This Week in Xbox One News: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Gears of War banning drama, Del Toro laments Silent Hills and more! (May 17 2022)

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And then without further ado, here'south our latest edition of This Week in Xbox I News.

Starting on a positive note, Assassin's Creed Syndicate looks pretty cool

I hate to admit information technology, only playing Assassinator's Creed in industrial revolution era London sounds pretty crawly to this Brit. I notwithstanding have reservations about the annualization of the serial, only Ubisoft seem receptive to criticisms of Assassin's Creed Unity. Syndicate also marks the finish of Ubisoft's support for the Xbox 360 and PS3, the studio volition henceforth focus but on new gen consoles.

Y'all play every bit twins Evie and Jacob Fyre, as you wrestle with Victorian London's criminal underworld for command.
You tin switch betwixt both characters in open earth play, certain story missions require that you play one or the other.
There is no multiplayer style, every bit Ubisoft want to take the series 'back to its roots'.
You lot tin drive horse and carriages, as well every bit parkour on them whilst moving, and hibernate inside them.
New toys like the grappling hook allow Jason and Evie to traverse the city more easily than previous protagonists.
Victorian era weapons laws mean combat is more than shut quarters, using smaller weapons that tin be concealed.
The game is 30% larger than Assassinator'southward Creed Unity.

Assassin'south Creed Syndicate will exist available on October 30th 2022 for Xbox One and PS4.

Did Microsoft brick Gears of War Beta testers' Xbox Ones? (Spoilers: No)

Some of the larger publications ran stories that those who leaked footage from the practically confirmed Gears of War: Ultimate Edition had suffered their Xbox Ones becoming completely bricked, owing to a leaked memo proclaiming merely that. The letter, reportedly sent to the leakers, states that they have violated their NDA agreements and Xbox Live terms and conditions, and that their Xbox Ones would now be unusable.

Alert spread throughout the community, leading to accusations that the Xbox team included hardware kill-switches into our Xbox One consoles. The whole sad thing forced Microsoft to make an official argument, which reads to the reverse:

To be articulate, if a panel is suspended from Xbox Live for a violation of the Terms of Use, it tin can still exist used offline. Microsoft enforcement action does non consequence in a panel becoming unusable. Suspensions for both consoles and accounts are determined by looking at a number of factors. To avoid enforcement action including suspension from the service, users should follow the Xbox Alive Terms of Utilize and Code of Behave.

I find it difficult to experience sorry for the Gears of War: Ultimate Edition leakers, what do you guys retrieve?

Xbox One triumphant in the April sales race, according to NPD

Despite the late-March availability of the PS4 exclusive Bloodborne, the Xbox One managed to sally victorious in the United states Apr console race, according to the NPD United states of america marketing research bureau.

...As the best-selling console in the U.S. in April, fans set up record Apr sales and engagement for Xbox One last month. Xbox I console sales in the U.South. increased 63 percentage in April 2022 compared to April 2022 and Xbox Alive comparisons showed the number of agile global users grew 24 percent. Nosotros are grateful to our fans for their passion and support and are looking forward to sharing more on the best game lineup in Xbox history at E3...

It'southward looking improbable that Sony will have any exclusives titles to compete with the likes of Halo 5, Forza 6 and who knows what else Microsoft have lined up for this holiday season. With the absenteeism of difficult cumulative Xbox One sales figures for the U.s. it's hard to judge just how far Microsoft take to get to catch upwards to the Playstation iv, which has enjoyed a hefty lead so far.

Del Toro mulls the death of Silent Hills as Konami shift to a mobile focus

Speaking with IGN, Silent Hills co-creator Guillermo Del Toro spoke of his thwarting at the hands of Konami and the firms handling of the counterfoil.

...Honestly that'due south what surprised me. Information technology was a sort of scorched globe approach. Information technology was not a gentle and ambiguous counterfoil. Hideo and I have been in touch and he knows he would be the only guy I would follow to the ends of the world on anything. I retrieve if annihilation can be rescued, I will be more happy...

Guillermo'southward comments finer confirm the rumours that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima volition dissever from Konami following the completion of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Hurting.

Perhaps there's a chance Guillermo's comments combined with the fan outcry could rescue Silent Hills? Perhaps not.

Konami's new CEO Hideki Hayakawa was recently quoted describing mobile gaming as 'the future', whilst praising some of the terrible whale-chasing pay-to-win mobile games the studio has put out in recent years.

...Gaming has spread to a number of platforms, just at the end of the twenty-four hour period, the platform that is always closest to us, is mobile. Mobile is where the future of gaming lies...

So yeah, your next Metal Gear, Silent Hill and Castlevania games could be free to play, pay to win lucifer-3 Farmville clones, as illustrated by the attached image (by sorrows-chains). Balance in peace Silent Colina.

ICYMI - Some of Windows Central'southward biggest Xbox manufactures of the week

Microsoft is giving away a copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Collectors Edition
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition volition revamp the PC RPG for the Xbox One
ID@Xbox Spotlight: Spectra fix to jump from WP8 to Xbox One, condign a universal app
Xbox I beats PlayStation 4 in U.s.a. console hardware sales for April 2022
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege will breach and clear the Xbox One on Oct xiii
Microsoft's plans for E3 2022 include giving 500 people access to Xbox FanFest
Footage reportedly from Gears of State of war: Ultimate Edition for Xbox 1 emerges

New Xbox Ane game releases for the week ending May 3rd, 2022

Nero - Open World Run a risk - Storm in a Teacup

"NERO is a get-go person adventure game based on puzzle solving and exploration. NERO is a wonderful journey in a magic earth where a child is the central to all locks and the nights aren't as frightening as y'all remember."

Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark - Platformer - Italic Pig and Team17

"Schrödinger's Cat is a fun, frantic, wacky and colourful puzzle-laden platform game, prepare in a unique and quirky quantum physics world. There's chaos at the Particle Zoo!"

Lifeless Planet - Open World Take a chance - Stage 2 Studios

"While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abased Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly miracle..."

Project CARS - Racer - Slightly Mad Studios

"Guided, tested, and approved past a passionate community of racing fans and existent-life drivers, Project CARS represents the side by side-generation of racing simulation equally the ultimate combination of fan desire and developer expertise"

And that's a wrap!

E3 is just a calendar month abroad from hit us with a deluge of new game announcements, details and trailers, I'm struggling to go along up with my backlog equally is. The Witcher iii will probably take me from now until then to finish, if I'm lucky. What games take you guys been playing this week?

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CDPR 'looking into' improving Cyberpunk 2077's performance on Xbox Series S

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CDPR 'looking into' improving Cyberpunk 2077's functioning on Xbox Series S

The massive current-gen update for Cyberpunk 2077 was just released, greatly improving the game'due south visuals, performance, and features on newer consoles. Still, many have lamented the Xbox Series S is limited to 30 FPS. CD Projekt RED has confirmed it'due south investigating raising the cap.