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OG Xbox Live is being resurrected by Insignia
Insignia, the fan project bringing Xbox Live 1.0 back to life, has announced the 13 games that will be available for its public launch, and a whole lot of footage from a recent closed test is now available to activate your nostalgia centers. Microsoft shut down the original Xbox Live back in 2010, rendering online services for games like Halo 2 inaccessible. Insignia is effectively a ...read more
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33% of Sea of Thieves players haven’t reached the sea
It’s not easy being a pirate, and as one Sea of Thieves fan recently pointed out, it might be even more difficult than we thought. Reddit user Cholo__124 was checking Sea of Thieves achievement stats on Xbox and came across something surprising. 1 million players might have reached the endgame, but only 67.45% of players received the “Now Bring Me The Horizon” achievement, which unlocks ...read more
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Sony to Abandon One-to-One PlayStation Support on Twitter
Historically, the @AskPlayStation account was a pretty good way to get support with various platform issues, with a representative usually responding promptly when queried for help. Beginning from 1st August, however, this service will be abandoned, with the company directing you towards its support website instead. It also has various self-help resources and tutorial videos. “Starting 1st ...read more
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FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition Cover Athletes Revealed
The last FIFA game by EA Sports, FIFA 23, will be a historic launch for the game franchise and world football organization. The decades-long partnership between EA and FIFA will end, and EA Sports will take content FIFA is known for under a new brand, EA Sports FC. Before then, the cover athletes for FIFA 23's Ultimate Edition were revealed, including one athlete who graced the cover of FIFA ...read more
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Grand Theft Auto 6 May Not Have Three Protagonists
Grand Theft Auto 6 is officially in development at Rockstar, but given Rockstar’s reputation for taking its sweet time with its games and the fact that the highly-anticipated open world sequel hasn’t even technically been formally announced yet, it’s not a bold prediction to say that it’ll be a while before the game launches. That, of course, means that concrete details on the game ...read more
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Oddworld: Soulstorm is Headed to the Nintendo Switch
Oddworld: Soulstorm launched for PlayStation and PC in early 2021, which was followed by an Xbox launch later in the year, but in spite of some decent critical reception, the game hasn’t exactly seen a great deal of commercial success. Now, however, developer Oddworld Inhabitants and publisher Microids have announced that the platformer is also finally headed to the Nintendo Switch, and surely, ...read more
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Microsoft’s Activision buyout could be approved by the FTC next month
Microsoft‘s ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard could be approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as soon as next month. The FTC asked Microsoft and Activision Blizzard for additional information in March as it continued to review their proposed acquisition deal. And according to paywalled merger news provider Dealreporter (via Seeking Alpha), Microsoft has now provided the ...read more
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EA is patenting a way to generate content based on play style
EA has filed a patent for a technique that generates in-game content based on how a player approaches a game. The patent application, titled ‘Persona Driven Dynamic Content Framework’, was originally published in April (as spotted by Op Attack) and was re-published this month (as spotted by Exputer). According to its description and supporting diagrams, the patent is for a system that ...read more
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Activision sets up a publishing page on Steam
Activision looks set for a big return to Steam. Over the past weekend, it was noted on Reddit(opens in new tab) that Activision now has a full publishing profile on Steam(opens in new tab). Currently, the publisher's Steam page is loaded with hits like Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and even lesser-known games (well, comparatively) like Prototype, Zork, and Vampire: The Masquerade. ...read more
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Half-Life players are planning to break a Steam world record
Half-Life 3 isn’t happening. I mean, it might be, but this is what I have to tell myself now in order to move on. At the same time, I continue taking solace in the vibrant Half-Life fan community, which keeps turning in amazing speedruns, and discoveries about the game’s AI and mechanics. And now, in honour of Valve’s iconic, 1998 FPS, the Half-Life fans are planning to take to Steam to ...read more
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