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Here’s a new twist on an old riddle for you: If a console leaks and no one reports it, does it make a sound? Actually, you can just ask Miami resident Jia Li. See, back in 2013, Li ordered a laptop from Microsoft’s website and received a prototype Xbox One …

The Assassin’s Creed movie release date might have dived into 2017 (opens in new tab) in the UK but that doesn’t mean we have to go without hooded Michael Fassbender action. Revealed by The Playlist (opens in new tab)these images from Assassin’s Creed (opens in new tab) show off Fassbender …

Let us face Ragnarok together, brothers! Be not afraid as we raise our glasses high and share a meady toast with Odin, Thor and all the gods on this day!  What is it about Norse mythology that’s so intoxicating? Gods and vikings and Valkyries and endless battles followed by endless …

Two of the new Xbox Live social features that Microsoft announced back at E3 (opens in new tab) are now live for Preview members, and the general public can expect to start playing with LFG (as in “Looking For Group”) and clubs soon. Here’s how Microsoft hopes the new tools …

Hitman (opens in new tab) is headed to the Rocky Mountain State on September 27. I’m pleased that IO Interactive picked a very American kind of target for its lone American mission: the heads of a home-grown Colorado militia. He’ll have to kill all four of them before he can …

What better way to celebrate the upcoming fifth anniversary of Gears of War 3 (opens in new tab) than by finding one of its undiscovered Easter eggs? Despite hitting Xbox 360 back on September 20, 2011, the shooter still has new secrets to yield, as demonstrated in this video by …

Echo doesn’t have enemies in the traditional sense that most games do. That’s because in this indie from Danish studio Ultra Ultra, your enemy is you. And I don’t mean on an existential, “I need to stop being so hard on myself” sort of way, I mean that these are …

The Battlefield 1 (opens in new tab) beta has finally gone live for the public, but the servers aren’t having it. Many would-be players (including me) are getting error messages from the game that say the server has “failed to connect to EA Online” and thus can’t play. The official …

Never let it be said that Minecraft (opens in new tab) on consoles was only a pale imitation of its PC-bound sibling. The PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox 360, and Xbox One versions of the game have just been updated to version 1.33, which adds a new mini-game (opens in new …

The man who created modern survival-horror is not happy with the way things have gone. Having designed 1992’s Alone in the Dark – the first 3D horror game, which pioneered the idea of polygonal characters roaming pre-rendered monster mansions four years before Resident Evil shuffled onto the scene – Frederick …