Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
Over the last couple of weeks two of Amazon's foreign websites have listed Mirror's Edge 2 for Microsoft's current and next-gen consoles, indicating that we might get an official reveal for the long-awaited sequel at E3 next month.
As promised, Nintendo has provided more details about their partnership with Best Buy to provide playable demos of unreleased Wii U games during the week of E3 (June 11-13, 2013). We still do not know which games will be playable at the demo stations, but we now have a complete list of when and where the Nintendo E3 2013 events will be taking place.
One of the many, many, issues that potential Xbox One customers have brought up since the next-gen console was revealed last week, is the fact that the new Kinect camera seems to have the ability to spy on how exactly how much Mountain Dew and Doritos we consume and report that information back to Microsoft's marketing department. In an attempt to ease privacy fears, Microsoft has issued one of their famous non-clarifying "clarification" statements, revealing that the Xbox One can be turned off... when the system is completely powered down.
With Microsoft's Xbox One all but confirmed to be a massive step forward for exciting innovations in DRM and a means for the company to basically take over the used game market, core gamers have started a campaign aimed at putting pressure on Sony to not make the same tragic mistake with the upcoming PlayStation 4.
Microsoft's Xbox One reveal last week did very little to impress consumers who tuned in to see the next-gen console's ability to play video games -- although, sports fans and anyone who likes to watch Jeopardy live were probably really excited. Unfortunately, all the details that have surfaced about the system since the debut have done little to reverse early opinions, including the news that the console is region locked and could have some extremely restrictive Kinect-based DRM.
Peter Molyneux's "social experiment" in how to monetize trolling, Curiosity - what's inside the cube, came to an end today as the final cubelet was smashed by a finger belonging to an unknown person in the UK.
Yesterday, after an unconfirmed report described the Xbox One's used game plans as a means for Microsoft to take complete control over every aspect of the pre-owned market (including killing consumers ability to conduct private sales, borrow, or even gift used games) the company issued a statement to "clarify" their position on the issue. Unfortunately, it did nothing of the sort, and left us with all the same unanswered questions.
Up to this point, the range of emotional reactions to Xbox One information has generally fell anywhere from "mind-numbing boredom" at the press conference, to "justified outrage" at Microsoft's unconfirmed used game plans. With the end of the debut week now upon us, it would be nice to cleanse the old palette with some good news about the next-gen console. Sadly, we don't have any to report, but you may get a good laugh out of the fact that Microsoft is looking into providing achievements for watching TV.
A new unconfirmed report has revealed that Microsoft's plan for used Xbox One games will result in a shockingly anti-consumer approach, that kills off all private transactions, leaving Microsoft and their retail chain in complete control over the next-generation console's pre-owned market.
Earlier today during a GameStop earnings call the video game retailer told investors that they are anticipating Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One to launch at lower price points than their respective current generation predecessors.