Tag: xbox
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Xbox E3 2017 Briefing Notes
Every E3 has an Xbox press event, this year Microsoft is leading it off with a brief history of different resolutions that their hardware has supported. Or at least it has upscaled games to that. If you’re new to my writing, I’ll note here that I worked for Microsoft over a decade ago on the…
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Hot Wheels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-K_M4i2Bbs The Hot Wheels expansion looks like fun and is out for Forza Horizon 3. It’s absolutely ridiculous that the game’s expansion pass that includes Hot Wheels and the earlier Blizzard Mountain expansion aren’t bundled in any edition of Forza Horizon 3, even the one-hundred dollar Ultimate Edition.
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Xbox Scorpio Tech Details
Eurogamer’s Richard Leadbetter has technical details of Microsoft’s goofy Project Scorpio. Unless Microsoft adds or changes something significant about the functionality of the console before it is launched, it just means a more expensive and more technically powerful Xbox console: Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six-teraflop target set for it as E3 last year,…
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Xbox Game Pass Announced
Microsoft recently announced their Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Most people are comparing it to a Netflix for games, it’s not a bad comparison excepting that while Netflix streams, the games with Microsoft’s service will download to an Xbox One. The selection of games available will be pretty small, “over 100” when the service becomes…
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Xbox One S: The Upgrade Nobody Should Buy
Daniel Perez hasn’t given a final verdict yet, but has a review in-progress of the new Xbox One S that is out today: When the original Xbox One was revealed, there was quite the uproar as to its size and design. Microsoft didn’t change the overall shape of the Xbox One S, but what it did change makes…