview will allow console gamers to buy games before they are completed and are still in active development. Crucially, however, Microsoft wants to do this in, its own words, a way that makes sense” – that …

Xbox Game Preview to offer free trials to players before they make a purchase

Microsoft showed off a number of its independent games currently in the works as part of its ID@Xbox programme. Taking to the stage, ID@Xbox boss Chris Charla introduced Aurora44’s Ashen, Tacome – from the developer of Gone Home – Tiger and Squid’s Beyond Eyes and Studio MDHR’s Cuphead. That was …

Microsoft certainly hasn’t waited around to take advantage of the Xbox One’s new backwards compatibility. Having already announced that every copy of Fallout 4 for the new console would include Fallout 3, the platform holder has also struck a deal with Ubisoft surrounding upcoming game Rainbow Six Siege. The tactical …

Free-to-play title arrives in beta form this August

Many had expected it to be revealed at Sony’s conference later tonight, but Microsoft has played host to official confirmation of Dark Souls III. No details about the game were confirmed, although the trailer seemed to directly reference things from 2014’s Dark Souls II. That in itself would mark a …

It seems that the days of mods being confined to the PC are about to be over. Betheda’s Todd Howard took to the stage during Microsoft’s E3 press conference to show off more of the upcoming title, which had been rapturously received just the night before at Bethesda’s own briefing. …