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Last week, Undead Labs announced the second expansion to its zombie apocalypse simulation surprise hit, and recipient of XBLA Fans’ GotY 2013 award, State of Decay. The new DLC …
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Effective February 28th, the price of an Xbox One in the UK will permanently drop to £399.99. Xbox Uk’s Marketing director, Harvey Eagle, said that this cut was about …
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Microsoft has announced that over 200 developers are working on titles for the Xbox One via its ID@Xbox initiative and has released the names of 65 of these developers that are joining the 32 developers they already announced back in December.

Some of the highlights in the list include The Behemoth, developers of the extremely popular Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater; Playdead, the developers of eerie XBLA title LIMBO; Ska Studios, the team behind the beautifully violent games Charlie Murder and The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile; Warhorse Studios, the developers behind the highly successful Kickstarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance; and Zoë Mode, the developers of Powerstar Golf.

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It’s been a while since the premiere of Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2 in December, but the wait for more will be over very soon. The second episode of the …
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Originally announced back at E3, Microsoft generated a lot of excitement when it announced that Twitch streaming would be coming to Xbox One. However, just days before the system …
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Microsoft is gearing up for Titanfall’s release on March 11 with a mandatory system update that will fix the much maligned party system. In preparation for the update, Microsoft has released an official preview of some of the features coming in the system update:

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Today, Ubisoft released a new gameplay trailer for their highly anticipated Trials Fusion from developer RedLynx. The “Ride On” gameplay trailer details the stunningly gorgeous new vistas you’ll power …
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Puzzle platformer Constant C will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade on March 12 for $9.99, according to an update on the game’s official Japanese website. Regular XBLA Fans reader …
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Takedown: Red Sabre was developed by Serellan Studios and published by 505 Games. It was released February 22, 2014 on Xbox Live Arcade for $14.99. A copy was provided for review purposes.

One of the unfortunate side effects of having so many triple-A, blockbusting first person shooters over the past few years has been the rapid and almost complete decline in a once popular sub-genre; that of the tactical shooter. The last, best examples of those kind of games on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console was probably Rainbow Six: Vegas and its excellent (albeit a little too similar) sequel. In answer to the subgenre’s disappearance, Serellan Studios set out to fill the void with Takedown: Red Sabre, a game that promises the same rock hard difficulty and tactical scope as past tactical shooters in the mould of the Rainbow Six and Delta Force series and the older Ghost Recon games. The question is, has this emergent studio done enough to impress the kind of die hard fans who occupy this space?

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Telltale Games haS created some of the most beloved Arcade titles on Xbox 360 in The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, so there is no shortage of excitement when the studio announces a new game. Among the various titles recently announced by the developer was one based on a beloved retail gaming franchise called Borderlands. Borderlands’ wacky humor and interesting characters, ranging from the singing Claptrap to busty Mad Moxxi to potty-mouthed Tiny Tina, allows for a tantalizing palate of character-driven stories rife for Telltale Games to draw from.

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