In an interview with IGN, Microsoft’s Xbox One chief product officer Marc Whitten has contended that it wasn’t necessarily that DRM was bad, but rather the company’s messaging. He also insisted that they need to talk more about the console and its features, not less, as many gamers would like them to. Read More »
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has reckoned that the main reason Microsoft wanted to implement Xbox One DRM was to prevent piracy, however the Redmond, Washington company “totally screwed it up”. Read More »
Amazon has revealed that 2,500 people were preordering PS4 and Xbox One units per minute last week, a new record for the mega online retailer. Read More »
Legendary games developer Warren Spector has shared his thoughts on the used games debacle, aligning himself with gamers, noting that the reason why people buy used games is because the new ones are too expensive. He also said that the used games market is the conduit through which newcomers join the medium who otherwise wouldn’t look twice because of the ... Read More »
Microsoft’s Xbox Support twitter account has confirmed that if a user’s Xbox One Live account gets banned, said user loses all their games associated with the account. Read More »
If Xbox One were to become a successful games console, the most popular videogames retailer in the business, GameStop, would lose half of the sales its accustomed to, and would be in danger of eventually shutting its doors. If the PS4 becomes successful – even more than the PS3 has been in the U.S., then it’d be business as usual ... Read More »
There’s something that we never really notice about us humans, and it’s that we’re extremely patient. No, it’s true, we are! We are patient with governments who, for decades and sometimes even centuries, abuse human rights, steal from their people and rule with iron fists. Just look around the world and you’ll see what I’m talking about. We often times ... Read More »
Microsoft, in a myriad of posts today, tried its best to explain Xbox One’s DRM features, and how it will affect you, the gamer. The posts include explanations for how long the Xbox One can play games offline before shutting down (24hrs), a scheme to allow users to share their games amongst family members – and most importantly, the Xbox ... Read More »
TV, TV, TV, TV! More TV! We Love TV! You should, too! That was the tone of Microsoft’s Xbox One reveal, an event that was supposed to be focused on the gamer, but sadly was not. What ensued was a backlash never seen in gaming for quite sometime, and it’s a problem Microsoft has promised to fix at its E3 ... Read More »
Microsoft’s Xbox Live director of programming Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb jumped in the comments section of a post on his blog to address Xbox One’s DRM issue, after someone brought to his attention the #PS4NoDRM and #PS4UsedGames campaigns that’s exploded on twitter in recent days. Hyrb said that they are “fully aware” of the situation and are currently working on a few ... Read More »
How did you like Microsoft’s Xbox One reveal? Didn’t like the whole DRM fiasco that’s still brewing, right? Well, Microsoft believes you’ll buy the console anyway. Read More »
What’s trending in the games industry presently is the war between the consumers and publishers, and the idea of used games being blocked from working in its traditional way on upcoming consoles. Read More »
You’ve mostly heard my opinion on Xbox One, so now it’s time to hear what you guys think about the console and, if you had a chance, how you’d change it. Read More »
A new patent filed by Microsoft makes known the unthinkable: Kinect can actually scan a room to detect how many people are watching a movie (or playing games), and charge the account holder for the extra viewers, indicating that content you purchase someday might be limited to a certain amount of people to consume. Read More »
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