Monday is grim enough as it is, but imagine a Monday without the Gaming News Wrap? Unthinkable right?
Let’s start by wishing the Xbox 360 a happy 10th birthday. The console actually arrived on 22 November 2005 (but not in South Africa of course) with a pretty solid launch title list and the Red Ring of Death. Ah. The good old days.
Games
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Fallout 4
- Bloodborne
- Matchmaking, microtransactions and Street Fighter‘s comeback: Yoshi Ono on V
- “We screwed up,” says apologetic PayDay 2 developer
- New XCOM 2 screens show off wilderness environments
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 Free to Play classified in Australia
- Primal Carnage: Extinction releases in Europe next Tuesday on PS4
- Telltale confirms Games of Thrones season two
- 3D Realms’ Bombshell release date delayed until [29] January
- Gravity Rush Remastered release date falls forward one week
- Afro Samurai 2 pulled from sale as developer brands game a “failure”
- Criterion has “no plans” to bring Burnout Revenge to Xbox One backwards compatibility
Sales & Discounts
- Xbox One and Xbox 360 Black Friday sale live
- Steam Autumn and Winter sale 2015 dates reportedly revealed; lacking flash and daily sales
Consoles & Hardware
- Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PS4’s PlayStation 2 emulation
- Performance Analysis: PlayStation 2 emulation on PS4
Industry
- Take-Two: This Is Why Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Don’t Come Out Every Year
- Dark Souls 3 Interview: “It Wouldn’t Be Right to Continue Creating Souls”
- Xbox 360 turns 10: tales from composing Kameo
- Blizzard Caught In Legal Fight With Game Cheating Company
- Kudo Tsunoda moves from Xbox to Windows apps role
- Britsoft: An Oral History is comprehensive and fun
- EGX 2016 dates revealed
Videos
- PlayStation Plus | Where The Players Are
- Team17 in 2016
- What sets Overwatch apart from the rest?
- Mark Hamill on Star Citizen, Wing Commander and Star Wars
