Xbox 25th anniversary announcements, Digi Mart USA News (Seattle): Twenty-five years after the first Xbox launched, Team Xbox returned to Seattle, the city where it began, to close out its eight-city FanFest tour. The celebration, the publisher says, has always been about players and their shared history with the platform.
Players can look back at their own Xbox history, including their first game, total time played, most-played game, top years and longest streak. The publisher said details on how to explore this are available on its site.
Halo’s cooperative survival mode will arrive as part of a free Winter Update, and attendees at the FanFest were set to get hands-on access that evening. Additional information was provided in an Xbox Wire article.
New quest gameplay from Fable was shown, featuring magical combat against cursed creatures and new clues about the story. FanFest attendees were to go hands-on with the game that evening, and the new footage was to be broken down on the Official Xbox Podcast the following day.
Slaughter Mode is coming to DOOM: The Dark Ages on November 16. The mode is available at no additional cost to anyone who owns the Revelations DLC, the Premium Edition or the Premium Upgrade. It introduces escalating rounds of randomized enemies, bosses and arenas, with rewards that stack the more a player progresses.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed that id Software’s next project is now in development.
Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC now includes 25 original Xbox games, including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Achievements have also been added to select original Xbox games, including Knights of the Old Republic.
Candy Crush Saga is joining the celebration with its Game On! season, which adds in-game pins to collect and music inspired by franchises such as Halo, Fallout and Spyro.
Console updates include rotating Home backgrounds and new ways to organize the library.
As announced by Asha Sharma, Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames. Quoting the announcement, Sharma said: “This is a franchise with an important place in gaming history, and I’m excited to see the team continue its story.” MachineGames confirmed it is working on the next entry, with actors Brian Bloom and Debra Wilson reprising their roles as BJ Blazkowicz and Grace Walker.
The publisher said FanFest was just beginning in Seattle and that the Official Xbox Podcast would break down the new Fable gameplay with Playground Games the following day. The source article was publisher-issued and not independently verified.
