Microsoft has announced today that people who bought an Xbox One only to find that their new console’s disc drive was broken are being gifted with free digital titles. According to a customer care email from the console manufacturer, which was forwarded to Polygon, gamers with faulty disc drives will be offered one of the following titles for free download, […]

Yo yo yo!  In this episode of the NGN n00bcast we talk about the sluggish Wii U sales and the impact the next gen consoles may ultimately have on the system.  We cover the micro transactions EA’s planning on putting in to their mobile games, and the effect that model could have on consoles when the time arrives.  We also talk about PAX East, […]

We all know that Dead Space 3 contains a micro-transaction system that didn’t exactly go over all that well with fans. Well according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, “We’re building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever […]