Tag Archives: Microsoft

Doodle Jump hops onto Kinect

New York micro-studio Lima Sky has announced it is building an Xbox 360 port of its top-selling smartphone game Doodle Jump. The news comes about two years since Doodle Jump hit the market, and with the game now sold over ten million times. After such incredible first two years, it …

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Total Wipeout coming to Kinect

Weekend light entertainment show Total Wipeout is to get a video game version of Xbox 360 Kinect courtesy of Activision. Currently announced only for the US, Wipeout in the Zone will sport all the licenses from Endemol’s ABC version of the program including the likenesses of hosts John Anderson, John …

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XBLA hits heading to retail

Three of the most popular XBLA titles will no longer be download-only come April. Microsoft has confirmed that a triple pack containing Limbo, Trials HD and Splosion Man will be coming to retail, according to Gamasutra. The pack was first spotted on Amazon. The compilation will be released in the …

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Time called on Zune hardware

Having never succeeded in standing toe-to-toe with Apple’s mighty iPad series, reports are claiming that Microsoft is ready to call an end to its Zune hardware business. However, it doesn’t mean the end of the Zune brand – that will continue to be leveraged as a mussy and movie sales …

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Kinect ‘outselling Move 5:1’

According to NPD numbers Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect peripherals is consistently outselling Sony’s rival PS3 Move controller by a ratio of 5:1, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. "Under one-fifth of PS3 sales included bundles with Sony’s Move controller, suggesting another modest month," he wrote in a note to …

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Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii

Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there’s been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right. Speaking in an investor note, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that if current sales trends persist, Xbox …

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Microsoft hunts Xbox Live scammers

Microsoft has taken steps to identify users who used an exploit to duplicate Xbox Live points codes and illegally download content with them. Yesterday it was reported that some Xbox 360 owners had used the technique to stockpile points for free instead of paying for them legitimately. Microsoft has said …

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There’s no stopping Xbox in US

The remarkable strength of Xbox 360 in the US video games market shows no sings abating with news of a record performance for the console in February. Microsoft says that NPD numbers show hardware unit sales of 535,000 for the month, making it the best selling console for the second …

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JAPAN: Torchlight release cancelled

It hits Xbox Live Arcade in Europe and the US today, but the Japanese release of Microsoft published RPG Torchlight has been abandoned at the last minute. Andriasang reports that the platform holder has blamed the discovery of a text bug that’s present in only the Japanese version of the …

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