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Microsoft has announced massive discounts for Xbox downloads, with the special deals scheduled to go live November 26th, 2010, otherwise known as Black Friday. Make sure to keep your eyes on Softpedia and I’ll provide an update when the special offers become available. “We've saved the best for the ... |
25 November 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly working to expand Silverlight to new territories, beyond the platforms where the technology is already available, namely Windows, Mac OS X, Windows Phone, set-to-boxes and Linux through the Moonlight project. According to information in two job postings from the Redmond company, the plan is t... |
23 November 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Microsoft’s main cash cows as well as the business built around its console and adjacent games have fueled record revenue for the company.On October 28th, the software giant revealed a 25% increase in revenue for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year. In the three months ended on September 30, Microsoft&rs... |
29 October 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that the official Xbox web site will be getting a redesign today which includes the ability to edit avatars and preview items and changes before they are bought or implemented.In order to implement the updates the official site and its attached forums will be down for a period today, although ... |
20 October 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sunbelt warn that phishers are trying to steal Live IDs from Xbox users, through a fake program which promises a free Gamertag change.Gamertags are the unique names used by players on Microsoft's Xbox LIVE platform and they can only be modified through a special service in exchange of 8... |
19 October 2010
11:46 GMT |
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Microsoft announced yesterday that the new released Halo: Reach made $200 million in its first 24 hours on the United states and the European market, according to neowin.Halo: Reach is a prequel to the first Halo and part of a nine year-old saga, and it offers passionate combats against aliens in a wide variety of se... |
16 September 2010
08:32 GMT |
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The ten years old Halo saga fans ares celebrating today the release of its latest – “Halo: Reach”, the newest of the popular science fiction game made exclusively for Xbox 360.There are millions of fans that awaited this event and thousands of them attended launch parties held yesterday in London, N... |
14 September 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Gamers currently owning or looking to buy an Xbox LIVE subscription better hurry since Microsoft plans to boost the price in a few markets worldwide.Customers have only two more months to buy Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions at the current prices, after which they will need to cough up some extra cash, according to Larr... |
31 August 2010
11:22 GMT |
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, launched another broadside at the culture of videogaming, complaining that the age of the iPad and of the Xbox and the PlayStation is placing additional burdens on citizens, some of them linked directly to the information they have access to and which they need to sor... |
12 May 2010
03:01 GMT |
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Bungie is having difficulties with the multiplayer beta program for its upcoming game, Halo Reach. It seems that Bungie's servers were not fully capable of sustaining the massive number of players wishing to try out the newest addition to the Halo Series. An official Bungie poster announced that, "We're aw... |
4 May 2010
17:01 GMT |
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It’s now official, Microsoft has pulled the plug on the original Xbox. Xbox LIVE support for first-generation Xbox consoles was cut yesterday, April 15th, 2010, as previously announced by the Redmond company. The move from Microsoft is also synonymous with locking a variety of older titles out of Xbox LIVE, inc... |
16 April 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has just recently announced that the Xbox Live service will stop supporting the original Xbox console, as well as its games in an attempt to further evolve the system. One of the things that are expected to change will be the Xbox Live friends cap of 100, a limit that has been an issue for some time now. As... |
9 February 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Starting with April 15, Xbox Live and the original Xbox console will no longer be compatible. Microsoft made the announcement last Friday, on February 5, and also explained that any games from the original console that were compatible with the current Xbox 360 would also have their support discontinued. Halo 2 is one... |
8 February 2010
04:54 GMT |
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A gamer's console or PC is their bread and butter, his or her raison d'être and it is no surprise that one would go to extreme lengths to protect their lifestyle. If one paired this with the rather inaccurate reputation video gamers have earned, of being antisocial and violent people, one might think ... |
29 January 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is touting Xbox LIVE ads as being superior to traditional video spots in terms of the impact delivered to users. The Redmond company is citing data from the results of a study conducted by neuroscience company EmSense, for Microsoft and Microsoft and Initiative, a division of Mediabrands. The research effor... |
10 December 2009
07:16 GMT |
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Microsoft managed to fall in line with the rest of the retail world gearing up for Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, and introduced a range of discounts. In this regard, customers will be able to enjoy a steep discount of $70 and buy Office Home & Student for as low as $79.99. The Redmond company has als... |
26 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Music streaming services have been seeing a lot of interest lately but most of the focus has been on either newcomers or the failing ones. Last.fm, one of the oldest and still one of the most popular music services, has been staying quiet for the most part, but things are definitely moving forward behind the scenes. ... |
25 November 2009
09:01 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
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
04:38 GMT |
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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
16:01 GMT |
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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
11:46 GMT |
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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
19:11 GMT |
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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
19:06 GMT |
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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
03:22 GMT |
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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
03:40 GMT |
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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
16:06 GMT |
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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
02:42 GMT |
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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
17:06 GMT |
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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
19:06 GMT |
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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
06:20 GMT |
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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
09:19 GMT |
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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
04:25 GMT |
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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
03:53 GMT |
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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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