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A new update for Xbox OS went live April 19 for Xbox Update Preview users, and it will soon add two small but important features to your favorite Xbox console. The update adds a new audio feature and makes a helpful addition to Quick Resume. First, the update will add audio passthrough to the console, meaning that audio will "pass through" the console with minimal effect. While the specifics ...read more
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The Caves & Cliffs update for Minecraft may have been split in half, with the world generation piece getting delayed until the holidays, but that hasn’t stopped fans from imagining different ways for its landscape to change. One Minecraft YouTuber has mocked up a trailer for a concept called ‘The River Update,’ which imagines a re-engineering of Minecraft hydrology that adds in creeks, ...read more
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Apex Legends has been going on for a few years now, and has definitely found its niche. The game is now entering its ninth season, one that is leaning hard into its origins of a Titanfall offshoot. Much like many other games in the genre, it’s also found its way to many different platforms, and now it’ll be jumping into another. There has been talks about a mobile version of Apex Legends ...read more
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Marvel’s Avengers just can’t catch a break. On top of a middling-to-poor critical reception and poor sales, Marvel’s Avengers has also lost its director. Shaun Escayg, who wrote and directed the game, confirmed that he has left Crystal Dynamics and rejoined Naughty Dog today. At Naughty Dog, Escayg worked as a cinematic director for The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. He was the director for ...read more
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Halo 3 might have preceded Halo's own horde mode, Firefight. But a new mod for The Master Chief Collection has given the trilogy-closer its own survival gametype—one inspired by the series' oldest rival. Released over the weekend by modder Crisp, Halo 3: Zombies brings the slow, terrifying death march of Call Of Duty's Zombies mode into Halo's opening jungle map. Undead Nazis have been ...read more
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While we’ll have to wait until the end of the event to see what happens to Verdansk and Warzone as players know it, the most obvious implications of the crossed-out map locations is that they’ll all be renamed and possibly reworked entirely whenever everything’s all said and done. This outcome has been one of the theories players have held since the event was being teased with players ...read more
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One of the coolest things about Microsoft’s focus on backwards compatibility is that older backwards compatible games often run better than they did on their original hardware through things like enhanced resolutions and better performance. The big new thing is FPS Boost, which natively doubles and in some cases quadruples the frame rates of the original games. There haven’t been any ...read more
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Today marks the 16-year anniversary of Double Fine Productions' beloved platformer Psychonauts. And while the game's sequel which is still in development won't end up sharing this birthday with its predecessor, Double Fine has taken some time today to give a brief update on the upcoming title's status. As shared over on Twitter, Double Fine reiterated that Psychonauts 2 is still very much ...read more
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The PS5 will still be able to play some disc-based games when its internal clock dies, but digital purchases will be inaccessible. According to a study by game preservation team Does it Play, the PS5 won’t suffer as badly as older Sony consoles when its internal battery dies. In testing it was found that a PS5 with its internal battery disabled could still play a variety of PS4 discs in ...read more
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Call of Duty 2021 will be split into two releases for both console generations, according to a known leaker. In a recent tweet, Battlefield and Call of Duty leaker Tom Henderson claims that the unannounced Call of Duty 2021 will be split into two versions: one releasing on PS4 and Xbox One, and the other releasing for PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. However, Henderson doesn't specify ...read more
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