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Microsoft has revealed pricing and release date info for Xbox Live Arcade’s upcoming Summer of Arcade promotion. A post to Major Nelson’s blog announces the new details following the line-up unmasking at E3: July 18: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, 1200 MS Points ($15) July 25: Wreckateer (Kinect), 800 MS …
Read More »Epic’s Rein talks Surface’s Xbox gaming credentials
One of the world’s leading developers sees Microsoft’s new Surface tablet as a viable games platform for the years ahead. Epic co-founder Mark Rein has expressed his desire to get his company’s Unreal Engine – one of the cornerstones of modern games development – up and running on the device. …
Read More »Microsoft introduces its iPad killer – Surface
A brand new tablet PC called Surface has finally been announced by Microsoft. Competing with Apple in any market is a tough call, but no sector is as dominated by the iPhone and iPad manufacturer as tablets. Microsoft has attempted to differentiate its device from the competition by including a …
Read More »Microsoft unveils Surface tablet
Microsoft issues challenge to Apple with iPad rival
Read More »Alleged Xbox leak No.3 – Xbox Surface
Another supposed leak from Microsoft suggests that an Xbox tablet, called ‘Xbox Surface’, is very much in the works. A detailed 56-page document claiming to detail the next generation of Xbox (codenamed Xbox 720) was revealed to the world yesterday. This was shortly followed by claims of a new Microsoft …
Read More »‘Xbox Live streaming’ tablet unveiled tomorrow?
No, we don’t think so either. But the latest rumour about tomorrow’s expected Microsoft ‘iPad rival’ unveiling says the new device is an ereader table that ‘streams Xbox Live’. [UPDATE: TechCrunch, via Twitter, has clarified to the author of this piece what it means but ‘Xbox Live streaming’ – apparently, …
Read More »‘Leaked’ and dubious document claims to outline future Xbox roadmap
Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap includes the 2013 launch a $299 Xbox 360 successor and Kinect 2, convincing-looking (but dubious) documents posted online claim. Uncorroborated as genuine, presentation slides from a purported August 2010 meeting posted to Scribd suggest the format holder’s roadmap for its home console were once projected to include: …
Read More »PlayStation president Andrew House interviewed in the new MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features a blockbuster interview with SCE Group CEO and president, Andrew House. We also take a look back at E3 and deliver our verdicts on the best games on show. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app …
Read More »Report: Microsoft to unveil rival iPad tablet
Computing giant to make 'major announcement' on Monday
Read More »Microsoft set to miss Tokyo Game Show
Computing giant to focus on smaller, more localised events
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