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Cinemash, a new video series that will feature film and TV actors re-enacting their dream parts, is headed to the Zune and, perhaps, the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
Useless at maths? We feel your pain. Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to work out how much money you’re actually spending when you fork over some MS Points on Xbox Live Marketplace. The Aussie dollar conversion rate is 100 Points = $1.65, not the simplest calculation do perform in your head when your thumb is hovered over the A button, eager to spend spend spend! Pro tip: bookmark the Microsoft Points Converter.
Gamasutra has an interesting — if dry — analysis of a variety of sales figures from Nintendo’s investor presentation. While targeted towards a particular audience, the variety of graphs and pie charts illustrate what’s going on in the global marketplace: handheld and console sales, as well as first- and third-party software sales, shed light on how Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are doing across the board. Of particular interest are the figures on the European market, which tends to be difficult to get a grasp on:
Speaking to a gathering of journalists earlier this week at the Tokyo Game Show, John “Crazy Days” Schappert seemed unwilling to say that the Xbox 360 would return to the once comforting twice a year release schedule for its updates.
