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Microsoft’s $99 subscription Xbox 360 trial could be coming to the UK and Europe. The offer was rolled out to select American retailers last month. It sees gamers pay just $99 up front for an Xbox 360 console on the condition that the sign up to a two-year Xbox Live …
Read More »MCV reports on Daily Mail story, descends into nonsense
Let’s get this straight before we even get to the details – this is definitely Microsoft’s fault. Not the kid’s for spending all the money. Not the dad’s for letting her child have access to her bank card. Dispel thoughts of bad parenting. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and become …
Read More »Halo 2 Anniversary in development – report
Microsoft-owned developer 343 Industries is reportedly working on yet another HD-revamp of a past Halo title. The latest issue of OXM, as reported by CVG, claims that the studio is currently beavering away on Halo 2 Anniversary. With Halo 4 pencilled in for a November 6th release, a possible Halo …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Xbox Smartglass
In hindsight, SmartGlass was Microsoft’s most significant announcement at E3 this year. Buried between key core games and gut-rumbling gunfire demos, and itself presented with too-cheesy catchphrases, SmartGlass at the time felt like the now typical ‘non-games moment’ during the Xbox presentation. Yet in the wake of further announcements the …
Read More »SmartGlass and ‘entertainment’ – the REAL Microsoft next-gen strategy
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features interviews with Xbox’s Chris Lewis and Phil Spencer. We also investigate SmartGlass, pay tribute to departing Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton and speak to Gianluca Vialli about his new game The magazine is available for iPad. Download our …
Read More »Epic’s Rein talks Surface’s Xbox gaming credentials
One of the world’s leading developers sees Microsoft’s new Surface tablet as a viable games platform for the years ahead. Epic co-founder Mark Rein has expressed his desire to get his company’s Unreal Engine – one of the cornerstones of modern games development – up and running on the device. …
Read More »Alleged Xbox leak No.3 – Xbox Surface
Another supposed leak from Microsoft suggests that an Xbox tablet, called ‘Xbox Surface’, is very much in the works. A detailed 56-page document claiming to detail the next generation of Xbox (codenamed Xbox 720) was revealed to the world yesterday. This was shortly followed by claims of a new Microsoft …
Read More »Dubious ‘leaked’ document outlines Xbox future
Suspect roadmap claims next-gen console to cost $299 and will release in 2013 alongside Kinect 2
Read More »‘Xbox Live streaming’ tablet unveiled tomorrow?
No, we don’t think so either. But the latest rumour about tomorrow’s expected Microsoft ‘iPad rival’ unveiling says the new device is an ereader table that ‘streams Xbox Live’. [UPDATE: TechCrunch, via Twitter, has clarified to the author of this piece what it means but ‘Xbox Live streaming’ – apparently, …
Read More »‘Leaked’ and dubious document claims to outline future Xbox roadmap
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: …
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