Category: Microsoft
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Warner Bros May Buy Xbox TV Studio
Microsoft scrapped their television programming department back in July, which was going to be a service which delivered content to the Xbox Live mostly on the Xbox One. The department, known as Xbox Entertainment Studios, was to focus on bringing original programs to Xbox Live. The Hollywood Reporter has now claimed that the studio is…
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Master Chief Collection Won’t Come to PC
It’s another case of disappointment for Halo fans wanting to play the well loved series on the PC – the upcoming Master Chief Collection, an anthology of the first four Halo games, plus exclusive additional content, won’t be coming to the PC any time soon. The manager of 343 industries, who are in charge of…
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Xbox One Detects and Prevents Overheating
The Xbox 360’s red ring of death and overheating often caused the console to be rendered inoperable, so what have Microsoft done to react to the constant concern of the console overheating? In a recent interview, Microsoft’s general manager of console development Leo del Castillo, who has been charged with keeping the console up to…
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New Tomb Raider Might Still Come to PS4
The announcement of the new Rise of the Tomb Raider, a continuation of the classic franchise fronted by leading lady Lara Croft, has had gamers a little bit outraged, since the game has been labeled as an Xbox exclusive since its announcement. Crystal Dynamics head Darrell Gallagher spoke out to fans, promising that the move…
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White Xbox Confirmed With New Bundles
The white Xbox One was confirmed in the last few days at GamesCom 2014, a console recently rumored due to its inclusion, albeit briefly, on a French website earlier this month. The console, previously only available to Microsoft employees, is now hitting stores along with a few new bundles. Interestingly, all the new bundles which…
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BBC iPlayer Finally Coming to Xbox One
Sources at the BBC have finally confirmed the long awaited arrival of iPlayer on Xbox One. It’s taken almost a year for the streaming service to arrive on Microsoft’s Xbox One, with the rival Playstation 4 featuring the app from launch. Microsoft have been late to the party with some features, but in other areas…
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Xbox One Digital TV Tuner dated and priced for UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain
Microsoft have always stated that the Xbox One console is more than just a games machine, but for us folks outside of the US this often a claim that can be questioned, but thankfully one of the Xbox One’s current US only features is now scheduled to be coming to the UK in the form…
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White Xbox Coming This Autumn?
You may remember that the Xbox One has already been re-released minus that expensive, but intuitive, Kinect sensor, which dropped the price down to the same as the Playstation 4, at £350 in the UK down from £400. This price drop successfully drove up sales in June with Xbox One sales effectively doubling in the…
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Xbox Live Network Down For Xbox One Gamers
Xbox One owners are waking up to find they are again unable to access some aspects of online gaming through the Xbox Live network for the second time in a fortnight. Online content and features for games such as chart topper Titanfall are currently inaccessible while Microsoft has confirmed sign-in difficulties to Xbox Live via social/emergency…
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EA Access Coming to Xbox One
Monthly fees aren’t a new thing amongst gamers, as top MMO titles, such as the ever popular World of Warcraft, have historically charged players seemingly extortionate monthly amounts for the luxury of… endless horrible grinding… huh. If you’re an Xbox One fan and you feeling like splashing out on something new this year EA has…
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Destiny Beta Now on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 – but I’m more interested in Little Big Planet
Bungie has now announced that Destiny Beta is available to everyone with a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One… so go and play it and stop sitting here reading! As you would expect you do need Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus to play online and if you have already played the Beta on PS4 you…