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…it’s being made by Obsidian, the studio that almost 16 years ago brought us Fallout: New Vegas.

 

Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the new Fallout game is guaranteed to be good.  But a lot of people put great store in Obsidian.  New Vegas is widely considered to be the best Fallout game produced yet and the onus is going to be on the studio to deliver.  They know this.  I have faith in them.

And I say that as someone who has still not finished playing New Vegas.  It’s sort of become a curse in my life: I cannot continue that game without something happening to throw me so far off course that by the time I get back to it, I’ve forgotten where I was and how I got there.  The last time I played it I had just come to New Vegas itself ...

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Here’s the Xbox One…

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There is no backward compatibility: you can’t play anything from your already-existing library of Xbox 360 games on it.  You can’t play your original Xbox games on it either.  Ditto for any games from Xbox Live Arcade.  It has no power button (it stays on all the time) and it needs an Internet connection to really function optimally.  It has a hard drive, but it’s non-removable.  To play your games you must install from the disc.  If there is no more room on the hard drive you’ll have to wipe some games off (then re-install if you want to play them again later on).  It won’t work at all without the Kinect sensor (something which unless you have ample enough space, could be a problem).  Once you play a new game it’s tied into that Xbox One unit and you can’t easily take it anywhere ...

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Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the release of Halo: Combat Evolved. Arguably the most influential video game of the past decade, the first installment of the Halo series drew in millions of loyal players with its combination of breathtaking beauty, tactical ability and mythology on a vast scale.

Fittingly, tomorrow will herald the arrival of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary in stores. It’s the original game with remastered graphics for the high-def Xbox 360 (and you can even switch between the look of the 2001 Xbox game and compare it to the shiny new veneer). But one clever dude named Ed Fries has decided to go really old-school in the classiest way possible: adapting Halo: Combat Evolved as an Atari 2600 game! Yes it’s true: Halo 2600 lets you guide Master Chief along on the surface of Halo in his fight against Grunts, Elites and other forces of ...

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