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...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...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...Friday, July 25, 2008
You might have heard GFW LIVE subscribers have been freed from financial bondage, but did you know that Microsoft is offering that freedom retroactively? Perhaps you knew that the updated GFW service sports a new UI — but have you seen it? While we wait for our own opportunity to interview Microsoft’s Kevin Unangst about the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We’ve known about Microsoft’s XNA and the Creators Club for a while now: Microsoft previewed the XNA suite of development tools and middleware back in 2006, and the game studio tools were released at the end of 2007. Today, however, at Microsoft’s Gamefest 2008 conference, the company detailed what it is now calling “Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
While Microsoft’s E3 2008 press conference revealed a veritable stockpile of bird dung exciting titles for core gamers and a few key partnerships that may make the Xbox 360 your media center of choice, vice president of Xbox LIVE John Schappert took time out to explain how Microsoft plans to enhance the social experience [...]
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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