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Microsoft may be desperate to position the Xbox 360 as the living room’s multimedia hub, but new stats suggest it lags behind its rival in key areas. A report from Nielsen says that just 13 per cent of the time US users spent with their Xbox 360 in 2012 was …

First free-to-play Xbox title gets 800k new users in four months

The creator of indie hit Braid admits that the idea of working with Microsoft on its new Xbox console fills him with a certain amount of dread”. Jonathan Blow’s experiences with PS4, on the other hand, have been overwhelmingly positive. That’s why his next game, The Witness, is scheduled to …

Don Mattrick says Valve is innovative, but not a threat

It’s not as if a platform holder would deliberately leak something just hours ahead of its rival’s big hardware reveal or anything. Ow, this feels like an episode of The Thick of It! The truth of it, though, is that some specs for the second iteration of Kinect is unlikely …

Increased field of view and higher depth range to allow up to six users playing at once, claims report

Ben Board brings 15 years of experience to team behind hit racing game

Authorities allegedly present warrant to man who sold an Xbox 720 dev kit on eBay

Long-dead developer Studio Gigante was at one stage working on a Street Fighter II style Star Wars game – and you can see the video here. The video was posted online by Gigante co-founder Josh Tsui, who is currently president of developer Robomodo. What you’re seeing is described as an …

This week’s MCV– which isnow available to view online– looks at the impact of the latest jobs cuts on HMV’s games team. With the video games division cut from ten people to two, publishers are concerned the retailer’s games offering may suffer – download now to read the full story. …