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Superhot is out today for the Xbox One. £17.99 though! I thought it would be cheaper than that...

I may have to think twice before buying it anyway because that's what I do.

How did this thread drop off the first page? Hmm..

Anyway, Raiden 5 is out today. I don't know how much it is yet but it's pretty much a given that I'll buy it.

£39.99! Fuck that!

Lol

I've just noticed that Octodad Deadliest Catch is only £6 on the Xbox One this week. For that price, I think I may buy it. It looks like it could be quite amusing.

Dadliest Catch. But yeah, it's hilarious.

I always read it as Deadliest catch... Dadliest makes much more sense. Ace. I shall buy it this very evening then!

Something that came out of E3 is the Design Labs for the Xbox controller. You can basically design your own controller using the website and also get some laser etching on it too. There's tons of colours to choose from so you should be able to have what you want.

It's US only at the moment but due to come to the UK later in the year.

Sounds exciting.

https://xboxdesignlab.xbox.com/

There was an update to the Xbox One dashboard the other day. It added some cosmetic changes with the biggest being the way that your game collection is now ordered. Your games are now presented in a vertical list of at least 5 across rather than a horizontal list. This seems to work quite well with larger game collections and makes sense.

They’ve also integrated Cortana into the Xbox One. Before this update, you could activate the voice commands (as long as you have Kinect) by simply saying “Xbox…” and then your command. Now, you have to say “Hey Cortana….” Followed by your command. The voice commands are quite useful and I find myself using them quite a lot. I can turn the console on, change the volume of my surround sound, launch games, invite people to parties and take a screenshot/recording without touching a button.

The integration of Cortana is welcome but it does seem more of a faff than before. Now Cortanta will answer back. For instance, before I could say “Xbox… record that” and a little notification would appear saying “Gameclip recorded”. Now I can say “Hey Cortanta, record that” and Cortana loads up in the top right hand corner, takes a millisecond to decode what you’ve said, then responds by saying “I’ve recorded that for you” and THEN the little notification appears saying “gameclip recorded”.

One bad point from it is that when I recorded a clip of a backwards compatible game (Cod Blops) the frame rate dropped dramatically while Cortana did her thing. The game recording wasn’t effected but it did interrupt the flow of the game quite a lot.

I’ll have to see how it works out over time and I guess the improvements easily outweigh the minor niggles. Cortana is (in my eyes) amazing and having the ability to talk to my Xbox one is a welcome addition… especially when she can sing songs to me.

You're right that the interface is more ordered (is it me or does it seem slightly slower transitioning between screens?).

I have been getting into the GTA Stunt racing, which has transformed the GTA Races into Trackmania...and I'm finding it better than Trackmania, it also means there is online content that doesn't seem to necessitate being part of a crew.

I would contend that if you could turn the console on by talking to it then it's actually on all the time

The GTA stunt races are indeed great

You are spot on. It's on all the time. This is very useful when it comes to downloading patches as it does them all in the background so they're ready for when the console gets used.

Yes! I thought this too.

Sounds like it's going like the 360.starts with a decent interface, gradually gets slower and more bloaty until it ends up being a fetid pile of shit.

Wrong...

The Xbox One never started with a decent interface.

If anything it's going the opposite of the 360. It just keeps getting better. (Not that it's hard to make something so crap even a little better)

I seem to have been invited to early access to the BF1 Multiplayer (currently downloading)...has anyone else?

It's an open beta on PS4.

While we're here, Castle of Illusion has just been added to backwards compatibility BUT it looks like Disney will be delisting the game from the beginning of September so if you have an Xbox One and an urge to play Castle of Illusion on it, buy it now.

It's an open beta on the Xbox One too. Perhaps Morte had an early access invite which he didn't mention?

I have the superior Game Gear version.

Nope...just got an email from EA with an activation code in it...now I see it's all over the XBone interface.

...It seems to play more like a Star Wars Battlefront game than a Battlefield Game, far too twitchy and manic...and for all the hoo ha about 64 players it seems to be on a much smaller scale than previous BF games.

Nesbox has just been certified to appear on the Xbox One apparently. This is an emulator that will play NES, SNES and Megadrive ROMS from a USB stick.

According to the developer, once an app gets certified then it'll take 1-2 days to appear on the Xbox Store.

I imagine it'll take Microsoft even less time to pull the plug completely branding this a complete non story.

No way is that going to happen. Nintendo would throw a shit fit.

No surprises here but Microsoft have told Nesbox to fuck off.

An unexpected plot twist! Rather than release the emulator as an app, the developer has released it to work in the Edge browser of the Xbox one. It's an early release so far but it works fine as far as I can see.

This is Donkey Kong Jnr, on the NES, running in NESBox, in Microsoft Edge, on the Xbox One.

And here's Turtles in Time on the SNES.

Holy shit, good work, dev.

Apparently he knocked it up in a couple of days. That's pretty good going in my books.

He's asking for donations on Twitter at the moment as he's made a note that thousands of people had looked at his site but only 2 people have donated as of yesterday. It seems to be picking up a bit now which may spur him onto improving it but overall, it's pretty damn clever.

I'm wondering how Microsoft would go about blocking it? I guess they could block the page through Edge or since the site relies on your ROMs being in Onedrive, block access to that somehow? It'll be interesting to see how it pans out.

Gosh, the ads and things, what busy screens

Octobers games for gold

Super Mega Baseball – Steam 9/10 IGN 81./10 Google play 5/5
The Escapists – Steam 9/10
MX vs ATV – Steam 9/10
I am alive – Metacritic 69% IGN 4.5/10 Gamespot 8/10

I don't mind the occasional baseball game and this one looks alright. I'm not particularly bothered about the other 3 though.

SMB is excellent.

Forza Horizon 3 looks ace!

Super Mario brothers?
Super meat boy?
Super mega baseball?
Stupid mouth breathers?
Serial mosh begun?
Smoo men mosh?

Socialist Menage Butty

Sexy manly buttsex

Stupid Mouth Breathers. Featuring a thin posh man and a northerner with a massive bonce

Sounds a little bit like Men Behaving Badly

I see COD5 is now on backward compatibility

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016- ... patibility

Does anyone know if they have fixed the cheating problem with it - i know the last time on the 360 i tried cod4 and cod5 they were both unplayable online due to hackers

CEX have already jacked up the price.

Well yes - someone there went to business school, I guess. They've also jacked up the price they'll pay for it.

Probably on the PS4 as well but Duke Nukem 3D: 20th anniversary world your is out today. Amongst other things it promises an ALL-NEW episode created by the original game designers and new voice acting from the original voice of Duke.

£15.99 to you sir.

No longer £39.99 but merely a tenner for gold users. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

Yoink. Cheers for the heads up.

That's me never getting to the top of the leaderboard then....

Seriously though, no problem!

I had a quick go on Raiden V last night. The gameplay seems pretty spot on but OH GOD THE TALKING.

There's text and spoken dialogue everywhere like it's been ripped from House of The Dead and spewed out into the game (during stages as well - non just inbetween stages) and it congratulates you every time you do just about anything because they needed something to do in the massive vertical borders.

I am hoping that is just restricted to Story Mode (?!) which was the only one I have tried so far.

At first I thought "what the hell?!?" but I quickly got over that and actually enjoyed the muttering in the background. It does seem very disjointed to what I'm actually doing though so it's like having a film on while playing a game.

The Games with Gold for November have been announced.

There's been a new update to the Xbox one which includes 'rare' achievements that play a different sound when unlocked and also, the ability to start a club. This is so you can link up with like minded individuals and play together.

I've started a Club Beex so don't all jump at once to join it. If you can't find it, post your gamer tag and I'll invite you.