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Microsoft to increase the price of Xbox Live Gold
Microsoft has confirmed that it will be increasing the price of Xbox Live Gold in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States. From November 1st 2010, the price of an annual Xbox Live Gold subscription will increase from $49.99 to $59.99 in the US. Monthly charges will also rise to $9.99, up from $7.99. [...]
Microsoft Will Offer Xbox 360 for Five More Years
Microsoft Corp. will continue to offer the Xbox 360 for the next five years, expanding the lifespan of the console to 10 years, said Chris Lewis, vice president for interactive entertainment business in Europe. The company is trying to lengthen the Xbox 360’s shelf life with new features and services, such as the motion-sensing Kinect [...]
New Halo video game leaked
Microsoft’s highly anticipated Halo: Reach video game has been leaked to file-sharing websites ahead of its official release on Sept. 14. The game, the latest in Microsoft’s acclaimed Halo science-fiction shooter series, was obtained and cracked by GameTuts, a website devoted to modifying and cracking video game consoles. “Me and my team finally did it; [...]
CHIPS: Kinect Won’t Boost Xbox 360’s Hardware Sales
Don McCabe, manager of UK independant retailer CHIPS, feels Kinect won’t boost the Xbox 360’s hardware sales. “In some ways Microsoft has missed the boat,” he told GamesIndustry.biz. “Over the last two years the casual market has been declining rapidly.” “I don’t think it’s going to add any new hardware sales. I spotted in their [...]
Kinect priced at $150, includes Kinect Adventures
The question of Kinect pricing is over … insomuch as there was any question. As was widely assumed – and widely listed on retailers, from GameStop to Microsoft itself – the Xbox’s newfangled motion-sensing camera will retail for $149.99 this fall. There’s also an answer regarding the pricing of Kinect retail software. While most stores have been listing [...]
Microsoft Responds To 360 Red Dot Claims
Microsoft has responded to claims that the latest iteration of the Xbox 360 is prone to overheating, resulting in the so-called ‘red dot of death’ Various reports have suggested that the new Xbox 360, unveiled at E3 and released in the US last week, is prone to overheating, resulting in an error screen. Read entire article [...]
E3 2010: Details on the New Xbox 360
The new, slimmer Xbox 360 will be available in stores this week. We’ve got the full details on all of the console’s new features — and the skinny on what happens to all your older Xbox stuff. The slim, black X360 comes with a 250 GB removable hard drive. You will need to love it, [...]
New RROD lawsuits planned
The Xbox 360 is a great system and has a lot to offer gamers — but it’s not without it’s flaws. One of those flaws was, and still is it’s somewhat unreliable hardware. Some of us get broken consoles fixed or buy a new one, some of us move on to other consoles, and then [...]
Microsoft “Shaking Up” Its Gaming Division
According to a report on The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is looking to “shake up” the management structure of its Entertainment & Devices Division, which among other things is the group responsible for the Xbox 360. What this actually means beyond the term “major organizational changes” is not disclosed, but it must be serious, because those [...]
USB mass storage coming to Xbox 360
Cnet reports: Game blog Joystiq has screens of what it says is an upcoming build of the Xbox 360 system software that will allow USB mass storage devices to serve as memory units. The feature, which Joystiq says is due out in the next few months as part of the spring system update, will turn [...]