One Xbox. Many questions.
Earlier this week, Microsoft finally took the wraps off Xbox One, the company’s next-generation successor to the eight-year-old Xbox 360 game console. Now that the initial fanfare is over – at least until the E3 Expo gets under way in a little over two weeks – I’ve had a day or two to mull over what I heard, saw and touched this week. Here are my early impressions of Xbox One.
Security stand with umbrellas in front of the event tent set up for the unveiling of Microsoft’s new Xbox in Redmond, Washington May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Nick Adams
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After a fake teaser made the rounds last week for the PlayStation 4, Sony has finally released a real teaser for its next-generation console. Read more…
“Batman: Arkham Origins.” (VIDEO SCREENSHOT)
A teaser trailer was released today for Warner Bros. Games’ Batman: Arkham Origins – the third in the popular Arkham game series after 2009′s Batman: Arkham Asylum and 2011′s Batman: Arkham City.
I’m just going to jettison all pretense of cynical aloofness here and say it: It’s been a long, long time since I’ve wanted to play a game as badly as I want to play Watch Dogs.
John Paul Titlow of ReadWrite has a compelling idea.
Nintendo should stop being a bunch of fuddy-duddies and make its NES and SNES games available for smartphones.
“Wolfenstein: The New Order.” (SCREENSHOT)
Bethesda Softworks unveiled a reveal trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order – a new entry in the popular Nazi-killing series.
As reported by GameSpot, the game is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of this year, for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and next-generation consoles.
Check it out here. It could very well be The Old Man and the Sea, with all the paddling and what not.
And when you die, this happens:
The full quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic is “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
I couldn’t “attain the American dream” despite a lot of loud keyboard banging. But if you do, let me know what happens when you reach the green light.
Pizza Hut app on Xbox Live. (SCREENSHOT)
Now you can get pizza delivered to your house with an app on your Xbox 360. That is, if you are, for some reason, reading this in U.S. As the app is not available in Canada.
QMI Agency’s Steve Tilley hosted a live chat on the latest in video game news on April 23. Read the recap here.
