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The Microsoft team that is dealing with the new Xbox Live Experience, which is set to debut sometime in November, has offered up details on how the Game Store is set to be changed. The revamp is aimed at making the interface powering the Xbox 360 more familiar and more attractive for casual users.The current Game St... |
7 October 2008
09:00 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that the Xbox 360 gaming console is “an absolute home run”. He believes that the recent move to cut the prices of the device to make it competitive with the Nintendo made Wii console is a sign of good business acumen and not one of desperation, as some ... |
7 October 2008
03:28 GMT |
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Tomb Raider: Underworld is shaping up to be a pretty good game, bringing everybody's favorite female heroine, Lara Croft, back in the spotlight of action adventure titles. The game will take Lara all around the world, from Thailand to Mexico and from the Mediterranean Sea to Scandinavia where she will explore th... |
7 October 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Reuters has obtained information from Enterbrain, the publisher of the popular Japanese magazine Famitsu, which details how various games and gaming platforms performed in the first six months of 2008 on the Japanese markets. And although everyone expects a Nintendo domination, the PlayStation Portable has managed to... |
6 October 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very big game for the Xbox 360, one that will surely have high sales and will lead the console through the holiday season. The guys at Epic Games have really worked hard with Microsoft to deliver an excellent shooter experience and to give loads of free goodies to the gamers. Such is t... |
6 October 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The Rock Band forums are under a lot of scrutiny these days because of a pretty serious glitch that affects players who purchased the Xbox 360 version of the popular Rock Band 2 music game, and which appears with the online bands that play in tour mode. In a nutshell, after quite a lengthy progress made in the game, ... |
6 October 2008
02:33 GMT |
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We've been hearing a lot lately of the surge in sales that the Xbox 360 is experiencing, mostly thanks to the price reduction that Microsoft operated early in September. The company claims that the console has doubled the sales of the PlayStation 3 from Sony in the United Kingdom, while data coming from Japan sh... |
4 October 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux has to understand when he is better off keeping silent. When the first Fable was launched, he hyped up the game so much that most gamers could do nothing but feel disappointed when they finally played it. It's not that the game was actually bad, but the bar which its own creator had set for it was... |
2 October 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Activision Publishing, the division of Activision Blizzard which is in charge of actually getting games to players, has entered into an agreement with IGA Worldwide, one of the biggest game advertising companies in the world, to create opportunities to introduce advertisements in the PlayStation 3 games that the comp... |
2 October 2008
12:51 GMT |
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Dead Space is shaping up to be a pretty interesting game. It promises a lot of innovations and from what we have seen until now, it will deliver on most of them. With just a few weeks until its official launch, on October 14 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and October 20 for the PC, Electronic Arts, the developer... |
2 October 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Microsoft says that the sales of the Xbox 360 have risen by 214% in the two weeks since prices went down. According to the company, it means that the console is now posting numbers which double those of the PlayStation 3. The numbers are provided by Microsoft and have not been independently confirmed.Chris Lewis, who... |
2 October 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Fable II is going to be a very interesting game mainly because Peter Molyneux, one of the most talented people out there, is the lead developer. He announced that the Limited Collector's Edition of the game would be one full of surprises and with a lot of goodies for the eager players. From the likes of fate ca... |
2 October 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Realism is a very big part of most games. Trying to recreate a real world environment and characters is often a pretty hard task. Especially with things such as clothes, objects or foreign languages. That's why Capcom, the developer behind the upcoming Resident Evil 5 title, wanted to make it as real as possible... |
1 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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You have to love Peter Molyneux. If he isn't praising the high quality and innovation of his games, he's praising the console for which he is working on, the Xbox 360. While speaking in a recent interview with VideoGamer, he went on to analyze Microsoft's console against Sony's PlayStation 3. Gues... |
1 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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A study from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has managed to link increased numbers of Achievements or Trophies with increased video games sales. The correlation is strong enough that developers should consider packing all their titles with them in order to make sure their games sell.The study took into a... |
1 October 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 is going to be a very big game for the Xbox 360 this holiday season. Promising to bring back the action packed, testosterone filled gameplay from the first title, it will definitely be a best seller. But if there's still money to be made, why not go that extra mile, asked Microsoft. And so it has... |
1 October 2008
02:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take pers... |
30 September 2008
20:01 GMT |
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In a not too surprising move, the interest in the Xbox 360 in Japan, just two weeks after Microsoft decided to cut the price of its gaming console, is beginning to return to normal levels while Nintendo regains its choke hold on the hardware sales chart.The Nintendo DS, which is again rumored to get a significant mak... |
29 September 2008
04:29 GMT |
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Fable II is going to be a pretty big game. Peter Molyneux, its creator, points out that it will revolutionize gaming in general with its marvelous Artificial Intelligence system and with the extremely numerous choices you can make in the game. Also, features like marriage or the fact that you can have children ... |
29 September 2008
03:04 GMT |
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At long last Bungie tells us what it has been doing and what to expect from the studio. A trailer is now up and available to all those who want to see it. The problem is that, in true Bungie fashion, there's not much information to glean from the trailer.One clue is in the Xbox Live information that accompa... |
26 September 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Bioshock was a great game. It was very innovative, it introduced gamers to the idea of free will and it really took the industry by storm with its many philosophical and moral issues. These aspects were presented to the players in many forms, and detailing upon them would only ruin the experience for those who haven&... |
26 September 2008
02:52 GMT |
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Big news for all those who are planning to go for a quick multiplayer match on September 29. Microsoft, via the authorized voice of Larry aka “Major Nelson” Hryb, revealed that the online service for the Xbox 360 would be down for maintenance for the entire day. No features will be accessible.Hryb sa... |
24 September 2008
22:31 GMT |
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As soon as the autumn update for the Xbox 360 hits the Microsoft made consoles, users will have access to a big library of movies and television shows. And now Netflix, the provider of the programming, has announced having entered into a deal with both the Disney Channel and CBS Broadcasting in order to get the ... |
24 September 2008
12:21 GMT |
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Last month I reported that Rock the Vote, a bipartisan effort designed to promote voting among young people, partnered up with Microsoft for a campaign that aimed to inform, via the Xbox 360, potential voters about the positions of the candidates, the parties and to encourage young persons to register to vote in the ... |
24 September 2008
08:51 GMT |
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, was launched a week ago. Although there were some who didn't think too kindly of the new game created by LucasArts, most of us were pretty excited by the launch. Of course, when I say most of us, I’m actually referring to th... |
24 September 2008
02:35 GMT |
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Microsoft is one happy company these days, mainly when it comes to its videogames division. Yesterday, we reported how the numbers from Japan show the Xbox 360 Arcade coming close behind the Nintendo Wii in sales and now the European markets seem to be reacting to the reduction in price. The NPD numbers wh... |
23 September 2008
16:21 GMT |
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If there's one thing that Microsoft wants to have, it's supremacy in Japan. The native country of Sony and Nintendo has always eluded the Redmond giant, mainly because the Japanese people didn't really like its games, which were oriented towards the American public in general. Stuff like violent shoote... |
23 September 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Although some reports released in the middle of the last week suggested that the Xbox 360, with its new reduced price tag, was overtaking the Nintendo Wii in sales on the Japanese market, the weekly data from market research firm Media Create says that the Microsoft made console came very close but fell just short of... |
22 September 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Turn 10 is the studio behind the most highly customizable car racing titles out there on the Xbox 360. Their latest one, Forza 2 Motorsport, was a really great game, offering players complete creative freedom on a very wide variety of cars, over 300 if we are to include the five downloadable content packs. It a... |
19 September 2008
20:31 GMT |
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Atari are barely making profit these days. The launch of Alone in the Dark was supposed to fix that. But the versions developed for the Xbox 360 and the PC, launched in June were full of bugs and glitches, which drove away a lot of customers. That made critics really tarnish the name of the game, most of t... |
19 September 2008
19:31 GMT |
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We all remember the Metal Slug games. We played the first ones in an arcade, wasting hours at a Neo Geo machine, and later on various consoles like the PlayStation 1 and 2 or on handhelds such as the Nintendo DS or the PlayStation Portable. The fun factor of the classic side scrolling run and gun game was immen... |
19 September 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Just when you thought developers had run out of ideas related to the promotion of their games, comes this interesting idea from Microsoft and Epic Games. In order to promote Gears of War 2, a tactical third person shooter developed exclusively for the Xbox 360, they partnered with Spike TV to produce a reality show b... |
18 September 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Halo was a great game for Microsoft; it single-handedly sold the original Xbox and marked the beginning of a great franchise for the console. It made Xbox Live popular and convinced Microsoft to acquire the studio which, until then, developed games for Macintosh. It became known as the Xbox's best game, with th... |
18 September 2008
09:40 GMT |
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When Microsoft announced that it was cutting prices in Japan, bringing the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade below that of the Nintendo Wii, most of us thought that this was only a dry run in preparation for the world wide price cuts that Microsoft has since then rolled out. After all, the Xbox 360 has always been a very... |
18 September 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Mark October 2 in your calendars if you are videogame lovers and underline the date in red if you are interested in Nintendo hardware and games because the Japan based company has announced that it would hold a major news conference in Tokyo that day.Business journal Nihon Securities Journal broke the news and Kotaku... |
18 September 2008
04:04 GMT |
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In the wake of North America and Japan, Microsoft has decided to announce that the prices of the Xbox 360 line of gaming consoles would also be reduced in Europe in the coming days. In an interesting move, both the Xbox 360 Arcade and the Xbox 360 Premium console bundles will be sold below the price of the Nintendo W... |
17 September 2008
04:15 GMT |
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For the fifth week in a row, the Nintendo DS manages to hold off the PlayStation Portable to be Japan's best sold gaming hardware. But the overall sales of gaming consoles have continued to slow as the interest in videogames launched during this period plummets.The Nintendo DS sold exactly 51,412 units, which me... |
15 September 2008
04:18 GMT |
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So, the demo for Pure is out and the game promises to offer players the chance to race powerful ATVs while also making pretty big jumps and doing a lot of over the top, crazy tricks. I hope that the guys at Black Rock Studio have done a good job on the game and I'm at the moment downloading the Xbox 360 demo, wh... |
12 September 2008
20:51 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo. If you want to see what's new in this iteration of the franchise, you can download the demo from Xbox Live, get it on the PlayStation N... |
12 September 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The videogame industry only managed to grow by 9% in August compared to last year. This is one of the smallest increases this year and shows that the overall economic performance in the United States might be finally catching up with gamers and videogaming companies.The industry has had revenues of 1.08 billion dolla... |
12 September 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is claiming that sales of its Xbox 360 gaming consoles have doubled since a cut in prices was announced earlier in the month for the United States market. A Bloomberg report is cited, in which retailers say that they have seen a 100% increase in demand for all the models of the console, compared to the... |
12 September 2008
05:06 GMT |
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The “Rock the Vote” campaign, which has been energizing the youth vote for the recent few political campaigns, is partnering up with the Xbox Live service offered by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 to launch an awareness campaign aimed at gamers. You can sign up for a contest by using your Gamerpic. You can d... |
11 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Microsoft reports that it has not experienced a slowdown in consumer spending related to its entertainment and devices division, which includes the Xbox 360 gaming console and the Zune player.Robbie Bach, one of Microsoft's top executives, clearly stated that “We have not seen, on the consumer side of our ... |
11 September 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Bungie has confirmed that Title Update 2, which is basically the second update to the Xbox 360 game, introduces new Achievements to Halo 3. There are also a few changes that are made to the game itself, other than adding Achievements.The people at Bungie say that they are adding better online support, with rarer occu... |
10 September 2008
21:01 GMT |
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As most of you already know, the Xbox 360 gaming consoles from Microsoft have seen their prices drop significantly as the Xbox 360 Arcade version of the platform is positioned to take on the Nintendo Wii console. Given the way the Nintendo Wii has dominated the hardware sales charts in North America and in Europe in ... |
9 September 2008
20:51 GMT |
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It's going to be a bumpy ride going into the fall release schedule. Ubisoft has finally revealed a clear release date for its upcoming shooter frenzy called Far Cry 2 and the game is set to debut in close proximity to other eagerly waited titles like Dead Space, Resistance 2 and Fallout 3. The new Ubisoft shoote... |
8 September 2008
18:01 GMT |
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The Nintendo DS is now celebrating a month at the top of the Japanese hardware sales chart, as provided by Media Create. The hardware market is awfully quiet, with overall sales going slightly down while players are awaiting the launch of the PSP-3000 from Sony and the unveiling of the rumored new Nintendo DS handhel... |
8 September 2008
05:43 GMT |
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In what's seen as the first step towards a worldwide price cut, Microsoft has slashed the prices of the Xbox 360 gaming console on the Japanese market by margins that go up to 30%. Now the Xbox 360 Arcade is cheaper than the Nintendo Wii. And many analysts, like Colin Sebastian from Lazard Capital Markets and th... |
5 September 2008
13:41 GMT |
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So Electronic Arts thought that if it launched space based horror title Dead Space on Halloween people might be a) too scared because of the costumes and the pumpkins or b) too full because of all the candy and the lavish dinners to play it, so it has decided to put the game out a week earlier, on October 2... |
5 September 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Gaming social network Raptr is announcing that it is entering open beta stage, with the aim of testing the service in view of an official launch in early 2009. Raptr, which is now in private beta, should be compatible with thousands of games that have been released across platforms like the PC, the Mac, the... |
5 September 2008
06:41 GMT |
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