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Xbox Games with Gold in January includes Killer Instinct, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 21, 2015
2 min

Xbox Live Gold subscribers are getting a handful of cool games for their Xbox One and Xbox 360 next month. Microsoft revealed that it is giving away all the DLC for the first season of its Killer Instinct fighting game along with one of the best action role-playing games on the Xbox 360.

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Xbox Live down for some gamers on Xbox One and Xbox 360

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 18, 2015
1 min

Update on Friday, December 18: Xbox Live is down again for some. People are having troubles getting their Xbox One to function. Unlock premium content...

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XboxDVR site makes it easier to get your Xbox One recordings on YouTube

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 17, 2015
2 min

Microsoft has left its GameDVR feature open for developers to build on, and that’s led to a new feature that’ll make it faster for...

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Xbox One gets backward compatibility with Doritos Crash Course — and some other junk

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 17, 2015
2 min

One of the greatest accomplishments in adver-gaming lives thanks to Microsoft’s backward compatibility initiative. The Xbox One now supports 16 more Xbox 360 games....

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Halo 5 developer finally releases Forge mode as part of Cartographers Gift update

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 16, 2015
2 min

Community builders can finally reshape Halo 5 to their liking. Build whatever you want in Halo 5. Developer 343 Industries launched the Cartographer’s Gift...

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How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
22 min

Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...

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Watch us play Minecraft: Wii U Edition

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 15, 2015
1 min

Microsoft has a new Nintendo game … that’s a strange thing to write. Minecraft comes to Wii U on Thursday, and we got our...

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The DeanBeat: For Microsoft, it’s time to worry about the console war

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 11, 2015
4 min

The evidence is piling up. Sony’s grip on the console business with the PlayStation 4 is starting to look unbreakable. Microsoft has to start...

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November 2015 NPD: Call of Duty outsells Fallout 4 as PlayStation 4 takes November

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 10, 2015
5 min

Correction: This article originally said that Wii U’s unit sales surpassed 11 million, but that’s not accurate. Nintendo has actually sold 11 million Amiibo...

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PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One in November

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 10, 2015
1 min

Sony and Microsoft went into the gift-giving holiday battle armed with deals and bundles, but only one console could come out on top. And...

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