Xbox Wire and the Forza Motorsport website have announced the release of the Top Gear Car Pack for Forza Horizon 2 on Xbox One. The Car Pack adds five new cars to the game – including the 2015 Lexus RC F.
Sony has sold EverQuest and H1Z1 developer Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) to investment management firm Columbus Nova, where it has been rebranded as Daybreak Game Company.
As Daybreak, the newly independent studio intends to develop games for Xbox One and other platforms, in addition to PlayStation and Windows. Daybreak’s games from its time as SOE will willremain with it in its new home.
343 Industries announced at the weekend that the next Content Update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection is still not ready, as it requires “additional time and testing” due to containing the “biggest changes to the Matchmaking system yet”.
The Content Update will make “fundamental” changes to matchmaking search time, match search success, and lobby / party functionality, plus will address other issues including title-specific hit registration and matchmaking ranking.
Life is Strange is an episodic adventure by Dontnod Entertainment, who made their debut with “Remember Me”. Forming a possible tradition for the studio, Life is Strange tries to blend arthouse presentation with storytelling about subjects not normally explored in today’s gaming landscape.
As Max Caulfield, an 18 year old photography student from Oregon, you explore the life of an awkward kid uncomfortable within her own skin around the social pressures of high school. Shuffling through the typical school day, Max bears witness to a traumatic event that exposes that she has the power to rewind time. With this ability, she tries to alter events to make life a bit better for those around her.
One genre that has been dormant for too long is the arcade water-based racing game. Classics like Hydro Thunder and Wave Race brought great action and the unpredictable nature of the ocean that added a much needed dose of variety to racing games. Vector Unit (who made Hydro Thunder Hurricane on Xbox 360) want to bring that feeling to Xbox One with Riptide GP 2 but it isn’t the smoothest of rides.
Taking control of your first hydro jet, you race through a dozen tracks against the AI as you earn rating stars, cash and XP to upgrade your ride as well as buy new ones. There’s also standard elimination, freestyle and time trial challenges which helps keep the flow of the game’s progression modestly entertaining but there’s nothing original or interesting to hook you.
The crowdsourced multiplayer action game has come to Xbox One via ID@Xbox, and is described on the Xbox One Store as a “chaotic 8-player eSport jumping future arena ball game”.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, and The LEGO Group announced today that 2015 will see the release of new LEGO videogames based on the Jurassic Park and Marvel’s Avengers franchises.
LEGO Jurassic World will cover the storylines from Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, and the upcoming Jurassic World. It is due for release in June for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, Wii U, 3DS, and Windows PC.
LEGO Marvel’s Avengers will feature characters and storylines from The Avengers and its upcoming sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. It will be released in “Fall 2015″ for the same platforms as LEGO Jurassic World.
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