Microsoft Gaming News

BandFuse: Rock Legends, the newest music game to interact with real instruments, is headed to Xbox 360...

Combining fast-paced first-person shooting with a Diablo-like loot system and the deep character customization of a role-playing game, Gearbox's Borderlands was a surprisingly sophisticated modernization of Doom-era kill-everything-you-see mayhem, and one of 2009's most memorable titles. It got even...

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Today, publisher Atlus announced plans to bring Persona 4 Arena to the United States. Previously titled Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, this 2D fighter was teased last week by Atlus. Persona 4 Arena features characters from both Persona 3 and Persona 4 -- popular Japanese role-playing games with an eccentric sense of style and even wilder narrative themes...

If you're tired of killing aliens, zombies and/or Russian terrorists, then Binary Domain just might be for you. In SEGA's futuristic squad shooter you won't actually fire a shot at a single living thing, just waves upon waves of mechanical maniacs hell-bent on instigating the extinction of you and y...

Sledgehammer Games today launched the latest content drop for Call of Duty Elite Premium subscribers. The drop is composed of one new map, Overwatch, a combat zone set atop a New York City skyscraper...

Young Justice -- a cartoon series following the exploits of teenage DC Comics superheroes such as Superboy, Robin and Kid Flash -- has been burning up Cartoon Network for a while, and now, it's getting a video game. Young Justice: Legacy will be available in "early 2013" for the PlayStation 3, Xbox ...

Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) has confirmed that new Assassin's Creed Revelations DLC will hit the Xbox Live Marketplace next week...

This morning 2K Games announced that Spec Ops: The Line comes to stores in North America on June 26th and internationally on June 29th...

On the current Xbox 360 Dashboard, "games" is the fourth tab to the right. It's not quite hidden, but it's buried in the middle of everything else. At this point in the console's life, Microsoft isn't concerned with games as much as broader entertainment. Rightfully so: More of us are using Xbox Liv...

On the current Xbox 360 Dashboard, "games" is the fourth tab to the right. It's not quite hidden, but it's buried in the middle of everything else. At this point in the console's life, Microsoft isn't concerned with games as much as broader entertainment. Rightfully so: More of us are using Xbox Liv...

Recreating a classic game in a new genre runs an overwhelming risk of failure. Not only must the product satiate fans of the original experience, the new game also needs to stand on its own with successful design choices and innovation. Oftentimes the redo reflects the exact standards and formulas o...

"People think being a game director is the best job in the world," says High Moon Studios' Matt Tieger. "Truth is, it's the worst." The man in charge of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron says the hardest part of his job is having to make sacrifices. He knew change would inevitably upset somebody, but achieving the team's new vision for the franchise meant letting go of aspects it loved...

Poor AI is the thorn in the paw of single-player aficionados the world over, but Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is looking to snuff it out. For good...

Okay. I'll admit it. While I was excited about the prospect of a crossover between two of the most beloved fighting game franchises in the genre's history, I started to think about it a bit more logically after that initial excitement wore off. How could this possibly work? Tekken characters are sup...

Epic Games has announced Forces of Nature, the last Gears of War 3 map add-on, for release this March. The downloadable content pack features five maps, new weapons for Horde mode, and additional character skins for use in multiplayer...

Amazon may have outed the existence of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2...

Asura's Wrath is not like any game you will ever have played before. This is, self-evidently, an excellent thing and a rare one, if you've been playing games for a long time. It is an attempt at a new kind of interactive entertainment, one much closer to living, breathing anime than traditional act...

Street Fighter's Ryu will appear in DLC for Asura's Wrath...