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| News - Escape Alien Infestation In Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets This Fall |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-19-2018, 10:10 AM - Forum: Nintendo Discussion
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Escape Alien Infestation In Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets This Fall
BeautiFun Games has announced that its upcoming puzzle-adventure title Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets will come to Switch “this Fall”.
Professor Lupo is a scientist who travels across each and every galaxy to collect the most horrible aliens, before returning to Earth to sell them for a healthy profit. Unfortunately for him, an attack occurs during his alien showcase, and his prized collection escapes to cause havoc in his space station. Your job, as an intern of the spaceship, must now take a terrifying new turn as you desperately try to find a way to escape in what is described as a “frantic puzzle-adventure game”.
Features: – Puzzle-adventure game remarkably focused in the narrative. – Investigate the aliens’ behaviour: use them in your favour! – More than 100 levels of gameplay and replayability. – Distinctive english voice-over for each character! – Explore the depths of Aurora Space Station and its machinery.
Do you think you have what it takes to out-smart the aliens? Let us know if you’ll be keeping an eye on this one as we near release down below.
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| News - Video: Ace Your Way To World Number One With Tennis World Tour’s Career Mode |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-19-2018, 10:10 AM - Forum: Nintendo Discussion
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Video: Ace Your Way To World Number One With Tennis World Tour’s Career Mode
With Wimbledon only a few months away we can already taste that heady mix of strawberries and cream with a cold glass of Pimms, so what better way to keep that mood going than a new trailer for the Nintendo Switch-bound Tennis World Tour?
The new trailer is all about the game’s offline career mode, which sees you managing your avatars stamina while competing in tournaments, earning sponsorships and buying new equipment. It’s pretty standard fare if you’ve played the likes of NBA 2K18, but we’re hoping its systems are balanced and rewarding enough to keep us interested from rank 100 to number one.
Here’s the new trailer in all its racket-swiping glory. Will you be taking to its virtual courts this May, or will you be holding out for a certain other tennis title headed to Switch this summer? Go on, share your take with us below…
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| News - This Week At Bungie – 4/18/2018 |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-19-2018, 10:10 AM - Forum: Lounge
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This Week At Bungie – 4/18/2018
 This week at Bungie, we unleashed teams of six into Iron Banner.
We have a lot to cover. Iron Banner 6v6 is in full swing. Exotic weapon previews have been dropping like loot. We’re following that up with some important info on Power progression and reward changes coming in Season 3. On top of all this, we’re having special guests in the building to give us valuable feedback.
Let’s get to it.
Crucible Recap
Last week, we postponed Iron Banner while we worked out an issue. In its place, we rolled out a six-player version of Rumble based on player feedback. Here is PvP Design Lead Derek Carroll with more info on the state of combat between Guardians.
Derek: How did six-player Rumble treat you? We heard your comments and took action when the eight-player version got too big for its cage, and we hope our work paid off. There are additional map-specific spawning fixes that will be present in the next update, so keep the feedback coming!
By the time you read this, Iron Banner will be well underway. As with everything we do in the Crucible, the true test is when players experience it out in the wild. Once you’ve felt how it plays, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Meet me here in a week or so?
As you may have read last week, we are changing the way Crucible playlists work when Season 3 launches alongside the new expansion, Warmind. Beginning on May 8, all Destiny 2 players will be able to compete on any of the Crucible maps we put in our match-made playlists. (Platform timed-exclusive content will still be limited to that platform, but everything else is fair game.) We believe this is a big win for everyone, since players will no longer need to choose between playing in a limited DLC playlist to see “the new stuff” and playing in a mainstream playlist to get the largest pool of opponents and maps. More fun for everyone!
Weapon Showcase
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Those poor, poor Fallen. That wasn’t the only video we teased out this week. You also got a glimpse of what Skyburner’s Oath will be capable of in Season 3. Now that we have shown you, here is Senior Designer Jon Weisnewski to tell you more about what is changing about those weapons and another you haven’t seen yet.
Jon: Hello. For some bizarre reason Cozmo asked me to come back and waste some more space on the TWAB. So here I am bloating the internet tubes with more bits and gigawatts. What does that mean for you? Another update on the Exotic weapon tuning headed your way this May.
Today, we’ll talk about two guns: Skyburner’s Oath and Rat King.
A while back, I talked about Graviton Lance and how one of the main areas to improve was the lack of utility within a pretty successful show of spectacle. Skyburner’s Oath almost has the opposite problem: It’s a comparatively strong weapon, effective at multiple ranges, strong in ADS and from hip, with varying fire rates. However, it lacks spectacle to give it that exotic feeling; it kind of plays just like any other gun. To address this, we started with giving the projectiles explosive rounds as their default impact response. In ADS, the weapon will perform the same. Full auto, slow firing, high impact.
When firing from the hip, Skyburner’s Oath now lobs slower projectiles at a faster rate of fire that tracks targets and explodes. The tracking functionality tends to draw projectiles to center mass rather than to precision regions, so we reduced the precision scalar a bit and increased damage to the body (precision hits still do bonus damage; and overall DPS is increased). The end result is a dual utility weapon that fires hit-scan, high-damage projectiles while aiming down sights and rapid-fire, lobbed, exploding, tracking projectiles from the hip. It almost feels like a rapid-fire grenade launcher that can transition to a precision death dealer with the press of a button. Here it is in action.
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Next up is Rat King, which already has something of a fan base, but definitely has room to improve. Of the stats that improve with more fireteam members running Rat King, the strongest is probably the increased rate of fire. Unfortunately, the DPS potential is hard to realize because some people just can’t physically pull the trigger fast enough to cash in on this benefit (or don’t know to try). To make sure this is both felt and used, we made Rat King full auto to ensure the rate of fire increase can make a difference when running in a pack.
Another pain point was that the restriction of having R at Pack only activate when allies have Rat Kings equipped in-hand felt a bit too situational. Rat Pack perk now triggers when fireteam members have Rat King slotted as their kinetic weapon, stowed or in hand. We also front-loaded the stat benefits of Rat Pack so they increase a bit more drastically with one or two fireteam members—and upped the base invisibility timer of Vermin to seven seconds. Last but not least, and not to overly tease, but why not, I’m gonna tease: the Masterwork upgrade for Rat King is going to put a tasty garnish on this meal you won’t want to miss out on.
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It’s never a waste of space to have Newsk stop by to share what weapon changes he’s currently working on. Maybe we can convince him to come back next week to tell us about some more Exotics we are buffing up for Season 3.
Power Climb
We have received a lot of feedback on rewards, Power, and how you want your actions to be more meaningful in determining how your character performs in the world of Destiny 2. We’re planning some adjustments based on this feedback, and Senior Designer Daniel Auchenpaugh is here to give you the details.
Daniel: Last time I was here, I talked about our adjustments to the Raid rewards. This time, I want to talk about some more broad changes we’re making to the reward structure of Destiny 2. One of the things we did when Destiny 2 launched was make the climb to the power cap fast and easy for everyone. It didn’t matter who you were or what your play style was; the road to the cap was quick and accessible for everyone. The result was that achieving the cap felt less satisfying: It was easy, and there weren’t any activities that dared to require it.
So, with the release of Destiny 2 Expansion II: Warmind, we’re making some changes to the size and frequency of upgrades. These changes will apply to all of Destiny 2—not just the Warmind endgame content. Our goals with this change are to bring back meaning and accomplishment to achieving the Power cap, to give players a sense of progression when they come back to play each week, and to reward players who engage in a broader scope of the Destiny 2 endgame content. We’ve made an effort to de-emphasize grinding public events for Exotics and to reduce the impact of clan engrams on endgame progression.
Before we get into specifics, I want to define a couple terms so we’re on common ground. Soft cap is the point you can climb to easily via drops from any source. The hard cap is the power level you can obtain from weekly reward sources. The soft cap for Warmind is 340, and the hard cap is 380. These numbers don’t consider any +5 mods. Remember that all drops are calculated using your Best Possible Power, regardless of if you have the gear equipped or not. It can even be in the vault or on another character!
Our target is that players who participate in all the weekly activities should take several weeks to reach the hard cap. Raids/Trials grant the largest increases, clan engrams provide very small increases, and the other weekly sources fall between those two. Players who don’t participate in any group weekly activities are unlikely to hit the hard cap before the next release; dedicated omnivore players will hit it before players that just play Raids or Trials exclusively. Additionally, the final 10 points from 370 to 380 will be significantly slower than 340 to 370; we expect it to take players roughly equal time to go from 340 to 370 as from 370 to 380. We decided to make this change because climbing to 370 allows you to tackle endgame content without suffering a severe under level penalty, but creates a significant accomplishment in achieving 380.
Clan engrams offer excellent upgrades while a player is climbing to the soft cap; they should grant awards an average of 15 Power higher than your current best possible while you’re on the way there. This will help players catch up with their clanmates who are completing weekly activities. Once you’ve achieved the soft cap, your progress is going to rely a lot more on your own achievements; clan engrams above the soft cap will grant gear only 0–2 points above your best possible.
In an effort to combat exploits around creating new characters to take advantage of one-time quest rewards, we’ve decided to limit those rewards to the soft cap for the release they first appeared in. This means Destiny 2 launch quests cap at 260 (before mods), Curse of Osiris caps at 300, and Warmind caps at 340. To compensate for their new caps, they’ll give you a large boost (15 Power) when you earn them as long as you’re below that cap. Farming Exotics to increase your Power has been removed; if they drop from a non-weekly source, they’ll come out of the engram at the same Power as a Legendary would after you’ve gotten to the soft cap. We believe the changes to quest rewards and Exotic farming will ensure the most effective way to reach the Power cap is to play the most challenges and social weekly activities.
Thanks for hanging in there through this long explanation. Please let us know any feedback you have about this new way forward for Destiny 2 rewards. We’re going to carefully monitor feedback from this post and our early data after Warmind launches to guide any changes we might make to this in the future. So if you love it, let us know! If you hate it, let us know that too!
High Altitude
The guy who used to write these “weekly blog addresses” (those are his words—he apparently hates the term “TWAB”) wants to hog the mic for just a minute to share some final thoughts on the Community Summit that’s happening tomorrow and Friday at Bungie.
DeeJ: Thanks, Cozmo.
Thursday and Friday, we’ll be honored and humbled to host a small but insightful sampling of the community here in our studio. They’ll be here to give us their opinions on our goals and our plans. Some of them you know. Some of them we know. We want you to know that this is not the only way we’re gathering feedback about Destiny 2, and these are not the only people we’re listening to about the game. This summit will be about collaboration. Our best conversations will be about the future. This isn’t a marketing event. There will be no reveals this week. We’re not streaming while they’re here. They won’t have a wealth of news to report once our time together is over. They’ll be welcome to report on the mood from the gathering and to tell you what they told us. We’d ask you not to press them for promises on what the state of Destiny 2 will be in the months to come. That work will still fall to us, and there is still plenty of time for those things to find their final form. Next week, if they want to, they’ll share some of their own content from the next expansion. For this week, we wanted to give them a seat at our table.
Back to you, Cozmo.
Helpful Hands
Whether its plants, animals, or other oddly named error codes, the Destiny Player Support has the information you need to diagnose any issues you come across in the wild.
This is their report.
Iron Banner Updated
This week marks the first arrival of 6v6 Iron Banner, and is the first Iron Banner post-Update 1.1.4. Listed below are changes that players can expect to see in this playlist, as outlined in the Update 1.1.4 Patch Notes:
- Now features 6v6
- Time limit is 12 minutes
- Score limit is 125 points
- Respawn time is 7 seconds
- All Control Zones start off neutral
- Additional Guardians (max of 3) in a zone increases capture speed
- Emperor’s Respite has been removed from the Iron Banner Control playlist
- Power ammo
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- Recurring side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 45 seconds
- Initial side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 30 seconds
Additionally, all Season 2 Iron Banner weapons will be available from Lord Saladin through either Reward Packages, or direct purchase using Iron Banner Tokens. For more information regarding Iron Banner, players should visit our Iron Banner Guide.
Error Codes
We are still investigating an increase in reports of CABBAGE, COCONUT, CURRANT, LETTUCE, and RABBIT error codes.
We have implemented a fix that should resolve most instances of ZEBRA error codes. Players with a poor connection quality or below minimum spec PC hardware may continue to encounter this error code.
Players who encounter these errors should try relaunching into their activity. Players who repeatedly encounter these error codes should report them to the #Help forum.
Put the Bunny Back in the Box
Get ‘em while they’re hot. We got fresh new movies for you to consume. In case you don’t know how this works, we pick our favorite videos each week and send the creators a special emblem. If you want your shot, send your video to the Creations page. Make sure to put all player names who worked on the video in the description so we know who to send the rewards to.
Here are this week’s winners.
Movie of the Week: New World
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Honorable Mention: Yoga Flame!
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Before we go, here are last week’s Nightfall scores.
You just read over 2,400 words of knowledge. How you feeling? We have more lined up for you next week during the stream. Join us April 24 at 10 a.m. PDT on Twitch to see Warmind and Season 3.
In the meantime, I’ll be playing some Iron Banner 6v6 and finishing up some ornaments. I’ll see you out there.
<3 Cozmo
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| XONE - Octahedron |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Octahedron
Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging psychedelic action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat. Publisher: Square Enix Release Date: Mar 20, 2018
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| XONE - Impact Winter |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Impact Winter
"In 30 days, help is coming?" A mysterious radio transmission claims that help is inbound. You are Jacob Solomon: leader of a makeshift team trying to survive the aftermath of a devastating asteroid collision. Your goal: lead your team to survival. Publisher: Bandai Namco Games Release Date: Apr 05, 2018
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| XONE - Ys Origin |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: New Game Releases
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Ys Origin
700 years before the events of Ys I & II, the land of Ys was on the brink of destruction. Demons came in droves and forced the twin Goddesses who ruled the land to whisk their subjects away from the surface, into the safe embrace of the clouds. The demons were persistent, however, erecting a massive tower in pursuit. The battle that raged upon the ground had begun ascending for a second round up above. Publisher: DotEmu Release Date: Apr 11, 2018
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| News - Female game devs in South Korea are being harassed for feminist beliefs |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: Lounge
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Female game devs in South Korea are being harassed for feminist beliefs
 Feminist female game developers in South Korea are being targeted by Twitter users in an attempt to push out “anti-social ideology”, with harassers calling for companies to fire them over their social media posts.
This censorship and bullying of South Korean women has apparently been ongoing in the South Korean game industry as far back as 2016.
Major companies have pressured female devs into removing their posts relating to women’s rights or feminism, choosing not to defend their employees.
As reported by AFP News Agency (a reputable news agency covering global topics), the harassment began after CEO of Seoul-based IMC Games Kim Hak-kyu launched an investigation into a female employee after complaints about her personal activity on Twitter were raised.
The female developer, Sung Hye-jin, followed several feminist groups on Twitter and retweeted a post which had a slang term for sexist men.
After being called a “cancer-like creature” who “followed a dirty ideology” by male players, Sung apologized for the perceived offense.
She was able to keep her job after Kim decided her actions were “just a mistake but not a crime”, assuring players she would “remain endlessly vigilant” to prevent a recurrence.
After the investigation into Sung, Kim issued an apology for his actions after South Korean trade unions called out his decision. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions said that “this misogynistic action… has left many women in shock and fear.” The organization also accused Kim and other studios of policing the actions of female employees.
Players often monitor female developers online accounts to check whether any of their tweets, retweets or likes involve feminism, and if they do, file complaints to their employers with boycott threats, according to anonymous sources who have approached AFP.
“These gamers relentlessly attack whoever posts anything slightly related to women’s rights issues, and label the person a Megalia supporter who should be sacked immediately,” explained one anonymous source. “Game sales could go down very quickly if we don’t cave in.”
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| News - Video: A postmortem of the original Sonic the Hedgehog |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: Lounge
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Video: A postmortem of the original Sonic the Hedgehog
 In this 2018 GDC session, Naoto Ohshima and Hirokazu Yasuhara, two of the designers behind the original Sonic the Hedgehog, discuss their perspectives on the creation of the classic game franchise.
Oshima and Yasuhara go into detail about the game’s original design process and art direction, as well as providing some insight into their experiences creating the character of Sonic and the strategies they considered for going up against rival companies.
Those interested in the history of a classic game like Sonic the Hedgehog can now watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!
In addition to this presentation, the GDC Vault and its accompanying YouTube channel offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent Game Developers Conference events, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.
Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via a GDC Vault subscription page. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the GDC Vault group subscription page. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can contact GDC Vault technical support.
Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.
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| Xbox Wire - This Week on Xbox: April 6, 2018 |
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Posted by: xSicKxBot - 04-17-2018, 02:57 PM - Forum: Xbox Discussion
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This Week on Xbox: April 6, 2018
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox!
Inside Xbox Episode 2 Debuts on April 10 Last month we debuted our first episode of Inside Xbox, our monthly premiere Xbox broadcast show. We shared news, such as support for Freesync displays in the upcoming Xbox Spring Update, went behind-the-scenes with our friends at Rare to celebrate the launch of Sea of Thieves, enjoyed an update on all things PUBG, watched the internet enjoy a healthy laugh at Major Nelson’s white-glove treatment of our giveaways, and even created an impromptu Twitter Moment thanks to Seamus Blackley and the Hyperkin Duke controller, plus much more. We had a blast, and we hope you did too, but more importantly, we learned a lot from what you enjoyed in the show and what you’d like to see more of in… Read more
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is Coming Soon to Xbox One Greetings from Larian Studios! In September 2017, we launched Divinity: Original Sin 2 on PC, hoping to push the boundaries of creative roleplaying into new, weird shapes. Since that launch, we’ve been swarmed with daily letters and messages from players asking us to bring the game to Xbox One. Those players weren’t alone: we’ve had it in our minds for some time that we wanted to see our game played on Xbox One, so we went to work figuring out how to make that happen. Encouraged by the community’s enthusiasm, we’re happy to say we’re almost there. For anyone who hasn’t played the game yet, first of all: welcome! We really hope that this version of the game will introduce a world of… Read more

The Return of Spyro: Bringing an Iconic Platformer Back to Life Here at Toys for Bob, we are incredibly excited to announce that Spyro, the world’s favorite purple dragon, will be returning to console on September 21, 2018 in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. For the first time ever, Xbox players will be able to explore the enchanted Dragon Realms of the original three games, experiencing, in remastered glory, the magic of an iconic platformer that has endeared itself to millions of fans over the years. We are deeply honored to have the responsibility of updating this historic trilogy and thrilled to do so in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Spyro the Dragon. 20 years is a long time, but as we’ve seen around the gaming… Read more
Overwatch: Flash Ops Comes to Microsoft Store! Local gaming communities across North America are in for a special treat with the introduction today of Blizzard’s Overwatch: Flash Ops, a new series of in-person celebrations that brings together Overwatch fans of all ages, interests and skill levels. Microsoft Store will be hosting Overwatch: Flash Ops community nights every Thursday at all stores in North America as part of our ASUS ROG Arena program. Meet up with other players and spectators in your local community for Arcade format matches. High-powered ASUS Republic of Gamers PCs will be provided, so all you have to do is show up! Sign up today to reserve your spot on an elite local taskforce near you starting Thursday, April… Read more

Play WWE 2K18 Free This Weekend Only with Xbox Live Gold This weekend only, all Xbox Live Gold members can enjoy WWE 2K18 for free and get a chance to be in the virtual ring. The Free Play Days event will begin at 9:00 a.m. PT on Thursday, April 5 and run through 11:59 p.m. PT on Sunday, April 8 in Xbox One markets. During the week, you’ll also have the option to purchase WWE 2K18 and the WWE 2K18 Digital Deluxe Edition through the Microsoft Store at a 50% discount and continue your gameplay experience. Should you decide to return to the ring later, all saved progress and earned achievements will be waiting for you. Draft your Xbox Live friends and get ready for action — because competing in a WWE ring is always better with a… Read more
WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair and NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon Join Xbox Live Sessions on April 8 to Play WWE 2K18 Calling all wrestling and WWE fans! This weekend is WrestleMania 34, and Xbox is thrilled to join the excitement by having WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair and current NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon join Xbox Live Sessions to play WWE 2K18 prior to the big event in New Orleans. Xbox and WWE fans will not want to miss this interactive livestream hosted on the Mixer Xbox Channel Sunday, April 8, starting at 12:00 p.m. PT. Ric Flair, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest WWE competitors of all time, will join the show first, answering fan questions and talking all things WWE in front of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome where WrestleMania 34 will take place that evening. Ember Moon will… Read more

2nd Annual LGBTQIA in Gaming Reception at GDC Celebrates Industry Professionals Team Xbox was proud to host the 2nd annual LGBTQIA in Gaming reception during GDC 2018. This year we hosted over 200 industry professionals and the event continues to be a place where this vibrant community can come together, network, hear from their peers and celebrate their accomplishments. Held at the beautiful Minna Gallery, the reception featured fireside chats hosted by Xbox team members Clark Ly and M Rawlings and included industry veterans Gordon Bellamy, Leena van Deventer and Rebecca Heineman. Starting off the event, Clark and M chatted with Gordon Bellamy who has a long and impressive resume in the industry. He discussed “coming out” at work when he was at Spike TV…. Read more
Get Ready for UFC 223 with the UFC 3 Free Trial on Xbox One Master the promotion and performance of becoming a professional fighter, inside and outside the Octagon. From the walkout to the knockout, EA Sports UFC 3 delivers a deep, authentic, and exciting experience. Starting today, Thursday, April 5 at 10 a.m. PST to Monday, April 9 at 10 a.m. PST, Xbox Live Gold members will be able to enter the Octagon during the UFC 3 free trial on Xbox One. Get Hyped for the Women’s Strawweight Title Fight: Rose Namajunas vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2 Call the first match between Rose and Joanna what you want, but this is one of the most highly anticipated rematches in female MMA history. Joanna is hungry to get her belt back and will end up putting a… Read more

Visit Xbox and Mixer at PAX East Xbox and Mixer are heading to Boston for PAX East this week, running April 5-8, 2018. If you have a PAX East badge, you’ll get the opportunity to play new Xbox games for the first time, interact with streamers through Mixer, and meet some of your favorite developers. Not able to make PAX East in person? Our biggest event will be streamed to you live on Mixer, and the Xbox Most Powerful Gamers Sweepstakes on the official @Xbox Twitter channel is open to everyone. Read on for all the information you need! Xbox Booth Booth #13019 Experience Xbox One’s largest, most diverse games lineup in the Xbox booth! Try your hand at nine different titles available to play, including Sea of… Read more
Xbox Live Sessions: deadmau5 Joins Xbox at PAX East to Play PUBG Xbox has partnered with electronic musician deadmau5 for some of our most epic events, including the west coast launch of Xbox One. So, when we started planning an episode of Xbox Live Sessions from PAX East for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, deadmau5 was the first person we thought of. Not only is he a gamer, he is a huge PUBG fan and player and we’re thrilled to have him join us for another epic Xbox event. On Saturday, April 7 at 10:30 a.m. PST / 1:30 p.m. EST, deadmau5 will be joined by PUBG Creative Director Brendan Greene (PlayerUnknown) and Xbox Live’s Major Nelson to play PUBG live in front of fans in the Main Theater at PAX East. Fans at home can tune in and watch on… Read more

TERA Available Now on Xbox One En Masse is very proud to bring TERA’s vast MMORPG game world and true action combat gameplay to the Xbox One starting today. TERA’s emphasis on action within the MMO genre has always made it a good candidate for play on an Xbox One controller. In fact, TERA’s signature combat, with its emphasis on combo-building and active dodging, originally drew inspiration from console action games. How It Began During early development, a few folks at En Masse rigged up gamepad support on an Xbox 360 controller by manually assigning inputs. Even with this rudimentary setup, TERA still played quite well, and as a result Bluehole added official controller support to the PC version. As gamers… Read more
Six Months Later, Raiders of the Broken Planet is a Very Different Game Roughly six months ago, we shared with you our vision for Raiders of the Broken Planet: an adventure in shooter form. An independent game with triple-A production values that would be delivered episodically, with a significant part of the game — the Eternal Soldier campaign — offered for free. Today we announced the release of Hades Betrayal, the third premium campaign available now on Xbox One and Windows 10, making Raiders of the Broken Planet a very different game from the one we launched in September last year. Content wise, Hades Betrayal delivers what we sincerely believe are the best missions for Raiders of the Broken Planet yet, introducing three fun new characters: noble… Read more

Microsoft Store Spring Sale Ending Soon Our annual Microsoft Store Spring Sale is coming to a close April 9 so you only have a few more days to take advantage of savings up to 65% on a variety of digital games for Xbox One and Xbox 360. Don’t miss out on over 450 deals on popular Xbox digital games and add-ons, plus if you are an Xbox Live Gold member, then you save up to an additional 10% on games. Not yet an Xbox Live Gold member? For a few days more you can save and buy three months of Gold for the price of one during the Microsoft Store Spring Sale. Hurry and sign up and save before this offer expires on April 9 (promotional offer not valid for existing members). Save on popular titles like Call of Duty: WWII, FIFA… Read more
How to Make it in Esports: Pros at Esports Academy Are Sharing Their Strategies at Flagship Microsoft Store The esports industry has a little bit of everything – fierce competition, last-minute victories and pure streaming showmanship. It might even offer the beginnings of a unique career! As part of an initiative to educate and kickstart future talent in games, the Esports Academy at the flagship Microsoft Stores in New York and Sydney will invite leading personalities and industry pros to share their knowledge in practical sessions, hands-on gameplay and much more. The Esports Academy is a great, authentic way to learn from leading industry talent, meet other gamers and have fun, whether you play casually, have questions about shoutcasting, or are simply curious as to where esports might go… Read more

Dive into an Epic New World of Tanks: War Stories Trilogy Like the wings of a butterfly conjuring a devastating hurricane, what if a single moment in time could change the course of history forever? World of Tanks: War Stories is back, and history has been rewritten again in the epic Spoils of War trilogy. Delve into these brand-new adventures, and join a daring trio of German, American, and Soviet heroes as they fight for survival in an alternate timeline. Previous War Stories were set against the “what if?” backdrops of a deadly twist to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a desperate espionage operation by the French Resistance amidst the golden sands of Egypt, and a Nazi invasion of London. This time, the year is 1948, and the world is trapped in… Read more
Burnout Paradise Remastered Tips and Tricks Hey, Xbox gamers, welcome to Burnout Paradise Remastered! Originally released in 2008, Burnout Paradise was a treasure from the start. Sporting high-speed races, slow-motion crashes, and a huge roster of cars to choose from! Now with the remastered re-release featuring Xbox One X enhancements, the high-speed collisions never looked so good! And with these 5 tips, we welcome you to Paradise City where the drifts are clean and the speed limit is 250 mph! Check out the video above For even more strategies and tactics on today’s hottest games, plus plenty of other gaming-related fun, be sure to watch Mixer’s Tips and Tricks live every Tuesday at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m…. Read more

Get Ready for the Halo World Championship 2018 Finals on April 13 After months of incredible competition in Orlando, London, Mexico City, Sydney and Columbus, hundreds of teams have been whittled down to the final 16. From April 13-15, the very best professional Halo players from around the world will compete at the Halo World Championship 2018 Finals, the biggest and most prestigious event in Halo esports! Taking place at CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle, WA, players will compete for their chance at a $1 million prize pool and the title of Halo World Champion. There will also be a $10,000 Free for All tournament with free registration for ticket holders taking place Saturday morning, just before the tournament begins. If you’re… Read more
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