Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One DRM

This could be the biggest backtrack in gaming history: Microsoft will reverse course on their DRM policies for Xbox One, dropping their 24-hour Internet check-in requirement and all restrictions on used games.


People Flip The Hell Out When The NCAA Football Demo Doesn’t Show Up

Today, one of the year’s most hotly anticipated video game releases was delayed with no word when it will come out. Frustrated gamers are spewed anger over social media, some even vowing to cancel their preorders. This afternoon after a whole nine hours, the world finally got the NCAA Football 14 Demo.


A New Camera Angle Steals The Scene In NCAA Football’s Running Game

The biggest breakthrough for your running game in NCAA Football may not be smarter line blocking, the return of a speed burst or the introduction of real-time physics. It may be as simple as a new camera angle, available today in the game’s demo. You should see it. You should play with it.


Xbox One’s Awful DRM Drowned Out Some Really Cool Games

If you were in Los Angeles last week, and you happened to stumble into a bar or a restaurant, and you saw a group of people in business-casual atire and/or flannel, you probably overheard something like “Wow, Sony sure won E3.” This, of course, is preposterous. Nobody wins E3. You just survive it.


So, The Games Of E3 2013. When Are They Coming Out Again?

This year, E3 had so many games. So many. But watching demos and reading impressions is one thing; we want to play these games. Sadly, a lot of them won’t be coming out just yet.


NCAA Football 14 Demo Offers Three Matchups For A New College Try

NCAA Football 14 offers three different matchups — Alabama vs Virginia Tech, Oregon vs Texas Tech and the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry — when the game’s demo arrives on Xbox Live and Playstation Network tomorrow.


The Xbox One Believers

I came to E3 this year in search of good news about the Xbox One. By week’s end, I found a few men able to tell me some. I’d heard the bad things about the Xbox One — the inability to lend games discs to friends, the requirement for the console to check in online every 24 hours in order to play even a singleplayer game.


Have Some World Of Tanks With Your 360

World of Tanks is coming free-to-play to Xbox 360 later this winter. If you want to get in on the beta preceding it, developer Wargaming.net is taking applications right now.


Microsoft: We Won’t Render Your Xbox One Games Unplayable Long-Term

The very first question in this r/games interview with Xbox Live director of programming Major Nelson elicits an encouraging answer, one that Microsoft should be trumpeting, not whispering.


DuckTales Has Changed. Here’s How

For many, DuckTales is a beloved game — and I imagine that the mere idea of messing with it isn’t an appealing one. But after a chat at E3 with Matt Bozon, creative director at WayForward, and Austin Ivansmith, director, it seems that many of the changes in the remastered version of DuckTales are things that fans can look forward to.


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