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Huge Xbox Live US Store Sale

Huge Xbox Live US Store Sale

A huge sale has hit the Microsoft Xbox Live store, with dozens of games on sale for as little as 10 dollars. Several video games are on sale with titles including, Batman: Arkham city, The Darkness II, Ninja Gaiden 3, Sonic Generations, Soul Calibur V, and Street Fighter X Tekken, all within the low prices range. The full list of games at a discount price have been provided, courtesy of Cheap Ass ...

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Microsoft Confirms Xbox One Self Publishing For Indie Developers

Microsoft Confirms Xbox One Self Publishing For Indie Developers

Xbox One Self Publishing? In recent weeks, Microsoft have been reversing a lot of their policies – including dropping the fees for playing used games, removing its DRM (Always-Online) requirements and now Microsoft are not only allowing Indie Developers to self-publish games, they are also saying that each and every Xbox One console can be used for development – much like the Playstati...

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Lorne Lanning says that Indies do not matter to Microsoft

Lorne Lanning says that Indies do not matter to Microsoft

With Microsoft failing to recognize the smaller studios and indie developers at there rightful business level, Lorne Lanning the co-found of Oddworld Inhabitant said “it doesn’t seem like any of the little guys are on the radar”. When VG247 talked to Lanning about Microsofts bad approach to indie developers on the Xbox One he brought up their problems with releasing Oddworld: Str...

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Angry Birds Star Wars Coming to Consoles

Angry Birds Star Wars Coming to Consoles

May the flock be with you! Angry Birds Star Wars is coming to consoles this October, and yes these are the birds you’re looking for. Angry Birds Star Wars was brought to the world by Rovio Entertainment and together with Activision Blizzard Inc. and Lucasflim, the game is expected to come out October 29th for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Wii and 3DS. “Downloaded more than 100 million times sinc...

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Xbox One Domain Secured by Microsoft After Dispute

Xbox One Domain Secured by Microsoft After Dispute

Early today it was reported by Fusible that Microsoft was victorious in its bid to obtain the domains after it had made a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum in May. Microsoft was supported in the inquiring of these domains by The Richard Law Group, who has also helped Microsoft take control of XboxPhone.com with XboxTablet.com last year. It was also noted by Fusible that Microsoft has n...

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Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft For Zynga

Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft For Zynga

Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft For Zynga  In rather surprising news, Zynga has confirmed that Don Mattrick is no longer Microsoft’s head of the Interactive Entertainment Business, and has been appointed chief executive at the social games firm, effective July 8, 2013. Reports say Mattrick resigned from Microsoft, although it’s yet to be officially disclosed under what terms the exec dep...

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Ultimate Gaming Lounge from Virgin Gaming

Ultimate Gaming Lounge from Virgin Gaming

Owners of the Virgin Gaming app on the Xbox 360 can add a new way of winning an Ultimate Gaming Lounge. The developers have released an update to the console, which allows any gamer that already has it downloaded. to try  new ways to win. They include a feature where players can participate in buy-in-tournaments or head-to-head matches using their own money. Virgin Gaming has awarded Xbox 360 game...

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Microsoft E3 2013: A new era with the Xbox One

Microsoft E3 2013: A new era with the Xbox One

Today on June 10th, the E3 press conference kicked off with the Microsoft press conference, featuring many new games and features based on cloud and SmartGlass technology. They also showcased a new Xbox 360 design, based on the Xbox One which will be sleeker and quieter, and new games for the 360 such as the free to play World of Tanks, which has been custom built for the system, Max the courage o...

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Initial Impressions PlayStation 4, Xbox One Comparison

Initial Impressions PlayStation 4, Xbox One Comparison

Microsoft finally unveiled their next Xbox , called the Xbox One. Microsoft emphasized that the Xbox One will be the console that is the center of your living room. Microsoft wanted to hammer home that you can do everything and connect to everything with the Xbox One the, all the while it features playing games as well. That’s been the attitude from Microsoft for awhile now and that plan is ...

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XBox One reveal round-up

XBox One reveal round-up

Tonight the fight for gamers’ hearts, minds and wallets officially began. Microsoft has officially announced their next gen machine the Xbox One. Live from Xbox HQ in Redmond WA, the worlds media was treated to the systems world debut. Enter Don Mattrick who you may remember from such presentations as every Microsoft E3 conference since the launch of Xbox 360. Don began by announcing the Xbox One ...

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