StarCraft Ghost exists as one of those vaporware dreams, a game whose mythic status joined the likes of Six Days in Fallujah Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal. Until a few days ago that is, as StarCraft Ghost breached the realm of the living with an early Xbox build.
While it’ll most likely be years and years before this technology can be ready for consumer use, having smaller downloads that get more players hopping into a game quicker than ever before will be a hell of a feather in the cap of the Xbox Series X if Microsoft can pull this feat of software sorcery off.
Microsoft is headed towards the cloud and while Nintendo and Sony will always be primary competition in the gaming space, they won’t be considered rivals to the Xbox brand in the decade to come.
February is here, and in the month of love Microsoft wants players to start getting romantic with their consoles as the first batch of new games for the service have been announced: Final Fantasy XV and Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Seeing as how the PS5 and Xbox Series X are preparing to land this year, you’d probably think that the next console war will be fought with resolutions over features, future-proofed machines that aim to increase the pixel count thrown at your eyeballs if your budget can afford the TV for it. For the Xbox Series X, that’s not entirely the case as that console will be aiming its power at something far more important: Resolution!
A console dawn may be on the horizon, but without the software to play it on those fancy consoles might as well be very expensive bricks to get excited for. It’s a given that Sony and Microsoft will have a selection of games ready for day one, but it’s the rest of the gaming industry that’ll be relied upon to …
A couple of years ago, the Xbox One was seen as a perfectly alright console that was being completely outclassed on the first-party front by Sony. These days? It’s a much better system, has a beefy little brother in the Xbox One X and is still being outclassed by Sony on the first-party games front…but not for long. With a …
How much do modern day gaming developers contribute to the damage of the environment and global warming though, what with their crunch cycles and years-long development of your favourite games? That’s a question the University of Technology in Sydney is looking to answer this week with a survey aimed assessing the environmental impact of the industry.
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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