Here’s a handy pie chart comparing the exclusive titles split by console from www.EXPLOSIVEALAN.com

Greeting Space Cadets, lets take at the Next-Gen games line up. But first lets take a look at this handy pie chart from Explosive Alan Productions as you can see the Xbox One has a much more rounded verity of game genres and more exclusives. Additionally I’m very please to say I have pre-ordered my Xbox One Day One Edition.
Now let’s take a look at the games. This list was generated from 4 poorly organised poorly maintained list on IGN of Xbox One Games, PS4 Games, there launch titles, and only includes Confirmed games. After compiling these in Excel I made a quick algorithm to compare the four lists and highlight what platform had which games and which are exclusive and Day One launch titles. Later in the weeks I will be picking out what games I am looking forward to the most.

GAME	Xbox One	PS4
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag	YES	YES
Battlefield 4	Day One	Day One
Below	Exclusive
Blacklight: Retribution		Exclusive
Call of Duty: Ghosts	Day One	Day One
Crimson Dragon	Exclusive
D4	Exclusive
Daylight		Exclusive
DC Universe Online		Day One Exclusive
Dead Rising 3	Day One Exclusive
Deep Down		Exclusive
Destiny	YES	YES
Diablo III		Exclusive
Dont Starve		Exclusive
Dragon Age Inquisition	YES	YES
DriveClub		Day One Exclusive
Dying Light	YES	YES
EA Sports UFC	YES	YES
Elder Scrolls Online	YES	YES
Fantasia: Music Evolved	Exclusive
FIFA Soccer 14	Day One	Day One
Final Fantasy (PS4)		Exclusive
Final Fantasy XIV		Exclusive
Final Fantasy XV	YES	YES
Forza Motorsport 5	Day One Exclusive
Galak-Z		Exclusive
Halo for Xbox One	Exclusive
Infamous: Second Son		Exclusive
Just Dance 2014	YES	YES
Killer Instinct	Day One Exclusive
Killzone: Shadow Fall		Day One Exclusive
Kinect Sports Rivals	Day One Exclusive
Kingdom Hearts 3	YES	YES
Knack		Day One Exclusive
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	Day One Exclusive
LocoCycle	Day One Exclusive
Mad Max		Exclusive
Madden NFL 25	Day One	Day One
Mercenary Kings		Exclusive
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain	YES	YES
Minecraft	Exclusive
Mirror’s Edge 2	YES	YES
NBA 2K14	Day One	YES
NBA Live 14	Day One	Day One
Need for Speed Rivals	YES	YES
Octodad: Deadliest Catch		Exclusive
Oddworld: New n’ Tasty		Exclusive
Outlast		Exclusive
Peggle 2	YES	YES
PlanetSide 2		Day One Exclusive
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare	YES	YES
Primal Carnage: Genesis		Exclusive
Project Spark	Exclusive
Quantum Break	Exclusive
Rabbids Invasion	Exclusive
Ray’s The Dead		Exclusive
Ryse	Day One Exclusive
Secret Ponchos		Exclusive
Skylanders Swap Force	Day One	Day One
Sniper Elite 3		Exclusive
Star Wars Battlefront	YES	YES
Sunset Overdrive	Exclusive
The Crew	YES	YES
The Dark Sorceror		Exclusive
The Division	YES	YES
The Order 1866		Exclusive
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	YES	YES
The Witness		Exclusive
Thief	YES	YES
Titanfall	Exclusive
Transistor		Exclusive
Trials Fusion	Exclusive
War Thunder		Exclusive
Warframe		Day One Exclusive
Watch Dogs	Day One	Day One
Wolfenstein: The New Order	YES	YES
Zoo Tycoon	Exclusive
Zumba Fitness World Party	Exclusive

Happy Fathers Day

Greetings Space Cadets, today I have been furthering my investigating into the Xbox One and after studying more of the facts I can see that my and everybody else’s initial anger/concerns/frustrations and be allayed. Hopefully this will help clear up the misinformation.

To start off, the Xbox One will allow you to buy games at launch through digital download or through discs by going to a retail store.

USED GAMES

One of the Xbox One’s main feature is the ability to install the disc directly to the hard drive and play it without a disk. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is a feature many asked for when the feature was added to 360, but it was only to allow the game to run better. Contrary to popular believe, the used game does exist in the Xbox One.

“Trade-in and resell your disc-based games: Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit. We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games.”

What can we take away from this? Easy. If you bought a disc based game, you can sell and trade it to any participating retailer. It means that game publishers will work out deals with retailers in order for the developers and publishers to take a cut of used games sales. Microsoft will not receive any money from these transactions. If you bought a digital copy, just like any digital copy, you will not be able to do this.

FIRST PARTY GAMES

“In our role as a game publisher, Microsoft Studios will enable you to give your games to friends or trade in your Xbox One games at participating retailers. Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers. Microsoft does not receive any compensation as part of this. In addition, third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.”

All first party games will be allowed to be resold and be given away (more of this below).

RENTING GAMES

“Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.”

Microsoft and companies such as Gamefly are working on a system to make this work.
Personally I don’t rent games but I suppose if the games use a CD key type system and since the console checks in every 24 hours, keys with temporary lease could be used, or the OS could know this is a temporary lease but it would have to be smart enough to know if the system clock has been changed, like in independent count down clock fromwhenyou enter the key.

DRM–WHY?

As we saw above, you will be able install your games to your hard-drive and have your entire library available to play without putting the disc in the disc tray.

This is why the 24-hour check is required. Without this, many copies of the same game could be installed into multiple Xbox One’s and it would be absolutely crumble game sales.
The drawback to this is not being able to game offline. Microsoft has said that the final decisions to this issue have not been final. I believe if they allow you to play offline with the disc in the disc tray, this would become a non-issue.

PRIVACY

This is one of the biggest things people have been complaining about. Microsoft has already addressed the issue, but of course it fell on deaf ears. People already had their pitch forks out and had Sony on a pedestal by this point.

“You are in control of when Kinect sensing is On, Off or Paused: If you don’t want the Kinect sensor on while playing games or enjoying your entertainment, you can pause Kinect. To turn off your Xbox One, just say “Xbox Off.” When the system is off, it’s only listening for the single voice command — “Xbox On,” and you can even turn that feature off too. Some apps and games may require Kinect functionality to operate, so you’ll need to turn it back on for these experiences.”

As I’ve stated before, you will have the control to everything that the Kinect has to offer. If you don’t want it to hear you? You can do that. If you don’t want it to see you, you can do that. Don’t want it to listen for the “Xbox On” while it’s off, you can also do that.

XBOX ONE- A GAME OF CIRCLES

Now onto the other things. As some of us know, you will be able to have a “circle” of friends, 10 people to be exact, that will be able to access your game library from anywhere (in the same region, I’m assuming..still not clear about this) at anytime (as long as you or someone else in your circle isn’t playing it). This is of course how things work now, two of your friends can’t play the game at the same time from one disc on two separate consoles. This is a feature that is absolutely wonderful, but the people raging about it had not heard about it before.

“Give your family access to your entire games library anytime, anywhere: Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One. Just like today, a family member can play your copy of Forza Motorsport at a friend’s house. Only now, they will see not just Forza, but all of your shared games. You can always play your games, and any one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time.”

I absolutely love this feature. For example, my cousin is 200 miles away when he’s away to college and I’ve let him borrow LA Noire and Dead Rising. I’ve yet to receive those games from him. With this feature, we don’t have to be close in order for him to borrow any of my games! It’s crazy as to how so many people dismissed this feature because it’s a big jump forward in digital technology. No longer will my friends or family have to be close to me in order for them borrow one of my games.
Important Update: New information has risen relating to this feature. You +1 friend from your circle can play the same game at the same time. Others can still play from your other library selection.
Another Important Update: DLC will be shareable through your circle. Your friend will be able to play all of the DLC that you buy. They will not need to purchase their own DLC for the game they’re playing from your Xbox One.

GIVING AWAY GAMES

Do you have a game that you will no longer play? Your friend can still play it off of your Xbox (if they’re in your circle). What if they’re not? As long as they have been in your friend’s list for 30 days, you can give a game away to your friend, free of charge! This can only be done once per copy.
Disclaimer: Microsoft has left it up to the publishers to decide whether or not you will be able to give your games to your friend. As stated above, first party games will allow you to this.

AFTER-THOUGHT: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The big change in the Xbox Live system is the feature to allow all users on one console to have gold by just one user having it. For example, if I have Xbox Live Gold and my brothers also use the same console, they will also be able to use all the perks of a Gold account. They will have access to all the games on the console even if it was installed through my account.
In short, one Gold account subscription per Xbox.

AFTER-THOUGHT OF AN AFTER-THOUGHT, A KINECT STORY

Disclaimer, the following is information that I believe. I have no source for some, just my opinion.
The main question I’m seeing is why the Kinect is being forced upon us. This is what I believe is the case in relation to this matter.

The past version of the Kinect was not the big leap in innovating that Microsoft wanted. It is a powerful machine, but many developers were not making games for it. The games that were being made specifically for the Kinect we really not that great. They didn’t appeal to many gamers as they were soft and childish. This wasn’t what Microsoft was looking for from developers.
Why weren’t developers making games for the Kinect? Was it because they couldn’t?

A CHANGE OF MARKETS

If a developer made a game for the Kinect, their market instantly became much smaller. Why? Not everyone has a Kinect. As of February 2013, the Kinect has sold an estimated 24 million units. This does not mean that these units have been sold to individual customers, but to retailers. Which means that there are Kinects in the shelves or warehouses that will never reach the individual customer. In comparison, the 360 has sold an estimated 77.2 million units, again not all sold to invidual customers, but it’s safe to assume that there a lot more 360′s in the hand of an individual customer than there is Kinects. In an instant, your market shrinks to about 31% of the possible market. Keep in mind, this number will change depending on how many units of each product have been sold to each consumer.

With that information given to you, what I believe is happening is simple. Microsoft is shipping a Kinect with every console because like this, if you own an Xbox One–you will aso own a Kinect. With this, I’m thinking Microsoft is ensuring the developers that the market is out there! In this move, Microsoft want the developers to explore the possibilities of the Kinect. They want newer innovations as they believe they’ve made a product with enormous potential. Why do you believe they were shoving the Kinect down everyone’s throat last E3? They wanted to expand their market.
Just think of everything that can be developed for the Kinect. For example, Dead Rising 3 will have a feature where it will listen outside of the game through the Kinect. If you make a loud sound while playing, the zombies will hear you and they will come after you. This is the kind of thing Microsoft is looking for with the Kinect, innovation.

As to why it can’t be disconnected, that I’m not sure. Maybe it’s for the same thing? I can’t expand further on this.

With this, we are done with explaining the information that a lot have missed and hopefully will be able to see that the Xbox One really isn’t what they think.

If you wish to learn more, all of this and other information can be found here:
Xbox One- Games Licensing
Kinect-Privacy by Design
Kinect Sales
Xbox 360 Sales
Xbox One Friend’s List- Limit Changed From 100 to 1,000
Blood Relatives Only? Nope.
Dead Rising 3 Feature
Your Mobile Device May Be Used to Authenticate The Licensing Refresh
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Today we talked about some of the changes to the new achievements system coming with Xbox One. We just got done hearing from Chad Gibson, Principle Group Program manager for Xbox Live Gaming features and Mike Lavin, Sr. Global Product Marketing manager for Xbox Live on our live broadcast. This morning, we asked Cierra McDonald to explain some of the achievement changes in greater detail for us. Here is what she wrote for you guys

Ahoy! My name is Cierra McDonald. I’m from Chicago, I’m an Illini (I-L-L!!!), and most pertinently, I’m the Program Manager for the Xbox Live Achievements service. My love of gaming started as a wee child, playing Super Mario Bros. at home and joining friends on Altered Beast and Contra at the local arcade. My family’s team sport is Boggle. And apropos of nothing, I once shattered my elbow – or as my surgeon once put it, it’s like Humpty Dumpty fell onto a diamond surface. Fun facts!

Achievements are like a delicious gravy (or a fudge sauce, for the more dessert-minded) on top of a developer’s tasty meal of a game. Playing the game is fun by itself; and achievements add an extra layer of discovery, exploration, and accomplishment that reinforces the natural enjoyment of the gameplay. For Xbox One, my team (an incredible group of smart, hardworking folks) and I have rebuilt the Achievements system to be more powerful and more flexible so that developers and publishers can deliver more interesting, complex, and fulfilling goals and rewards to you. What exactly does that mean?

Let’s start with what you get.

Xbox blazed the trail back in 2005 by introducing Xbox Live Achievements as a metagame whose cumulative score – Gamerscore – spans across games on every Xbox Live platform. Many of today’s gaming systems followed our model and now offer achievements or badges as well. With Xbox One, we are once again breaking the mold and this time, we want consumers to reap more tangible benefits. In addition to Gamerscore, which will remain as a critical part of the Xbox gaming experience (and yes, your Gamerscore from Xbox 360 will carry forward to Xbox One – there’s only ONE Gamerscore (see what I did there?)), consumers can now unlock digital artwork, new maps, unlockable characters, and temporary stat boosts via achievements. And this is not limited to games! Other Xbox One applications such as video and music apps can now use Achievements to bring you awesome sneak peek content, early access, or subscription extensions. Only games will give you Gamerscore.

Cool, you can earn cool stuff with Xbox LIVE Achievements. Let’s talk about how they work.

There are now two types of Achievements: achievements and challenges. An achievement is probably already familiar. There’s a goal or activity you must accomplish and a reward that you receive upon completion. You can unlock an achievement at any time, be it on a game’s launch day or 3 years later. I guess you can say an achievement is like a promise in that sense. A challenge, on the other hand, is more like an opportunity – better grab it while you can! It is also comprised of a goal and a reward; however, challenges are time-bound (as in, real life time). That means you can only unlock during its eligible time window, and if you get close but don’t complete the goal when it ends… *Kanye shrug*

Achievements and challenges are both officially considered Xbox Live Achievements, so they inherit many of the same benefits:

• You can unlock them and win their rewards;
• Once unlocked, they are saved to your achievement history;
• They each have an icon to visualize the cool thing you did;
• They often are associated with a Game DVR capture to show your friends that you are better than they are
• Developers can release more of them after the game’s initial release (more on that in a bit).

There are also some notable differences between them:

Challenges are time based. As just noted, challenges are only available for a certain period of time. Only your activity during that timeframe will count toward unlocking the challenge. Achievements do not expire, so you can unlock them at your leisure.

Challenges do not give out Gamerscore. We want everyone to have the same shot at increasing their Gamerscore to its highest potential. Since challenges are intentionally temporary (an opportunity) and achievements never expire (a promise), only achievements may offer Gamerscore as a reward.

Challenges may cross titles, but achievements cannot. Achievements cannot be shared across titles whereas challenges are allowed to span multiple titles.

Challenges can be unlocked by the community. Community challenges are typically goals that exceed what a lone player can accomplish in the given period of time. Imagine, for example, a game releases a headshot weekend challenge that requires players to cumulatively headshot 1 million baddies in a 3 day period. And every person who participates and meets the challenge’s goals gets the unlock on his or her achievement history and reaps its reward.

Another really cool thing with the new Achievements system is that it’s cloud-powered. A magical term, I know, but it delivers real value to users. Check it out:

Having cloud-powered achievements makes it easy and consistent to run challenges across all players of a game simultaneously.

It makes it possible for developers to add new achievements and challenges after their game is initially released. Why is that good for you?

1) It means you can get new achievements without always being required to buy new content (read: free!) or download title updates.

2) It allows developers to learn from and respond to user activity and focus on adding stuff that you’ll find fun. For example, let’s say a certain game is known on community forums to have a fun little sub-game of kicking chickens. Wouldn’t it be amazing if the game developers noticed the community enjoying an unintended aspect of the game and creating a challenge around it, with a reward to boot?

3) It empowers developers to involve the community (that means YOU) in the achievement creation process. If they so choose, a developer could run a contest for users to submit and vote on challenge ideas, for example, with the winning idea being released to the public as a legitimate Xbox Live Achievement. Not too shabby!

Let’s bring it all home and talk about what you actually see.

• The Xbox One dashboard experience greatly improves how you discover and view Xbox Live Achievements.
• Ever wondered how far along you were toward completing an achievement, particularly those that involve a lot of collection or linear progress? With Xbox One, games may now expose your latest progression toward unlocking an achievement right on the dashboard, even before you launch the game.
• Quickly catch up on what your friends have been up with the achievement activity feed that keeps you informed about your friends’ latest unlocked achievements.
• Check out video clips of that magical moment when an achievement was unlocked.
• Easily discover upcoming challenges for a game at any time.
• Your achievement history has been transformed into a more beautiful gallery of achievement icons that properly show off your hard-earned victories.

You guys all rock, thanks from all of us here on our dev team. Can’t wait to see you on Live!

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Looks good, Im going to have a look at look at the games next but for now lates summaries the key points form the new Xbox One Achievements system:

• Your Gamertag and all existing achievements/Gamerscore will carry over. So the past 8 years we have all spent accumulating out precious Gamerscore is safe.

There are two types of achievements:

• The first type is the type we are all used to for performing some act in game, and it should be noted that this is the only way to accumulate Gamerscore.
• The second type are Challenges, and is a badge only similar to idea of the medals in Gears Of War I believe and these do not earn you any Gamerscore.
• Challenges can be time based, do not award Gamerscore, can be cross-game, and some can be unlocked as a community an example could be as
  community, kick one billion chickens in the next Fable.
• Both types are cloud-powered, allowing free additional achievements if a developer chooses (no longer tied specifically to DLC), and developers can change an achievement if it is too easy or hard, or if they’d simply like people to explore that tiny island no one bothers going to at the bottom of the map. Developers can also run contests or polls for the community to create or vote on the next achievements added to a game.
• Consumers can now unlock digital artwork, new maps, unlockable characters, and temporary stat boosts via achievements. As well as sneak peek content, early access, or subscription extensions. This is not limited to games, video and music apps will have achievements.
• Better achievement tracking in games (progress toward collectibles, etc)
• Achievement feeds on the dashboard to show the newest achievements your friends have unlocked.
• Upcoming Challenges lists so you don’t miss out on the timed stuff.

I will be off to see it at the iMAX this weekend and will post my verdict next week. Don’t forget to check out Angry Joe’s site and take a look at all his other videos. And takes look this from joes E3 Expidition.

I dont think I want to go on this cruise. pic.twitter.com/IY1K02CaNC

— Joe Vargas (@AngryJoeShow) June 13, 2013

1. Chuck Norris knows where Elvis is.
2. Chuck Norris runs Windows 7 on his Etch-A-Sketch.
3. Chuck Norris’ cell phone contract expired 5 years ago. The phone company is just too scared to tell him.
4. Chuck Norris can ice fish in the desesrt.
5. Chuck Norris once skydived……….from the ground into a passing plane.
6. The X Factor got its name after Chuck Norris won all A – W Factors and got bored.
7. If Chuck Norris were to send a letter without postage, it would still get there.
8. Chuck Norris crosses that bridge BEFORE he gets to it.
9. Chuck Norris once gotten bitten by a zombie and the zombie turned human.
10. The only time Chuck Norris ever lost at something was the hot dog eating contest of ’96. He then ate the small Asian guy that won, and won by default.
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12. Chuck Norris once got into a staring contest with his own reflection. On the fourth day he won.
13. Chuck Norris can alphabetize m&m’s.
14. Chuck Norris bowled a 301 after constructing another pin out of his beard hair.
15. Chuck Norris was given a soda can and a Fisher Price computer, he developed the B2 Stealth Bomber.
16. It is known that Chuck Norris’ blood can cure cancer, but since he never bleeds, it can’t be cured.
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18. Chuck Norris managed to score 180 with one dart.
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Which are your favourite Chuck Norris fact, leave them in the comments below.