Sales of 250,000 in its first two days have seen zombie romp State of Decay become the second fastest selling Xbox Live Arcade title ever. The only game to better its performance is Mojang’s Minecraft. "This was you,” a statement from developer Undead Labs said. We did not have an …
Read More »Those Xbox Live gamers sure do love Minecraft
The UK Xbox Live Arcade charts are in. And in the least shocking news of the day – Minecraft is No.1. It’s always No.1. That’s not true, actually. There was this one time a few weeks ago when Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (this week No.5) was No.1. It was …
Read More »Minecraft tops UK Xbox Live charts. Again.
Minecraft was the best selling Xbox Live Arcade game in the UK last week. Again. The game has been at the top of UK XBLA charts for 19 of the 21 weeks this year. It’s pretty much dominated the XBLA charts for 12 months. Elsewhere, Far Cry: Blood Dragon remains …
Read More »Microsoft: Cloud makes Xbox One four times more powerful
But tech experts question validity of claims in face of latency and bandwidth restrictions
Read More »Xbox Live gets Smart Match and ‘personalised’ Achievements
500GB non-removable HDD, but USB promised for expansion and storage capabilities
Read More »No self-publishing for indies on Xbox One
Matt Booty confirms independent developers cannot publish content themselves
Read More »Microsoft lifts the hood on new Xbox Live
New service to be powered by 300,000 servers, more than the entire world's computing power in 1999
Read More »New Xbox Live system detailed
Microsoft is revamping its online gaming service for the launch of its next console, Xbox One. During today’s Xbox reveal, the platform holder confirmed the new Xbox Live service will be powered by a whopping 300,000 servers. According to Microsoft, that’s more than the entire world’s computing power in 1999. …
Read More »Xbox Live subs grow 18% to 46m
Microsoft has sold 77 million units of the Xbox 360
Read More »Xbox Live downtime serves as timely reminder of connected console perils
Many UK and American players were left unable to log into Xbox Live over the weekend. "We are still hard at work fixing the issue members are having signing in to Xbox Live,” a statement read. Rest assured we have every available resource working on fixing the problem." It also …
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