REVIEW: Rocket League

REVIEW: Rocket League

Publisher Psyonix Developer Psyonix Review platform Xbox One Release date Feb 17, 2016 Rocket League, a game where you play soccer with futuristic cars, was just about the most surprising title I have played. I expected Rocket League to be a disappointment. The experience I received was the opposite. Rocket League exceeded my expectations on … Read more

Quantum Break download size revealed

Quantum Break download size revealed

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Update: The game is 36 GB on Windows 10. According to a report by AR12Gaming, Quantum Break can run at 4K 60 FPS on Windows 10. I wonder how powerful a machine you need for that. The highly anticipated Quantum Break will be 44 GB according to the Xbox … Read more

Halo World Championship prize pool lands at $2.5 million

Halo 5: Enemy Lines campaign footage

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Here’s the statement Microsoft provided which discussed the Halo World Championship and the prize pool: After several months of grueling practice, intense competition and many hard-fought battles in Halo 5: Guardians on Xbox One, it’s finally come down to this: 16 teams from around the world will compete in … Read more

This week’s Deals with Gold include BioShock and Evolve

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: This week’s Deals with Gold just went up and they include some great discounts. Evolve and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection appear to be the main games on Xbox One which are available at a steal. On Xbox 360 it looks like Bioshock and Saints Row are the main attractions. … Read more

Hackers claim responsibility for Xbox Live outage

Hackers claim responsibility for Xbox Live outage

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Update: Larry Hryb clarified what happened during the recent outage. He said that it wasn’t a DDoS attack. The reason for the outage is still unknown. Hackers claimed responsibility for taking down Xbox Live yesterday. They flooded the system with false requests and taxed the servers. This is known … Read more

MEET THE GAMER: Xbox’s Graeme Boyd discusses his love of gaming and the future of the industry

MEET THE GAMER: Xbox's Graeme Boyd discusses his love of gaming and the future of the industry

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: This week we have the privilege of interviewing Graeme Boyd, better known as AceyBongos. Graeme is the social marketing manager of Xbox EMEA. He is also a proud ambassador for Special Effect. What is your Gamertag and the reason for choosing it? AceyBongos! This is something my mate Hadyn … Read more

The Division beta reached 6.4 million players

The Division beta reached 6.4 million players

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Today marks the end of the open beta for The Division, and Ubisoft has revealed some stats about it. According to them, 6.4 million players explored the streets of New York City. On The Division’s website, Ubisoft went on to say that this was the biggest beta ever on … Read more

SHOWCASE: Mass Effect still holds strong despite minor flaws on Xbox One backward compatibility

SHOWCASE: Mass Effect still holds strong despite minor flaws on Xbox One backward compatibility

Publisher: Developer: Review platform: Release date: Back at E3 2015, Microsoft announced what was arguably the biggest piece of news in this generation of console gaming, backward compatibility for Xbox One. Over 150 Xbox 360 games are already in the program, and many more will be released when ready. Every other Sunday I will be … Read more

REVIEW: In Space We Brawl: Full Arsenal Edition

Publisher Forge Reply Developer Forge Reply Review platform Xbox One Release date Feb 21, 2016 Long gone are the days when you and your friends would gather at each other’s houses to have a couple of hours of fun playing video games, either in teams or against each other. Unfortunately now everything is online only … Read more