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Microsoft's next Xbox heads for release battle with Sony's PS4

Hot on the heels of the Xbox One reveal, Ubisoft has announced it has at least six titles on the way for the new console. The publisher’s offering will include Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which will be available for Xbox One by the end of the …

Computing giant says fee allows users to install game from disc and onto their account

Don Mattrick says console will not require permanent internet connection to play games

Xbox 360 owners won’t be able to play their games on the console’s successor, Microsoft has confirmed. Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten told The Verge that the newly-announced Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility. "The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn’t really work …

New service to be powered by 300,000 servers, more than the entire world's computing power in 1999

All downloadable content will be available first on Xbox One

The new Call of Duty: Ghosts looks to pack an impressive next-gen tech punch. The game is built on a brand new engine and will also be set in a new world populated by new characters. A dog is even set to star as an actual squad member. And yes, …

The team that invented Call of Duty said it could have abandoned the series altogether. Instead, developer Infinity Ward chose to leave the Modern Warfare brand behind, and build a whole new Call of Duty with a new engine and new characters. We all really knew we wanted to continue …

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg has hit back at critics that claim the Call of Duty series is past its peak. At a special event that revealed the next game in the series – Call of Duty Ghosts – Hirshberg praised the franchises’ development teams, describing the process of building a …