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Following another bumper month at North American retail, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has stated that the Xbox 360 continues to exceed the company’s internal expectations – and that PS3 is consistently failing to meets Sony’s. [The 53 per cent year-on-year rise] exceeds even the high end of what …

Halo Wars, the Ensemble Studios RTS released for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 last month, has now sold over one million copies across the globe, the platform holder has confirmed. To date the title has seen 2.6m multiplayer matches played online, totalling up more than 118 years of total playtime. On average, …

MCV’s sister mag Develop recently sat down with Peter Molyneux to talk about the mistakes he’s made as studio head of Lionhead – and, most importantly, how he’s learnt some important lessons and turned the studio around. "If I’m honest, on Fable we just burnt people’s lives; we destroyed the …

Following last week’s speculation , Microsoft has confirmed that it has appointed former Motorola marketing boss Jeremy Dale as its EMEA vice president of retail sales and marketing for its Entertainment and Devices Division. He will be tasked with expanding the reach of Microsoft’s consumer products, including Xbox and Windows, …

The Sunday Times has named Microsoft as one of the UK’s best 100 companies to work for – and the Xbox 360 platform holder is the only tech firm to be named in the list. Microsoft ranked 21st in the overall list. The newspaper said that 88 per cent of …

A new study entitled Play Safe, Play Smart from Microsoft has claimed that 94 per cent of UK parents feel personally responsible” for checking the age ratings on the games played by their kids. In addition, the report says that 73 per cent of UK parents are aware of parental …

Reports have emerged claiming that Motorola’s former VP of global marketing has joined Microsoft’s European marketing team. Marketing Week reports that Dale departed from Motorola in January to look for a position in his native UK. Sources are claiming that Dale is set to become a senior member of the …

After its successful rollout last year, Microsoft is to make NXE a mandatory upgrade for 360 users wanting to play the latest titles on their machines, according to reports . NXE, or New Xbox Experience, was released last year and completely overhauled the Xbox 360’s previous dashboard ‘blade’ system. It …

Microsoft has unveiled a limited edition blood red Xbox 360 controller and Play & Charge kit bundle. The set will be released to coincide with the release of Capcom’s Resident Evil 5, which is due to hit shelves on Friday March 13th, and the pack has an RRP of 39.99. …

Bungie has revealed that more than one billion online multiplayer matches of Halo 3 have been played since the game was released. The landmark was passed on Saturday, February 28 and means that the game has outperformed Halo 2, which has currently racked up approximately 768 million matches played – …