Tag Archives: Microsoft

Bungie bowing out of Halo franchise

Cult developer Bungie has admitted that Halo: Reach, of which hardly anything is yet known, will most likely be the last Halo title it develops for Xbox 360. However, the company also hinted that platform holder Microsoft may be less willing to give up on its hugely profitable brand – …

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Jacksons Halo game scrapped

Acclaimed director Peter Jackson has revealed that the secretive Halo game project he was once working on has been cancelled. Little was ever known of Jackson’s collaboration with Microsoft and now it appears that the collapse of the Halo film project has dampened any hopes of the anticipated games collaboration. …

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New GTA dated

Grand Theft Auto Episodes From Liberty City will hit retail shelves on Thursday October 29th. The game combines the two downloadable episodes The Lost and The Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony into one box, and does not require a copy of GTA IV to run. It will also …

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Xbox dashboard update next month

Microsoft’s annual firmware update for its Xbox 360 console will be rolled out on August 11th, according to reports from Joystiq. Firmware is the term for embedded software that controls the innards of a device – in the same way that Windows dictates how your PC organises and runs itself, …

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Microsoft patents online FPS co-op

Microsoft has reportedly registered a patent for a drop-in/drop-out feature in an online co-op shooter. The application was made to the United States Patent and Trademark Office during the reign of the original Xbox in December 2002, according to Kotaku. The patent has now been approved, and refers to: A …

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