Today has seen the unveiling of the new Metro style of the Xbox Live website. An update is expected soon for the dashboard itself, but as of now the Xbox.com is designed to show off what is to be expected from the new setup that has been dubbed Metro.
Hello again, Achievement Hunters! As we come into what is one of the final big release weeks of the year, the achievements offer a wide array of interesting ways to both challenge and frustrate you.
Starting off the week, Modern Warfare 3 has finally arrived and besides giving a definitive ending to an epic series, it also offers fans a chance to enjoy some interesting achievement options. MW3 has the most simplistic of the week with, “Back to the Fight” which you earn by starting the game. The rest are earned through completing levels on various difficulties and finding collectibles, essentially the garden variety achievements. However one of the last you are sure to earn is “Serrated Edge” meaning you finish off a Juggernaut in Special Ops with a knife. Seems like the toughest you will find from this experience.
The Assassin’s Creed series has always done one thing spectacularly well: throwing the player into a beautifully-realised historical city and give them free reign to wander around and explore the sights and sounds as much as they choose. It’s the open-world of Grand Theft Auto, but in times and places much more distant and exciting than the faux-American cities of the GTA series. The newest game in the series, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is to take place in the city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), notable historically for being located in between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea near Greece, the meeting point between the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
If you’re a videogamer of any type or creed, unless
you’ve been hiding in a Siberian cave for the last few months, you’ll have
noticed that a new Call of Duty game was on the way. Well, the wait is over- Modern Warfare 3 was released yesterday amidst a wave of hyperbolic
press and claims of it being “the most anticipated video game in history”
(courtesy of Gamestop executive Bob McKenzie).
Microsoft announced yesterday that they are planning to release their successful foray into motion gaming, Kinect, for Windows in 2012. The news comes from General Manager for Windows Craig Eisler via his official blog.
Microsoft also released a new beta version for Windows SDK yesterday which features “faster skeletal tracking, better accuracy rate when it comes to skeletal tracking and joint recognition, and the ability to plug and unplug your Kinect without losing work/productivity.” This is the 2nd beta version of the peripheral.
When the highly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim releases this Friday, November 11, there will be a patch available for download from Bethesda. This patch will be available for all platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3). It is unclear what the patch will actually do or fix, but hopefully those details will emerge sometime before release and won’t contain any serious issues.
In a recent interview, director Todd Howard explained the company’s plans for future DLC for Skyrim, saying that there are plans for “substantial” pieces of downloadable content. Howard told Wired.com that “We’re not going to be doing a lot of it.” This is a little misleading, as Howard went on to explain that “Our high-level thinking is that there’ll be not as many [pieces of DLC], but they’ll be bigger and more substantial. The goal overall is not necessarily to put out more content, but to make the game better.” Chances are the plans for Skyrim are a little bigger than something like the Horse Armor Pack from Oblivion.
If you’ve owned an Xbox 360, chances
are very high that you’ve experienced the infamous “red ring of death,”
something that has plagued the console since its launch. Those who are still on
the fence about buying an Xbox because of its problems, read on, because a
recent survey by PCMag determined that the failure rate of the console has
dropped to 10 percent. Polling their readers, 10 percent of the participants
reported that they had to send in their consoles in for repair. While this
number might still seem high, it is a considerable improvement, as PCMag
confirmed that the failure percentage of last year’s survey was 23 percent. 10
percent, though, is still twice the failure rate of the competitors, according
to the survey.
