Carrying the torch the thematic violence, indie beat-'em-up Zheros joins the fray on January 16 on Xbox One. While some time remains for Xbox Live Gold subscribers to get in on the freebies, we're now given an early look at what the new year will bring.
Those of us getting a shiny new Xbox One on Friday can already add another four games to their collection. Once the game's promotional period expires the game will cease to be free and return to its former price.
Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through... The Deus Ex official twitter account announced today that Human Revolution was ready to roll as a backward compatible game. Both games' availability beyond the Xbox One ought to help Microsoft's promises of stronger PC gaming support actually come to pass.
As always, these games are only playable if you maintain an active Xbox Live Gold membership.
From December 16-31, Xbox 360 users can enjoy two games.
However, since Director's Cut of the game was a multi-disc title, it isn't available to play on Xbox One as of yet because of the system's limitation.
Do We Need PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2016?
It’s been two years since the PS4 and Xbox One launched, but the last-gen consoles are still around. With the start of the New Year, would you think it’s time for the Xbox 360 and PS3 to hang up their gloves? These two have been sparring for close to a decade now. Does it even matter who won the last-gen anyway? A lot of us who have now moved onto their superior siblings could care less, but the older consoles definitely do pack a punch today.
The thing with old technology, that one time was state-of-the-art, is that it becomes time-tested over the years. Lot of kinks are eventually fixed and the tech becomes all the more reliable and durable. You know the regular slim PS3 may just work better out of the box than the PS4 units that were released on launch. They had the Blue Light of Death, which meant your PS4 was defective and needed to go back to Sony. Xbox One had issues with its optical drive, so if you were one of the unlucky gamers, you would have gotten upset and then just went back to your last-gen console.
Those old machines have way more games than the PS4 and Xbox One can dream of having. Now, when we talk of the Xbox One, the backwards compatibility feature has allowed over 100 selected Xbox 360 titles to be playable at no cost. However, that’s just a fraction of the entire catalog. There are more titles on the Xbox 360 that are not backwards compatible, thus you would need the actual console to play the games. The Xbox 360 faced many growing pains, such as the "red ring of death," but withstood the trials and tribulations. It's still a robust and durable console today.
The PS3 is also a fantastic machine even today. It “only does everything” as the marketing taglines used to say “back in the day.” In truth, the PS3 plays games, DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs steams content from your PC and even stores music, videos, and photos. It’s a reliable piece of hardware now and we prefer the slim models over the later super-slim versions. There are so many awesome games on the PS3 going all the way back to 2006. One can still play "Heavenly Sword," which was one of the PS3’s earliest titles. "Grand Theft Auto 4," do you remember that? The title is still available only on the PS3 and Xbox 360. GTA V was also released on it first, along with the Xbox 360. The cherry on top with the PS3 is that you don't need a PlayStation Plus subscription to play online multiplayer, which is required on the PS4.
One can argue that the entire "Uncharted" series has been remastered on the PS4, as part of “The Nathan Drake Collection,” but why would you bother if you own a PS3 and still have the original games? To be honest, we wouldn’t because there’s something romantic about playing video games on the hardware it was first released on. It’s not fun playing the original Sonic games on any console other than the Genesis for example, no matter how many graphical upgrades they get.
When all is said and done, there will be a time to bid farewell to the PS3 and Xbox 360. It could be 2016 or beyond, but it’s inevitable. Sony and Microsoft can only support the respective console for so long, since the PS4 and Xbox One’s penetration rate is rising higher each year. It will feel a bit weird to live in a world where the PS3 and Xbox 360 don’t matter.
Xbox One VR Rumors Intensify as E3 2016 Site Adds Dedicated Category
The rumors surrounding the so-called Xbox One Scorpio, which will allegedly feature 4X power (in terms of teraflops) and integrated support for the Oculus Rift with a launch set for next year, are intensifying every day. A few hours ago, Ars Technica posted an exclusive story where they revealed that a developer confirmed to be developing a VR game for Xbox One.
This would be a “well-known European studio set in the universe of a long-running, established franchise”. To lend more credence to this rumor we now discovered, thanks to the scouts at Neogaf, that the official E3 website added a dedicated Virtual Reality category for Xbox One.
As of now, only four companies have been included in this list: Rebellion, Maximum Games, Readily Information Company and 3D Rudder. Of particular interest is Rebellion, since the VR Battlezone remake is one of their main upcoming titles; it’s officially announced for the Oculus Rift on PC and PlayStation VR, but if the Rift is truly coming to Xbox One Scorpio then Battlezone could be one of its launch titles. After all, the Oculus Rift comes bundled with an Xbox One controller…
We’ll keep you updated on any and all developments surrounding the Xbox One VR rumor. Stay tuned – E3 2016 is coming.
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