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Sony and Microsoft have revealed new online user stats, following both firm’s latest NPD results. Microsoft say that the Live community has grown to 23 million – both Gold and Silver users – marking a high rate of Live adoption from the 39 million 360 consoles sold worldwide. Sony, meanwhile, …
Read More »X10: Microsoft shows its stuff
Microsoft held its X10 invitation-only press event in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, allowing the media to sample some of the products Xbox 360 has lined up for the year ahead. Pic credit: Kotaku The event didn’t muster much in the way of hard news – most particularly there was …
Read More »Activision calls for console price cuts
Activision-Blizzard insists that the game industry can still grow despite the global economic gloom – just as long as the market sees more hardware price cuts. Speaking at Activision-Blizzard’s earnings call, Blizzard president Michael Morhaime said that the more affordable consoles were key to improving the industry’s health. If you …
Read More »Disney revises 360/PS3 battleplan
Disney Interactive Studios will cut down on the number of PS3 and Xbox 360 games it invests in, as the group shifts its focus to embrace more casual platforms. CEO Bob Iger said that there remains a huge opportunity” for Disney to enjoy healthy revenues in the game market, but …
Read More »Fable II, Halo Wars join 360 Classics range
Microsoft has announced Fable II and Halo Wars have been added to the Xbox 360 Classics range. The two titles go on sale today with a lower RRP of 19.99 and new packaging that repositions them as part of Microsoft’s budget range. The Classics edition of Fable II includes the …
Read More »Microsoft X10 event coming February
Microsoft has announced that it will host an X event in San Francisco next month. X10 is set to take place at the Terra Event Center and will last four hours. Games and hardware set to be on show includes Alan Wake, Splinter Cell, Halo Reach, Natal and Fable III. …
Read More »PSN puts studios â??in weaker negotiating positionâ??
Late approval process puts indie studios on the back-foot, claims Introversion head
Read More »Xbox Live usage tops 17bn hours
Microsoft has claimed that the total time spent by gamers using its Xbox Live service has surpassed 17 billion hours. Company employee Trixie360 added on her Twitter: That’s more than two hours for every person on the planet.” G4 observed that this equates to around 2 million years, or 850 …
Read More »Rising Star signs Samurai Shodown Sen
Rising Star has won the publishing rights to Samuari Shodown Sen – the latest entry in the long-running fighting franchise. The title is an Xbox 360 port of the arcade game of the same name, and is the eleventh entry in the classic SNK series. Rising Star also believes the …
Read More »BioWare commits to 360 for Mass Effect 3
But the EA-owned studio hasnâ??t yet ruled out multiplatform console work
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