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Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 5:13 PM

Devil May Cry demo gets release date, hits Xbox Live early

The new Dante goes playable in mid-November 2

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 4:31 PM

Leaked Black Ops 2 Zombies Mode videos show new maps, new zombie types

Beware spoilers! Also, beware the living dead 2

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 2:35 PM

Halloween Sale: get OXM, Edge and other mags for half price on iPad

A few spooky back issue bargains

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 10:44 AM

Modern Warfare 4 to "follow straight on" from Modern Warfare 3

"It's happening!" says Captain Price, "No it isn't!" says Infinity Ward 9

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 9:55 AM

Halo 4 launch gallery: Master Chief visits Liechtenstein, drives Warthog through medieval castle

Russia moves troops to the border 4

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 4:12 PM

GTA 5 Xbox 360 release date confirmed for Spring 2013

Announcement artwork takes poke at Apple 11

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 12:44 PM

Watch Dogs draws on AI tech from original, beardy version of Splinter Cell: Conviction

Ubisoft to refine pioneering crowd code for latest new IP 2

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 11:11 AM Serious Sam studio will give you a free game for hating on Medal of Honor: Warfighter "That s**t is weak." 15
Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 11:02 AM Assassin's Creed 3 day-one patch details - Ubisoft fine-tunes the Animus for release Warning: mild spoilers at the bottom of the page 2
Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 10:49 AM New GTA 5 artworks leak, "spring 2013" release date looks all but certain Possible cover art snapped in Brighton GAME 1
Monday 29-Oct-2012 6:53 PM United Front: cutting content for day-one DLC "doesn't benefit anyone" "Your product is weaker, your franchise is weaker, the Metacritic score will be lower" 11
Monday 29-Oct-2012 2:55 PM Black Ops 2 trailer features Iron Man, also known as Robert Downey Junior Also starring horseys, zombies, tanks with legs 11
Monday 29-Oct-2012 12:15 PM Skyrim Premium Edition release date and contents unveiled Costs €59.99, contains T-shirt but no Skyrim DLC 8
Monday 29-Oct-2012 11:25 AM Borderlands 2 "fans" force save-deleting Graveyard virus on fellow Xbox 360 owners Don't share modded or duplicated items! 10

More News

Halo 4

Thursday 1-Nov-2012 7:01 AM

Halo 4

343 sets out to reclaim the FPS throne 360 1

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 4:00 PM

Assassin's Creed 3

So that's what this was all about 360 40

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 2:00 PM

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Burnout Paradise meets Hot Pursuit in an enthralling clash 360 7

Saturday 27-Oct-2012 12:44 PM

Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Like Ronseal, does exactly what it says on the tin. Including the burning eyes and nausea upon prolonged exposure 360 10

Wednesday 24-Oct-2012 1:00 PM

Dark Souls DLC: Artorias of the Abyss

You don't have to be a sadist to play, but it helps 360 10

Tuesday 23-Oct-2012 11:08 AM

007 Legends

The game's bombed. Game's. Bombed. 360 15

Monday 22-Oct-2012 11:09 AM

DOOM 3: BFG Edition

Hell isn't other people, it's getting shot in the back 360 20

Friday 19-Oct-2012 3:23 PM Happy Wars Xbox 360's first free-to-play game doesn't quite dazzle XLA 11
Friday 12-Oct-2012 12:51 PM WRC 3 Third time sucky 360 8
Friday 12-Oct-2012 8:46 AM Forza Horizon Xbox 360's best sim gets a brasher, brighter spin-off 360 13
Thursday 11-Oct-2012 1:00 PM Of Orcs and Men Fighting institutionalised racism is actually quite fun 360 2
Thursday 11-Oct-2012 9:00 AM The Walking Dead Episode 4: Around Every Corner Do not ask for whom the bell tolls XLA 18
Tuesday 9-Oct-2012 1:00 PM Fable: The Journey Cart, horse and magic spewing mittens at the ready? Albion my way 360 21
Monday 8-Oct-2012 12:00 PM XCOM: Enemy Unknown Close encounters of the turn-based kind 360 32

More Reviews

Saturday 27-Oct-2012 9:35 AM

Assassin's Creed 3 hands-on: three hours as a mass-murdering Mohawk town-planner

A colossal final look at the game before our review 360 6

Friday 26-Oct-2012 3:00 PM

Sleeping Dogs DLC: Nightmare in North Point

United Front's martial arts adventure goes all Evil Dead 360 3

Friday 26-Oct-2012 8:59 AM

Need for Speed: Most Wanted - multiplayer hands-on with Forza Horizon's fiercest rival

Necessary aggression? 360

Saturday 20-Oct-2012 8:30 AM

A darker kind of Walking Dead: crossbows, scavenging and dealing with Merle Dixon

Can Terminal Reality's shooter stand up to Telltale's adventurous triumph? 360 7

Thursday 18-Oct-2012 8:48 AM

Assassin's Creed 3 - forget the Templars, let's wreck the French

Bringing a tomahawk to a cannon fight 360 13

Wednesday 17-Oct-2012 5:35 PM

Need for Speed: Most Wanted - how to troll the Fairhaven Police Department

What seems to be the problem, officer? 360

Wednesday 17-Oct-2012 8:50 AM

WWE '13 - OMG Moments, Mike Tyson and the Attitude Era

THQ and Yuke's go for our legs 360 4

Tuesday 16-Oct-2012 3:31 PM Painkiller HD - Bulletstorm's ancestor shows that old school isn't better school Backpedal to victory! 360 1
Monday 15-Oct-2012 8:00 AM Remember Me - Mirror's Edge meets Ghost in the Shell, or a cut-price Watch Dogs? We investigate Capcom's new brain-hacking IP 360 6
Thursday 11-Oct-2012 5:41 PM All Stars: 30 years of Sega history in 63 laps Sumo's kart racer takes us back to our childhoods 360 1
Tuesday 9-Oct-2012 11:42 AM Medal of Honor: Warfighter hands-on - starting a fight it can't finish? Danger Close's beta is solid, but dangerously unremarkable 360 3
Friday 5-Oct-2012 9:05 AM Hitman: Absolution hands-on: Contracts, crowd control and the perfect kill "Forget any worries you may have had about 47 going 'casual'" 360
Thursday 4-Oct-2012 10:27 AM Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer hands-on: Pick 10, e-sports and sci-fi fragging How e-sports, Pick 10 and tweaked scoring change the pace 360 14
Wednesday 3-Oct-2012 12:22 PM Halo 4's Dominion Mode: base capture with added bloodlust "A sexy sandwich of chaos and calculation" 360

More Previews

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 3:13 PM

What if Halo was a horror game? And other Halloween tales

Five franchises that could be chilling 5

Wednesday 31-Oct-2012 12:17 PM

New IP: have Dishonored, Dragon's Dogma and Sleeping Dogs proved the doubters wrong?

Do we really have to wait till next gen? 8

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 4:10 PM

Xbox Live update: what's new this week?

Skyrim! Oblivion! Toe Jam! Earl! 1

Monday 29-Oct-2012 5:36 PM

Black Ops 2 Zombies Mode - 10 things you need to know

Map counts, secret modes, item-crafting and more 5

Monday 29-Oct-2012 8:00 AM

Forza Horizon #escapethegrid - The End

Quintin and Gav say goodbye to Gary the Redeemer

Sunday 28-Oct-2012 8:32 AM

Minecraft Xbox 360 World of the Week #9

"I wonder how much of this is done on paper beforehand" 20

Saturday 27-Oct-2012 12:05 PM

Forza Horizon #escapethegrid - Day Four Finale

Our final video update from the brave men in the borrowed supercar

Saturday 27-Oct-2012 11:00 AM Hot Topic - is this a golden age of gaming? How will we remember 2012? 20
Friday 26-Oct-2012 4:21 PM The best Xbox 360 DLC packs you'll never play When are publishers going to do DLC properly? 18
Friday 26-Oct-2012 11:51 AM Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn - Episode 4 review Hail to the Chief 4
Friday 26-Oct-2012 9:15 AM Forza Horizon #EscapeTheGrid Day 3: driving a Forza supercar to Playground Games HQ Quintin's affection for "Gary" takes on dangerous dimensions
Thursday 25-Oct-2012 5:15 PM Black Ops 2 class tips: how to abuse Wildcards and destroy honourable people It's like playing Poker, only with more puncture wounds 8
Thursday 25-Oct-2012 10:54 AM #EscapeTheGrid video: escaping France, redeeming Gary, visiting Silent Hill The tale of two men and their Nissan GT-R continues
Thursday 25-Oct-2012 9:50 AM Forza Horizon #EscapeTheGrid Day 2: OXM vs Eurotunnel vs the laws of physics Quinns and Gav get to grips with the Nissan GT-R's prowess

More Features

OXM 92: Hitman! Need for Speed! Metal Gear! Lost Planet 3!

Friday 26-Oct-2012 10:00 AM

OXM 92: Hitman! Need for Speed! Metal Gear! Lost Planet 3!

Our latest issue is a stone cold (bald) killer 4

Wednesday 10-Oct-2012 8:40 AM

Microsoft squashes Microsoft Point phase-out rumours, 59% of OXM readers agree

But Windows 8 will default to local currency 6

Saturday 6-Oct-2012 8:45 AM

The 50 worst Xbox 360 games

We've played them so you don't have to 32

Monday 1-Oct-2012 8:40 AM

Dance Central 3 - settling into a groove?

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Usher KIN 2

Thursday 27-Sep-2012 8:31 AM

A class of its own: three hours with Fable: The Journey

Torturous school analogies with Mr Log KIN 360 12

Friday 21-Sep-2012 2:33 PM

Kinect Nat Geo TV

Let's learn about bears and then punch a wolf KIN

Friday 21-Sep-2012 1:48 PM

Unleash the Owls! Let's get freaky with Kinect Nat Geo TV

Video: learning about animals via the magic of disco 1

Monday 17-Sep-2012 10:38 AM Fable: The Journey demo gallops onto Xbox Live Try Lionhead's Kinected Fable without ponying up the dough 2
Monday 10-Sep-2012 1:37 PM Quality you can swear at: EA Sports talks FIFA 13, Kinect and UFC Label president Andrew Wilson on yelling at tellies 1
Friday 24-Aug-2012 11:01 AM Fable The Journey achievements spoof Skyrim, Hamlet and the Wizard of Oz I Used to Be an Adventurer... 5
Wednesday 22-Aug-2012 9:29 AM Prototype Rare Kinect sim Savannah would have let you rear lions "I think we got some of the nicest looking in-game fur I've seen" 2
Friday 17-Aug-2012 12:20 PM Mini Ninjas Adventures A little Ninja goes a long way KIN XLA 3
Friday 10-Aug-2012 8:30 AM Rumour: first Xbox 720 screenshot reveals Kinect 2 interface Durango devkit allegedly slips through Microsoft's fingers 2
Thursday 26-Jul-2012 1:14 PM Edge cover gallery shows evolution, death of game trends 19 years of intellectual imagery available for browsing 1

More Kinect

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 4:10 PM

Xbox Live update: what's new this week?

Skyrim! Oblivion! Toe Jam! Earl! 1

Tuesday 30-Oct-2012 11:11 AM

Serious Sam studio will give you a free game for hating on Medal of Honor: Warfighter

"That s**t is weak." 15

Sunday 28-Oct-2012 8:32 AM

Minecraft Xbox 360 World of the Week #9

"I wonder how much of this is done on paper beforehand" 20

Friday 26-Oct-2012 10:00 AM

OXM 92: Hitman! Need for Speed! Metal Gear! Lost Planet 3!

Our latest issue is a stone cold (bald) killer 4

Thursday 25-Oct-2012 9:00 AM

Minecraft Xbox 360 Halloween Skin Pack - 55 skins, 13 developers, all for charity

ToyLogic, Rare, Tequila Works and Twisted Pixel pitch in 5

Wednesday 24-Oct-2012 11:50 AM

Happy Wars updates and DLC planned "every 1-2 months", ToyLogic hoping to run game for years

Xbox Live Arcade's first free-to-play game gets full support 1

Tuesday 23-Oct-2012 8:30 AM

Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2 bug fix coming "soon"

Will address save renaming issue, will add Golden Apple recipe 14

Monday 22-Oct-2012 12:36 PM Last chance to vote in Golden Joysticks Awards 2012 £4000 in prizes up for grabs
Monday 22-Oct-2012 9:00 AM Telltale's The Walking Dead gets boxed Collector's Edition, includes a thousand pages of comicbook 1000 pages of print-based zombie action, plus a game 5
Friday 19-Oct-2012 3:23 PM Happy Wars Xbox 360's first free-to-play game doesn't quite dazzle XLA 11
Friday 19-Oct-2012 12:11 PM Impulse buys: 11 budget brainy games for XCOM and Dishonored fans A celebration of gaming's Smart Alecs 5
Thursday 18-Oct-2012 2:05 PM Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2 - eight must-read hints, tips and secrets Music discs, diamond-heavy seeds, giant mushrooms and more 5
Tuesday 16-Oct-2012 8:58 AM Xbox 360 dashboard update: Microsoft's 10 key improvements More secure, more game-oriented and more flexible 9
Tuesday 16-Oct-2012 8:01 AM Minecraft Xbox 360 update 1.8.2 out today, 10am GMT 4J calls on fans to "knock Modern Warfare 3 off the top of Xbox Live" 39

More Xbox Live

Thor

Thursday 29-Sep-2011 5:48 PM

Thor

Total Film review: Why Branagh's Marvel movie is more little cracker than hammer horror 8

Tuesday 20-Sep-2011 11:11 AM

Hall Pass

The Farrelly Brothers hit maturity - in the face MOV 4

Monday 5-Sep-2011 6:22 PM

Hanna

Like Elektra, but 10 years younger MOV

Monday 5-Sep-2011 11:45 AM

Hobo With A Shotgun

Not quite "attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" MOV 1

Tuesday 30-Aug-2011 2:01 PM

Fast & Furious 5

High velocity SFX tantrums MOV 6

Sunday 21-Aug-2011 6:34 PM

Rango

Johnny Depp's weirdness infects Nickleodeon MOV

Monday 15-Aug-2011 6:05 PM

Sucker Punch

Neither sucks nor blows MOV

Dead Island: Riptide

Format: Xbox 360
Developer: Techland
Publisher: Deep Silver
Genre: Action, Survival Horror

News
Previews

18Sep 2012

Dead Island: Riptide trailer is a tear-jerker, probably says nothing about Dead Island: Riptide

Techland goes for the emotions once again

31Aug 2012

Dead Island: Riptide - due an extra life, or best left to fester?

Matt checks out the sequel to 2011's surprise zombie hit

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