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Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft is in positive mood this morning following a good performance in NPD’s North American November sales stats that showed the best ever month for its next-gen console. Along with 836,000 console sales, the format also boasted $298 million in third party software sales. Following on …

The games industry’s recession-proof credentials have been given another shot in the arm with the news that NPD stats show the North American games market hit $2.91 billion in November – a value ten per cent up on the same month in 2007. Year-to-date numbers are also impressing, with the …

Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has disputed consumer demand for Home, dubbing the technology as outdated and pointed to Live as a premium experience” by comparison. In an interview with Kotaku, the group product manager for Xbox 360 said: What Home to me feels like is Second Life for hardcore gamers. It …

A poll conducted amongst residents of teenage virtual world favourite Habbo has shown that games consoles are the most sought after present for teens this Christmas – and the Xbox 360 leads the crowd. Of the 4,540 UK teens polled, 39 per cent wanted Santa to bring a PC or …

The open beta of PS3 Home will be made available to all PS3 users from tomorrow (December 11th), SCEE has announced. The open beta will include Ubisoft’s themed Far Cry 2 Home space, with additional spaces for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Warhawk, Motorstorm and SOCOM on the way shortly. Commercial partnerships …

Japanese publisher and RPG specialist Square Enix has revealed that it was at one stage in talks with Sony regarding a PS3 port of its still popular MMO Final Fantasy XI. The game’s producer Hiromichi Tanaka told 1UP at the recent Fan Fest event in Hollywood that: Initially we were …

Sony has announced it plans to cut 8,000 jobs from its electronics business, as well as shut ten per cent of its manufacturing plants. The company aims to generate cost savings of 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) by March 2010, and follows the news that the Japanese economy has shrunk …

The clock is ticking on Sony’s recurrent pledge to release an open beta for its PS3 social network Home by the end of the year – and a report in yesterday’s issue of The Sunday Times suggests that December 17th may be the day. The piece reads: To try Home, …

Sony has moved to dispel Microsoft claims that Xbox is outselling the PS3 in Europe, revealing internal figures that say its console has sold 300,000 more units than Xbox 360 in PAL territories. And the company doesn’t feel it has to follow Microsoft and further ignite consumer interest with a …

Microsoft is beating its chest this morning following the news that the Xbox brand last month enjoyed its biggest ever sales month in its six year history in Europe. Hardware sales for November were up 124 per cent on the same month last year. In contrast, Microsoft claims that European …