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Report Says Xbox One Plan to Allow All Units to Work as Development Kits Scrapped, Microsoft Denies It [UPDATE]

[UPDATE] Microsoft has released a statement on the matter, saying that it has not in fact scrapped the plan to allow all Xbox One retail units to be used as development kits. “The comments today were inaccurate. We remain committed to ensuring the best possible solutions for developers and hobbyists to create games for Xbox […]

Gearbox Acknowledges Xbox One/PS4/PC Game Battleborn Faces An Uphill Battle

@tallkid100 Always the case when you pave new ground. Everyone said the same thing about both Brothers in Arms and Borderlands. — Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) July 9, 2014 Battleborn, the just-announced first-person multiplayer arena game from Borderlands creator Gearbox Software, faces an uphill battle with consumers, president Randy Pitchford has acknowledged. Responding to a fan […]

Dota meets Worms? Cannon Brawl Battle – The Lobby

Danny and Mary go head to head in a battle royale while discussing the battle mechanics of Cannon Brawl.

Best-Selling PS4, PS3, and PS Vita Games on PSN in June Revealed

Sony has rolled out its monthly list of the best-selling games on the PlayStation Store in North America for the month of June, and the top spots on the charts–at least on consoles–look a lot like they did during the previous month. On PlayStation 4, Watch Dogs remained the best-selling game for the second month […]

Check Out 16 Minutes of Dragon Age: Inquisition Gameplay Footage

BioWare today released a 16-minute Dragon Age: Inquisition gameplay video showing off the highly anticipated open-world game. The video is narrated by creative director Mike Laidlaw, and shows a warrior journeying through one zone from the full game. This zone is bigger than the entire Dragon Age: Origins playspace, and is replete with dynamic objectives […]

New Microsoft Flight Simulator Games Coming, But Not From Microsoft

With the former Microsoft Flight Simulator series effectively shut down years ago and the free-to-play experiment Microsoft Flight being abandoned, it would be easy to assume the series doesn’t have a future. In fact, there are big plans for the franchise, but not from Microsoft: Dovetail Games, the studio responsible for the Train Simulator series, […]

Microsoft Scraps Xbox One Plan to Allow All Units to Work as Development Kits

Today at the Develop conference in Europe, Microsoft announced that it has scrapped its previously announced plan to allow any Xbox One retail unit to be used as a development kit. The program is dead before its first birthday, as Microsoft originally announced it in late July 2013. At the time, Xbox corporate vice president […]

No Man’s Sky: The Biggest Game World Ever Created?

As gamers we understand the limits of game worlds. We know that those mountains are impassable, that your character can’t swim or that your PC couldn’t possibly render a city any larger. It doesn’t bother us as long as the confines of that world keep us entertained. But, at a certain point the mini map […]

Assassin’s Creed Unity "Best Entry Point Since Assassin’s Creed 1," Dev Says

If you’ve never played an Assassin’s Creed game, developer Ubisoft promises that this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Unity is the best place to jump in. Unity is meant to be a new starting point for the franchise, taking a different approach to the modern-day story and beginning a “new cycle of Assassin’s Creed games.” In a […]

Quick Look: Astebreed

Watch extended gameplay footage from Astebreed featuring the Giant Bomb crew.