Forza Motorsport 3 has surpassed the one million mark in worldwide sales within one month of its release. Microsoft also announced the Forza community has spent a total of 6.6 million hours playing online during that time, with more than 64 million sessions. The company also stated that players have …
Read More »Square Enix triumphs at Industry Quiz
Square Enix emerged victorious at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quizmas Party, after fighting off Amazon and Imagine Publishing. A mixture of retailers, media, peripheral firms and publishers gathered at London’s Sway Bar to battle to be the biggest brains in games, and win some pretty spectacular prizes, including Xbox 360 …
Read More »Ubisoft readies 10 Natal titles
Ubisoft is currently working on up to 15 motion-controlled projects across Microsoft and Sony’s forthcoming hardware, with the majority slated for the highly anticipated Project Natal. During the publisher’s fiscal first half results call to investors, CEO Yves Guillemot revealed the company’s support for Natal is almost double of that …
Read More »Bill Gates envisions Natal-esque PC future
The man who secretly revealed Natal in 2007 makes new indications for Microsoftâ??s future
Read More »Ubisoft studios given 15 Natal and Wand projects
Publisherâ??s CEO Yves Guillemot indicates a move away from the Wii and towards Sony and Microsoft
Read More »Last.FM racks up 1m Xbox Live profiles
Approximately one million Last.FM profiles have been created through the new Xbox Live social media update. The number of gamers using the customisable online music service is considerably higher than the 500,000 originally announced by Microsoft last week, according to Game Informer. These users have streamed a combined 120 million …
Read More »Xbox Live app launches for iPhone
A new iPhone application has launched that allows users to access their Xbox Live account through their Apple device. 360 Live is an unofficial app that enables Xbox gamers to manage their gamertags and friend requests, send and receive messages, check the games history and achievements of their own account …
Read More »Wada foresees the death of consoles
Square Enix president awaits wholesale shift to digital distribution and server-based games
Read More »US: Topware to publish Scivelation
Topware Interactive has announced it will bring upcoming shooter Scivelation to the US. The publisher will release the title from Ukraine-based studio Black Wing Foundation on Xbox 360in Q3 2010. Scivelation is based on the upcoming Unreal Engine III, and it set in a dystopian future controlled by a government …
Read More »Microsoft: Millions use Xbox Live social media
Microsoft has announced that millions of Xbox Live members have taken advantage of the social media features that were launched last week. Company spokesperson David Dennis reported that at least 2 million users have logged into Facebook in the first week – a tenth of Xbox Live’s total userbase of …
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