Offering the company’s first detailed and dare I say it human response to a recent flood of hijacked Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft’s Alex Garden, General Manager of Xbox LIVE, has issued the following statement: More »
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT’S TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME. The Australian NPD figures have been released, and all that’s left now is for Microsoft and Sony to pummel each other into press release oblivion. More »
Stephen Toulouse — known as StepTo to those listening to Major Nelson’s podcast, or unfortunate enough to feel the cold kiss of the Xbox Live banhammer — has given his two weeks notice to Microsoft. The director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement will leave February 16, after 18 years with the company. More »
I’ve had the strangest feeling recently — that I’ll go to E3 this year with a head full of next-generation dreams only to be disappointed as both Sony and Microsoft no-show their new consoles. Sony has already stated they won’t be unveiling a new PlayStation at this year’s E3, and now an executive at Microsoft France is saying any talk of a next gen Xbox at this year’s E3 is “premature”. More »
Whether motivated by trolling or delusional wish fulfillment, some guy tossed up a page pretending to be a registration site for a Halo 4 multiplayer beta last week. 343 Industries, the game’s developer, quickly branded that as a fake, and the site was taken offline. That’s not good enough for Microsoft. More »
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. More »
So, we’ve heard from a source that the next Xbox may feature some kind of anti-used games technology. When you first read that, your first instinct was probably to think it’s either bullshit or the worst idea a video game company has ever had. More »
Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku. More »
Time for the latest instalment of “shit people are saying/guessing about the next Xbox console”! This week we have two reports, one from IGN and the other from Fudzilla. More »
At Starbucks, you see people with their iPads, their MacBooks, and, yes, their gaming portables. What you don’t usually see are people with their home consoles. More »
