Archive For Microsoft Tag

BBC iPlayer is Not Coming to the Xbox 360, So Stop Asking

BBC iPlayer is Not Coming to the Xbox 360, So Stop Asking

Microsoft's Senior Regional Director for Northern Europe, Neil Thompson, has confirmed that the company currently has no plans on bringing over the BBC iPlayer to the Xbox 360, thus conclusively debun... Read More

RUMOR: Last.FM Hitting PS3 Soon

RUMOR: Last.FM Hitting PS3 Soon

While the odd fanboy may gloat over Last.FM's exclusivity to the Xbox 360 (wtf?), it appears that the popular music streaming service was exclusive to Microsoft's little white explosive box for only a... Read More

Kinect “won’t change games industry,” says Square Enix

Kinect “won’t change games industry,” says Square Enix

Square Enix global boss Yoichi Wada says that Microsoft's motion sensor, Kinect is "just a small extension to what is already available" in the games industry. He believes the next industry-changing t... Read More

Retailers Call for a Kinect Price Cut

Retailers Call for a Kinect Price Cut

Microsoft's motion sensor, Kinect, was rumoured to be priced at $149, and the Microsoft Store confirms this. Retailers though, it seems, are not happy with this price. They say Kinect should be priced... Read More

Halo: Reach Comic Book Adaption Coming From Marvel

Halo: Reach Comic Book Adaption Coming From Marvel

Looks like Halo: Reach is gonna be spread out over as many media as it can. It already exists as a (rather good) novel titled Halo: The Fall of Reach, the video gam adaptation of said novel, Halo: Rea... Read More

The Red Brick Of Death (New Xbox 360 Already “RROD’d”)

The Red Brick Of Death (New Xbox 360 Already “RROD’d”)

Two days earlier we had reported that the Xbox 360 will pop up a warning message and will undergo shut down mode whenever the system will heat up in order to prevent RROD. It seems that work around wo... Read More

Sega to Create a “Hardcore” Kinect Title

Sega to Create a “Hardcore” Kinect Title

In an interview with ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Sega told us they will be releasing a "sophisticated" game for the Kinect, which will take full advantage of the motion sensor's capabilities, and will ... Read More

Alan Wake 2 still not in development

Alan Wake 2 still not in development

According to Remedy's boss, Oskari Hakkinen, Alan Wake 2 is still not confirmed, and is not in development for now. "We're in a limbo at the moment where neither of us are talking about it. " he sa... Read More

New Rayman Goes Episodic

New Rayman Goes Episodic

This looks as if it might escalate into a full blown epidemic. After Sonic 4 went episodic earlier this year, Ubisoft's Ubiart blog has confirmed that the newest Rayman too will be available not as on... Read More

New Portal 2 Footage

New Portal 2 Footage

Two new E3 videos for Portal 2 were recently released, which delved upon the two most important aspects of the game, the story and the gameplay. The first video shows the player standing in front o... Read More

Micosoft Believes Kinect Will Extend Lifespan of Xbox 360 by Another 5 Years

Micosoft Believes Kinect Will Extend Lifespan of Xbox 360 by Another 5 Years

So there you have it, fellas. Pretty much the only major consoles manufacturer who hadn't committed itself for a 10 year lifespan for its current console (Sony has infamously stated that the PS3 will ... Read More

Can the 360 match the PS3’s 3D capabilities?

Can the 360 match the PS3’s 3D capabilities?

According to Microsoft, they claim that the 360 can match the PS3's 3D capabilities. They said that the Xbox is ready for 3D, but for them it's too early, they want to wait until people actually ha... Read More

Microsoft Store: Kinect Priced at $149

Microsoft Store: Kinect Priced at $149

There has been no official confirmation on Kinect's price from Miicrosoft's side, but Microsoft Store, the website, has gone ahead and posted this: See that "Add to cart: $149.99"? Yeah, that's ri... Read More

Need of Speed: Hot Pursuit Gets New Footage

Need of Speed: Hot Pursuit Gets New Footage

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the NFS game being developed by the creators of the Burnout series, Criterion, just got a new video. The video shows a cop chasing a... bad guy (?), deploying more cop ... Read More

Xbox 360 slims shuts down to prevent RROD

Xbox 360 slims shuts down to prevent RROD

Its a well known fact that for the first few years of the Xbox 360, the platform was marked by constant hardware failure when the infamous 'Red Ring of Death' used to start flashing on the console. No... Read More

Mourn, Fellow Gamers. There Will Be No Cake Meme Jokes in Portal 2

Mourn, Fellow Gamers. There Will Be No Cake Meme Jokes in Portal 2

Among other things, the first Portal is also unique in the way it incorporated so many of the prevelant internet memes back then into the game's dialogue and scenarios, not the least of which was the ... Read More

Halo: Reach is a Sad Goodbye, Says Bungie

Halo: Reach is a Sad Goodbye, Says Bungie

Bungie is all set to bid a fond farewell to the Halo series with the upcoming Halo Reach, and they promise that this game which they call a 'labour of love,' will 'push the envelope as much as possibl... Read More

E3 2010: Our Impressions

E3 2010: Our Impressions

E3 just finished, and left us with the horrifying memories of the Sony conference (though it DID have some high points, such as Twisted Metal, inFamous 2, and last, but not the least, Kevin Butler). W... Read More

E3 2010: Milo to be revealed in July

E3 2010: Milo to be revealed in July

Even though Milo appeared to be missing during Microsoft's E3 press conference, Peter Molyneux said during a recent interview that he will finally reveal Milo in July during his TEDGlobal talk in Oxf... Read More

Mortal Kombat is Very Violent, Don’t Worry

Mortal Kombat is Very Violent, Don’t Worry

Quite a few people expressed disappointment at just how... tame... the newest Mortal Kombat seemed to be, at least judging from the footage and the debut trailer released. Well, netizens, worry no ... Read More