New Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Game Out Now

Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 is an Xbox One backwards compatibility title. You can now play the 2007 Xbox 360 game on Xbox One, whether you own the physical or digital version of the game.

You don’t have to buy the game if you subscribe to Xbox Live Gold either. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 has been announced as one of the four titles offered through Games With Gold in April 2019. So with Xbox Live Gold, you’ll be able to download Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 for free April 16 – 30.

Like its predecessor, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 puts an emphasis on stealth and tactical decision making in firefights. The game’s story takes place over a 72-hour period, focusing on a series of conflicts that occur along the US and Mexico border. Like the rest of the Ghost Recon franchise, you play as a part of an elite special forces US group that responds to international threats around the globe, operating in complete secrecy with a mixture of traditional weapons and advanced, futuristic tech.

In our Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 review, we gave the game a 8.7/10, writing, “There’s such a wealth of content in the multiplayer suite that it alone makes GRAW2 an easy purchase for multiplayer fans. If the original game is any indication, there’s going to be a large following for GRAW2 for a long time, which makes this a safe investment. The flip side to this is that if you don’t have Xbox Live, then GRAW2 is an iffier proposition. The single-player game is fun, but its brevity is certainly an issue. Still, if you’re a fan of modern combat, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 makes a compelling case for a game that you have to play.”

The story of the Ghosts continues in the franchise’s most recent game, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, which is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. If you’re looking for more classic games to play, check out the full list of Xbox One backwards compatibility titles. We’ve also highlighted some of our favorites.

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EA Lays Off 350 People, Citing The “Changing World”

Despite the gaming industry’s growth, we’ve seen numerous companies lay off employees of late, including significant ones at Activision Blizzard. Electronic Arts is the next company to confirm layoffs of its own, announcing today that about 350 people are losing their jobs.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson delivered the news via the company’s official website. “Today we took some important steps as a company to address our challenges and prepare for the opportunities ahead,” Wilson said. Of the company’s roughly 9,000 employees, 350 people across the company’s marketing, publishing, and operations teams will lose their jobs. This also includes operations in Japan and Russia, where the company is “ramping down our current presence [to] focus on different ways to serve our players in those markets.”

You can read his full statement below:

“Today we took some important steps as a company to address our challenges and prepare for the opportunities ahead. As we look across a changing world around us, it’s clear that we must change with it. We’re making deliberate moves to better deliver on our commitments, refine our organization and meet the needs of our players. As part of this, we have made changes to our marketing and publishing organization, our operations teams, and we are ramping down our current presence in Japan and Russia as we focus on different ways to serve our players in those markets. In addition to organizational changes, we are deeply focused on increasing quality in our games and services. Great games will continue to be at the core of everything we do, and we are thinking differently about how to amaze and inspire our players.

“This is a difficult day. The changes we’re making today will impact about 350 roles in our 9,000-person company. These are important but very hard decisions, and we do not take them lightly. We are friends and colleagues at EA, we appreciate and value everyone’s contributions, and we are doing everything we can to ensure we are looking after our people to help them through this period to find their next opportunity. This is our top priority.”

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EA Partners With Vicarious Visions Founders On Next Franchise

EA has announced a deal with Velan Studios, the new startup from Vicarious Visions founders Guha and Karthik Bala. The EA Partners label will publish Velan’s first original franchise, which will appear on PC, consoles, and mobile devices.

The announcement didn’t detail Velan’s first project but did drop one intriguing clue. It mentions a new kind of “team-based action,” which suggests it will be a multiplayer title.

Velan has announced plans to add 40 new jobs to prepare for creating the new IP, which is double its current team size. The studio has raised $7 million in capital since being founded in 2016. While at Vicarious Visions, the Bala brothers oversaw the development of series like Guitar Hero and Skylanders. Velan’s talent pool includes veterans from games including Super Mario Maker, Uncharted, and Metroid Prime.

“We started Velan Studios to make community-centered play experiences that are daring and distinctive from what’s being played today,” said Guha Bala in the announcement. “We can’t wait to share the details of our first original game in the future.”

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Xbox Indies Stream Reveals Three More Game Pass Additions

Xbox’s indies-focused event and announced three more ID@Xbox games that will come to Game Pass on release day, as well as the lineup of indies that will be available to play at PAX East.

Killer Queen Black, Outer Wilds, and Blazing Chrome will all hit Xbox’s all-you-can-eat subscription service on release day. Killer Queen Black is a new arcade multiplayer entry for up to eight players. Outer Wilds from Annapurina Interactive and Mobius is an open-world exploration game that repeats a limited-time challenge as you learn new secrets about the world to help with subsequent playthroughs. Blazing Chrome is an arcade run-and-gun action game. Killer Queen and Outer Wilds are both targeting 2019 launches, while a date wasn’t given for Blazing Chrome.

Microsoft also announced the slate of ID@Xbox games playable at PAX East, which begins March 28 in Boston, MA. You can stop by the Xbox booth to try Void Bastards, Operencia: The Stolen Sun, Supermarket Shriek, The Good Life, and Afterparty. Like the other games announced today, each of these will launch on Game Pass on their respective release days. You’ll also be able to collect pins that represent the various indie games.

Xbox Game Pass offers an all-you-can-play model with more than 100 Xbox One and backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games as long as you pay the $10 per month subscription fee. The Xbox Game Pass lineup already includes a selection of indie games with more being added regularly. This month’s additions include What Remains of Edith Finch and Operencia among others, and Minecraft will be coming next month.

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Free Xbox One Games With Gold For April Revealed

April’s Xbox Live Games with Gold have been revealed, and there are some great games going free for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners in the next few weeks. Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) is perhaps the most exciting game of the month, but there’s plenty more besides that.

Xbox One owners can look forward to playing the 2016 action-RPG The Technomancer, which is free throughout April. Then, from April 16 through May 15, Outcast: Second Contact will also be free on Xbox One.

On Xbox 360, the free games will be Star Wars: Battlefront II–the 2005 game that first launched on the original Xbox–and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. The former is free from April 1 – 15, while the latter is available for no added cost from April 16 – 30. Both titles are backwards compatible, meaning you can play them on your Xbox One.

Remember you still have time to grab March’s Xbox Games with Gold, which include another Star Wars title as well as Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Free Xbox Games With Gold For April 2019

Xbox One

  • The Technomancer — April 1 – 30)
  • Outcast: Second Contact — April 16 – May 15)

Xbox 360 (also available on Xbox One)

  • Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) — April 1 – 15
  • Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 — April 16 – 30

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Rupee rises 10 paise to 68.86 against U.S. dollar as RBI swap auction elicits strong response

Under the rupee-dollar swap auction conducted on March 26, the RBI received bids for $16.31 billion, against the notified amount of $5 billion.

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