Sunday Sit-down: What a Difference the Xbox One Price Makes

Sunday Sit-down: What a Difference the Xbox One Price MakesPrice tags are a funny thing; they can ruin your day or change your entire outlook on life and success. A price tag with a number you can actually afford to pay without being destitute is a beautiful thing. A price tag with a number too high will force you into existential questions like, “Why am I working?” and “Who thought that was affordable.” The price tag of Microsoft’s Xbox One console has straddled both extremes this year. That’s sort of amazing.

Sunday Sit-down: What a Difference the Xbox One Price Makes

Album Drop: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’

Album Drop: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’The neo-soul movement late last century inspired a generation. Music is a river that flows and changes direction all the time. It zips past and absorbs the sediment along the different landscapes it passes. What we call popular music today has the high-hat of break-neck pop music and the vocal styling of T-Pain’s auto-tune heyday. That’s not bad; but it’s easy to find someone tired of the big bass drops. D’Angelo’s Black Messiah is an album for this old and new guard alike.

Album Drop: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’

Microsoft: ‘Halo 3: ODST’ and free Xbox Live for ‘Master Chief Collection’ players

Microsoft: ‘Halo 3: ODST’ and free Xbox Live for ‘Master Chief Collection’ playersAre you one of the thousands of Xbox One fans who picked up Halo: The Master Chief Collection hoping to relive your Halo multiplayer golden days. It's no secret that doing that wasn't exactly easy with the amount of issues the game had a launch, and to apologize 343 Industries is giving users free memberships to Xbox Live, another Halo 2 multiplayer map and Halo 3: ODST.

Microsoft: ‘Halo 3: ODST’ and free Xbox Live for ‘Master Chief Collection’ players

Celebrate with ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ and the Festive Surprise update

Celebrate with ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ and the Festive Surprise updateDeveloper Rockstar Games is doing again with the themed updates. After releasing mountains of new weapons, and a hipster themed update taking inspiration from Los Angeles County dwellers, the video game studio has announced the Festive Surprise, a free holiday-themed update for the GTA Online multiplayer included with every copy of Grand Theft Auto 5.

Celebrate with ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ and the Festive Surprise update

Tomorrow on Xbox Live: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ beta goes live if you’re lucky

Tomorrow on Xbox Live: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ beta goes live if you’re luckyIt looks like Microsoft is sneaking in one more group of testers before it unleashes the Halo 5: Guardians beta on the rest of the video game buying public later this month. Messages sent out to Xbox One owners who have a console in the Xbox Preview Program indicate they'll get to play the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta tomorrow.

Tomorrow on Xbox Live: ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ beta goes live if you’re lucky

Assassin’s Creed Unity Review

Assassin’s Creed Unity ReviewThere are some game developers who pray that their games are controversial. There’s a certain kind of gravitas that comes along with being the title everyone is talking about and falling over each other to cover. With as much as it costs to produce a game these days, you don’t want to be on the front page of websites and news magazines; you need to be on the front page of websites and news magazines. That is, unless you’re getting the type of press Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Unity is.

Assassin’s Creed Unity Review