Welcome to your Outside Xbox update on this momentous week for video games, in which we had our first look at the future of console gaming: Farming Simulator on Xbox 360.
Its peaceful working of the land might not have the big-budget thrills of Call of Duty, but the Xbox 360 audience is packed with the same pre-teen boys that brought Farming Simulator 2013 million-selling success on the PC. The game's first-person sandboxery, strategy and budget price put it on the inside track to Xbox success. Watch on for details of this "platinum edition" console port.
Speaking of first-person sandboxery, we hadn't played Minecraft for a while, so we we jumped back in with a rousing session of Minecraft Pictionary, a game we just invented which you play like regular Pictionary, only instead of drawing the thing on the card you clumsily build it in Minecraft. Turns out it's a lot harder than the original.
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Its peaceful working of the land might not have the big-budget thrills of Call of Duty, but the Xbox 360 audience is packed with the same pre-teen boys that brought Farming Simulator 2013 million-selling success on the PC. The game's first-person sandboxery, strategy and budget price put it on the inside track to Xbox success. Watch on for details of this "platinum edition" console port.
Speaking of first-person sandboxery, we hadn't played Minecraft for a while, so we we jumped back in with a rousing session of Minecraft Pictionary, a game we just invented which you play like regular Pictionary, only instead of drawing the thing on the card you clumsily build it in Minecraft. Turns out it's a lot harder than the original.
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