After months and months of speculation, the next Xbox, the Xbox One, was revealed today at a special event held at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. While they didn’t reveal every specific detail of the new console, Microsoft did show enough to get a good idea of what it’s all about. Here’s the console that will power the next generation of games and entertainment when it launches later this year.
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Back in March, Treyarch made new DLC items available to purchase for Black Ops 2 via in-game micro-transactions. It turns out that the Personalization Packs – including weapon camo, three reticles, and a calling card - were pretty popular, because the developer has decided to add some more. This time around, though, you get to choose which ones are made available.
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As part of their ongoing efforts to re-tune Halo 4‘s weapons through an update set to go live June 3rd, developer 343 Industries have been keeping fans in the loop on the process since the idea’s inception in order to get as much feedback as possible. Now that the tuning update is close to going live, 343 announced that they would be conducting a live stream so that people could see the changes in action and submit more feedback before it’s too late.
Following the release of the second free DLC offering for Gears of War: Judgment last week, multiplayer map Dreadnought, the next non-free map pack for the third-person shooter has been announced by developer Epic Games.
Listen up, Vault Hunters! The latest character DLC for Gearbox’s Borderlands 2, ‘Krieg the Psycho’, is available for purchase.
Krieg focuses on melee attacks with a heavy reliance on the fire element. His Action Skill, the ‘Buzz Axe Rampage’, increases melee damage and movement speed. Killing an enemy with the Buzz Axe Rampage will instantly increase your health.
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DICE were forced to postpone Battlefield 3′s last double XP event when server outages began affecting the game and its web-based stats and social service, Battlelog, days before the event was planned to go live. Now that the developer have the servers stable again, they have decided to set a new date for the latest Battlefield 3 double XP weekend.
As announced in the Halo 4 weapons tuning update release date post, developer 343 Industries are to hold a Halo 4 live stream in order for fans to get a look and feel for what Halo 4‘s weapons will be like after the tuning update goes live June 3rd.
The latest Halo Bulletin was published today, revealing the time and date at which the weapons tuning live stream is to take place, where they are currently at with the weapons tuning process and details on the next matchmaking playlist update.
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Mega-publisher Electronic Arts introduced an ‘Online Pass’ system back in June, 2010 with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. This continued with their following games, including Battlefield 3, MoH: Warfighter, NFS: Hot Pursuit, and the FIFA and NHL series of titles.
The Online Pass – an obvious attempt by the publisher at monetizing the used game market – gave people who bought a brand-new EA-published game access to all of its online features. Those who purchased a game second-hand or borrowed a game, however, would need to buy a $10 Online Pass for the title in order to access the online aspects of the game, including multiplayer.
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At today’s Google I/O conference, the search giant announced and launched ‘Google Play Game Services’, allowing game developers to easily add multiplayer gaming, achievements, leaderboards, and cloud save capabilities to their games, whether on Android, iOS, web, or any other online platform.
Microsoft Points, the currency system that is currently used to purchase digital content across the firms various marketplaces (including Xbox LIVE), is about to become a thing of the past when they switch it out in favor of a real currency, credit, debit and gift card-based system.
