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Microsoft does away with discs with the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition Nothing but games as a service on the horizon.
Optical media is on its way out, and video game consoles are leading the way. Specifically, Microsoft’s new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition will be the first real gaming console without any sort of disc media whatsoever. Got a hard copy of Halo 5? You won’t be able to run it on here. Instead, owners of the new console will have to buy into the long-dreaded “games as a service” effort that both publishers and console manufacturers have been trying to push on gamers for about a decade since everyone figured out that DLCs and microtransactions sell way better than single-purchase games. Microsoft first tried to go down the online-only…
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10 Xbox things to remember on Xbox’s 15th anniversary Did you know the console was almost called 'Odyssey of the Mind'? Really.
On this day, 15th November 2016, it has been 15 years since the launch of the original Xbox. Many things have changed in that time, and Microsoft has much of which to be proud. We decided to look at the less-remembered parts of Xbox history, the parts that sometimes fade away over the years, and the ones that just make you laugh. Bill Gates, Hamburgers, and Handfeel The original Xbox controller, fondly known as the Duke, was in fact a terribly huge and unwieldy hunk of plastic – hence the swift redesign resulting in the ‘S’ pad. Keen that the rumors about its large pads didn’t alienate the Japanese market,…
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How Fable Legends took down Lionhead An in-depth look at the development of a legendary British studio's final, unreleased game.
Earlier this year, the UK lost one of its longest-standing game developers. Lionhead Studios, founded in 1996 and bought by Microsoft in 2006, was closed on the 29th of April, with the loss of around a hundred jobs. The game Lionhead was working on, Fable Legends, a four-versus-one fantasy-themed multiplayer game that was already in closed beta, was cancelled. Despite the reported emergence of several interested buyers before Lionhead’s closure, neither the studio nor the game was saved. The Lionhead studios story is bigger than its last game. (For a great read on the studio’s full history, I recommend Wesley Yin-Poole’s recent Eurogamer article). But Fable Legends’ development is emblematic…
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Xbox Live support: Epic Fail If you thought Microsoft Customer Service was bad before...
So we’ve had a little problem with our Xbox Live service. No biggie, we thought. We’ll just make a call and have it fixed. If only! What follows is an emotional, true story of one man’s struggle to redeem his honour, his 3000 Microsoft points card, and, ultimately, the threads of his own sanity. Enjoy the ride. Episode 1: The Phantom Microsoft Xbox LIVE, for the most part, is a pretty decent online experience that can offer you hour upon hour of fun, adventure, and merciless teabaggings by random idiots. But what happens when you’re a Gold customer, who’s paying good money for a yearly service, and something goes wrong…
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