News Roundup
The biggest gaming stories this month, in a handy summarised form. You’re welcome.
Xbox Scorpio Call of Duty: WWII
We’ve known for some time that Microsoft has a new
Xbox on the way, but the company has finally lifted
the lid and given us the full technical rundown of the
new machine’s capabilities. MS is touting Scorpio as
having 6 Teraflops of power (which is an actual thing,
apparently) but the long and the short of it is that the
console is being designed to run games at native 4K
resolution. It’ll run all existing Xbox One games (and
future Xbox One games will need to support both
the original console and the Scorpio, as with the PS4
and PS4 Pro), and even includes a UHD Blu-Ray
drive. Expect the full lowdown at E3 next month, but
it’s due out by the end of this year and rumours are
suggesting it might carry a price tag of £399. Activision has announced the name of this year’s
Call of Duty title, and as promised, they’re taking
to series back to its roots with the simply titled Call
of Duty: WWII. Coming out on 3rd November, the
single player campaign will recreate the Normandy
landings and Battle of the Bulge, there’s a co-op
Zombies campaign, and multiplayer will include an
objective-based War mode.
New 2DS XL
Nintendo has dropped an unexpected bombshell
on us with the announcement of the New 2DS XL,
a new member of the 3DS family (though likes its
predecessor the 2DS, doesn’t feature stereoscopic
3D). It’s the same hardware as the New 3DS,
including the secondary ‘C-pad’ analog nub, and
comes in two fetching colour combos. It’ll carry a
price tag of around £150.
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