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My brother Ben loves Bungie. Bungie.net is his homepage. Halo is the reason he loves video games. To him, the people at that studio are celebrities. And he’s not the only one that thinks this. Ever since Bungie gave the world a reason to buy an Xbox with the first …
Read More »"It as unlikely that GameStop will agree" to Xbox One pre-owned fees
The industry could be on the verge of an unprecedented standoff between retailers and platform holders. That’s the prediction of Baird Equity Research’s Colin Sebastian, who reckons that E3 could be mostly bad news for platform holders. The announcements were mixed for GameStop, alleviating some concerns over used game restrictions, …
Read More »OPINION: Xbox One pre-owned backtrack puts the blame where it belongs – on publishers
Make no mistake about it – what you saw last night was a retreat from Microsoft. As if the weeks of deafening silence and increasingly confusing clarifications” weren’t confirmation enough, this line buried at the bottom of the platform holder’s statements speaks volumes. Loaning or renting games won’t be available …
Read More »Microsoft explains Xbox One privacy policy
Company moves to soothe 'monitoring device' worries
Read More »Those new Xbox One policies – in plain English
Microsoft has provided a pretty robust set of answers today to questions about second hand games and online elements of Xbox One. But we’ve boiled them down further – you can find them below. You can read our original summary here. We’ve also summed up some unanswered questions here. GAME …
Read More »Xbox One publishers can block pre-owned sales
Loaning and renting of titles will not be available at launch
Read More »Xbox One requires connection every 24 hours for gaming
Games will be inaccessible after a day of offline activity, states computing giant
Read More »Unanswered questions remain despite Xbox One pre-owned statement
Xbox One owners look unlikely to face any fees for buying or selling used games on Xbox One. That seems to be the message in a new set of statements issued by Microsoft tonight. Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit,” it …
Read More »Xbox moves to calm fears over game ownership, always on, trade-ins and Kinect ‘snooping’
Xbox has tonight made a decisive move to calm the many questions asked about its new next-gen console Xbox One. Tonight, it has reiterated that Xbox One introduces new licensing mechanisms for games, and that this impacts how the second hand market works. But the firm says it IS NOT …
Read More »Havok moves to support Xbox One
Middleware provider's Physics, Animation Studio, Destruction, Cloth, AI and Script tools available for Microsoft console
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