Xbox One News: Xbox One Box Art Revealed

awww yeahhhhh… too bad it’s used!  OK I may be a bit jaded.

 

Xbox One New: 5GB dedicated to Games

We all read that the Xbox One would have 8 GB of DDR3 ram.  Well it is looking like only 5 of that will be available for games.  You can watch the interview here

 

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Xbox One News: Xbox Arcade and Indie Channel Going Away

 

Here’s the quote

“In the past we had retail games which came on disc, we had Xbox Live Arcade and we had Indie Games, and they had their own discrete channels or discrete silos. With Xbox One and the new marketplace, they’re games,” Harrison told Eurogamer. “We don’t make a distinction between whether a game is a 50-hour RPG epic or whether it is a puzzle game or whether it is something that fits halfway between the two.”

So it would appear that Microsoft is indeed going in the direction we all think.  This does not bode well.

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Xbox One News: Indie Developers Can No Longer Self Publish Games

According to an article over at Shacknews, indie developers will need to have a publishing deal with Microsoft studios or a third-party publisher.  Every time a bit of news is released concerning Microsoft’s new console, I move further and further towards Sony’s side of the line.  With the used games announcement, the required internet connection at least once a day, and now this,  I think I’ll be a Sony man from here on out.  Microsoft will have to do something special at E3 if they want to keep my business.

 

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Xbox Reveal: Xbox One Will Require Used Game Fee

According to Wired, “ if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc.”   If this is the case, I am not sure what will happen to companies like Gamefly and Gamestop.     I primary play games I receive from Gamefly, and if this is true, it would all but kill that company.    I hope there are some concessions Microsoft is willing to make.

We shall see in 5-6 short months.

 

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Xbox Reveal: Call of Duty Ghost

All Call of Duty downloadable content will launch first exclusively for Xbox One.

Stephen Gaghan is the writer for the new story.  You have your own dog and they even motion captured the dog!

 

 

 

 

Xbox Reveal: TV Notes

-Microsoft will be releasing 15 games within the first year of launch, 8 of which will be new IPs

-Immersive and social television

-Live Action Halo Television Series, Steven Spielberg will be involved.

-Partnership with the NFL, exclusive content that uses smartglass and kinect, and will tie in Fantasy Football.