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…

Share This article All of the notable third-party video games are coming out on just about every platform this holiday season. Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Watch Dogs, and Battlefield are all coming out on the current crop of consoles, but they’ll also see separate releases on the PS4 and Xbox One. That leaves us with a burning question: Do we play these games at launch, or wait for the next-gen release? Turns out, we can do both. To help ease the transition, these four titles can easily be upgraded from the PS3 to the PS4 version for a nominal fee. The situation for Xbox…