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Details have emerged regarding the 12th title update for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, which has sold more than eight million copies since the release of the game …
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Youtube is littered with “unboxing” videos. More often than not, these videos are created by every day gamers who are looking to share knowledge with their fellow gamer. Every once in awhile, you will find something with some real high quality production value. Case in point, last Thursday, Microsoft decided to beat everyone to the punch and filmed their own unboxing video for the Xbox One.

Xbox Live’s Director of Programming, Major Nelson, is the host of this Microsoft production. In the video, he unveils the Xbox One Day One edition. Most of what is shown was already common knowledge for gamers, but there was one very pleasant surprise.

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The latest XBLA darling, State of Decay, received its third title update yesterday, across all servers and regions. Undead Labs, developers for this zombie-survival open world game, thinks they have addressed the freezing issues associated with a community bug. For most survivalists, this title update will not require gamers to restart their campaign. For those with large communities and whom are relatively early on in the game, then there is a chance that those gamers will have to restart their campaign. Hit the jump to see what the update contains.

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Mark of the Ninja will sneak back onto your Xbox with the release of its first piece of downloadable content on August 16. The Special Edition DLC will include …
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Microsoft announced today that a headset will now be included with the Xbox One. Due to the bundling of the Kinect sensor, Microsoft had previously stated that a headset was …
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Microsoft recently announced its new user driven policy policing program called Xbox Enforcement United. While Xbox Live members have always been able to moderate other users by avoiding them …
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The numbers are in for the month of July, and it seems as though Pacific Rim: The Video Game is one of the more popular new additions …
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XBLAFans stopped to chat with Sega Studios Australia’s Omar Woodley, producer on Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse during E3. We discovered that calling the new version of Castle of Illusion a “remake” or “rerelease” doesn’t do it justice. Unlike other modern ports of classic games, such as Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia Classic or Capcom’s soon-to-be-released Ducktales Remastered, Castle of Illusion was described to us by Woodley as “a full reimagining of the game.”

The biggest, most immediately noticeable change beyond updated graphics and sound (which includes a charming voiceover for Mickey during gameplay) is the addition of a hub world. In the original game, Mickey wandered the Castle of Illusion to introduce each new level. Here, the castle is envisioned along the lines of Super Mario 64, as a three-dimensional hub world by which all of the levels are accessed. It’s a fun change that makes the castle feel like an actual place, instead of merely a setpiece for the plot.

According to Woodley, Sega Studios Australia had lots of “creative freedom to redesign the levels… When we played the original and we tried translating that to the new 3D world, some of those levels weren’t as challenging as they were back in the day. They actually played out to be quite long in length to this contemporary feel so we had to compensate for that, and we also just wanted to challenge the player and keep that difficultly setting pretty high to what the classic was. So we added these various components and a few different puzzles and tricks here and there to keep the challenge intact.”

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At the Xbox One reveal event, one of the highlights that was touted about the new Xbox Live was a feature called Smart Match. Last week on Xbox Wire, …
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As summer is winding down, Microsoft is steadily releasing new info, almost on a daily basis, about some of the new features that are coming with the Xbox One. …
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