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Microsoft’s Xbox roadmap includes the 2013 launch a $299 Xbox 360 successor and Kinect 2, convincing-looking (but dubious) documents posted online claim. Uncorroborated as genuine, presentation slides from a purported August 2010 meeting posted to Scribd suggest the format holder’s roadmap for its home console were once projected to include: …
Read More »Microsoft names Kaiser Chiefs as Xbox ambassadors
British indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs have been unveiled as ambassadors for Microsoft’s Xbox Summer Stadium” sports and entertainment campaign. They have also pledged their support” to Microsoft’s charity partner, Right To Play. As part of the promotion Microsoft is asking fans to log onto their Xboxes at 6pm UK …
Read More »PlayStation president Andrew House interviewed in the new MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features a blockbuster interview with SCE Group CEO and president, Andrew House. We also take a look back at E3 and deliver our verdicts on the best games on show. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app …
Read More »Xbox holds firm on price
Microsoft’s comfortable lead over the competition means it’s not ready to cut Xbox prices yet. The firm went all out on current-gen demos at E3 last week – so no next-gen talk, and no price drop for 360. The success we enjoy year-on-year encourages us to think we’re competitively priced …
Read More »Xbox 360 gets Paramount movie app in US
Microsoft has added a new entertainment app to its Xbox Live service, this time as part of a partnership with Paramount Pictures. The new app will give Xbox 360 owners quicker access to Paramount movies. Films can be either rented or purchased in standard or high-definition and then streamed to …
Read More »ESA urges against US Xbox ban
American trade body The Entertainment Retailers Association has urged against a possible ban on sales of the Xbox 360 in the US. An International Trade Commission judge last month recommended that the machine should no longer be imported into the US and all sales of unsold stock to be blocked. …
Read More »Extended Halo 4 E3 trailer to air during England game
Microsoft will use tonight’s England vs France clash at Euro 2012 to give its Halo 4 marketing a significant kick-start. The TV premiere of the live action Extended Halo 4 E3 trailer will be shown at half time – or around 5:45pm – on ITV1 and ITV1 HD. It depicts …
Read More »Microsoft plans SmartGlass support ‘for all first-party titles’
Recently unveiled tech to be a single app
Read More »E3 2012: Xbox 360 has "more than 2 years left", says MS
The Next Xbox may be just around the corner, but Microsoft Studios boss Phil Spencer has predicted that the Xbox 360 has over 24 months of live left in it. "Right now the Xbox 360 is really healthy and it’s doing incredibly well,” he told GameSpot. I think the 360 …
Read More »E3 2012: Watch Dogs could be next-gen, will use SmartGlass
Ubisoft has dropped the biggest hint yet that the Watch Dogs demo that blew away the E3 crowd on Monday was in fact based on next-gen console hardware. When asked to confirm which formats the game would appear on by GTTV, Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot replied PS3, 360, PC and… …
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