Update: Steve Swasey, VP of Corporate Communications at Netflix, confirmed to GameCyte earlier this evening that Xbox 360 does indeed have a limited exclusive on Netflix HD streams. When asked whether this period of exclusivity was a matter of days, months, what have you, Swasey told us “not just days.” However, the VP warned that compared [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
They can do some goshdarned amazing stuff with technology these days, those motherfathers. Microsoft, always vigilant and sensible when it comes to inappropriate material on their networks, has just been awarded a new patent for “real-time censoring of audio streams,” according to Ars Technica. According to the text of the patent itself, this technology would [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
While we’ve ridiculed many of Microsoft’s decisions in the past, we have to admit that they’ve made some choices this year that will make many consumers happy. They’ve upped the XBLA size limit, begun to revamp the pathetic GFW-LIVE (while offering refunds!) and offered some pretty significant price cuts on the Xbox 360. Now, in an [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
Music games are all the rage these days, and Microsoft is well aware; at E3 2008, they had us begging them for mercy with a live demonstration of Lips, a new social karaoke game that comes with two motion-sensing wireless microphones, 40 tracks and the welcome ability to plug in your own tunes via Zune [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Japan loves the Xbox 360. Just a short while after sales had been extremely sluggish in Nintendo and Sony’s home turf, Microsoft is now claiming that sales are exceeding projections. “We’ve done better than we forecast. We are finding that we have a shortage of hardware,” said Microsoft’s John Schappert in a Reuters report this [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Microsoft, our very own American gaming giant, decided to go clear over to the Tokyo Game Show to declare the upcoming release of the New Xbox Experience. Thankfully, they yelled loud enough that we were able to hear them over here, and convey the news to you: The New Xbox Experience debuts on Wednesday, November [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
A savvy reader over at Joystiq spotted a new announcement from Microsoft this morning: The New Xbox Experience, which will transform your console “through the magic of software,” is nearly upon us. Sneakily included in a new ad in the Xbox 360’s dashboard, which invites gamers to enter Rock Band 2’s “Rock the World” sweepstakes, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
You hear me? It’s goin’ down. We’re going to show that little so-and-so a thing or two. Oh, wait — Microsoft beat us to it, and will be taking Xbox LIVE down personally. For only 24 hours, mind you. In a quick warning email from MS, we’ve been asked to pass along the word that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Kotaku and Shacknews are reporting — each through their own anonymous source — that following his August departure from Kojima Productions, Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Ryan Payton has found a new job at Microsoft Game Studios, where he will serve as creative director of the new Halo collaboration with Lord of the Rings director [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 16, 2008
This is going to become a new trend, isn’t it? I’m sorry, maybe I’m just a traditionalist, but I always thought video games were supposed to provide escapism and allow you to separate yourself from reality for just a little while. Well, Spike TV doesn’t see it that way, because they’re taking applications for “Gears [...]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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