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Developers to team up again with the company that previously shut them out

Revenue for Xbox Live could well have reached $1bn in Microsoft’s last financial year, Bloomberg is reporting. Microsoft has told the financial news site that half of the services’ 25 million users paid for a Gold membership last year – which equates to around $600 million in sales. Sales of …

Next week Microsoft will launch a new Xbox Live service, Destination Arcade. The service offers a new way for consumers to browse Xbox Live Arcade games, including sorting by price and rating. There are over 250 titles on the service and the platform holder hopes this will make it easier …

A succession of poorly-received software releases for the Nintendo Wii could have a negative impact on the success of the soon-to-be-launched Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move, according to one UK retail boss. Market results for the last two quarters have seen Wii sales severely decline,” ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolletta …

Market analyst DFC Intelligence has warned that Kinect is unlikely to help Xbox 360 break into the mass market in the way in which Microsoft hopes, according to the company’s latest report. The Xbox 360 clearly needs to diversify beyond the core first-person shooter audience,” it reads. Microsoft is putting …

Rare has announced an interesting piece of promotional cross-IP marketing with the confirmation of a special reward for Perfect Dark players. The developer has confirmed that its recent Xbox Live release Perfect Dark already has within it a playable version of Crackdown 2’s lead character Agent 4. Anyone who next …

With the launch of the Xbox 360 S still two weeks away in the UK, the redesigned version of Xbox 360 has done wonders for the machine’s performance in Japan. Andriasang reports that on its first week of availability sales of the machine hit 17,370 – 15k of which were …

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the single biggest revenue contributor to the US video games market in May, according to NPD, with total unit sales of its console hitting 195k in the period and revenue reaching $254m (total May revenue hit $823.5m). It also fared well in the software market, with …

Just weeks after it made its debut in North America, Microsoft has announced that it has pulled the plug on its social-media orientated Kin mobile handset, meaning the European launch planned for later this year will not now happen. All staff previously assigned to Kin development will not be shifted …

Publisher EA has announced a second delay for the Medal of Honor beta on Xbox 360. Early access to the game on PS3 and PC has already entered Phase 2. However, with the FPS preview due to hit Xbox 360 this week, unidentified issues” have held up its arrival once …