Xbox One Launches With A Roar In UK; Thousands Queue In To Get HandsOn

Xbox One mania in UK as the game fans queue up the stores as early as midnight in UK, the telegraph reports. The queue was in midst of the freezing nights of UK just to get hands on to the Xbox quicker. The Thousands more waited excitedly for midnight at 500 stores up and down the country.

Meanwhile, Leicester Square was transformed into a gaming universe, with zombies from Dead Rising 3 roaming the streets alongside Roman legions from Ryse: Son of Rome. The Stig drove through the crowds in a McLaren supercar from Forza Motorsport 5, while Premiership footballer Andros Townsend competed against fans on FIFA 14.

Featuring a 1.75MHz 8-core processor, 8GB of RAM and a GPU capable of generating 1.32 teraflops of processing power, Microsoft claims that owning an Xbox One is like having a supercomputer in your living room. The console uses voice commands and motion sensing to recognise users and let them shift between games, live TV and Skype through an improved Kinect device.

Launch titles for the Xbox One include Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3, and Ryse: Son of Rome exclusive to Xbox One, alongside the latest titles from the biggest gaming franchises including FIFA 14, Call of Duty: Ghosts , Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag.

The Xbox One also offers an array of TV, film and music apps, including 4oD, Amazon's Lovefilm, blinkbox, Crackle, Demand 5, Eurosport, Machinima, Muzu TV, Sky's Now TV, TED, Twitch and Wuaki.tv.

"With the strongest line-up of games we’ve ever seen for a new console, pre-orders from fans across the UK are at unprecedented levels,” said Phil Harrison, Corporate Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft EMEA.

“The games industry is evolving and growing fast, and we are proud to have so many British developers and creators helping to drive the new Xbox One era.”

Source: Telegraph
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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, November 22, 2013