Topic: The everything Xbox thread

Has anyone taken the dip into Screamride?

If so, impressions?

@SCAR392 - So in other words, you compared Street Fighter and KI, because you had nothing else to compare it to? That's okay then. Though, You could just say "it's a 2D fighter and I don't care for those", and your point might've been more clear...

Kind of. I would say KI and SF are more similar to each other than the other games, though, just as MK would be to Injustice(especially since these 2 were specifically supposed to be similar). The only other games we can really compare are Samarai Showdown, which is SUPPOSED to be a SF alternative, Guilty Gear X, and that one game with the 20's cartoon style, but I haven't played those, really. Otherwise, all we have left is Naruto, Dragonball Bodakai, UFC, plus Fight Night, and I don't really think we need to go that far.

Smash Bros, MK, Injustice, and Capcom VS. are 2D fighters I will play, with SF and KI excluded for the most part(I do still play KI occasionally). I haven't really played the other ones.

The Microsoft Studios website got a major facelift and has plinks to all of their studios as well as Job listings.
http://www.microsoftstudios.com/studios

So as of Now the Microsoft Studios branches studios and braches are


What's weird is Team Dakota isn't on the list even though they're expanding spark and hiring for a second project. Platform next is also missing even though we know they're working on games for Hololens. Also Decsisive Games which was given a shout out by Phil Spencer only the day after GDC isn't there either.

To go down the list this is the function of most of the studios.

343 Industries - (Halo, currently working on Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Spartan Strike)
Black Tusk Studios - (working on untitled Gears of War sequel)
Mojang - (Minecraft, Scrolls)
Turn 10 - ( Fozra, currently working on Forza Motorsport 6)
BigPark ( working on the NFL services for Xbox One, may have a hand in the rumored Joe Montana game).
[FUN]CTION Studios - (They're working on content for Xbox on Hololens)
Good Science (They mostly worked on Kinect and have switched over to Hololens development it seems)
ID@Xbox - The team that Indie developers go through to get games onto the Xbox and Windows 10 store.
Lift London - (they were combined with Soho productions so they oversee the Upload stuff and they're making games for consoles and mobile. The concept art makes it look like a Point and Click adventure game.)
Lionhead Studios - (Fable Legends is coming out in the June-September timeframe and they're working on a New IP which is rumored to be a single player Sci-fi RPG)
LXP - (Another Hololens studio and they're the developer behind the 3D space shooter demo shown in January.)
Microsoft Casual Games - (They make games for Windows 10 like minesweeper, solitare, pinball etc. )
Microsoft Studios Global Publishing - (They're the team behind getting exclusives and making deal with second and third party developers.)
Press Play - (They released Kalmiba in December, they're working on a new Max game and a new IP.
Rare - (Rumored to be working on Banjo and Battletoads , and a New IP to be shown off at E3.
State of the Art - (Another Hololens dev and they're making the Mars surface making app along with NASA.)
Twisted Pixel - (Working on a New IP that's going to be a mid tier game it seems)
Xbox Fitness - (the team behind the xbox fitness program)
Team Dakota - (Project Spark the conker pack and single player content is out next month)
Decisive Games - (They're hiring page said they were working on a RTS so either the Age series, Halo Wars, or the Rise of series).
Platform Next - (Hololens as well it seems)

Microsoft just started the Halo 5 campaign marketing yesterday.
http://news.xbox.com/2015/03/games-halo-5-guardians-bullet-tr...

Building on Halo’s expansive universe and rich tradition of storytelling, Xbox and 343 Industries also launched “Hunt the Truth” – an episodic narrative audio series, now available on the Hunt the Truth Tumblr. The series stars Keegan-Michael Key (“Key and Peele”) as Benjamin Giraud, a war-journalist who slowly unearths startling new revelations about who the Master Chief really is, forcing listeners to reevaluate what they really know about humanity’s greatest hero. Episodes will be released each week via Tumblr and syndicated across multiple podcast platforms for 12 weeks, leading up to E3 in June 2015.

Next week on the Walking Dead's season finale were going to get a single player trailer for Halo 5: Guardians.

The Fast and the furious game came out last week and is free until April 11th.

Here's the April Games for Gold

Xbox One
Pool Nation FX - All month long
Child of Light - All month long
Gears of War Judgment - April 1-15
Terrira - April 1-15
Assassins' Creed IV: Black Flag - April 16-30
Army of Two: devil's cartel - April 16-30

If all goes well, my game may be coming to Xbox One! Rejoice!

Fixed, also nice to see double the free games for 360.

I need to check the expiry date of my current XBL membership as I think it's in May. Although Wii U and 3DS take up all my time that I used to play on 360, the current situation about Zelda being delayed and only 2015 titles at E3 worries me so having a load of free 360 games would help.

So apparently Ziggurat (a really awesome FPS with randomly generated maps) is on Xbox One, and now Gigantic is coming exclusively to Xbox One and Windows 10. That's neat.

Yet another (UK) price drop for the Xbox One:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/13/xbox-one-price-cut-to-299-99-in...

£429 > £399 - removes Kinect - £349 > £329 > £299

Never before has a console seen so many price drops in less than a year and a half!

At this rate, the Xbox One will be available for £249 (or less) by years end.

I'm going to wait until Christmas time before I 'jump in'.

So backwards compatibility is confirmed! While that's great, it publisher dependent. That kind of kills some hype for me since each game is at the mercy of it's publisher saying yes or no to putting it up on the Xbone.

You can vote for what you want added next though! The page for voting is here and it has a pretty extensive list:
https://xbox.uservoice.com/forums/298503-backwards-compatibility

And HERE is the page for Scott Pilgrim. Please vote for Scott Pilgrim. I know it's unlikely since it's not even on the XBLA arcade and PSN shop anymore, but FVII is getting remade. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN NOW! ...So yeah go cast that vote.

https://xbox.uservoice.com/forums/298503-backwards-compatibil...

Voted for all the ones I cared about. All 6 of them.

Need some Lost Odyessy and Blue Dragon love.

Just out of curiosity, do you need a Gold account to watch Netflix on 360?

Last I checked, yes.

Just looked it up online, and apparently they dropped Gold requirement for most streaming services (including Netflix) last summer on both 360 & One last summer

I knew they had done it for YouTube, but I wasn't sure about Netflix, so this is fantastic! Now I'll be able to watch Netflix in HD without any hassle!

Is there any news on what Scalebound will actually play like? Judging from the quick CGi video at last year's E3 it looks like it might be like Platinum's take on Monster Hunter.

So I'm upgrading to One soon and I've got some questions. Have no idea how Microsoft's Live stuff works since I never use online. I get that to carry over my accounts I just sign into them on the One, but what do I do with them on the 360? Do I leave them there and the store you trade it in to do a factory reset or am I supposed to do something?

Can I now use PayPal to buy games on Xbox One? Is the Xbox Live Rewards program worth signing up for it? And this one may not be related to the One, but do the 360 controllers also work for PC games on a Mac?

Not going to lie, I'm leaning to a PS4 but this seems like a pretty good deal.
1TB Xbox One + Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bundle + $50.00 promo code + free game for $399.99.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/1TB-Xbox-...