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Global sales of the PS3 in the 12 months ending June 30th 2010 were about 4m units ahead of the sales enjoyed by Xbox 360. The number-crunching over on VG247 shows that Microsoft’s machine shifted 10.3m consoles in the last financial year. This compares to 14.3m unit sales of Sony’s …
Read More »Has EA opened new Kinect studio?
Electronic Arts could be the latest company to dedicate an entire studio to Kinect and motion control game development. The publisher announced today that it will move its Salt Lake team to a new 20,000 square foot building in the Utah capital. EA Salt Lake was in another life the …
Read More »Xbox 360 sales down year-on-year
Microsoft has revealed that it sold 10.3m Xbox 360 consoles in the year ending June 30th – down from the 11.2m it sold in the same period the year before. Console unit sales were up in the quarter ending June, however. 1.5m were sold in the period compared to 1.2 …
Read More »Why did MS kill cross-platform play?
When Xbox Live first made the move to PC, cross-platform play between Xbox 360 and PC gamers was very much central to Microsoft’s ambitions. So why is Shadowrun still the only high-profile game to offer the functionality. There was a project that got killed at Microsoft,” Voodoo PC founder and …
Read More »Kinect paves way for expansion beyond the core
On the face of it Microsoft’s 129.99 RRP for Kinect suggests that the company may not be chasing the family market so much as striving to further monetise its existing Xbox 360 userbase. But the European VP of interactive entertainment business Chris Lewis has insisted to MCV that Kinect remains …
Read More »Low £39.99 RRP for Kinect games
Games for the Xbox 360 Kinect controller will be priced slightly cheaper than ‘core’ games, Microsoft has confirmed. Yesterday, the format-holder announced that it will be offering the standalone camera device for 129.99 bundled with Kinect Adventures – a price many see as costly compared to the price of the …
Read More »GAME: Kinect excites customers
Leading games retailer GAME has unsurprisingly welcomed Microsoft’s announcement that it is aiming high by giving the Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect a high-end RRP of 129.99 in the UK. At E3 in June, we were lucky enough to play with Kinect and can say that it truly is ground-breaking …
Read More »Kinect priced at £130
Microsoft has at last announced an official price for Kinect – and it’s come in at the top end of the UK industry’s estimates. The standalone device will retail for 129.99 and will include a copy of Kinect Adventures in the box. In Europe it will cost €149.99 and in …
Read More »Pure Football price cut to £9.99
Budget multiformat game Pure Football has been advertised by Blockbuster for 9.99 – less than two months after it hit store shelves. The retailer has placed a series of ads in Metro listing the game at 9.99. It is selling copies of Ubisoft’s five-a-side footie title on its website as …
Read More »Xbox Plants vs Zombies heading to retail
The popular iPhone and PC casual strategy game Plants vs Zombies will be heading to Xbox 360 this September. Consumers will be able to purchase a boxed edition of the game or download it from Xbox Live for 1,200 Microsoft Points – around 10. PopCap also confirmed retail versions of …
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