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A disc-less Xbox One was at one stage very much a possibility. That’s the admission from Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer, who told OXM that a real discussion” took place regarding whether the company could get away” with a purely digital-only machine. The decision to stick with discs was made …
Read More »Most read stories of 2013: 1-10
Bully 2 rumours and the creation of the FIFA series: the top ten stories of 2013. 10.The extent of Kinect 2’s visual DRM is beginning to emerge Along with the controversial DRM on its home console, Microsoft also filed for similar restrictions on its Kinect hardware which limited the number …
Read More »PS4 outsold Xbox One by 166,000 consoles in UK last year
PS4 and Xbox One posted incredible sales figures in the UK, with Sony coming out on top. PlayStation 4 has sold 530,000 units in the UK in just five weeks, according to ERA (using Chart-Track data), while Xbox One has sold 364,000 units. It’s a significant gap between the two …
Read More »REVIEW OF THE YEAR: The next-gen arrives
2013 was a huge year for the market. Even the launch of the biggest entertainment product of all time will forever be overshadowed by the year’s biggest moments: the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One. After a drawn-out eight-year stint with the Xbox 360 and PS3, Microsoft and Sony …
Read More »Google’s most searched tech gadget in 2013 is PS4
PlayStation 4 was Google’s most-searched for gadget in the US this year. The Escapist points to Google’s updated top search charts, which show Sony’s new console on top of the search browser’s Tech Gadgets category. Microsoft’s Xbox One, conversely, failed to crack the category’s top 10. Interestingly, the PS4 comes …
Read More »How PS4 defeated Xbox One in the Twitter war
MEC Global Solutions' social strategy director Maria Dsouza explores Sony and Microsoft's use of social media in the run-up to launch
Read More »Microsoft to name new CEO in early 2014
List of candidates reduced from 100 to 20
Read More »Xbox’s Charla: Indie boom will never die
ID@Xbox director believes there will always be demand for indie games
Read More »‘I want indies to drive off in Ferraris’: Chris Charla’s hopes for ID@Xbox
Xbox director determined to empower independent developers with next-gen programme
Read More »A Quantum Breakthrough: Remedy’s quest for the perfect game narrative
Remedy plans to raise the bar for storytelling in games, and Oskari Hakkinen tells Develop how the studio is taking cues from TV, film and its own past to develop a new experience with Xbox One game Quantum Break
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