CD Projekt RED confirm today that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is launching on April 17 in North America for the Xbox 360. The developer has added a raft of new features and insists it’s the “most polished and definitive version of the game.”
Microsoft plans to upgrade its disc technology in its next console to Blu-Ray discs, according to industry sources. Sony, its competitors, utilizes the disc technology in its PlayStation 3, which contains 25 or 50GB of data compared to only 9GB on DVD discs. However, the disc integration could be far less impactful to the next [...]
It’s that time of the year, where we grather up the most enjoyable titles of past year to generate at list of the most notable ones. Including, the most coveted award, the Game of the Year award. With that said, these awards where decide on by a group of three “strong-mined” people, with each category being [...]
Halo 4 creative director Ryan Payton has denounced his position at Microsoft’s 343 Industries, stating that development had become a “crazed endeavor.” Payton leaves behind the development of Halo 4 and the entire Halo development team. Payton, who had worked at Kojima Productions, was tasked with developing the game’s story and overseeing the creative team who [...]
While other companies have pushed themselves into the third-dimensional market, Microsoft has sat on the sidelines. But today at PAX, the company announced that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will feature stereoscopic 3D support when it releases. The publisher and console manufacture has stated that it’s using a “custom made top-and-bottom 3D technology” to allow the game [...]
No, it won’t be rendering any big blue aliens. But, according to AMD, the people responsible for the Xbox 360′s graphical tech, the next Xbox will be able to render graphical details that’s on par with James Cameron’s big-screen aliens. The company wouldn’t confirm if its working on the next console but, according to the [...]
343 Industries have explained the concepts behind “terminals” within Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and how they’ll offer hints into the plot of Halo 4, the next major installment into the series. In an interview with CVG, executive producer Dan Ayoub said that terminals will be placed throughout the game and that finding them will unlock [...]
There’s been a ton of questions surrounding newly the redesigned Master Chief, which was shown at E3. Now, sources close to 343 Industries have revealed that the redesigns apart of “steps to incorporate” elements from Halo: Reach into the forth installment. In Reach, the players used modifications — like jet packs, sprint and shields — to [...]
In an interview with Gamespot, Microsoft Game Studios’ Phil Spencer confirmed Kinect integration for Halo Anniversary, the re-imagining of the hit franchise. However, Spencer didn’t reveal any other details about the Kinect integration. “As a first party we believe that Kinect will be important to all genres of games, be it racing games with Forza, [...]
In a brief trailer that played during its press conference, Microsoft unveiled Ryse, an motion-controlled title base on the Roman Empire.