Posts Tagged Microsoft
Report: Vivendi still looking to sell Activision Blizzard; Sony not interested, Microsoft haggling price
Media powerhouse Vivendi is still looking to get rid of its majority €8 billion stake in Activision Blizzard, a “credible source” claims. Said source [...]
Halo 4′s “Celebrity Gaming Night” shows the industry still lacks star power
Yesterday night Microsoft held what it’s calling a Celebrity Gaming Night in Manchester, UK. The event is being described as the “UK’s first [...]
PS4 and Xbox 720 are “spectacular”, according to EA boss
Frank Gibeau, the man in charge of EA Games, EA Sports, BioWare and Maxis (has looks very man-childish), has described the next generation [...]
Cross-platform play is not going to happen, says Fifa 13 producer
Still living in hope that one day you’ll be able to play games across platform? I’m not talking PS3 to PS Vita or [...]
The troubled cryo-sleep of Halo 4 [Video]
The latest teaser for October’s live-action Halo 4 ‘Forward Unto Dawn’ deals with the lovely subject of sleep. Ahh, sleep, how can they [...]
Xbox Live Arcade games coming to Windows 8 platforms
The first set of Xbox Live Arcade games that will be available on Windows 8 platforms has been revealed by Microsoft. Totalling 29, [...]
Atari launching ‘Atari Arcade’, classic games available in your browser
Atari has struck up a partnership with Microsoft to launch the Atari Arcade on the Internet Explorer web browser. The Atari Arcade will [...]
BBC radio on demand added to Xbox Live iPlayer app
The BBC iPlayer add on Xbox Live has been updated and now gives you on demand access to a number of BBC radio [...]
Play Halo 4 before it’s released at MLG Fall Championship
Major League Gaming has announced that Halo 4 will be part of the MLG Fall Championship in Dallas, Texas. The event takes place [...]
Convincing the hardcore players that they’re the minority is not easy [F1 2012]
Hardcore players. The truly hardcore, not the ‘hardcore’ that are ‘hardcore’ because they play Gears of War and Street Fighter instead of Angry [...]
Free-to-play MMO coming to XBLA this autumn
Microsoft will publish Happy Wars, a free-to-play massively-multiplayer fighter, on Xbox Live Arcade this autumn. Happy Wars features 15 vs. 15 combat within [...]
Microsoft changes logo, mind blown
Turns out it doesn’t take much to blow my mind. A simple logo change from one of the world’s biggest companies and my [...]
Halo 4 Achievements revealed
I’ll say it now. The list below does contain some minor spoilers, so avert your eyes if you’re one of those people looking [...]
Kinect gets cheaper in the US, no plans for EU price cut
As if the exchange rate wasn’t punishing enough already, the gap between the price of Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensor controller in the United States [...]
Halo 4′s ‘Prelude’ trailer goes fully instrumental [Video]
Microsoft has made an interesting stylistic choice with this latest Halo 4 video, ostensibly about the ‘making of’ the game. There are no [...]
New London studio to be opened by Microsoft
Microsoft may just have finished dispensing with the services of a number of employees in Vancouver, but the company will at least be [...]
Development ceases on Microsoft Flight
Sad news if you’re one of the people who enjoyed Microsoft’s return to flight sims (albeit in a more accessible fashion), because development [...]
Lionhead explains why Project Milo was scrapped and Fable: The Journey was started
Remember Lionhead’s Project Milo? The Kinect project which showed the user interacting with a little boy on screen that was demonstrated during the [...]
Wreckateer [Review] – Capitalism no?
I hate it when I can sum up a game in four words, because it gives me the opportunity to be astonishingly, breathtakingly [...]
Dance Central 3 release date confirmed, 11 new tracks revealed
Microsoft has confirmed that Dance Central 3 will be released on 16 October in North and Latin America, a 19 October launch will [...]
Save-corrupting Fez patch is too expensive to fix
You might remember a patch for Xbox Live Arcade title Fez from a while back which had the unfortunate side-effect of corrupting a [...]
Fable: The Journey is biggest Fable ever, first playthrough will take 30 hours
Lionhead are working hard to laid rest to the idea that Fable: The Journey is a casual, throwaway Kinect title. Speaking at last [...]
This special Halo 4 console bundle is quite pricey
Big fan of Master Chief? Need a new 320gb Xbox 360 console in your life? Have $400 USD to spare? If you hit [...]
Microsoft not attending GamesCom or Tokyo Game Show
Microsoft has confirmed that it will be not make the trip to GamesCom or the Tokyo Game Show this year. “As you saw [...]
iOS app update let you control your Xbox 360 with your iPhone/iPad
The My Xbox Live app for iOS devices has been updated to allow you to connect to your Xbox 360. New functionality in the [...]
Microsoft say that they are not neglecting gamers, but are they?
In the wake of Microsoft’s E3 2012 press conference, the general consensus is that the games are taking a back-seat to the platform [...]
E3 2012: Gears of War: Judgment [Preview]
Epic Games want to release a new Gears of War game before the next generation of consoles hit. How do they do that without rushing [...]
IncGamers Podcast #83 – E3 Show
This week, the team reflects on the great and not-so-great reveals of the big E3 press events. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA and Ubisoft [...]
Bleszinski: A replayable game is a better game
Speaking in regards to Gears of War: Judgment at E3 today, Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski has spoken of his belief that games that [...]
Play as a medic, scout and engineer in Gears of War: Judgment
It was revealed at E3 today that Gears of War: Judgment’s multiplayer setup will include ‘Over Run’ mode, dubbed as a mash-up between [...]
