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New boss Scott Henson wants Rare to lead the charge when it comes to Kinect innovation

Established Microsoft exec to bring Kinect to centre stage

Ed fries, the man central to Microsoft’s record-breaking $375 million acquisition of Rare, revealed to Develop that Bobby Kotick’s Activision made an princely offer for the GoldenEye studio – one that Rare was eager to sign. There was a bit of a bidding war between us [Microsoft] and Activision – …

UK developer was ready to join Bobby Kotickâ??s third-party empire

The developer behind PC and console MMO Kingdom Under Fire II has confirmed that the game is unlikely to be released anytime in the near future. The reason? The very same issue that has dogged both potential Xbox 360 MMO releases Champions Online and Final Fantasy XIV – Microsoft’s closed-wall …

Retailer GAME has revealed concrete details of its official Fable III launch event to be held at its flagship Oxford Street store in London this Thursday (October 28th). The first person in the queue will receive a hand-painted Fable III Xbox 360 console as well as a Limited Collector’s Edition …

While Microsoft has remained tight-lipped about when Windows 8 will be unveiled, the software giant’s Netherlands team appears to have let the cat out of the bag by posting a blog that suggests a late 2012 release date. According to a translated version of the Dutch language blog, which has …

It has emerged that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was furious to lose Mac-loving Bungie to Microsoft back when Halo was an unknown quantity. Ed Fries, the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, and the man central to Microsoft’s acquisition of Rare and Bungie, told sister site Develop he …

Developers are free to choose between joypad and camera in upcoming 360 titles

Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie