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A Washington court has ordered rumble firm Immersion to pay Microsoft $20.75 million in damages as a result of Sony licensing the company’s technology for use in its revised PS3 joypad, the Dualshock 3. In the build up to the release of the next-gen consoles, Microsoft paid Immersion to use …
Read More »Gears Of War 2 bonus disc confirmed
Gears Of War 2 will come with a bonus disc, featuring a documentary about the making of the game and character profiles. That’s according to a new posting on the BBFC site, in which Microsoft is granted an 18 rating for the extra content. According to the body, ‘the linear …
Read More »Tools firms look to aid education woes with free tech
Cheaper and free technology looks to address concerns over relevance of education
Read More »Too Human trilogy very exciting, says Microsoft
Microsoft has confirmed to MCV that it is committed to releasing a trilogy of Too Human games – and compared the narrative pull of the story to Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings. Reviews have begun to come in for the first title online, from sites such as IGN, …
Read More »Microsoft unveils new 60GB 360
The standard Xbox 360 will now come with three times the hard drive capacity from August 15th, for the same 199.99 price point. Microsoft’s new 60GB standard SKU will be introduced from this Friday (August 15th) as the platform holder steps up its battle with rival PS3. No one device …
Read More »GameSpy: PS3 is ‘definitely beating 360 in some areas of online’
The momentum's now with Sony, reckons firm's director of technology
Read More »Fable II dated
Microsoft has announced that Fable II will be released in North America and the UK in October. The title will ship to US retailers on October 21st and UK stores three days later. The platform holder said that subsequent release dates throughout the rest of the world would arrive ‘in …
Read More »Gosen gets Lippy about “gimmick” controllers
Xbox VP says 60 per cent of Wii Fit's "digital bathroom scales" owners never play it again; talks up Lips vs SingStar potential
Read More »Microsoft: No question downloads will overtake retail
Microsoft says there is ‘no question’ that the sale of downloaded games will overtake the sales of games at retail in the coming years. According to David Gosen, Xbox Europe’s VP of strategic marketing and Live, There’s no question digital will overtake physical. It happened in music and will happen …
Read More »Microsoft: â??Weâ??re investing to win in Europeâ??
VP Gosen says format-holder will put more cash into dev relations and content deals
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