Category: Microsoft
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Final Mortal Kombat downloadable character revealed: Heeere’s Freddy!
The final fearsome member of the Mortal Kombat roster of downloadable characters for Xbox 360 has been revealed. And the last addition to the fatal foursome is really a cut above the rest – Heeere’s FREDDY! Netherealm’s Mortal Kombat rebooted the series earlier in 2011, and since that time the game has received a bounty of kick-ass treats, […]
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Star Wars Xbox 360: Kinect game tie-in gets its own special edition console
The xbox has a love-in with Star Wars while George Lucas continues to laugh all the way to the bank
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Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan brings voice to Saints Row: The Third
Pro-wrestling icon Hulk Hogan is set to smack down a voice-over on the highly-anticipated next Saints Row game, delivering his bass-filled tones to a new masked lucha character known as Angel. The new installment in the popular third person, action-adventure Saints Row franchise is being developed by Volition Inc. and published by THQ. Following […]
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Goldeneye 007: Reloaded coming to Xbox 360 and PS3
Upon first sight of this news I thought “wait, that can’t be right”, but then I watched the trailer and my opinion changed. The classic Goldeneye 007 game from the N64 days is being remade and brought smack bang into 2011 on Xbox 360 and PS3. Goldeneye 007: Reloaded is coming to Xbox 360 and […]
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Sony to start Virtual Reality revival on “a couple of games”
There’s word emerging today of a Virtual Reality revival coming straight outta Sony – with photos of a new headset and word from the company’s Worldwide Senior Director telling the gaming mag Develop that work is underway to develop VR on “a couple of games”. Virtual Reality (VR) has virtually become a fad in tech […]
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AMD describes Xbox 720 graphics as “On a Par with Avatar”
Despite not being officially announced as a manufacturing partner for the next Xbox console, graphics and processor giant AMD have weighed in on what the new console may be capable of. In the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine, AMD’s Director of ISV Relationships Neal Robison has spoken about the graphics potential of the next […]
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to hit record pre-order says retailler GAME
High street and online retailer GAME has reported pre-orders of upcoming Activision title “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” will blow away the record set by predecessor “Call of Duty: Black Ops” before it’s official launch date of November 8th. There’s still three months ahead of that date and at present GAME claim the new […]
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THQ’s studio cuts lead to formation of three new companies
Following the closure of THQ Digital Warrington and Kaos Studios – staff of the THQ subsidiary groups have gone on to form three new studios after 50 of their number were released from the parent company. Addressing the staffing struggles studio boss Colin Bell states “We’ve provided around 400 man years of employment over the […]
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Microsoft registers “microsoft-sony.com” domain – What does it mean?
Microsoft seems to have gone and grabbed itself the internet domain name “microsoft-sony.com” and at the moment we can only speculate as to what the reasoning is behind this. The web address certainly provokes some interesting theories.. As well as registering the aforementioned domain, Microsoft has also acquired “sony-microsoft.com” both suggesting some kind of partnership is in the […]
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Call of Duty Elite social gaming network begins Beta rollout on Xbox 360
The eagerly-anticipated Call of Duty Elite – the social and gaming network for fans of the third-person shooter franchise – is beginning to roll out in a Beta form for Xbox 360. Currently the service is by invite only. In the style of social networks like Facebook (even incorporating Facebook features), the Elite service will […]
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Joypad app for iPhone brings to touchscreen control to smartphone
So with the reveal of Nintendo’s Wii U we’ve seen the first use of a touchscreen dedicated to console gaming – which admittedly is pretty unique, even if the console overall isn’t really anything special. However, we’ve just seen something that kind of does the same thing if on a lesser scale. If you really want your […]
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Microsoft’s Kinect is caught on video used as surgical aide
Here’s proof that Microsoft’s Kinect is truly cutting edge – as today we’ve seen the motion control system, most familiarly known as a fun gaming novelty, amazingly used as a functional aide in surgical procedures. The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Canada has demonstrated in a video how they’ve been introducing Xbox 360’s Kinect into […]