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A recent Twitter posting from Microsoft’s Office 2010 account has sent the pre-E3 speculators into silly season with the hope that Microsoft could just maybe be preparing to unveil a new gaming-equipped Zune at E3 next month. Engadget reports that the Office Twitter thread recently posted: June 2009 will be …
Read More »Fourth splinter group rises from Ensembles ashes
Two ex-ensemble programmers have together started their own independent development group, Newtoy. The news marks the fourth independent studio that has formed from the infamous Ensemble closure at the hands of owning company Microsoft. The platform holder’s decision to close down Ensemble – a revered development veteran responsible for the …
Read More »Fourth splinter group rises from Ensembleâ??s ashes
Ex-Ensemble programmers working on new iPhone title with reputable artist Ashley Wood
Read More »Massive layoff reports are wildly inaccurate
Reports of job cuts taking place at Microsoft’s in-game ad firm Massive Inc are wildly inaccurate”, according to a company spokesperson. On Wednesday news emerged that Microsoft’s sustained cost-cutting measures had resulted in a 75 per cent workforce reduction at its in-game advertising firm Massive. Speaking to Develop, a company …
Read More »Microsoft to Axe Over 140 UK Jobs
5% of UK staff to go; CEO Steve Ballmer implies further job cuts may be necessary
Read More »Now motion-sensing 360 talk returns
Expect more of this sort of thing as E3 nears. Last week it was the PS3 that was preparing for a motion-sensing E3 reveal, and now it appears that Xbox 360 is being connected with the same rumour. Engadget claims to have received ‘a tip’ from an insider connected to …
Read More »Gosen: Industry doesnt get the credit it deserves
David Gosen, the current vice president of marketing for EMEA Xbox and former head of Nintendo Europe, has admitted that he believes the games industry doesn’t get the recognition or thanks that it deserves from both the wider public and government. It frustrates me that from a public standpoint, the …
Read More »Teversham quits Xbox for Apple
MICROSOFT’s Xbox strategy boss Richard Teversham has quit the firm to join arch rival Apple, MCV can reveal. The popular exec leaves his role as senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox, where he reported in to European VP of the firm’s interactive entertainment, Chris Lewis. MCV understands …
Read More »Big Three geared for E3
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have each issued statements ahead of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, set to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 2-4. Of the three, it was Microsoft’s Don Mattrick, senior vice president of the firm’s Interactive Entertainment Business, who made the most daring …
Read More »Xbox Live 1 vs 100 to be free for Gold members
Having missed its initial launch window alongside Microsoft’s revamped New Xbox Experience dashboard update, details are now starting to trickle through regarding intriguing online console quiz title 1 vs 100. Chiefly, Microsoft has confirmed that 1 vs 100 will be free to every Gold member of its Xbox Liver service. …
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