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New issue of OXM out now - it's Star Wars: Battlefront vs. Call of Duty: Black Ops III

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By Joe Skrebels published 8 May 2015

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Planet-sized Star Wars: Battlefront feature

Planet-sized Star Wars: Battlefront feature

We flew across the world just for it. Weve seen it in action. Weve written 10 pages on it. Our Star Wars: Battlefront feature doesnt just contain everything you need to know about DICEs galactic shooter it contains everything there is to know. From big-picture interviews to the tiniest details, you wont find more info anywhere. And I promise that isn't just me pulling a mind trick.

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Hands-on with Black Ops III

Hands-on with Black Ops III

Its easy to sneer at a third sequel to a sub-series that is itself a sequel, but Call of Duty: Black Ops III might actually be doing more to change the CoD formula than any of its predecessors have for, oh, I dont know, a decade? Custom characters in campaign, set characters in multiplayer, death to corridor shooting - things are changing. How do we know this? Weve played it. Quite a lot.

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The full rundown on Smite

Theres a good chance youve not heard of Smite yet. Would it interest you to know that its best players have already received more than $2 million in prize money just for being good at it? Yeah, better get reading our full rundown of the unconventional MOBA before the game starts its beta test on Xbox One.

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Joe first fell in love with games when a copy of The Lion King on SNES became his stepfather in 1994. When the cartridge left his mother in 2001, he turned to his priest - a limited edition crystal Xbox - for guidance. And now he's here.

This year just got blown wide open. On the one side, blaster flashes and lightsaber swishes herald the arrival of Star Wars: Battlefront. On the other, tracer fire and technological angst rather more moodily announce the inevitable Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Frankly, fitting our impressions of both of them takes up a fair chunk of the new issue of Official Xbox Magazine by itself.

These are truly next-gen shooters, games brimming with new ideas – trust us, we’ve seen them both first hand, and we’ll be telling you just what we think of them in exacting detail. Suffice to say, we’re pretty excited about X-Wings.

And if the sheer glut of delicious information isn’t enough for you, this month’s free gift is an Xbox Trivia book, with 200 questions to tax your mind to breaking point.

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