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Carl Ledbetter is a games industry master of disguise. He leads a team of 35 that spent three years building the Xbox One into a machine that blends into the background and gets forgotten. The console’s 16:9 aspect ratio is meant to reflect that of a widescreen TV. The front …
Read More »343 boss apologizes for ongoing Halo: Master Chief Collection online struggles
Two weeks on from its release, Xbox One shooter Halo: The Master Chief Collection is not working properly. Malfunctioning releases seem to be very much the fashion this Q4, and 343 studio boss Bonnie Ross has personally apologised for the ongoing saga. We have not delivered the experience you deserve. …
Read More »Infinity Blade heading to Xbox One
A version of popular iPhone RPG series Infinity Blade is apparently in production for Xbox One in China. Kotaku reports that a number of Chinese gaming outlets are reporting that the game is being developed by Tencent, which itself owns 40 per cent of Infinity Blade developer Epic Games. Also …
Read More »Ori and the Blind Forest delayed to 2015
Microsoft’s Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC platformer Ori and the Blind Forest will not make its previously scheduled 2014 release date. Furthermore, the Xbox One and PC versions will arrive before the Xbox 360 SKU. While we’re extremely excited for all of you to get your hands on Ori …
Read More »Xbox One owners offered Sunset Overdrive for free for one day
Microsoft is offering one of its latest titles for free to celebrate Xbox One’s first birthday. Major Nelson says that Xbox Live Gold subscribers will tomorrow be able to download Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive for free and play it for as long as they like until it is removed from the …
Read More »Xbox One sells 1m in the UK
Xbox One has smashed the one million sales barrier in the UK, MCV can reveal. It’s hit this number after out-selling PlayStation 4 for three weeks in a row, UK retailers have told us. The numbers are based on their GfK Chart-Track reports. The resurgence in Xbox One sales has …
Read More »Sony suggests PS4 sales outnumber Xbox One by 2-to-1
The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America has suggested that PS4 has sold around double the number of Xbox One units shifted worldwide. When asked by Gamesbeat whether PS4 has about a two-to-one advantage over Xbox One”, Shawn Layden replied: The math seems to look like that. It’s …
Read More »EA exec says Xbox One is ‘catching up quickly’ with PS4
The rate at which Xbox One is narrowing its sales gap behind PS4 is accelerating. That’s according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the UBS Global Technology Conference that: "Clearly Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think …
Read More »Halo: Master Chief Collection matchmaking fix delayed as Spencer apologises for problems
A patch designed to help alleviate the ongoing online problems faced by Halo: The Master Chief Collection will not arrive tomorrow as planned. The game has since release battled with issues preventing players successfully finding matches online – issues that developer 343 has yet to fully resolve. This week’s content …
Read More »The Guardian or The Daily Star? YouGov profiler explains the real difference between Xbox 360 and PS3 owners
The ongoing war of wills between PlayStation and Xbox owners is as embittered and entrenched as any documented conflict throughout the course of human history. Well, that’s nonsense obviously, but a new profiling tool from market research firm YouGov has offered some bizarre data on the differences between typical PS3 …
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