Tag Archives: Microsoft

343 Industries' job listing calls for talented devs to "shape the future of the Halo franchise"

Release will mark first official Xbox launch in country

Microsoft has confirmed that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now officially available on both Xbox consoles in the US. The game appeared digitally on Xbox Live yesterday – that’s despite being delayed indefinitely earlier this month for reasons that were never revealed. Activision said at the time that it was …

Film crew busts myth on landfill by finding boxes of long lost cartridges

Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Xbox One version of Minecraft will allow users to transfer their saves from Xbox 360. After months of teaming up with Mojang, we can confirm that Minecraft X360 Edition will save transfer to Xbox One Edition,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer said. More news soon.” …

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood has told investors that there will be a "channel inventory drawdown for Xbox consoles". An inventory drawdown is the process of reducing the amount of available inventory of a product which, as Gamasutra points out, implies that Microsoft has produced more Xbox consoles than it is …

Revenues grow across computing firm as devices and consumer hardware division generates nearly $2bn in revenue

Microsoft has said that it sold 1.2m Xbox One consoles in the quarter ending March 31st. The platform holder hasn’t said how many consoles it has sold in total. In January when it said it had shipped 3.9m Xbox Ones and then last week it said that number had climbed …

Do the PS4 and Xbox One have what it takes to truly achieve the potential of cloud gaming? Develop investigates

48 developers register to develop games for hardware