Tag: xbox 360

  • Microsoft Shitcans Xbox Backwards Compatibility for Xbox One in Favor of Project Scarlett

    One of the problems with putting backwards compatibility in the hands of publishers and developers to pick and choose which games get brought forward is that they go out of business and can’t make a decision, make bad choices based on financial decisions, or in this case Microsoft has decided that they’ve done enough and…

  • Bruce Dawson’s Xbox 360 Prefetch Bug

    Bruce Dawson once worked for Microsoft where he found a bug in the Xbox 360 that he was reminded of by the Spectre and Meltdown exploits: A game developer who was using this function reported weird crashes – heap corruption crashes, but the heap structures in the memory dumps looked normal. After staring at the…

  • The Xbox One Plays Some Xbox Games Now

    Microsoft released a list of 13 original Xbox games that can run on the Xbox One through a disc or download today. Here’s the list: BLACK BloodRayne 2 Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge Dead to Rights Fuzion Frenzy Grabbed by the Ghoulies King of Fighters Neowave Ninja Gaiden Black Prince of Persia: The Sands of…

  • Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

    The four most interesting announcements at the Xbox E3 press conference were the Hololens demo with Minecraft, Microsoft’s new Early Access-esque program for the Xbox One called Game Preview, and Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. The fourth most interesting announcement was a lack of any Call of Duty exclusivity. That torch was passed to the Playstation…

  • Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Review

    There have already been two downloadable add-ons for the original Alan Wake. In Alan Wake’s American Nightmare you’ve got a standalone story mode and a half-dozen or so survival mode levels added to the mix as well. I wasn’t really sure what was in American Nightmare until coverage for the game started picking up prior…