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The ongoing war of wills between PlayStation and Xbox owners is as embittered and entrenched as any documented conflict throughout the course of human history. Well, that’s nonsense obviously, but a new profiling tool from market research firm YouGov has offered some bizarre data on the differences between typical PS3 …
Read More »343 removes some Halo: Master Chief Collection playlists as it fights to get game working
The online woes of Halo: Master Chief Collection continue. In what is becoming a depressingly familiar scenario for online launches, the game is still days on from launch struggling to function online. As a result, developer 343 has temporarily removed the Team Hardcore, Rumble Pit, Halo 4 and SWAT (rotational) …
Read More »Microsoft’s Visual Studio goes free
New community version allows smaller studios and one-man devs to use full software
Read More »PS4 outsells Xbox One for 10th consecutive month in US
Sony has confirmed that PS4 was the best selling console in the US in October. That marks the tenth month in succession that PS4 has bettered Xbox One, and somewhat dampens Microsoft’s celebrations earlier this week when it announced that Xbox One has outsold PS4 for the last two weeks. …
Read More »Xbox One nears 10m units sold to retail
US console sales triple in week beginning November 2nd thanks to price cuts and new releases
Read More »Xbox One nears 10m units shipped thanks to US price drop
The Xbox One is rapidly approaching 10m units shipped, Microsoft has revealed. The firm announced on Xbox Wire that the milestone will be reached shortly, thanks in major part to the hardware’s recent price drop in the US. Sales have skyrocketed since the new price took effect on Nov. 2. …
Read More »343 working ‘night and day’ to fix Halo: Master Chief Collection online problems
Developer 343 Industries has apologised for the ongoing problems affecting Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Upon release yesterday a number of players reported problems accessing online matches in the Xbox One title. We’ve received several, well deserved, complaints related to slow matchmaking and other issues,” executive producer Dan Ayoub said. …
Read More »Halo: Master Chief Collection suffers online problems on launch day
Microsoft’s triple-A shooter Halo: Master Chief Collection is suffering a few online issues during its first day of release. A number of players have reported problems with the game’s matchmaking (the system via which players are matched together for online play). Some report extended waits to get a match while …
Read More »VIDEO: MCV looks back at the evolution of Halo
MCV has teamed up with Xbox to look back at the legacy of one of the platform’s biggest franchises – Halo. As Halo: The Master Chief Collection brings remastered versions of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 to the Xbox One, the first entry in the …
Read More »The evolution of ID@Xbox – an interview with director Chris Charla
We caught up with Chris Charla, Director of the ID@Xbox program at PAX Australia, to look at some of the new Aussie and international games to hit the platform
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