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window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Microsoft confirmed last night it was bringing the Game Room virtual hang out space to Xbox 360 and Games For Windows this year, an online arcade and—ahem—virtual console for your Xbox Avatar. What games will Xbox 360 owners get? Initially, the service will launch this spring with 30 original arcade and old [...]
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6 Jan 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; According to a press release summing up Microsoft’s CES 2010 keynote that dropped just before Ballmer took the stage, the company will be releasing Project Natal in “holiday season 2010.” We heard earlier today about what year the future controller would be arriving, but now, folks, now we know during which group [...]
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6 Jan 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Update 2: According to Major Nelson, Game Room users will have the ability to purchase games for their virtual arcade and play them on both their Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Additionally, new Game Room titles will be made available every week. Users will be able to invite Xbox Live friends into [...]
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4 Jan 2010Microsoft are developing technology that will allow people to perform “everyday tasks” – like playing Guitar Hero – by using their muscles, and not their hands. The tech works by reading your body’s electrical activity (the signals sent from your brain to your limbs) and intercepting the data, replicating the action in a program. Potential [...]
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28 Dec 2009This is supposedly video of somebody playing Geometry Wars on Project Natal. Emphasis on the supposedly, in case you missed the italics first time around. A Destructoid reader reckons this was shot at a “Christmas Party”, though that’s where the information dries up. On the “could be” side of things, there’s lag at several points, [...]
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22 Jul 2009Microsoft is teaming with five productions houses for a series of seven short films called Halo Legends, reports the Los Angeles Times. The five production houses are some of the biggest names in the industry: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation. The creative director overseeing the production is Shinji Aramaki, director [...]
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25 Jun 2009Developer Croteam has worked up a new versionof their CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled for a late summer release, Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is exactly what the name implies: the first entry in the tongue-in-cheek, over the top Serious Sam [...]
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17 Jun 2009Even more classic Worms-style gameplay is coming to Xbox Live Arcade with Worms 2: Armageddon, a proper numerical sequel to Team17′s 1999 classic turn-based strategy game Worms Armageddon. Worms 2: Armageddon‘s trailer highlights the changes coming to the XBLA version—and eventually to the PC and Mac—including new vertical levels and other landscape types, all-new weapons [...]
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13 Jun 2009Last week, Microsoft’s Shane Kim told us that the launch of the 360′s motion-controlled camera system – Project Natal – would be as big as a console launch. Maybe he was onto something with that. Because 1UP are reporting a rumour that while Natal will be released next year for existing 360 consoles, it will [...]
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8 Jun 2009We know nothing about Halo: Reach other than the fact it’s a new Halo game, and that it’s due sometime next year. So in the absence of facts, then, let’s speculate! While the game’s trailer lets us know the obvious things – it’ll deal with the Covenant’s attack on the human colony of Reach – [...]