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Read More »Red Bull re-enters the games publishing race with Kinect title
Extreme sports brand Red Bull is to try its hand at video games publishing… again. The company has announced a co-publishing agreement with Microsoft for Xbox 360 Kinect title ‘Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect’, which is due for release some time this winter. As long ago as 2007 it was …
Read More »Minecraft XBLA hits 3.6m copies sold
Mojang has announced the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has sold 3.6m copies since its May launch. "Was really surprised to see that 3.6 million people have now purchased Minecraft for Xbox," Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan wrote on Twitter. Add to that over 7m sold on PC (as of earlier this …
Read More »XBLA’s first free-to-play game is Happy Wars
XBLA will be taking the full leap into free-to-play with Toylogic’s multiplayer action title Happy Wars. PlayXBLA reveals the game will launch this fall and will be available as a free download for Xbox Live Gold accounts. ‘Lavishly rendered’ character customization items will be offered for purchase. Rumours that the …
Read More »Xbox opens up to free-to-play
Happy Wars to be first microtransaction game on platform
Read More »Kinect receives price cut in US
Microsoft has announced a permanent price drop for Kinect, for some of the world at least. Major Nelson revealed on his blog earlier today that the new reduced price is set at $109.99, and is available immediately in the US. The Major explained similar cuts are coming soon to the …
Read More »Unity to support Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
Unite 12: Popular engine to offer developers deployment to forthcoming Microsoft platforms
Read More »UPDATED: EA’s Gibeau has "seen" PS4 and Xbox 720
PS4 and Xbox 720 do not exist. Got that? Just because the president of EA Labels Frank Gibeau says he’s seen them, that doesn’t mean they’re real. "I’ve seen both of them", he told a Gamescom audience, as reported by GameSpot. "Ten years ago we used to measure our market …
Read More »OPINION: Microsoft and the Xbox 720 guessing game
The thing is, it’s not really Microsoft’s fault. It’s ours. Earlier this week MCV lamented Microsoft’s compulsion to lie to us all about an admission from its general manager Brian hall that the New Xbox is a ‘thing’. We lamented the necessity of lies in corporate culture. We lamented being …
Read More »New Xbox reveal was a ‘misunderstanding’
Windows GM referring to Autumn update for 360, claims Microsoft
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