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The Next Xbox may be just around the corner, but Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer has predicted that the Xbox 360 has over 24 months of live left in it. "Right now the Xbox 360 is really healthy and it’s doing incredibly well,” he told GameSpot. I think the 360 …
Read More »E3 2012: Did you miss anything?
E3 has closed its doors, but don’t panic – everything you need to know about this year’s video games extravaganza is right here on MCVuk.com. Throughout the past week our teams at home and on the show floor in Los Angeles – not to mention our international crews at MCVpacific.com, …
Read More »E3 2012: Molyneux and Microsoft question Wii U design
Legendary UK designer (and former Microsoft exec) Peter Molyneux and Microsoft marketing exec Yusuf Mehdi have both found time to question the viability of the Wii U. "I am not really decided about Wii U," Molyneux told Games Industry Germany, as reported by Eurogamer. "I watch people playing and they …
Read More »E3 2012: MS admits all gaming will be cloud-based ‘someday’
Microsoft Game Studiosâ?? Phil Spencer lifts lid on company's perspective on streaming
Read More »E3 2012: All gaming will be cloud based "someday", admits MS
Microsoft Game Studios’ corporate VP Phil Spencer has admitted that the future of gaming lies in the clouds. While an expected deal between Sony and a major cloud gaming firm has yet to be announced, platform holders are for the first time admitting that the model as we know it …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Yusuf Mehdi talks about the future of Xbox
After the Xbox E3 press briefing, MCV took the time to speak with the CMO of Mircosoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, Yusuf Mehdi. Mehdi came out of the Online Services Business, and has been in the new role working on Xbox for 7 months, and delivered a talk during the press …
Read More »E3 2012: Nintendo presentation prompts share drop
Post-press conference share value falls on Japanese stock market, while Sony's climbs
Read More »OPINION: The danger of taking E3 out of context
Some surprises are always kept secret, and some expected announcements seem to disappear into nothingness. But, with a certain degree of accuracy, we can always predict what we’re going to get from the platform holders at E3. Is that depressing? No, not really. There are thousands of us around the …
Read More »Mojang: Minecraft best-selling XBLA game ever, over 2m units sold
It appears Minecraft’s popularity on the Xbox 360 mirrors that of its PC version. Best-selling Live Arcade game ever, in less than a month,” boasted the game’s creator and Mojang boss Markus Persson (aka Notch) on Twitter earlier today. Mojang’s business developer Daniel Kaplan followed up by sharing that the …
Read More »MICROSOFT: Summer of Arcade line-up revealed
While all eyes were on its E3 press briefing earlier today, Microsoft went ahead and snuck in the line-up for XBLA’s annual Summer of Arcade promotion. Head of Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer told SpikeTV that the five games to be included are Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, Deadlight, Hybrid, Dust: …
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