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Halo: The Master Chief Collection – a bundle packing remastered versions of the four numbered Halo releases – will reportedly launch later this year on Xbox One. Engadget sources claim the package features Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 – but omits other titles in the …
Read More »What will Rare do next?
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says Microsoft and Rare are 'evaluating' their next step
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians arriving on Xbox One in autumn 2015
Microsoft has just announced Halo 5: Guardians for release on Xbox One in autumn 2015. Also on the way in 2015 is a Halo TV series, which is being co-created by Steven Spielberg. The first image, seen above, shows what appears to be a blue-visored female Spartan mirroring an image …
Read More »Microsoft and Rare are ‘evaluating what to do next’
Will the upcoming un-bundling of Kinect have any negative ramifications for Microsoft’s Rare studio? That was the question put to Xbox boss Phil Spencer by OXM, although the exec of course stressed the ongoing importance of the Kinect Sports, Viva Pinata, Perfect Dark, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Donkey Kong Country, …
Read More »Mehdi: Bundling Xbox One with Kinect at launch ‘was the right call’
Microsoft has insisted that not having a Kinect-free Xbox One SKU at launch was not a strategic error. That’s despite earlier this week revealing that it will in June launch a discounted Xbox One SKU without the much-maligned motion camera. I think it was the right call to bundle with …
Read More »Xbox 360 strength is partly to blame for PS4’s lead over Xbox One, Mehdi argues
The fact that gamers have been more satisfied with the Xbox 360 than PS3” is part of the reason why PS4 has so far outsold Xbox One. That’s according to chief marketing and strategy officer Yusuf Mehdi, who has told Forbes that there are three reasons he can identify for …
Read More »Microsoft Ventures’ London Accelerator now open for applications
Tech giant calls for start-ups to join the 14-week programme
Read More »Microsoft’s decision has ‘killed original Kinect games’; PlayStation Camera could outsell it
Microsoft’s decision to remove Kinect from the Xbox One bundle has destroyed any possibility for developers to make games that realise the potential of the motion-sensing camera. That’s according to Zumba Fitness developer and UK studio Zo Mode, whose studio head Paul Mottram said: "We’ve been closely involved with Microsoft …
Read More »Mehdi – Xbox One with Kinect is still the ‘premium experience’
Microsoft may have bowed to market pressures and cut Kinect from Xbox One, but it hasn’t given up its Kinect charm offensive. Even now the company is still refusing to acknowledge the camera’s unpopularity and is instead insisting that the 349 Kinect-free SKU is still just the first step in …
Read More »Dropping Kinect will push Xbox One ahead of PS4 in US – analyst
Microsoft decision to slash the price of Xbox One by dropping Kinect could propel the console to the front of the American next-gen race. IDC had previously predicted that Xbox One would take the lead in the territory by 2016 but now the firm reckons this will happen in 2015 …
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