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US consumers who purchase any new Windows Phone 7 will receive a free Xbox 360 game. Microsoft launched the promotion to help drive sales for its new mobile operating system, which launched last month. So far, sales have been slow. As part of the deal, gamers can choose from one …
Read More »Microsoft â??aims to boost Kinect accuracyâ??
Software upgrade â??inboundâ??; data flow could be quadrupled
Read More »Bulletstorm includes Gears of War 3 beta
EA is offering players who buy the Bulletstorm Epic Edition early access to Gears of War 3. Developer Epic Games has teamed up with Bulletstorm publisher EA and Gears of War 3 publisher Microsoft to offer the cross-game incentive. The Xbox 360 Bulletstorm special edition – on sale February 25th …
Read More »Microsoft UK on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft clarify what developers and consumers can benefit from on their mobile platform
Read More »Packed Christmas planned for Xbox Live
Microsoft has announced a raft of content that will be made available on Xbox Live over the Christmas holidays. The platform holder will be adding more 2010 hits to its Games On Demand service, starting with Red Dead Redemption and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands on December 12st. Also …
Read More »Blizzard’s Titan is ‘next-gen MMO’
Titan is not just the name of Blizzard’s latest mystery title – it’s also the name of what the developer has tantalisingly called a "next-gen MMO". "The media is not supposed to know anything about that. It’s our next-gen MMO project," Blizzard’s senior VP Frank Pearce told Destructoid. "We’ve only …
Read More »Bing gets first dedicated game
Microsoft could soon be the first company to have a social game running, in real-time, inside a search engine. The company’s Bing website will soon host the social game Happy Island, and Microsoft thinks this will show it is innovating within the sector. We believe this launch brings several important …
Read More »Microsoftâ??s Bing turns games platform
Social game Happy Island to be directly playable in search engine
Read More »Gears 3 VGA absence explained
Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski has revealed that the expected Gears of War 3 announcement at this year’s Spike VGA Awards was because the timing wasn’t right”. A myriad of big name games were announced and showcased at this year’s awards, but Microsoft’s highly-anticipated third-person shooter was noticeably absent – despite …
Read More »The Xbox 360 faceplate experiment
Swappable faceplates were one of the Xbox 360’s key USPs when it burst onto the scene in 2005. Come 2010, however, and a few gel skins aside you won’t find much in the way of faceplates on the High Street. And the reason, Microsoft has said, is simple – hardly …
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