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Microsoft has claimed both another month of strong sales in the US and another month of console market leadership. Following NPD’s January report, the platform holder released a statement confirming Xbox 360 hardware sales of 381k units – that’s up 15 per cent or 48k units year-on-year. Microsoft adds that …

Publisher THQ has urged the three biggest companies in control of the modern video games market to rethink the fundamentals of their content delivery strategies and embrace emerging platforms such as microtransactions. The comments come as THQ CEO Brian Farrell prepares to release the latest version of MX vs ATV. …

Binary Tweed managing director wants channels open and ideas unrestricted

Microsoft has teamed-up with Australian pop legend Kylie Minogue on a European marketing push. The firm’s Kinect title – Dance Central – is the headline sponsor of the star’s upcoming Aphrodite: Les Folies European Tour 2011. The partnership will mean the game will be prominent at each of the tour’s …

Microsoft claims studio cuts are small; Alleged insider insists cuts are deep

Microsoftâ??s Matt Bencke shares his view

To include real-time Kinect multiplayer and 'dramatically enhanced' IE9 browser

Watch Microsoft presentation on device integration

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled a number of new features and capabilities of the firm’s Windows Phone 7 the firm plans for later in the year. Beyond the ‘copy and paste patch’, the exec revealed a number of other enhancements including Twitter integration into the People Hub and Office …

Ubisoft has conquered 21 per cent of the Kinect market in Europe. According the firm’s third quarter financials for the three months ended December 31st, 2010, titles such as Your Shape: Fitness Evolved mean Ubisoft accounts for more than one fifth of the motion controller’s games sales. The company’s European …