Free Game of Choice with Xbox One

If you're still on the fence about getting an Xbox One, now's your chance.

From September 7th through the 13th, buying a new Xbox One will net you a free game. What can you choose from? Any disc-based game! As long as it's not a pre-order.

Xbox One Updates: ReddX and More

Back in June, Xbox announced that 45+ new experiences were coming to the Xbox One. This week, Xbox has announcedand released – the latest experience: ReddX, the reddit app. Director of Programming Larry Hryb (Major Nelson, of course!) tells us more:

Gamescom 2014: Xbox Main Event

Hey everyone, and welcome to Gamescom 2014!

Gamescom's first live event (1 of 3) is from Xbox. We'll be covering it live, keeping this page fresh. Open the stream and keep refreshing this page!

When: 8:00AM Eastern / 5:00AM Pacific — Watch on Twitch.tv!
All Events: Xbox, PlayStation, EA


E3 2014 - ZAM Full Coverage Recap

E3 2014 was an exciting week and today we're wrapping up the event by putting links to all of our coverage in one place. We hope you enjoyed the glorious week-long gaming information dump as much as we did!

E3 2014 - Xbox Full Trailer Wrap-Up

Want to make sure you didn't miss a thing from E3?
This trailer recap, with release date and details, has you covered!
You can also check out our live coverage as it happened. 

 

Xbox Media Briefing - Full Rebroadcast [2h02m]
Truly starts at 30:35

E3 2014 - Xbox Media Briefing (Live Updates!)

Welcome to E3 coverage here on ZAM!

Today’s first media briefing (1 of 4) is from Xbox for 1.5 hours. We’ll be covering every detail, constantly keeping this page up-to-date. Keep a close eye and keep refreshing!

When: 12:30PM-2:00PM Eastern / 9:30AM-11:00AM Pacific — Watch on Twitch.tv!
All Events: Xbox, EA, Ubisoft, Playstation, Nintendo


Forza Horizon 2 Announced

Fans of Forza and open-world racing, take note: Forza Horizon 2 is coming. The original Horizon, a well-received spin-off, has received a sequel coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360.

"Forza Horizon 2 will take place in southern Europe and feature hundreds of cars,..."

Xbox One: Kinect-less for $399

We all knew this day was coming, didn’t we?

Microsoft has announced that, starting June 9th, you can grab a Kinect-less Xbox One for $399 – a $100 price drop from the bundled version. This is on the heels of their announcement that streaming apps like Netflix, YouTube, and ESPN will no longer require an Xbox Live Gold account.

Surface Mounted MMOs

Many of us are drawn to MMOs because of the persistent world they create. Log in and our characters are there, ready to explore, quest, raid or anything else we choose. But even though these worlds are always online and open for play, our access to them isn’t. We’re either tethered to a desktop or locked to a laptop with all our games and settings, always in range of a broadband connection or Wi-Fi signal.

The theory was that tablets would change all that. With a high resolution screen and buckets of battery life, this could finally be the high powered laptop that would get us into MMOs, whenever and wherever we chose. Unfortunately, it’s not been the case. Aside from some tablet-only titles and specialist screen-casting software, playing MMOs on our iPads has remained lackluster.

Enter the Microsoft Surface. With Windows 8 out of the box and packing a meaty processor, it feels like these would be ideal for cranking up an MMO on the move. With that in mind, we’ve taken a closer look at the latest from Redmond, in order to discover if it can truly offer mobile MMO nirvana.