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While there are Microsoft customers that indulge in the illegal use of pirated software without so much as slap on the hand from the company, others are less fortunate. Larry Hryb, Microsoft’s director of programming for Xbox Live, has confirmed officially that it is actively banning Xbox 360 owners that ... |
6 November 2009
07:40 GMT |
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Come August 28th, 2009, Xbox 360 Elite units will be offered with a price tag of just $299.99, Microsoft confirmed officially. But the discounts for Microsoft’s consoles don’t’ stop at Elite. In fact, the Redmond company is also dropping prices for the Xbox 360 Pro. While the former will be sold for... |
27 August 2009
05:00 GMT |
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There are a lot of development studios out there, but one of the most respected is id Software, which is behind glorious franchises like Doom, Quake or Wolfenstein, all of which shaped the way shooters and games are played today. One of the main innovators from the studio is John Carmack, who has charted a big amoun... |
14 August 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Redmond-based software company Microsoft has already unveiled to the world its plans to transform its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile, into a more attractive platform, both by making it more user-friendly, and by adding more features and more services into the equation. There are at least two future flavors o... |
18 July 2009
05:11 GMT |
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At the start of July 2009, Microsoft acknowledged the fact that customers were experiencing intermittent errors on Windows LIVE Marketplace. The Redmond company indicated that it was actively working to resolve the issues. However, at this point in time members of the Xbox LIVE community have not received information... |
2 July 2009
03:20 GMT |
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This summer Microsoft Advertising will move to the next stage in its evolution. At least this is the promise from Mark Young, general manger of the Global Trade Marketing Advertising team. The move is planned to coincide with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, which is scheduled to take place betwee... |
22 April 2009
13:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it has ended all support for the original Xbox, the first gaming console created by the company. Production of the platform was discontinued soon after the Xbox 360 was launched but Microsoft offered support to those who had bought the original machine. Now, the out of warranty services h... |
3 March 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Barack Obama won the office of President of the United States in part by learning to talk so that youngsters could listen and understand. He used his web site as a hub for both organizing supporters and attracting donations. He launched ads in Burnout Paradise, proving that he knows the power of the videogame medium,... |
23 January 2009
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One of the biggest games for the original Xbox was the first Halo title, which brought the futuristic shooter into people's homes and, with a solid single player campaign, placing gamers into the Spartan armor of Master Chief, captured the attention of the whole world. But it wasn't the single player aspect... |
15 October 2008
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Politics can always be fun, especially around elections. The lengths to which candidates go in order to tarnish the reputation of their opponents and to win the elections is often mind boggling. We've seen candidates accusing each other of misconduct, corruption, or other deeds, but this recent report has reall... |
9 October 2008
08:08 GMT |
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Castle Crashers really took the Xbox Live Arcade by storm. The side scrolling adventure game which was the brainchild of Dan Paladin and Tom Fulp and developed by The Behemoth has now reached over 250,000 downloads. The number is that shocking considering that the game isn't even a month old (since it was l... |
18 September 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Schizoid is probably the ultimate co-op game where teamwork is essential for survival and players really have to cooperate to protect each other from the never-ending stream of enemies. Schizoid is the first-ever Xbox LIVE Arcade title built using Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Express. Featuring addictive simple g... |
20 August 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Microsoft made a move designed to breathe new life into the marketing strategies for the Xbox consoles, Games for Windows and Microsoft Game Studios. With Jeff Bell departing from the Redmond giant, Microsoft has appointed Michael Delman Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business... |
25 June 2008
04:32 GMT |
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Besides the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein successfully intuited a natural social law: the level of intelligence on this planet is a constant, but our population continues to grow. Maybe the statement is so obvious that we can actually interpret it like an axiom (a proposition that is not proved or demonstrate... |
20 June 2008
17:06 GMT |
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If you feel there are no more genres to be invented, you couldn't be further from the truth. Schizoid is possibly the ultimate co-op game where teamwork is essential for survival and players really have to cooperate to protect each other from the never ending stream of enemies. Schizoid is the first-ever Xbox LI... |
10 June 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Cars Mater-National is the sequel to Cars, the game inspired by Pixar's animated movie with the same name. However, this second title in the series is loosely based on the original. The Xbox 360 version was developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ on the 29th of October 2007 in North America, the 29th o... |
4 June 2008
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GRID is the next game in the Race Drivers series, made famous by the Toca titles. It is no different from what we would expect, a combination between a simulator and an arcade with emphasis on the latter. The most shocking feature is, of course, the level of damage a car can endure and the movie-like quality of gamep... |
29 May 2008
06:42 GMT |
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How does a rich football club get even richer? It signs deals in which it lends its good name to a number of different products and collects a whole lot of money for that. While we, the customers, get access to all kind of branded goods, from bicycles to, obviously, football gear (or soccer gear if you're North ... |
10 April 2008
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Denis Dyack is the boss of studio Silicon Knights and the main man behind their upcoming FPS named Too Human. And he doesn't like the way movies and games are exploited as trilogies, when initially the producers just thought of one game and then added another two to exploit the intellectual properties. Denis too... |
7 April 2008
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For a few weeks now, the Nintendo DS has stood at the top of the chart when it came to gaming hardware sales in Japan. But for the week that ended on March 30 the story has been a bit different. Not only did the PlayStation Portable reclaim the top spot but it also posted record sales numbers.In a week the gaming con... |
7 April 2008
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Enterbrain, a company that specializes in the analysis of the Japanese hardware and software market, has released its findings related to the evolution of the videogames market over the fiscal year that has just ended on March 30. While not mind-blowing the figures suggest clear, sustained growth.The combined sales o... |
4 April 2008
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Janco Partners is seeing the videogame industry as one of the few in the United States that is not currently affected - and will not be affected - in the future by the economic downturn that's currently in full swing. According to Mike Hickey, analyst with Janco, the company estimates that gaming software sales,... |
2 April 2008
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Following the news that in February's NPD hardware sales numbers the Nintendo DS surprised everyone by nearly doubling its sales numbers, passing 500,000 units sold and getting the first spot, it seems that in Japan too the Nintendo handheld is performing admirably and is posting top sales numbers.A market resea... |
31 March 2008
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The Xbox is in many ways a wonderful machine. Sure, it has its hardware failures which are a bit more frequent than they should be. And its development has cost Microsoft probably more money than it can make from selling it. But the Xbox, together with other current gen consoles, could be the sign of a revolution in ... |
27 March 2008
03:39 GMT |
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Officially released in January with a price of 800 Microsoft Xbox points the map pack is now free downloadable content for the Xbox console. The main reason for this rather surprising move is that a new map pack, dubbed the Legendary Map Pack, will make its way to the Xbox 360 on April 15. The price will remain the s... |
26 March 2008
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Xbox Live Arcade keeps getting more and more titles added to its already pretty interesting lineup. There are more Xbox Live Arcade games at the moment that there are Xbox Originals games on offer, which could mean that players are more interested in easy-to-pick-up, easy-to-play titles than they are in the classics ... |
25 March 2008
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Xbox Originals is one of the most interesting moves that Microsoft has launched as part of its Xbox Marketplace initiative. Launched in December 2007, the service promises to offer those games that really changed gaming at lower prices for direct download to the hard drive by Xbox users. The initial line-up consisted... |
25 March 2008
05:44 GMT |
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KBC Securities Japan has recently downgraded the financial rating of games giant Nintendo, saying that it expects the sales of hardware like the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS to fall after the record numbers that the company has recently released. Being Japanese-based, KBC is in a unique position to monitor Nintendo&#... |
24 March 2008
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Who said customers first look at quality and only then look at price? Because I really have to send them an e-mail detailing that they are wrong. And backing my e-mail would be Dorian Bloch, director of Chart-Track, a company that studies hardware and software sales in the United Kingdom.Speaking on Tuesday he remark... |
20 March 2008
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When Ubisoft first started making first person shooters with a distinct thriller feeling, based on Tom Clancy's novels, it really made some hardcore games. The first two Ghost Recon games were punishing hard, with a one-shot-one-kill policy and pretty tough enemies. The player needed to make a lot of tactical ch... |
17 March 2008
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Not since the launch of Sid Meier's Pirates! has the pirate impersonation genre hit success. Although the Pirates of the Caribbean movies created huge expectations for the games, they quickly turned out to be disappointments. So, it's about time for a new company to try and cash in on the whole pirate mania... |
17 March 2008
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The NPD numbers for North American sales in the month of February are out and there are some clear surprises for anyone following the numbers. Overall, the videogame industry sales, accounting for both hardware and software sales, have grown by about 34% when compared to February 2007. Value wise sales are over 1.3 ... |
14 March 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is, for once, keeping its word regarding games. Maybe DirectX 10 isn't all that it was supposed to be and maybe Vista ain't that "games friendly" operating system it was meant to be, but as sure as I am writing this Microsoft has released the first downloadable content pack for its RPG smash hit M... |
11 March 2008
06:48 GMT |
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And now there's a Microsoft "fireman" ready to talk about it and explain some of Microsoft's moves. But first, a little history lesson. Games for Windows was announced early in 2006, at the DICE Summit, and was billed as the "be all, end all" branding for games on the PC. Only games that were easy to instal... |
10 March 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Red Mile doesn't have an impressive history as a game publisher. And yet, in spring 2007, they secured the rights to create a video game based on the Sin City universe, originally created by Frank Miller in his graphics novels and also made into a film, in 2005, with Quentin Tarantino and Fred Rodriguez helping ... |
10 March 2008
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Live, Software and Services Division, John Schappert declared that, following Toshiba's decision not to pursue the HD-DVD standard anymore, Microsoft would also drop the standard and not release any new generations of its HD-DVD add-on for the Xbo... |
7 March 2008
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Rockstar has responded to reports of problems with the Xbox 360 version of Bully Scholarship Edition by stating that most of the issues are not their fault but are linked with older consoles that might have hardware problems.Gamers have been complaining that there are bugs in the game which cause it to freeze in the ... |
6 March 2008
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In spite of all the killing, smashing and mutilations that took place during gaming session, playing games was a peaceful and risk-free habit. More and more companies are trying to lift the gaming experience to the next level, and mind-controllers are some of the devices that add an extra layer of realism to gaming.I... |
28 February 2008
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Investing in the future is one of Microsoft's goals throughout its entire existence. It teamed with schools and supplied with everything needed for a better learning experience for the students, and even talked with governments to get them to sign on different study programs, that would benefit both the Redmond-... |
23 February 2008
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Valve have confirmed rumors that Left 4 Dead, their upcoming squad-based zombie thrashing shooter, is not going to be available for the PlayStation 3. Valve spokesperson Doug Lombardi has said that the company does not have a dedicated PS3 development team. The port of the Orange Box to the console was handled by Ele... |
22 February 2008
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2K Games has announced that the console exclusive title, developed by Firaxis and available for the Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PlayStation 3, will be released on June 3, 2008. For the first time ever, the franchise moves away from the PC, after the success of Civilization 4 and its two expansions, Warlords and Beyond ... |
21 February 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Even though rumors regarding a new Xbox console started to be heard before the 360 was launched, it seems that now we have more reasons to believe that Microsoft is indeed working on something new that could really be the next generation of consoles. And that is the thing people were expecting to hear for quite a whi... |
19 February 2008
04:20 GMT |
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One gamer has been left "utterly disappointed" by the Xbox Live Customer Service after no actions were made following his reports that somebody is harassing his little brother through Xbox Live. The guy even has the needed proof and actually knows who the person really is, but nothing can be done, according to the Cu... |
28 January 2008
04:23 GMT |
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This here guide will help you solve issues such as trouble with migrating your Xbox Live account information to the Xbox 360, or completing account migration after encountering an error. If you're experiencing such problems with your Xbox 360 console, the instructions below may come in very handy.TROUBLESHOOT A... |
15 January 2008
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This article assumes that you are a current member of Xbox Live in the process of migrating your account information to your Xbox 360 system. If you're having trouble, please try the possible solutions outlined below.Troubleshoot Account Migration for Xbox 360Do you have a gamertag? If yes, read on. If not, see ... |
14 January 2008
18:31 GMT |
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Dino Crisis 3 is a survival horror video game for the Xbox. It is the third and final game in the series. Like the previous iterations of the Dino Crisis series, gameplay revolves around fighting dinosaurs. The action takes place in outer space, on a space station. Unlike the first two installments of the Dino Crisi... |
10 January 2008
06:54 GMT |
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This here internal memo written by Microsoft games chief Don Mattrick to his PR staff for CES 2008 is something that Dean Takahashi (of the San Jose Mercury News) managed to get his hands on and print it in full on his Tech Talk Blog. The memo reveals a bunch of plans for 2008, including more HD content for XBLM Vide... |
8 January 2008
05:13 GMT |
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There have been numerous rumors about Microsoft's prepping to release yet another Xbox 360, with four models of the machine already stuffing the market (Core, Arcade, Premium and Elite). Nevertheless, according to CVG (quoting The Seattle Times), Bill Gates is set to make an "important announcement" next week i... |
3 January 2008
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In-game advertising is a hit and there are already employment ads for intelligence agencies implemented by the British government in Splinter Cell:Double Agent. Seems that this time, the British have come up with something new: they're going to implement anti drunk driving billboards in games like Need for Spee... |
27 December 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Achievements are game-defined goals that are stored and displayed in your gamer profile. Achievements can be as simple, complex, or off-the-wall as a game wants. Your achievements include all of your awards, medals, and high scores (which are also presented in condensed form as part of your gamer card).Here's a... |
17 December 2007
03:32 GMT |
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