Consoles

More than 200 developers worked on upcoming Xbox 360 title

You buy all the games, you subscribe to Elite, you have a COD branded baseball cap and you question the sexuality of underage boys online. But what next? Surely there’s another way you can prove your devotion to all things Call of Duty? Yes! There is. You can pay Machine …

Face it – this won’t stop until we finally see the machines at either E3 this June or E3 2013. Today’s report comes from VG247, which claims to have word on the Next Xbox’s specs from an assortment of anonymous sources. Firstly, the site takes great delight in stressing that …

A report from Philadelphia’s Drexel University has claimed that users’ credit card details can be obtained from ‘wiped’ Xbox 360 hard drives. This is supposedly achieved with what are described as basic hacking tools”. Researchers were able to access files and folders on a 360 HDD that had been through …

An XBLA release date and pricing details for Konami’s upcoming fighting game Skullgirls has been revealed. A post from developer Revenge Labs community manager Peter Bartholow confirms on the Neogaf forums (via Shoryuken) that the title will be available for download on the Xbox 360 marketplace April 11th. The game …

Popular Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono says he will be ‘out of the limelight for a while’ following his hospitalisation. Ono was admitted to hospital last week after his physical condition "heavily deteriorated" during a game promotion tour across Asia. "I’ll be out of the limelight as fighting game series …

TalkSPORT and Sport’s sales director Kurt Edwards explains why the radio station and magazine are interested in the games industry… Like anymarket, our success depends on meeting consumer demand and building loyalty from our customers. Recent surveys with our audiences have suggested that video games, alongside sport, features highly as …

Fans of the Aliens franchise may want to hold out for the Nintendo SKU of Colonial Marines. Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford told Vox Games the Wii U edition of his studio’s long, long awaited shooter will come have unique features that makes use of the console’s innovative tablet controller. …

Activision has announced that Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be released in the US on August 28th. That likely means a European and UK arrival on August 31st. The date comes from a new trailer for the game hosted by GameSpot that can be seen below.

US Xbox 360 owners are now spending more time using Xbox 360’s multimedia functions than they are gaming. It’s the realisation of a long-term goal for Microsoft, which has spent huge amounts of time and money to try and position its device not just as a games console but also …