XBOX COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xevross]

That fallout 4 bundle is good. Higher price point than last year though. Hard to see how they'll beat PS4 with those bundles

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

actually, it looks like the rare/gears/ori bundle is the best one.

[Legend]

Microsoft has acquired Havok from Intel - NeoGAF

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015...oin-microsoft/

Today, we are proud to announce that Microsoft has acquired Havok, the leading provider of 3D physics, from Intel.
 As we welcome Havok to the Microsoft family, we will continue to work with developers to create great gaming experiences, and continue to license Havok’s development tools to partners. We believe that Havok is a fantastic addition to Microsoft’s existing tools and platform components for developers, including DirectX 12, Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure.
 Havok is an amazing technology supplier in the games industry and the leading real-time physics creator. We saw an opportunity to acquire Havok to deliver great experiences for our fans. Throughout the company’s history, they’ve partnered with Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and many others to create more than 600 games including Halo, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Destiny, Dark Souls and The Elder Scrolls.
 Microsoft’s acquisition of Havok continues our tradition of empowering developers by providing them with the tools to unleash their creativity to the world.   We will continue to innovate for the benefit of development partners. Part of this innovation will include building the most complete cloud service, which we’ve just started to show through games like “Crackdown 3.”
 Havok shares Microsoft’s vision for empowering people to create worlds and experiences that have never been seen before, and we look forward to sharing more of this vision in the near future.

 

[Legend]

I liked the video, but LOLOOLOOLOLOLO at the 2 minute mark.

The lego game they're advertising is lego dimensions.

[Legend]

Tableau inks lease for new Kirkland office in Microsoft's Halo building - GeekWire

343i is moving. For the past 5 years they've been in the building Bungie was in, but in March they're moving in with Microsoft at Redmond.

[Raven]

Tableau inks lease for new Kirkland office in Microsoft's Halo building - GeekWire

343i is moving. For the past 5 years they've been in the building Bungie was in, but in March they're moving in with Microsoft at Redmond.

Wait... the developer of Microsoft's biggest franchise is losing its own studio location?

[Legend]

Wait... the developer of Microsoft's biggest franchise is losing its own studio location?

Too soon to know the details, but yeah it is weird. Plus they're moving right after Halo 5 releases. That's going to screw with DLC plans.

[kitler53]

Wait... the developer of Microsoft's biggest franchise is losing its own studio location?

if there is room in redmond then the move makes sense.  not point in paying taxes and electricity for more space than you need.  it's not a far move either so it won't likely affect personal either.

[Raven]

if there is room in redmond then the move makes sense.  not point in paying taxes and electricity for more space than you need.  it's not a far move either so it won't likely affect personal either.

That's one way of looking at it.

[Legend]

Rise of the Tomb Raider has Gone Gold - NeoGAF

Rise of the Tomb Raider has gone gold on Xbox One and Xbox 360, and is now ready to launch on November 10th.
 “We are pleased to confirm that gamers will be able to get their hands on Rise of the Tomb Raider very soon, when the game launches on November 10th,” said Darrell Gallagher, Head of Product Development and Western Studios. “The entire team challenged themselves to improve on the last game that millions of fans enjoyed so much, and we believe we have created a worthy sequel to Tomb Raider 2013. With the game development now complete we are excited to share this incredible next chapter in Lara’s journey as she continues her growth into the ultimate action adventure icon, and accepts her destiny to become the Tomb Raider.”
 With bigger, more deadly tombs, improved player choice in combat, an evolved survival ecosystem, and newly-unveiled LIVE experience, Rise of the Tomb Raider launches on November 10th (Americas & Asia), November 12th (Japan), and November 13th (EMEA) for the Xbox One & Xbox 360.

 

http://tombraider.tumblr.com/post/13...ld-rise-of-the
 Day One.
 

[kitler53]

Rise of the Tomb Raider has Gone Gold - NeoGAF
http://tombraider.tumblr.com/post/13...ld-rise-of-the
 Day One.
 

i can't wait,... more than a year.

[darkknightkryta]

What's the "newly-unveiled LIVE experience" they speak of?

[kitler53]

What's the "newly-unveiled LIVE experience" they speak of?

i think it's the one where they redid there interface to be a vertical variant of the ps4 interface.

[Raven]

   Xbox One Exec: New IPs And Bigger Games Expected In 2016, Halo 5 Will "Define A Generation" | N4G


Talk about fanboy hyperbole and stupidity...

"Honestly Halo 5 is shaping to be the best FPS shooter and will definitely be stand out from COD/Battlefront/R6 Seige."

It's shaping up to be another Halo with design decisions that have split the community (Halo fans, not Xbox fans) and lacking two features at launch that have been considered standard for several games now. Each one of those games listed stands out on its own. Call of Duty is not like Battlefront which is not like Rainbow Six.

The 2016 line up looks really good (Recore, Scalebound, QB, SOT...). I hope MS keeps investing in new AAA ips through out this gen also san't wait to play Halo 5. The campaign and warzone look very interesting.

I'd really like to know where Xbox fanboys get their information about Recore. Because last time I checked there hasn't been anything shown or anything said about the game to determine what it actually is, nevermind whether or not it will be great. Considering that Microsoft's first-party development efforts for Xbox One keep shrinking and leaning once again on the same old franchises, I wouldn't hold my breath.

XBOX is beginning to gain momentum and Halo 5 like Forza 6, no doubt will be one of the best in its genre. Day 1!

I feel like I hear that rhetoric at least three times a year from Xbox fanboys. Right before or during the holidays, right before or during the convention season, and then at least once at an odd time during the year. Usually preceding a hyped game or after some announcement that doesn't matter. They're just like doomsday prophets. They're not going to stop saying it until it finally comes true or they're dead. It doesn't matter to them how many times they're wrong.

In my honest opinion if they offer in 2016 the following

QuantumBreak
Scalebound
Recore
Crackdown 3
Forza Horzon 3
Gears of War 4
Halo Wars
Project Knoxville
Sea of Thieves

Add in

Cuphead
Tacoma
The Solus Project
ION
DayZ
Ashen
Superhot
So happy Few
Bloodstain

You add in
DLC support for Halo 5, Forza, TombRaider
Plus if Fable is released and Gigantic in 2016 instead of 2015

They are going to have an Epic year. Its going to be tuff for any competitor to top what MS has too offer. This is just my opinion.

One of THOSE fanboys. The kind that list off every game they can think of regardless. Why? To give you the impression that the Xbox One has a huge list of games and that they all "matter". If you did a side-by-side comparison for total number of upcoming games, it becomes clear where the numbers are. When you actually break down which games are likely to have any real impact, you realize the Xbox One list isn't getting any bigger from one year to the next and that they're dangerously close to running out of exclusives to get people to look forward to. I also like how at the end they put, "This is just my opinion". In other words, "You can't attack my bias now because I called it opinion".

the truth is the reason why playstion fans choose to over look xbox line up is simply because the xbox is the first real competition that playstation has had since 1994. the saturn 3do n64, atari jag etc couldnt stand up to playstation, the game cube and dreamcast couldnt stand up to ps2, the original xbox was a power house and could do stuff the ps2 couldnt, the xbox 360 even tho it had a huge failure rate managed to keep ps3 on its toes and sell just as many consoles and now xbox one the apparently weaker system of the 2 seems to keep on delivering quality games and services even after a shaky reveal bk in 2013.

This guy has to be the winner. I don't even need to go into why this is fanboy gold.

[Aura7541]

 Xbox One Exec: New IPs And Bigger Games Expected In 2016, Halo 5 Will "Define A Generation" | N4G

I guessed that the article was published by Gamingbolt and I was not disappointed.