Zoo Tycoon impresses you immediately with its animals. The authentic and adorable behaviors they exhibit make Zoo Tycoon an endearing game that fosters an appreciation for the diversity of creatures with whom we share this planet. Unfortunately, Zoo Tycoon s interface makes the work of building and managing your zoo really feel like work, diminishing the pleasures to be had in creating a great place for people to observe and interact with the animal kingdom. You spend some of your time with Zoo Tycoon in what s called zoo view, controlling a zookeeper who can run about the zoo…

Improve your performance and fit Swap between a variety of metal thumbsticks and D-pads for personalised control and ergonomics. Discover configurations that can improve accuracy, speed, and reach with thumbsticks of different shapes and sizes. The Xbox Elite controller adapts to your hand size and play style. You’ll experience better control whether you play FPS, racing, fighting, or other genres. The new, faceted D-pad enables more confident combo execution, while the traditional D-pad provides precise control to change weapons or call in a strike

UPDATE (10 p.m. Pacific time): We were able to get a late co-op session and have updated the review text with our thoughts. The co-op’s smooth connectivity and improvements to the side objectives raise our score to 85/100 . Editor’s note: We were unable to play any of Dead Rising 3’s co-op campaign prior to the review embargo due to technical difficulties. We are attempting to resolve the issue with Microsoft, but this review and its score does not reflect co-op. Los Perdidos is bigger than anything Dead Rising has seen before. The

Microsoft wants to make the Xbox One your go-to platform for experiencing the 2014 World Cup, whether you re watching the matches or highlights from them, playing video game soccer or following real-life soccer stories. The company is tackling that mission with a multi-pronged effort presented in a new hub, Destination Brazil. Arriving June 12 on the Xbox One dashboard, just in time for kickoff, Destination Brazil will be led by an app called Brazil Now that augments the experience of watching World Cup games on TV

Xbox One games will require a one-time activation code to use, but you ll still be able to trade and sell them online, Microsoft tells Kotaku— although we re not 100% clear on the details. Speaking to us at the big event in Redmond today, Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison clarified a couple of details about the system s used game policy and explained that there will be a solution for people who want to trade games with their friends. Here s how the system works: when you buy an Xbox One game, you ll get a unique code that you enter when you install that game

Microsoft s newest video game console boasts a solid mix of exclusive and cross-platform titles that will thrill Xbox One players. These ten are the best. Sony PlayStation 4 may be this console generation s best-selling system, but Microsoft s Xbox One doesn t deserve to be overlooked. Seriously. The console has a number of cool and quirky exclusive and cross-platform titles that make it worth the $349 starting price. Yes, starting price. Xbox One is now available in several tiers and bundles, and you can purchase the console with or without Kinect. Considering that Microsoft…

Will it be two good Walking Dead games out of three? Overkill has announced that their co-op Walking Dead game will be current gen only, although they still haven’t released any screenshots. There have been two The Walking Dead games so far. One is Telltale Games’ award winning series of graphic adventures and the other is Activision’s abominably awful first person shooter. But now there’s a third, by Payday developer Overkill. The game was announced last year with the trailer below, but nothing has been heard of it since. But today Overkill has announced that the game is still…