Austin Griffith

The Halo Wars 2 Open Beta is now available for download on the Xbox One store.

Phil Spencer took the stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference to announce a new Xbox One, the Xbox One Project Scorpio. “Xbox has always meant innovation and the latest technology” “This is the console the developers have asked us to build” Featuring six teraflops of power – roughly ten times as powerful as the Xbox One, the ability to power 4K resolution and virtual reality, and four cores.

Rare just dropped a new Sea of Thieves trailer along with a new gameplay presentation, our first from the title. The gameplay looked like a lot of fun. Players were thrown in with no tutorial and left at their own. What we saw was players learning how to raise the anchors and lower the sails, setting sail to a far away island, and then having to maroon one of their own as they made their ship battle ready for the approaching attackers.

Tekken 7 will be coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 in early 2017, featuring an all new story mode that blends seamlessly with the fights of the game. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will also be free to download this week for Xbox Live Gold members. The game features an online pass, it’s unclear if that will be free or not as well.

Microsoft has just announced some monumental cross play abilities for Minecraft. Minecraft Realms allows players on iPhone, iPad, Windows 10, Android, and Xbox One to play with each other in the same worlds. Xbox will allow users from any platform to host a realm on their own dedicated servers and share them to your friends.  

We’ve just ben given our first look at Gears of War 4’s campaign, let’s break down what we’ve just seen. The first thing is the weather: sandstorms are playing a major roll in this piece of the games story, so it’s not unlikely we’ll be seeing other dynamic pieces of weather. The swarm are definitely some sort of descendant of the locusts, Cait called the second wave that we saw ‘Drones’. A few pieces of environment were able...