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Xbox hates retail, right? Before last week’s U-turn, Xbox One was going to destroy the pre-owned market, cripple retail’s one profit-making area, and accelerate the move into digital. It was going to kill GAME and GameStop. MCV has never bought into this argument. For starters, Microsoft has a 429 console …
Read More »Xbox 360 overtakes Wii as the UK’s No.1 games console
Xbox 360 is this generation’s best-selling home games console in the UK, says GfK Chart-Track. Microsoft’s platform will overtake Wii in a matter of days, the stat tracker says. Xbox 360 is regularly outselling all rivals in hardware terms, and has now shifted 8.4m consoles across the country. This is …
Read More »Respawn explains why the Xbox Cloud will make video games better
Microsoft’s considerable investment in cloud computing will power a new breed of console games. That’s not the message coming from Microsoft itself but instead the thoughts of Respawn Entertainment, the team behind Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC outing Titanfall. They built this powerful system to let us create all …
Read More »Microsoft investing $700m in Iowa data centre
Expanded facilities to help power Xbox Live and cloud capabilities for Xbox One
Read More »Elan Lee joins Xbox Entertainment Studios
Microsoft brings on board former lead game designer to aid TV push
Read More »Microsoft still banking on Xbox One cloud computing
Vision surrounding cloud and Xbox Live remains unchanged despite always-on climb down, says March Whitten
Read More »OPINION: Xbox One strategy revamp was logical – but it might only accelerate Mattrick’s digital vision
One of the best bits of games industry scuttlebutt I have been told is about Xbox boss Don Mattrick. It’s actually about his shrewd hiring and management skills, so it’s effectively a HR anecdote. But bear with me. A few years ago I was told that when running teams at …
Read More »Fresh rumours say Xbox One will abandon controversial policies
If the latest web rumours are true, Microsoft is poised to announce a revised agenda for second-hand games and online check-in. Whathifi and Giant Bomb are both claiming via independent sources that the format-holder will abandon controversial plans that would demand Xbox One connect to Microsoft HQ servers once every …
Read More »GAME launched Xbox retail concept store last week
With the industry off in LA last week, GAME and Microsoft saw fit to quietly launch the UK’s first Xbox store. It is being described as a one-of-a-kind” concept store and is being showcased to the press by GAME next week. Based at the Boxpark mall in Shoreditch (London E1 …
Read More »DFC: "The entire future of the Xbox business is in question"
Interactive entertainment research firm DFC has delivered a scathing verdict of Xbox One’s market chances in the wake of last weeks’ incredible events at E3. In fact, it even goes as far as to question whether the scope of Xbox One’s PR failure to date could jeopardise Microsoft’s entire games …
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