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The US video games market suffered a slight one per cent year-on-year decrease in July, with a total value reaching $846.5m. Hardware sales – driven by a great performance from the Xbox 360 Slim – were up 12 per cent at $313.8m, though software sales fell eight per cent to …
Read More »MGS turns to mobile games
Microsoft will use its own internal development teams to populate the upcoming Windows Mobile games platform. The company said it is establishing a new studio, known as MGS Mobile Gaming, which will support first party development and evangelise mobile gaming across MGS”. Windows Mobile 7 is the PC giant’s newest …
Read More »Kinect sales estimates increased
Lazard Capital market analyst Colin Sebastian has increased his sales forecast for Microsoft’s Kinect for Q4 2010. Speaking in an investor note, Sebastian says that how thinks an extra million units of the Xbox 360 motion sensing camera will be sold in the period – brining his total sales forecast …
Read More »Microsoft Game Studios adds in-house mobile team
Company to open new studio MGS Mobile Gaming
Read More »Kinect downgrade leads to sign language loss
It was reported earlier this week that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will be able to recognise sign language – it seems, though, that the version making it to retail cannot. In a statement released to Kotaku a Microsoft rep claims: We are excited about the potential of Kinect …
Read More »5m sales goal for Fable III
UK developer Lionhead may be inundated with speculation regarding a certain boy-talking Kinect game, but Peter Molyneux reckons the third Fable game will generate the biggest buzz come October. The development maestro has told MCV he expects Fable III to grow into the biggest selling game of the series so …
Read More »“When are new things good for games?”
David Braben looks at the future of the industry now that motion controls are here to stay
Read More »Lips grabs Lloyd Webber DLC
Microsoft has confirmed that it has signed a deal with The Really Useful Group to bring a number of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest musical hits to Xbox 360 karaoke title Lips. The development follows the exclusive reveal by MCV last year that The Really Useful Group, which was founded by …
Read More »Dont judge Kinect on its launch software
Microsoft’s European head of Game Studios Peter Molyneux has urged people not to judge Kinect by its early software and instead wait until developers have had the chance to truly get to grips with the device. We can do core games with it, we can do totally immersive games,” Molyneux …
Read More »250GB Kinect bundle spotted
If pictures obtained by Joystiq are accurate it appears as if Microsoft is to release a second hardware bundle alongside the arrival of Kinect later this year. The site reports that the SKU will include a 250GB variant of the console – complete with high-end glossy finish – as well …
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