8 Near-Perfect Xbox 360 Games That Are Forgotten Masterpieces
From Viva Piñata to The Saboteur, these forgotten Xbox 360 masterpieces deserve another shot today.
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Thanks for 25 Years, XBOX Players — From Wolfenstein 3 and Halo Firefight to Classic XBOX Games on PC: Everything Announced Today
Twenty-five years after the very first XBOX launched, Team XBOX came home to Seattle, the city where it all began, to close out our eight-city FanFest tour. The celebration has always been about you. Every achievement, every midnight launch, every friend you made along the way: that’s what built...
Wolfenstein 3 Confirmed to Be in Development at MachineGames
As part of the Xbox's 25th anniversary celebration at Xbox Fanfest in Seattle today, developer MachineGames confirmed what had long been rumored: that Wolfenstein 3 is in development.
Available for XBOX Insiders: More Ways to Personalize Your Home, Library, and Guide
Starting today, we’re introducing new ways for XBOX Insiders to make Home, My games & apps, and the Guide work better for them. Keep your console Home fresh with rotating backgrounds, find games in your library more easily, or move the Guide to the other side of the screen. Give these updates a...
Xbox Adds 21 More Original Xbox Games To Backwards Compatibility Program And Over Half Of Them Are Star Wars And Over Half Of Them Are Star Wars
And some of them are getting achievements
Candy Crush Saga Gives Halo, Fallout, Forza and More a Sweet Makeover for XBOX’s 25th
XBOX’s 25th anniversary has arrived in Candy Crush Saga. Out now, the Game On! Season brings together Halo, Fallout, Sea of Thieves, Forza, DOOM, Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for four weeks of collectible pins and some very familiar music with a distinctly Candy Crush sound. For...
25 Original XBOX Games Available Today on PC via XBOX Backward Compatibility
Today, 21 more original XBOX games are coming to PC, bringing the XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC library to 25 games as we celebrate 25 years of XBOX. We’re also introducing achievements for four original XBOX games, with more titles planned over time. We brought the first four original XBOX...
Fable Drops Four Minutes of New Gameplay
Four minutes of new Fable gameplay has been released by Xbox, showing off more of the game's combat.
Xbox CEO Hints That The Solution To An Imploding Video Game Industry Is AI
Happy birthday Xbox!
Doom Developer id Software Confirms Work on New Game, Will Be Directed by Hugo Martin
At Xbox's 25th anniversary celebration at its Fan Fest event in Seattle, id Software confirmed that it is working on a new game, wrapping up last year's Doom: The Dark Ages with the release of the upcoming Slaughter Mode on November 16.
Barbie Rewind, out now, invites you to take a trip down memory lane with a whole bunch of life in plastic classics, and one game that was previously unreleased
Is there a character not originally from a video game that has more games than Barbie? Maybe! I don't want to do any maths right now, but there aren't many that could touch her on sheer numbers. She's had all sorts of digital adventures, her games having a huge influence on the world of 'girl...
AI Usage Up, PS6 and Xbox Helix Development Still Low in Newest GDC Dev Survey
GDC Festival of Gaming organizers released the data from their 15th annual game developer survey, the State of the Game Industry report. Over 2600 game developers anonymously responded, and the results show increased generative AI usage, not too many developers working on PlayStation 6 or Xbox...
Halo: Campaign Evolved’s Next Big Update Will Add A Free Horde Mode
Firefight is coming to the recently released Xbox remake sometime later this winter
Xbox CEO looks to the future as Microsoft's console turns 25: 'A single person will soon be able to wield capabilities that once required entire nations'
Asha Sharma doesn't specifically mention AI in her 25th anniversary message, but I'm pretty sure that's what she's talking about.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's next class is the Sisters Novitiate, a group who love staking and burning people for the God-Emperor, and its out next month
Look at you, you lucky devil, you're being treated to a new Warhammer 40,000: Darktide class next month! This class is called the Sisters Novitiate, a group of wonderfully violent women with a penchant for crossbows, burning people alive and putting a stop to anyone that dares to oppose the...
Xbox boss seemingly champions gen-AI development as she celebrates 25 years of Xbox: "A small team will be able to build worlds that today demand hundreds of developers"
Xbox leader Asha Sharma has alluded to harnessing the power of generative AI when making games, in a memo published this afternoon.
Halo: Campaign Evolved Players Can Jump Into Firefight for Free This Winter
For nearly two decades, Firefight has been a Halo favorite, challenging Spartans to team up, hold the line, and survive wave after wave of enemies. The tradition continues this winter as we add the four-player cooperative PvE mode to Halo: Campaign Evolved in a free update. We’re kicking things...
Free Play Days – Sumerian Six, Hypnospace Outlaw, Sunderfolk and STUFFED
Dare to play differently with Free Play Days! Sumerian Six, Hypnospace Outlaw, Sunderfolk and STUFFED are available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, November 12 until Sunday, November 15. How to Start Playing Scroll down and find and...
XBOX Playback is Here: Look Back at Your XBOX Story
Starting today, XBOX Playback brings highlights from your available XBOX history across every generation in a personalized experience. For the first time, you can look back and re-live the part you played in XBOX’s story. See when your journey began, revisit the games you spent the most time...
The Witcher 3 uses gen-AI to enhance Geralt's Polish voice following actor's stroke - "I do think this is one of those ways where you can use AI ethically"
CD Projekt Red has revealed that it used - and is using - generative AI technology to treat and alter the voice of the Polish actor who portrayed Geralt of Rivia in upcoming Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past .
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After two weeks of multiplayer downtime, Dark Souls 2 & 3's mysterious server "issue" has been fixed, so it no longer feels so lonely online
Developer FromSoftware has announced that online multiplayer servers for Dark Souls 2 and 3 are back online following a nearly two-week outage.
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Will a Grand Theft Auto game ever be set outside of America? Rockstar offers a small glimmer of hope
The Grand Theft Auto games have always been synonymous with America; Americana is baked into the crime series' very being. Across its history, there's only ever been one GTA game set outside America: the London-based expansion of the original game.
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Amy Hennig's Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra hasn't been cancelled, Skydance reportedly says, as rumours swirl to the contrary
You'd be forgiven for forgetting that Amy Hennig's superhero game Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra exists, but apparently it's still in development despite its many troubles and rumours to the contrary.
Laid-off Id Software devs form employee-owned studio Hidden Horses
A group of Id Software developers affected by Xbox's mass layoffs have formed an independent, employee-owned studio called Hidden Horses.
Destroy All Humans remake developer goes independent, splits from THQ Nordic and parent company Embracer Group
Black Forest Games - the studio that remade the first two cult-classic Destroy All Humans games - has spun out from under former owners THQ Nordic and Embracer Group.
Don't expect more information on The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel "for some time," Bethesda says
After Bethesda formally named The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel earlier this month, some series fans were hopeful that more news wasn't far behind. Skyrim is 15 years old today (11th November) after all, but Bethesda Game Studios has since dashed those hopes into oblivion.
GTA 6 might be censored in Japan, if the game's smaller install size and lack of "strong sexual content" warning is anything to go by
GTA 6 is finally coming out worldwide next week, putting an end to a 13-year wait and at least one popular meme format, but the highly-anticipated game might look a bit different in Japan.