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Console giant makes U-turn to support used games market and ditch online check-ins
Read More »Fresh rumours say Xbox One will abandon controversial policies
If the latest web rumours are true, Microsoft is poised to announce a revised agenda for second-hand games and online check-in. Whathifi and Giant Bomb are both claiming via independent sources that the format-holder will abandon controversial plans that would demand Xbox One connect to Microsoft HQ servers once every …
Read More »New-look Xbox 360 available now… if you can find it
Microsoft last week announced a new-look redesigned Xbox 360 that we were told was available straight away. Have you seen one on the High Street yet? Because MCV hasn’t. Nor can it find anyone that has. In fact, after having a quick look online we found that just GAME and …
Read More »Killer Instinct’s limited character roster suited to the modern gamer, MS says
Free-to-play Xbox One fighter Killer Instinct won’t have an expansive character roster. And rightly so, argues Microsoft. "Most fighting games that come out are disc based games where you get a huge cast of awesome characters, but it is a massive cast," Microsoft producer Torin Rettig told Polygon. "Some games …
Read More »Mattrick: Xbox one is "over-delivering value"
Xbox boss Don Mattrick has argued that, even at 429, the Xbox One is over-delivering value”. "It’s a lower number than some of the analysts had forecasted," Mattrick told Bloomberg TV (as spotted by Joystiq) of the machine’s RRP. "We’re over-delivering value against other choices, I think, consumers can get. …
Read More »Mattrick: World has changed from offline to online
But Sony's Andrew House claims internet doesn't necessarily increase consumer enjoyment
Read More »Microsoft pledges to keep new game RRPs static for Xbox One
Xbox One games will not cost more than Xbox 360 titles. That’s the pledge from Microsoft, with a rep telling Polygon that "I can confirm that Microsoft Studios games on Xbox One will be $59.99”. Which seems pretty definitive. For once it seems to be Sony that is being less …
Read More »DFC: "The entire future of the Xbox business is in question"
Interactive entertainment research firm DFC has delivered a scathing verdict of Xbox One’s market chances in the wake of last weeks’ incredible events at E3. In fact, it even goes as far as to question whether the scope of Xbox One’s PR failure to date could jeopardise Microsoft’s entire games …
Read More »Microsoft reassures players that Xbox Live ban won’t result in lost games
Some might say that losing your game collection for being racist and homophobic on Xbox Live is actually a good thing. However, the truth remains that racists and homophobes have big spending power (or at least their parents do) so Microsoft has moved to calm them by quelling fears that …
Read More »Bleszinski: Sony just playing on internet outrage
Gears of War creator says triple-A model unsustainable with used game sales
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