ADR1FT is a ‘first person experience’ game already out for PC and PS4, along with VR on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive; developed by Three One Zero and published by 505 Games, the game puts players in the shoes of an astronaut who is adrift in the wreckage of …
Read More »Indie Arcade Puzzle game ‘Pix the Cat’ is coming to Xbox next year
Pix the Cat is an arcade puzzle game developed by Pasta Games – a French indie studio – released in 2014 for the PS4 and PS Vita, and then 2015 for PC and Android, the game has received positive reviews since its release – both from the critics and the …
Read More »Online-only MOBA-like Gigantic quietly launched on the Windows Store
Gigantic is a MOBA-like free-to-play online-multiplayer-only game developed by Motiga – an indie studio; unfortunately for Motiga – game development is expensive, and Microsoft was willing to fund it for them. The Microsoft dollars don’t come for free, though – in exchange for Microsoft’s funds, the game had to become an …
Read More »Microsoft adds Dead Space Ignition and Escape Dead Island to Xbox One backward compatible titles
Microsoft announced the Xbox backward compatibility program for Xbox One in June last year; today it has more than 280 titles from the Xbox 360 era – all thanks to the 3rd party developers willing to extend their support. Yesterday, Major Nelson of the Xbox announced on Twitter that two …
Read More »Microsoft celebrates 15 years of Xbox with a few remarkable stats
It has been 15 years since the first Xbox was launched by none other than Bill Gates – now, the name Xbox represents a massive gaming community, with a lot of good and some of the bad. The Xbox was the first gaming console produced by Microsoft, released on November …
Read More »Mojang releases Minecraft “Exploration Update” for PC and Mac
Mojang announced “The Exploration Update” back at MINECON in September this year, and players have been able to see the progress up to this point with the Minecraft snapshot updates. Today, every vanilla Minecraft player will be able to experience the new update – Minecraft version 1.11 is now rolling …
Read More »Mojang announces The Ender Update for Minecraft Windows 10 and Pocket Edition
The lines of code a programmer writes are nothing more than logic – sometimes algorithms, sometimes a gate – but these logics build something beautiful and alive. It is hard to describe what it feels like to watch a project start with a single line of code and end up …
Read More »Blizzard is bringing Diablo 3 Seasons to Xbox One next year
Blizzard hosted its annual BlizzCon in Los Angeles this year, and made quite a few announcements – some might even be significant for humanity; on Day 2, Blizzard announced that Diablo 3 Seasons are coming to the Xbox One. If you are not aware of what Diablo 3 Seasons are …
Read More »Facebook announces Gameroom, a gaming platform for Windows
Facebook has announced a brand-new PC gaming platform, and it’s exactly how you would imagine it to be. Gameroom brings the infamous Facebook games to the PC – almost natively. Gameroom sits in a weird place – at least for now; it isn’t a Steam competitor (for reasons explained below), …
Read More »Microsoft is bringing Minecraft to Apple TV
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at the Apple event today that Microsoft will be bringing Minecraft to the Apple TV; Minecraft is already available on a dozen different platforms – though, with a few problems of its own. Cook revealed the news while talking about the success of Apple TV …
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