Monthly Archives: September 2015
IGN’s UK Daily Deals: PES 2016 under £19
Destiny The Taken King is £36.85 at Simply Games.
The Xbox One is a Windows 10 Device
With the ongoing push from Microsoft to get Windows 10 into as many homes as possible, it turns out the Xbox One is considered an active Windows device.
Speaking at this year’s Citi Global Technology Conference (via DualShockers), chief marketing officer Chris Capossela explained the following:
“Success for us, we’ve said with Windows 10, in two years we want to have a billion Windows 10 active devices, connected to Windows 10, using Windows 10 on a regular basis,” says Capossela.
“That gives you a little bit of a sense that for us, of course we care about revenue, profit, share, but we also care about usage. Fundamentally, we have to be more focused on how many people are using our stuff every day, and how happy they are using our stuff. And if we get a lot of very happy people, then the revenue, the profit, the share, we think that will follow, we think lots of good things will happen.
Pokémon GO Coming to Smartphones
The Pokémon Company has today announced Pokémon GO, a new mobile game for Android and iOS devices developed by Niantic.
Pokémon GO, which will be available to download free on the App Store and Google Play in 2016, will see fans searching real-world locations to discover, trade, and battle Pokémon.
Players will be able to use a separate Bluetooth device for their phone that The Pokémon Company is dubbing a Pokémon GO Plus (which was developed and manufactured by Nintendo). This device will alert players to nearby events (such as Pokémon in the vicinity) with flashes and vibrations; players will be able to catch them with the press of a button.
The Pokémon GO Plus, pictured with strap.
Wonder Woman Standalone Movie Reportedly Set in the Past
The first standalone Wonder Woman movie may take the iconic superhero back in time.
Heroic Hollywood purports that inside sources are saying that the Wonder Woman standalone movie will be set in World War I, at least for the first half.
The rest of the film is rumoured to shift into modern times, but we do know that she won't have a Braveheart-esque origin story now that director Michelle MacLaren has left the project.
Win a Trip to Australia’s Bathurst 1000 by Playing Forza 6
Microsoft has today announced a new contest for Forza fans in the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia that will see 10 people secure a trip to the 2015 Bathurst 1000, the biggest event in Australian motorsport and one of the top touring car endurance races in the world.
To enter, players just need to complete the ‘Forza Drive to Win/Xbox One Bathurst Challenge’ rivals event in Forza Motorsport 6 by 11.59pm AEST on September 29, 2015 (that’s 6:55am PDT, 9:59am EDT, 2:59pm BST, and 2:59am NZDT on Wednesday, September 30). Players will be lapping the 2015 Xbox Racing #17 Ford Falcon FG X around Mount Panorama.
10 fans (two from the US, two from the UK, one from NZ, and five from Australia) will be drawn at random and receive a trip for themselves and a friend to the Bathurst 1000 weekend, which runs from October 11 to 15, 2015. The winners will also compete against one another at the event on Forza Motorsport 6 and the fastest player will score USD$5,000 and have their Gamertag printed on the real-life Xbox Racing Falcon (and featured on the actual track as well).
Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows Release Date Revealed
Shovel Knight’s free add-on Plague of Shadows will launch on September 17.
According to Yacht Club Game’s blog, all of the game’s platforms in all regions will receive the update. The only requirements for Plague of Shadows are to have completed the original game or a special code provided by the studio in case players switched platforms.
Plague of Shadows adds a new adventure mode, starring the potion throwing, double-jumping Plague Knight, and a Challenge Mode.
Shovel Knight originally launched on PC, Wii U, and 3DS as a digital download. The action-platformer is also available digitally on PlayStation 3, PS4, PS Vita, and Xbox One.
New The Leftovers: Season 2 Trailer and Poster
HBO has released the second trailer and a brand new poster for the sophomore season of The Leftovers, starring Justin Theroux and Carrie Coon, premiering Sunday, October 4th at 9pm.
The trailer shines a spotlight on some of the troubles Kevin (Theroux), Nora (Coon) and her brother Matt (Christopher Eccleston) face after moving to a small town in eastern Texas famous for having "0 Departures." Season 2 is a tale of two families: the Garveys, who have moved to this special place, and the Murphys, a local family, who seem to have been spared from an event that shook the rest of the world.
Pacific Rim Sequel Reportedly Delayed
Rumor has it that the sequel to Pacific Rim -- said to be titled Pacific Rim: Maelstrom -- may not be going ahead as soon as previously expected.
"Originally slated to shoot in Toronto in November of this year, we're now being told that the production for Pacific Rim: Maelstrom has been delayed until 2016--what month specifically, we don't know," according to Latino-Review.
"The reason for the delay is also unknown at this time, but there's a good chance this will negatively affect the release date, which is currently set for August 4, 2017."
Hands-On with the 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro
In addition to a pair of new iPhones, today Apple also announced the iPad Pro, the company's largest tablet yet. Packing a 12.9-inch display, the iPad Pro has been a subject of rumors and speculations for over a year, and starting November it'll finally be making its way into homes.
With a screen large enough to roughly fit two iPad Air screens, the iPad Pro is built to deliver as much content as possible, taking advantage of iOS 9's split-screen multitasking in the process. Fortunately, Apple did a great job at keeping its super-sized tablet as light and thin as possible. The device is not much thicker than the iPad Air 2 and, at just over 1.5 pounds, weighs about the same as the original iPad.
Unlocked: The ‘Xboy’ Handheld Was Almost Real
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We make an otherwise slow Xbox news week interesting by discussing notable 9/9 gaming birthdays, discuss former Xbox boss Robbie Bach's comments on how an 'Xboy' handheld almost came to exist, analyze what we learned about Destiny thanks to a court decision involving a former longtime Bungie employee, and give our ideas for what rides we think should be at Ubisoft's planned real-life theme park in Malaysia. And one lucky winner scores a copy of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain for Xbox One!