Archive For Microsoft Tag

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

There's usually a problem reviewing pinball games, and that is that these games are what they are- pinball simulators that either play well, or they don't, and there is nothing more to be said about t... Read More

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard Review

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard Review

Bethesda's legendary Elder Scrolls series of role playing games got another installment last November. Skyrim took the world by storm, achieving mainstream success that few games ever manage, breaki... Read More

Microsoft: Our top 4 franchises “outsell like the top 11 Sony franchises”

Microsoft: Our top 4 franchises “outsell like the top 11 Sony franchises”

Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios, seems to be in a jolly mood after recently calling the Wii U graphically equivalent to the Xbox 360. He's at it again, though, saying t... Read More

Forza Motorsport 4’s July Car Pack Spoils Us (Almost)

Forza Motorsport 4’s July Car Pack Spoils Us (Almost)

Turn 10 Studios' latest car pack for Forza Motorsport 4 is upon us, and they've decided to give us 10 new cars to play around with for just 560 MS Points.. The trailer displays the cars available, ... Read More

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft has responded to Sony's Gaikai acquisition by saying that they value the cloud tech a lot and have been providing such services to 40 million Xbox Live members. "The cloud has been a ... Read More

Halo 4 – Forward unto dawn official teaser trailer is spectacular

Halo 4 – Forward unto dawn official teaser trailer is spectacular

Check out the new trailer for Halo 4 which looks amazing. The video is called "Forward unto dawn" and is Machinima exclusive. The first full-length, official, live action Halo series is here and on... Read More

Press Play’s “On Sketchy Grounds” Coming to Microsoft Kinect?

Press Play’s “On Sketchy Grounds” Coming to Microsoft Kinect?

The European Union, believe it or not, is actually quite progressive thinking. They've got an entire list of media to pledge money, although sizable financing must be provided by the developer as we... Read More

Halo 4: Info Blowout – Immersive campaign, improved matchmaking and more

Halo 4: Info Blowout – Immersive campaign, improved matchmaking and more

We have some new information on Halo 4, courtesy of Gamestop, which confirms that there will be 10 weapons, two new vehicles and Spartan Ops will have 50 missions available over 10 weeks. Accord... Read More

Lollipop Chainsaw Review

Lollipop Chainsaw Review

Weird. Wacky. Bizarre. Surreal. Suda51 has a penchant for making, shall we say, unconventional video games. Always highly stylized and incredibly satirical, his video games feature over the top cha... Read More

Halo 4 to feature 10 launch maps, 10 new weapons, 50 Spartan Ops levels

Halo 4 to feature 10 launch maps, 10 new weapons, 50 Spartan Ops levels

Microsoft have revealed a whole host of new Halo 4 information, ranging from new maps to brand new vehicles. Halo 4 will contain 10 new weapons, 2 new vehicles, 10 new launch maps, with more coming... Read More

Game of Thrones Review

Game of Thrones Review

Whenever any media property becomes too popular, there will be a video game made on it. It's like a law of the universe. And with Game of Thrones, the video games have been a long time coming. When ... Read More

Crytek: Sony and MS too much reliant on retail, “future of consoles is F2P”

Crytek: Sony and MS too much reliant on retail, “future of consoles is F2P”

Cevat Yerli of Crytek thinks the future of consoles is free-to-play, but he has described the reasons why that is hard for hardware manufacturers like Sony and Microsoft to implement. He said that t... Read More

Halo 4: E3 2012 from 343 Industries’ perspective

Halo 4: E3 2012 from 343 Industries’ perspective

Check out the video which shows Halo 4 at E3 2012. 343 Industries stole the show and this video shows you why. E3 2012 was a rollercoaster of emotions for the 343 team. After years of working silen... Read More

Halo 4 could turn out to be the best Halo game yet

Halo 4 could turn out to be the best Halo game yet

[HTML1] Halo 4 is something almost everyone expected Microsoft to announce, but we weren't sure whether Master Chief would be back or it's actually a start of a new trilogy, but it did happen. The ga... Read More

Xbox 360’s Aqualibrium Trailer Is Here For Your Viewing Pleasure

Xbox 360’s Aqualibrium Trailer Is Here For Your Viewing Pleasure

[HTML1] Check out this video from Xbox Live's game: Aqualibrium Aqualibrium was released on the 20th June 2012, featuring 40 levels, 2 levels of difficulty, online and offline highscores, awardme... Read More

Summer of Arcade XBLA 2012 revealed

Summer of Arcade XBLA 2012 revealed

We have the game list for Summer of Arcade XBLA 2012 revealed by Major Nelson on his blog. You can check out pricing and release dates below. Deadlight remains the one that I am most interested i... Read More

EA excited by Xbox Smartglass

EA excited by Xbox Smartglass

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Smartglass which was announced at their E3 conference this year is actually pretty cool, according to some EA executives. "I think it’s a killer initiative. I really like... Read More

Rumour: Next-Gen Xbox called ‘Surface’ Data Sheet leaked

Rumour: Next-Gen Xbox called ‘Surface’ Data Sheet leaked

Since everything is leaking anyway, fake or real, I figured I'll post the one that at least makes sense. So apparently this is a leaked next-gen Xbox data sheet. Some of the stuff here is iffy, like 3... Read More

Nintendo: ‘PS4/Xbox 720 Might Not Offer Full Generational Leaps’

Nintendo: ‘PS4/Xbox 720 Might Not Offer Full Generational Leaps’

The Wii U is being accused of, at best, being a very moderate and incremental bump over the current generation of systems. Having already defended the Wii U's power, Nintendo expressed its belief th... Read More

Forza Motorsport 4 Porsche DLC Review

Forza Motorsport 4 Porsche DLC Review

Turn 10's support for Forza 4 has been admirable so far with the studio releasing its latest DLC which brings in what fans wanted the most - Porsches. The latest DLC for the game brings in 30 Porsche ... Read More