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These Four Xbox One Backwards-Compatible Games Coming Today
For the second time this week, Microsoft is adding more Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility catalog. The new additions for today, June 9, include XCOM: Enemy Within, Foul Play, Monopoly Plus, and Sega Bass Fishing.As usual, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb announced these on Twitter.Earlier this week, Microsoft added Aqua, Anomaly Warzone Earth, and Lazy Raiders to the ba...[Read More]
Doom’s Lackluster Multiplayer Adding Custom Games, Bots, and More
After having an external developer work on Doom's multiplayer prior to launch, id Software is now taking the reins on that side of the project, with plans to introduce a number of absent features."We worked with Certain Affinity through the launch of the game and really appreciate their contributions and effort on the game," director Marty Stratton told Eurogamer. With the game now out, the team a...[Read More]
Injustice 2 Announced for 2017
DC fans rejoice! After tweets and leaks teasing the presence of Injustice 2, Warner Bros finally announced the game, arriving to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017. The game is the sequel to NetherRealm Studios’ Injustice: Gods Among Us, released in 2013. It’s meant to continue the storyline of the original while expanding the roster of superheroes and supervillains. Batman and his crew are lookin...[Read More]
Rumors of Skyrim Remaster, Wolfenstein 2 for Bethesda at E3
The E3 2016 rumor mill is at full churn, and now Bethesda will take a turn at it. The publisher is at the center of rumors concerning the games they will debut during their conference on June 12th. Eurogamer has pooled information from multiple sources that seem to back up the rumors. First among the rumors is that Bethesda will announce a remastered version of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Sources...[Read More]
Blizzard Will “Keep an Eye” on Overwatch Cross-Play
A response to a tweet on the Overwatch account has opened up some hope that Overwatch cross-play between the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be possible: “There is no cross-platform play. We’ll keep an eye on cross-platform possibilities on the consoles.” While the tweet does not confirm that Blizzard is working on console cross-play, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Microsoft recently an...[Read More]
Upcoming Xbox One updates adding Cortana and Marketplace Unification
This summer, the Xbox One will receive two updates that will add Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant to the console and start unifying the Xbox and Windows Stores. Mike Ybarra, Xbox’s director of program management, wrote on Major Nelson’s blog to explain how Cortana would work. He said that voice commands will work with both headsets and Kinect and can be used to find games, search for friends, a...[Read More]
Talking Overwatch With ChanManV
This episode we had the Host of Overwatchers And the OverView Podcasts ChanManV stop by.We talked about the new exciting First Person Shooter Overwatch, From Blizzard. We had a blast with this game and we go in depth about the characters and of course the porn parody’s. Check it out. http://traffic.libsyn.com/digitalcrack/chanman_overwatch_mixdown.mp3
Rocket League Rolls Out Xbox One Cross-Platform Play
On May 24th at 6PM EDT, Rocket League players on Xbox One and PC will be able to play together via cross-play. This will add about 2 million potential players to the pool of players on PC, although still to be determined is whether cross-platform parties will be supported. “With this new addition, players can now easily include (or not include) cross-network rivals in both public and private match...[Read More]
Microsoft Kills Off Project Spark
Microsoft and Team Dakota have announced that they are shutting down Project Spark, the game-creation tool for Xbox One and Windows. Project Spark allowed amateur game developers create just about whatever they wanted and let them share and play the homemade creations with the community. It is no longer available for download from the Xbox Store or Windows Store as of May 13th. Team Dakota communi...[Read More]
Coming Soon: Modern Warfare Trilogy?
For those of you still raging against Activision for bundling Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered with the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, there is good news and bad news. Whoops, I take it back, it’s just bad news. Best Buy is listing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Trilogy for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 for $30. No remasters, no special features, not even all of the DLC for the t...[Read More]
Battlefield 1 : Back to its Roots, and BOY Does it Look Good
Thank God this is not going to be another futuristic soldier game! Over the last 6 years, a new trend has been going on that has infuriated me to my core. Being someone that was in love with the Call of Duty franchise, my soul has been crushed over and over again the last couple of years. I first fell in love with military-style First Person Shooters in 2002, when Battlefield 1942 came out. I inst...[Read More]
Overwatch vs Battleborn Comparing The New Hero Shooters Of This Generation
A new of set of heroes is set to arrive in a couple of weeks and join the recently released the MOBA hybrid Battleborn. During the last couple of weeks, a few Digital Crack crew members and I had a chance to jump in and try out both open betas. These games are often compared and referred to as the new heroes shooters of this generation. While they both may seem similar, there actually are quite di...[Read More]