Xbox One gets BBC iPlayer BBC just released their iPlayer app on the Xbox One, over a year after it’s initial release on PS4. The application will allow you to stream all it’s content in HD and supports Kinect voice commands. To access content, just like Fox GO and Xfinity, you must have a subscription. In this case, a compatible Sky package. BBC has also announced it is extending how long you have to download TV shows to watch offline. Now it is one month...
Hello again internet residents! I’ve conquered my first two weeks of this experiment. As I write this I am struck with the same thought that plagued me when I started. “You’re not completely giving up gaming, since you can play once a week. This seems like cheating. This doesn’t seem hard enough.” Well shut up negative me because this is in fact harder than you thought. Addiction. That’s how I would describe my relationship with gaming. I...
Feels like yesterday that many of you readers and myself included were all excited about Sony’s foray into the console business. It was way back on December 3rd 1994, 20 years to the day, that the PlayStation made its historic debut. Sony had everyone trading in their game cartridges and picking up their new disc based games. However, discs were not the only thing that changed in Sony’s iteration of game console. The console introduced dual analog sticks and...
…Nintendo has been unable to create a new product that surpasses what they did 13 years ago. Like many of you, we here at LevelSave were chomping at the bits to try out the next iteration in the Super Smash Brothers series. Finally having had some time with the game I noticed something quite peculiar about how important the controls are to the game, specifically the GameCube controller. Preordering the Super Smash Brothers for Wii U bundle that came with...
The undisputed king of twin stick shooters is back for another round. I have great memories of playing the original Geometry Wars on my Xbox 360. What I love about it is how simple it is to play and how much fun it can be compete against the high scores of friends. I was very excited to learn the series has come back for a third round, this time on both current gen and last gen systems. The third Geometry Wars game from Lucid Games, a studio containing much of the staff who...
Hello! My name is Chris Lock and you’re joining me for a personal experiment. I am going to give up games (mostly) for an entire year, just to see what happens. But first a little background as to why I am doing this. A few years ago I started writing for LevelSave, just for fun. The site grew and shrank, as sites do, but kept chugging along all the same. Because of my work I was able to do some stuff I hadn’t thought possible. Namely to interview developers, get...
According to the 343 Industries Community Blog, Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s big content update is rolling out to Xbox One owners today. Originally slated for a November 19th release, the update went live today. The developers stated if you have not yet receive the update you will be getting it “shortly”. The update hopes to address many of the issues that plagued the launch of the much anticipated re-release of the Halo franchise on Xbox One, but...
As with most rogue-likes, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is very tough. From endless assaults of enemies to a single bad room that can take you down to 0 hearts from a full tank of them, there are many situations that will frustrate even the most seasoned players of the genre. Having experienced countless of these scenarios in the past week I decided I would hand out a couple of tips comprised of valuable information I have learned in my time exploring the disturbing world of...
Praise the Halo gods, Halo: The Master Chief Collection has finally been graced into our Xbox One systems. Oh wait, what’s that? You’ve been waiting 5 minutes to get into a Halo 2 classic playlist? It seems that 343 Industries is having trouble establishing matchmaking connections server side, and addressed this head on November 11th. Since the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, we’ve received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow...
As with most rogue-like video games, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is very tough. From endless assaults of enemies to a single bad room that can take you down to 0 hearts from a full tank of them, there are many situations that will frustrate even the most seasoned players of the genre. Having experienced countless of these scenarios in the past week I decided I would hand out a couple of tips comprised of valuable information I have learned in my time exploring the...
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