Microsoft has continued to roll out its new Xbox 360 emulation layer for the Xbox One, with support for another 16 games dropping today as an early Christmas present. The new titles contains some significant hits and a few duds, but it’s a solid expansion of the existing library.*We’ve added average Metacritic scores for each title. The list is as follows: Braid (93) Deus Ex: ...
As VR headsets like the Oculus Rift tip-toe towards launch day, we’re starting to hear more about the types of VR content you’ll actually be able to buy. Last week, CCP Games and Oculus jointly announced that the new headset would ship with a copy of Eve: Valkyrie. Now, Crytek has announced its own VR title: The Climb. As the name implies, the point of The Climb is to climb mountains. ...
Oculus and CCP Games, the developers of Eve: Valkyrie, announced that all Rift preorders would ship with a free copy of the game. This is going to go over extremely well with virtually anyone who has played the game’s demo in VR, because Valkyrie is frickin’ amazing. As I discussed last summer, playing Eve: Valkyrie is immersive in a way I’ve never experienced in any space combat ...
In spite of underpowered hardware and a pile of poor early decisions, the current executive team at Microsoft has done a commendable job turning the Xbox One into a respectable platform. With exclusives like Forza Motorsport 6, Halo 5: Guardians, and Rise of the Tomb Raider, this has been an inarguably strong year for Redmond. And since we’re regularly seeing new bundles dip below the $300 mark, there ...
Fallout 4 has been widely lauded in the gaming press as a stunning achievement, but performance issues and stuttering have negatively affected the title on all three platforms. The situation was particularly bad on the Xbox One, but the PS4 still struggled to maintain smooth frame rates as well. On the PC, the situation was even more erratic. The Nvidia GTX 980 Ti I’ve used ...