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Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has licensed Umbra Software’s rendering optimisation toolset to give a speed boost to the long-running project. Umbra gave a significant boost in rendering performance on the Xbox360, and at the same time made our content creation faster,” said Remedy Entertainment’s Development Director Markus Mki. For …
Read More »Halo 3: ODST heads consumer E3 interest race
Whilst games such as Final Fantasy XIII, Agent and New Super Mario Bros may have been getting the lion’s share of the column inches post-E3, research claims that Microsoft’s Halo 3: ODST is the E3 title that most gamers are interested in buying. Research body Nielsen has published what it …
Read More »US: First month Xbox Live subs drop to $1
Microsoft has lowered the price of an Xbox Live Gold subscription to $1 for the first month. Once the first month has expired, gamers will be automatically charged for the next 11 months at the regular price, Joystiq reports. They will be able to opt out of this if they …
Read More »Will 360 Games on Demand worry retail?
Microsoft insists that its new Xbox 360 Games on Demand service won’t dampen retail sales. But at E3, where the new service was unveiled, the firm admitted it hadn’t yet decided how long – if at all – a wait there will be between a digital release and its boxed …
Read More »Halo 3: ODST now full-priced title
Consumers can expect to pay full-whack for Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: ODST upon its release in September following Microsoft’s decision to back-track on its initial statement claiming that the game would be a budget standalone expansion release. At the time of those statements, the overall scope of Halo 3: ODST …
Read More »Natal launch to rival Xbox 360’s
Microsoft is promising the launch of Project Natal will be on a similar scale to that of the Xbox 360. In an interview with Kotaku, the company’s head of long-term Xbox 360 strategy Shane Kim hinted that the debut of the motion-sensitive peripheral will be comparable to the launch of …
Read More »Microsoft renames Community Games, updates XNA
Xbox Live Indie Games unveiled as XNA 3.1 adds avatar support, video playback and more
Read More »Blur is â??an adult Mario Kartâ??
Project Gotham dev Bizarre explains what its next title Blur can take, and leave, from Nintendoâ??s iconic kart series
Read More »Microsoft’s Kodu to launch by end of June
Microsoft’s Kodu is set to launch by the end of this month, according to blog post by lead designer Matt MacLaurin. The Xbox 360 app, which will be available to download over Xbox Live, allows users to create games using a simple visual rule-based language and a library of supplied …
Read More »Kodu to launch by ‘end of June’
Microsoft's Xbox 360 game-maker almost ready for release
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