Crackdown, the open-world, chaotic war-on-crime game that paved the way for the upcoming Crackdown 3 (opens in new tab), is now free to all in a generous bit of promotion by Microsoft. You can grab it now by visiting its store page (opens in new tab), or seek it out …
Read More »Halo 6 and Crackdown 3 on day one – Xbox Game Pass will include instant access to *every* first-party exclusive
Here’s a bit of great news for you. Xbox Game Pass (opens in new tab) will now include access to all Xbox One exclusive games from Microsoft Studios as soon as they’re released. The new era begins starting with Sea of Thieves (opens in new tab) on March 20 and …
Read More »Microsoft buys Havok, the physics engine for pretty much every game ever
If you’ve played a 3D game with any kind of simulated physics in the last decade, the odds are good that Havok had a hand in it. The 3D physics middleware company has helped you knock virtual objects off of shelves in more than 600 games (including Skyrim, Uncharted 3, …
Read More »Your Xbox is chewing through virtual consoles in Crackdown to make all that destruction happen
It’s been quite a while since the building-leaping, orb-collecting sandboxes of the Crackdown series graced an Xbox console, which makes all that over-the-top destruction of the new Crackdown all the more appetising. So it’s no surprise that ability to destroy fully-rendered buildings down to their last bricks has fast become …
Read More »Xbox Ones secret weapon is finally firing live rounds
“Cloud processing.” You’re almost certainly dismissive of the term by now because after all the boastful claims of Xbox One’s launch, almost nothing came of it. It’s supposed to allow your Xbox One to communicate with vastly more powerful computers over the internet, using this remote extra power to make …
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