Remember those Christmas mornings where, with baited breath, you tore into the packages under the tree. Hoping that inside one of those shiny gifts lie that gaming console you'd been waiting all year for. The console you'd pestered your parents every time you went to the store, that you'd read about obsessively in every gaming magazine you could get your hands on.
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Late last night reports started circulating on Reddit that Borderlands: The Handsome Collection had accidentally been made free by Microsoft on the Xbox One store.
Turns out it was intentional and is a gift from our overlords. We're always down with Borderlands, especially free Borderlands. Grab yours by the end of the weekend.
That was me... High fiving myself.
Night Dive Studios was able to confirm rumors encircling the remastering for Turok:
Actually though, this gen will be remembered in history as the HD remastered generation. Either way, we could always use more games with (self-destructing) dinosaurs.
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Well, Fallout fans, you're going to get a new option of how to play in the wasteland come launch day.
Microsoft announced on their newswire that a Fallout 4 bundle will come with the game's Nov. 10 release.
And today, we're thrilled to give fans the opportunity to "welcome home" the ultimate Fallout experience, with the Xbox One Fallout 4 Bundle, featuring a 1TB hard drive, the critically-acclaimed Fallout 4, and a full-game download of Fallout 3. Experience the next generation of open-world gaming from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Play and store more games than ever, including Fallout 3 and other Xbox 360 games, with the 1TB hard drive and Xbox One Backward Compatibility. And don't forget, Fallout 4 players will be able to play PC mods free, first on Xbox One.
The Xbox One Fallout 4 Bundle will be available in November for $399 USD. Check with your local retailer, including Microsoft stores, for details today.
Amazon is already taking preorders. So kiss them bucks goodbye.
And hurry up, Nov. 10!
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If you want to play the whole Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 experience, you're going to have to own a current-generation console.
Activision announced on their Call of Duty blog Sept. 25 that the upcoming release of Black Ops 3 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 will only come with the multiplayer and the zombie mode.
They said what they developed for the Playstation 4 and the Xbox One is too l33t for that old generation.
The Black Ops 3 PS3 and Xbox 360 versions will feature Multiplayer and Zombies gameplay only, not Campaign. The ambitious scope of the 1-4 player coop Campaign design of the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions could not be faithfully recreated on old generation hardware.
Delivering the best possible gameplay experience on all platforms is always our highest priority. With that in mind, Black Ops 3 PS3 and Xbox 360 players can continue to look forward to a new experience of Black Ops 3 multiplayer, including the new momentum-based, chain-movement system, as well as the all-new Specialist class of 9 Black Ops soldiers, which fundamentally change the way players engage in combat.
They did say they would price this edited version $10 cheaper at $49.99 and include a bonus download of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Seeing as how Black Ops 3 releases on Nov. 6, this admission is cutting it pretty close.
And it also says a lot about how much they value the campaign:
Best IGN comment on the news that Black Ops 3 360/PS3 doesn't include the campaign and costs $50. pic.twitter.com/wYLUUx4os6
— Daemon Hatfield (@DaemZero) September 25, 2015
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Microsoft first pulled back the rotten, diseased curtain of Dark Souls 3 at E3 with a teaser trailer.
It did one better at Gamescome, highlighting the gameplay we can expect from the next miserable death-fest created by From Software.
It looks like a Dark Souls game.
And that is wonderful.
The movement speed seems slightly increased, which is probably an evolution off the studio's most recent game, the fantastic Bloodborne.
It also looks like the giants are back...
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Five years after Crackdown 2 came to the Xbox 360, Microsoft showed off the long-coming sequel at its Gamescom 2015 press conference Aug. 4.
The short story? You can blow up everything.
All in all the game looks exceedingly similar to the first two, though the presenters did say that the city in which you desperately search for orbs will be brand new. The trailer showed off other differences like an upgradeable car and new gang enemies.
However, the most important thing about the game according to the trailer is the allegedly complete environmental destruction.
Like this building you can just demolish:
If you destroy all the buildings though, won't that just make the orbs harder to collect??
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Remedy has not released a full game since 2010's Alan Wake and the build up for their next project, Quantum Break has grown since they first revealed it in 2013.
During the Microsoft press conference at Gamescom 2015 in Cologne, Germany, Remedy gave up the ghost on when you can play the odd time-shifting game and a little more about what you can expect.
A full seven minute experience trailer led the Microsoft event and at the end it announced that Quantum Break will see its release on April 5, 2016.
Also, Little Finger from Game of Thrones is in it.
