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Modern Warfare 2 might have set yet another record when it came out as it determined no less than 2 million Xbox Live users to get on the service at the same time, probably in order to enter multiplayer matches as soon as the game is released.But it seems that the huge launch, probably coupled with the decision by Mi... |
20 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Even though it is a bit of a detoured information, it seems like No More Heroes will be finally traveling to other consoles as well. Originally, the intel got leaked on the Wii@Everyday blog, which eventually ended up as part of Famitsu's news. Then, GameSpot translated the scans and was in the position of makin... |
19 November 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Recently, Square Enix confirmed the release date for Final Fantasy XIII, its upcoming Japanese role playing game blockbuster, for the markets in North America and Europe. The title is set to arrive on March 9, 2010 for those who live outside Japan, while the lucky gamers who live in the island nation will be able to ... |
19 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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We've already written about how Microsoft has begun to ban modded Xbox 360 home gaming consoles from the Xbox Live service, which includes severing access to multiplayer gaming and friend communication.There are estimates saying that no less than 600,000 users have been banned for modifying their devices, most o... |
18 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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The giant games that have an impact on the world, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, can only pride themselves with small impacts on society. Traffic jams due to the official launch parade, people getting injured during the mauling of game retailers or thousands of individuals suddenly calling in sick so they can s... |
16 November 2009
03:17 GMT |
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October was not a good month for the videogames industry in the United States, which remains the biggest market in the world. Overall, the industry is 19% down over the same period in 2008, going down to just 1.07 billion dollars, making it worse than the same period in 2007.But it seems that even if the numbers don&... |
16 November 2009
03:12 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released the data for hardware and software sales on the United States market, showing that the videogames industry has declined no less than 19% when compared to the same period of 2008, with sales reaching 1.07 billion dollars. As analysts predicted, the overall economic situation is impacting vid... |
13 November 2009
08:41 GMT |
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As weird as it may sound, Microsoft's loss of the Xbox 360 exclusivity of console Netflix streaming came in the nick of time. Last week, Sony also implemented this feature for its PlayStation 3, but it did so in a time window that offered Microsoft the perfect opportunity to strike back. Microsoft has a thing fo... |
13 November 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft will make available the next update to the service it has built around its Xbox console, come next week. Larry Hryb, the director of programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live, revealed that the Redmond company would offer all members of the Xbox LIVE community the latest refresh to the service ... |
13 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft first announced its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, but it was rather unspecific regarding how close the project was to its finalization. Neither a release date nor any details regarding how much it might cost have been offered as of yet. The camera-sensing motion technology was ... |
12 November 2009
03:48 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is in for some real treats this month, as the Xbox Live will get a whole-new set of features. The firmware update, which, let's hope, will fare better than the PS3 ones, will integrate Twitter and Facebook and Music Marketplace that will enable Last.fm streaming. It will also bring a News tab with a... |
11 November 2009
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Rockstar has just released The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second and apparently last downloadable content pack for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, and has also launched a retail disk that combines it with The Lost & Damned for those who are not interested in getting the new content via the network. And it s... |
11 November 2009
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One of the big things about PC gaming is the ability to take a base game experience and then create something new around it, expanding one element of the gameplay. The modding community is vibrant and Valve titles, like Half Life and Left 4 Dead, have been some of the most popular when it comes to mods. With the comp... |
10 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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There are a lot of games that end up on the market well before their official release dates and there's nothing the publishers and developers can do at this point but accept the fact and deal with the losses. Well, Activision will have none of that and has decided to take a hands-on approach on the smuggling bus... |
9 November 2009
07:10 GMT |
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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
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Heavy Rain is a very ambitious project. It sounds mundane at first, with four characters pitted on the trail of the Origami Killer and with promises of cinematic action. But once you factor in the work David Cage and most of his team have done on Fahrenheit earlier in their careers, Heavy Rain becomes one of the most... |
5 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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After nothing but rumors for the past couple of weeks, Microsoft has finally decided to break out the heavy guns and give a complete look at the rewards system for the Xbox Live. The program is only available as long as you've been invited, and Microsoft started handing the invitations out yesterday. The Xbox Li... |
4 November 2009
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In October, a Collector's Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction made an appearance on an Australian retailer's website. The pack, meant for the PC and Xbox 306, included a bonus DVD, a comic, a Sam Fisher figurine, and a code to download the original Xbox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory over Xbox Live. Not ... |
4 November 2009
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The first Xbox wasn't such a big hit in Japan when it was first released. In fact, it never really managed to catch their eye at all. So when Microsoft prepared to launch the Xbox 360 they decided to take some extra steps to ensure the console would do better. Their plan consisted in developing a new game that m... |
30 October 2009
04:41 GMT |
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September was a good month for the videogames industry, as shown by the figures put out by the NPD Group for both hardware and software, with the decline of the previous months reversed and with revenue pretty much equal to that registered in the same month of 2008. But it seems that October might bring more pain to ... |
30 October 2009
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We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, where it will be ... |
29 October 2009
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It seems that BioWare is including user-generated content in its plans for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game set to debut on the Xbox 360 and on the PC on November 3, and on the PlayStation 3 later on during the same month. The videogame marks a return to the roots for BioWare, with the company comparing it ... |
29 October 2009
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A new study created by TNS/Today's Gamers and Gameindustry.com is showing that more and more gamers on all platforms are interested in digital distribution but that full-game distribution through the Internet is still in its infancy at the moment, with a majority of gamers still preferring to get their Modern Wa... |
28 October 2009
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Now with Netflix coming to the PlayStation 3, it seems like Microsoft is about to lose yet another exclusivity. So, the normal course of action would be to think of a way to sweeten the deal for the Xbox Live Gold membership that offers the service on its console. And maybe it is, who's to tell no. Well, Microso... |
28 October 2009
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Xbox 360 “pilots” need to start their warming laps as “Forza Motorsport 3” for Xbox 360 developed by Turn 10 of Microsoft Game Studios has hit store shelves in the United States. Microsoft and Turn 10 managed a fast lap between the starting point, five months ago when the game was unveiled at ... |
28 October 2009
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Microsoft has revealed the results of its Entertainment and Devices Division, which oversees the strategy for the Xbox 360 home gaming console, showing that sales have remained pretty much unchanged from one year ago, but that the operating income has gone up by a whopping 96%, reaching 312 million dollars. The resul... |
27 October 2009
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It's all beginning to feel a lot like deja vu. A few days ago, Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, had an exclusive interview with Gizmodo, in which he touched on the subject of the Xbox 360 gaming console and the company's future plans for it. The Microsoft boss seemed to say that the ... |
26 October 2009
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Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Xbox LIVE that, among others, is designed to kill unauthorized memory units that customers are using with their consoles. On October 22nd, 2009, concomitantly with the worldwide general availability of Windows 7, the Redmond company gave the green light to Wave 1 of the ... |
23 October 2009
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It's been reported that so-called “unauthorized storage devices” will not be allowed to work anymore with the Xbox 360 home-gaming console by the upcoming update for the device, which is due to arrive before November. The news has been reported by Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, one of the bo... |
22 October 2009
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Borderlands is definitely a game that ranks high in the “eagerly anticipated release” chart. The developers know this, the gamers know this and even the publishers must have known, but apparently they couldn't anticipate just how high on that list it was going to be. 2K Games have found themselves in... |
22 October 2009
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One of the advantages that the PlayStation 3 has publicized since the beginning of the console battle of this generation has been the presence of an integrated Blu-ray drive, which allows for bigger capacity disks to be used and for the game console to play high-quality movies. The Xbox 360 has tried to counter by b... |
22 October 2009
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Gaming magazine Famitsu is the first to come to a hands-on conclusion regarding Platinum Games's newest action title, Bayonetta. The official verdict is in and according to it it is perfect. The game was put in front a of a four-man jury where it was awarded a mark from one to ten. After a strict deliberation, i... |
21 October 2009
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Microsoft seems to be considering a rewards program for a segment of the Xbox Live subscribers, probably later to be extended to the whole service. An e-mail has been sent by the creator of the Xbox 360 to a select few gamers inviting them to join what is described as an “exclusive pilot rewards program.”... |
21 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has outed the usual response to the figures released by the NPD Group for software and hardware sales for September in North America. The company is obviously happy to talk about the impressive numbers posted by Halo 3: ODST, developed by Bungie, managing to sell more than 1.5 million copies even though it ... |
21 October 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Xbox Live has a big autumn update coming up, and it's going to bring a whole lot of new features. After the update, the online service will support an MSNBC news feed, a music-focused marketplace and high-definition Zune videos. It will also integrate in its system the Last.fm, Twitter and Facebook applications.... |
20 October 2009
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The much awaited NPD Group hardware and software sales figures for September have finally arrived and while the picture looks less grim for the videogame industry (where are the times when we deemed it recession proof?), there are still signs of trouble.The Nintendo DS handheld still manages to be the best sold gamin... |
20 October 2009
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The NPD Group sales numbers for September will not be coming out until Monday but the various console manufacturers have already begun putting out statements related to the order in which the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will arrive. Microsoft seems determined to preempt the expected dominance of ... |
16 October 2009
03:04 GMT |
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If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ... |
15 October 2009
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The idea that gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are the mediums that MMOs will conquer next has been around for some years but while multiplayer-oriented gaming has been on the rise on those platforms, no MMO managed to really gain traction on devices that are dominated ... |
14 October 2009
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Microsoft has recently released a list of huge publishers, ranging from Electronic Arts to Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, that are set to support the developers of videogames that will work with the upcoming Project Natal.But the manufacturer of the Xbox 360 has not indicated any concrete project that will use the ... |
12 October 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Tekken 6 has been around as a project since 2005, when it was announced at the same time as Sony's PlayStation 3. Four years have passed, and it seems like the game is finally ready for the audience. Namco Bandai announced on Friday that they'd finished developing the game for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStati... |
12 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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The Games on Demand system has really taken off and more and more titles are becoming part of the list. The Xbox Live users have been granted special access to some of the best games the console has ever seen, while the Xbox 360 owners can get their hands on titles like BioShock, Mass Effect, Burnout Paradise, Assass... |
12 October 2009
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It seems that September will be judged to be a good month for videogaming when the NPD Group hardware and software sales numbers are released. For the first time in seven months, the industry is set to post positive growth numbers mainly on the back of the price cuts that kicked in for the PlayStation 3, with the rel... |
9 October 2009
03:38 GMT |
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PlayStation Home did pretty well for itself so it would be only natural that the competition got interested in the topic. Microsoft's new project sprung a leak and a survey regarding a new virtual Avatar arcade ended up in the hands of the masses. The idea will be set up for theXbox 360 and it will be very simil... |
8 October 2009
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Micro transactions are all the rage when it comes to PC-based MMORPGs. Free Realms is gaining more and more users and getting regular content updates from Sony even as BioWare seems to be hinting that its upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to feature micro transactions as a possible paying option. And now, M... |
8 October 2009
03:24 GMT |
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There are a lot of Xbox 360 fans out there that have dug deep into their pockets to purchase a limited edition console or paid to have their rig modified with some unique concept art. But to believe that someone would pay at least 1.1 million dollars for an Xbox 360 is close to lunacy. The item is signed by former Al... |
6 October 2009
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Pleased with the overall response that Zeno Clash received, game publisher Atlus decided to start a collaboration with ACE Team co-founder Carlos Bordeu. The latter showed interest in bringing the game to the Xbox 360 since earlier this year, as long as he would find a publisher to help out. And he did. Thus, accordi... |
2 October 2009
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The biggest future project Microsoft is developing for the Xbox 360 home gaming console is the Natal motion tracking system, put on display at the E3 trade show and at the recent Tokyo Game Show. The system already has the support of big game publishers, like Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, and the ... |
30 September 2009
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During all of last week's Tokyo Game Show presentations, Microsoft's new motion controller Project Natal had the most outside representatives speak on its behalf. The show was put in motion by Microsoft Game Studios Kudo Tsunoda, which tried to give the public a better understanding of the new technology. F... |
29 September 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Forza Motorsport 3 from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 home gaming console has been scheduled to arrive on October 23 in Europe and four days later in North America, but it seems that the developers working on it are still making pretty significant changes to the way it will be played. The driving model is in place but s... |
29 September 2009
04:31 GMT |
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