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Xbox 360 owners won’t be able to play their games on the console’s successor, Microsoft has confirmed. Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten told The Verge that the newly-announced Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility. "The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn’t really work …

New service to be powered by 300,000 servers, more than the entire world's computing power in 1999

All downloadable content will be available first on Xbox One

The new Call of Duty: Ghosts looks to pack an impressive next-gen tech punch. The game is built on a brand new engine and will also be set in a new world populated by new characters. A dog is even set to star as an actual squad member. And yes, …

The team that invented Call of Duty said it could have abandoned the series altogether. Instead, developer Infinity Ward chose to leave the Modern Warfare brand behind, and build a whole new Call of Duty with a new engine and new characters. We all really knew we wanted to continue …

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg has hit back at critics that claim the Call of Duty series is past its peak. At a special event that revealed the next game in the series – Call of Duty Ghosts – Hirshberg praised the franchises’ development teams, describing the process of building a …

Activision and developer Infinity Ward has finally shown the world what it can expect from the next generation of Call of Duty. The upcoming new game in the series, Call of Duty: Ghosts, will use a number of new graphical techniques to make the game ‘more immersive than ever before.’ …

Director behind Indiana Jones enlisted to handle Xbox's biggest entertainment property

Don Mattrick has taken to the stage in America to reveal the brand new Xbox. Called the ‘Xbox One’, the tagline is: "For the first time you and your TV are going to have a relationship." Furthermore, the machine will be launched worldwide later this year. Cloud is to be …

Microsoft has teamed up with one of Hollywood’s biggest filmmakers to bring Master Chief’s adventures to TV. The platform holder announced a live-actio Halo TV series is currently being made between 343 Industries and Steven Spielberg. "I’ve been playing games for decades," the award-winning director said in a pre-recorded video. …