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Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition sells over a million

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition sells over a million

Notch, the creator of Minecraft still retains that charm on the Xbox 360. It's clear that the console's audience love such games considering the popularity of spin-off games such as FortressCraft. ... Read More

Sony’s “not so smart” handling of the PS3 helped Xbox 360 succeed- Former Microsoft games boss

Sony’s “not so smart” handling of the PS3 helped Xbox 360 succeed- Former Microsoft games boss

Former head of Microsoft's Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division Robbie Bach says the Xbox 360 succeeded partly because of how Sony mishandled the PS3. "Some of the success of Xbox was ... Read More

UK sees 33.2% drop in April game sales

UK sees 33.2% drop in April game sales

The UK retail games market has seen a sharp decline of sales in what has been a tough April for many retailers. Compared to April 2011, 33.2% fewer games were sold, seeing just over 2m games sold i... Read More

Ex-Microsoft EDD President: “Sony mismanaged their 70-percent market share and cost structure”

Ex-Microsoft EDD President: “Sony mismanaged their 70-percent market share and cost structure”

Sony had built up an incredible marketshare with the PS2 and the way they squandered all that is not unknown. Ex-Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President, Robbie Bach, said why they could make ... Read More

Rumour: Next Xbox could be called Xbox 8

Rumour: Next Xbox could be called Xbox 8

We have a rumour which states that Microsoft's next Xbox could be called Xbox 8. Now this makes sense for a lot of reasons, because of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. It's only natural that Xbox 8 co... Read More

Halo 4 contains some new enemies: ‘Crawler’ and ‘Watcher’

Halo 4 contains some new enemies: ‘Crawler’ and ‘Watcher’

A cardboard cutout from McFarlane toys has revealed two new enemies in Halo 4 along with their respective images. They're called Crawler and Watcher respectively. The cutout shows a lot of characte... Read More

Here’s your XBL activity charts for April 30th

Here’s your XBL activity charts for April 30th

We have the Xbox Live activity charts for April, and as expected Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 tops the charts. FIFA 12 is at no. 3, followed by Battlefield 3 and Halo: Reach. Gears of War 3 i... Read More

April NPD sales for this year revealed, the industry is in shambles

April NPD sales for this year revealed, the industry is in shambles

We have the April NPD 2012 sales for you and it's not looking pretty. Activision's Prototype 2 is the title that sold the most and did over 200k. When compared to last year same period, the top 7 ti... Read More

Akai Katana To Get Four DLC Packs, Details Inside

Akai Katana To Get Four DLC Packs, Details Inside

Rising Star Games have detailed the four upcoming DLC packs for Akai Katana. The game is set to launch on May 15 in the U.S. Akai Katana combines the spirit of adventure offered through a t... Read More

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition To Be Live Streamed Tommorow

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition To Be Live Streamed Tommorow

This coming Wednesday is the conclusion of the Arcade NEXT All-Stars live streaming series. The last game featuring will be Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and hosted by pro gamer SeaNanners. The strea... Read More

$99 Xbox 360 now official, comes with $15/month contract

$99 Xbox 360 now official, comes with $15/month contract

Earlier we reported that the $99 Xbox 360 from Microsoft was going to revealed in a week, and that rumour has come true as Microsoft has finally made their plans official. There are a few reaso... Read More

PS4 and Xbox 720: Next Generation Gaming Round Up For The Week

PS4 and Xbox 720: Next Generation Gaming Round Up For The Week

Today we bring you the latest rumors and news for next generation consoles: PS4 and Xbox 720. First up. Bethesda are looking for programmers to work an unannounced game on future-generation con... Read More

Report: Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox already in production stage

Report: Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox already in production stage

According to a report it is confirmed that Microsoft's next-gen system is indeed under development at Flextronics in Austin, Texas. Flextronics manufactures the current Xbox 360 and other devices fo... Read More

REPORT- Microsoft releasing a $99 Xbox 360 bundle

REPORT- Microsoft releasing a $99 Xbox 360 bundle

According to recent reports on Verge, Microsoft is preparing a new Xbox 360 bundle that will cost on $99 and release as early as next week. The bundle will include a 4 GB Xbox 360 Slim consol... Read More

Akai Katana Releasing May 1st

Akai Katana Releasing May 1st

[HTML1] Rising Star Games today announces the availability of Xbox 360 exclusive Akai Katana in stores from May 11. Roaring out of the arcade and on to Xbox 360, Akai Katana players will experienc... Read More

Xbox 360 Banned in Germany

Xbox 360 Banned in Germany

  A patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola has resulted in an injunction banning several Microsoft products from distribution in Germany, including Xbox 360. This ban also extend... Read More

Fable Heroes: Some heroic screenshots

Fable Heroes: Some heroic screenshots

Check out these new screenshots from Fable Heroes. This game is published by Microsoft on Xbox. [gallery link="file"]Read More

Dirt Showdown demo now available on XBLM

Dirt Showdown demo now available on XBLM

Dirt Showdown demo is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace and weighs in at 1.16 GB. So, if you want to check out how the game is, now is your chance to do so. The demo is only available to X... Read More

Bloodforge Review

Bloodforge Review

Bloodforge is a hack-and-slash game for Xbox Live, and is quite similar to God of War in a lot of ways. I never expected to see such a game on XBLA mainly due to the fact that this looks much more lik... Read More

Xbox 360 leading in US, PS3 in Europe and 3DS in Japan for 2012

Xbox 360 leading in US, PS3 in Europe and 3DS in Japan for 2012

According to estimates released by Nintendo based on market research data, the PS3 is the highest selling console in Europe so far this year, while the Xbox 360 and 3DS lead in US and Japan respect... Read More