Microsoft Publishes Financial Results
Microsoft shared its first quarter financial results for its fiscal year, and revealed a 16% increase in revenue compared against the same time last year. The Xbox-One maker made $18.5 billion during the last three months, and despite lower sales of the Xbox 360, the Devices and Hardware Division at…
Microsoft Reveal Current Xbox Live Release Schedule
Microsoft have revealed their upcoming Xbox Live release schedule. With 3 Xbox Live Arcade titles releasing this week alone, the schedule is quite extensive and can be checked out below. Xbox Live Arcade How to Survive, 23-Oct, $14.99 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, 25-Oct, $14.99 Magrunner: Dark…
Xbox 360 Lifetime Sales Hit 80 Million Units
Microsoft have recently revealed that the Xbox 360 has reached a lifetime sales number of 80 million units. They also revealed that in the US alone this year sales of the console have passed 1.6 million units and the software sales for the console have past $401.2 million. The company…
Games With Gold Scheme Here To Stay
Games With Gold is a scheme announced at E3 this year that brings 2 free games a month to Xbox 360 owners for maintaining a Xbox Live Gold account. The Games With Gold scheme has had multiple criticisms in the last few months with some users complaining over the lack…
PS4 To Cost Over £1,100 in Brazil
Sony today confirmed the PS4's price point in Brazil will be 3,999 Reais, which equates to over $1,800/£1,100. Unsurprisingly this has sparked a lot of outrage amongst Brazilian gamers. This price point also puts the Xbox One at a much greater position in the region with Microsoft's console costing 2,199…
Microsoft Will Have Dedicated Servers For All Xbox One Games
Senior Xbox director Albert Penello tweeted today that the upcoming console from Microsoft will feature dedicated servers for all of its games. This comes as part of Xbox Live Compute, which is Microsoft's initiative to allow developers access to a wealth of cloud-based computational resources. Dedicated servers have already been…
Xbox One’s Project Spark Will Be Free-to-Play
Mike Lescault, Project Spark's Community Manager, took to reddit today to let Xbox One fans know that the upcoming title shall be a free-to-play title on Microsoft's new console. This makes Project Spark the first free-to-play title on the Xbox Live service as even Xbox 360 free-to-play titles Happy Wars…
Microsoft: 50% More People Use XBL Than PSN
According to data released by the NPD group, 50% more console gamers use the Xbox Live service than its competitor, Sony's Playstation Network. The data comes from the 2013 Online Gaming Report, which was conducted by the NPD Group. The NPD Group track all sorts of figures, from sales to…
Microsoft Reportedly Banned GTA Online Exploiters
Earlier this weekend WikiGameGuides posted a video showing people how to use an exploit that could earn people millions in minutes. Now, it's been reported that some players who excessivly abused the bug are being banned. A bug that allowed you to sell your motorcycle repeatedly for up to 33,500…
Xbox One UK Tour Dates Revealed
Microsoft are going to cities around the world to give gamers the opportunity to try out Xbox One, and the UK is no exception. Microsoft's Xbox One tour shall be making two stops within the UK, both in England. From October 25th to November 3rd gamers in the London area…
Dead Rising 3 Not Releasing In Germany
Thanks to Games Welt, we now know that Dead Rising 3 is not releasing in Germany alongside the launch of the Xbox One. The BPJM - or the Bundeprüfstelle für Jugendgefährende Medien - is Germany's entertainment software regulator, and it refused to give the game a rating, which means that it…
Forza 4 Autovista Cars Were Prototypes For Forza 5
Turn 10 revealed today that Forza 4's Autovista Cars were a trial run for Xbox One's Forza 5. Autovista was a mode in Forza 4 which allowed players to view high-quality models of 26 cars from the game. In an interview with Edge Dan Greenawalt, creative director at Turn 10,…
TwistedPixel’s LocoCycle Bound For PC
LocoCycle is TwistedPixel's next title, a wacky arcade racer which until now was seemingly destined for Xbox consoles only. A rating from a German ratings board called USK seems to show that a PC version is destined for the game around about it's release in November on Xbox 360 and…
GAME Hosting Xbox One Lock-In Events
Continuing their current trend of Lock-In events for high profile releases, GAME stores around the UK will be hosting events to give gamers a chance to try out the Xbox One for themselves. Starting next week in Dundee and Derby (14th October) there will be over 60 different events up…
Microsoft Insists That Yesterdays Reports Were Misinterpretted
Following yesterdays report that Microsoft may sell Kinect data to advertisers, the company has distanced itself from the claims be telling AllThingsD that the reports were misinterpretted and that Xbox Marketing boss Yusuf Mehdi was actually referring to Xbox SmartGlass. “Just as Xbox SmartGlass allows companion mobile experiences that are synchronous…
Xbox One Game Capture Interface
An image has been released showing the Xbox One’s Video Capture Editor. The Xbox One will be able to capture the last 5 minutes of any gameplay, in comparison to Sony that will have a 15 minute capture time. What do you think of the design? Will you be watching…
An Xbox One Unboxing has been leaked Online
Lucky... As and influx of leaks and street dates being broke continues it turns out not even the Xbox One is safe. Check out this unboxing, a full month before the console even hits the shelves. This kid has got the Xbox One because of "reasons" and delights in showing…
Xbox One DVR Will Automatically Record Achievement Unlocked Moments
According to an Xbox representative speaking at EB Expo in Australia, the DVR built into Xbox One will automatically record a clip of gameplay footage when a player unlocks an achievement. "The DVR will automatically record any Achievements that take place so whenever you unlock a Gamerscore it will automatically…
Microsoft Does Really Want to Sell Kinect Data
Fairly recently, Microsoft have been making a lot of changes to the Xbox One including coming out and talking about the very touchy subject of giving away information gathered by the new kinect This was supposedly put to rest by Xbox's Marketing executive, Albert Penello stating: "Some of the new…
Day One Update For Xbox One Will Take 15-20 Minutes
The way that Xbox One will work as a console has changed a lot since its original announcement, as such Microsoft made consumers aware that a day one update would be necessary. This update will be sizable and new information from Microsoft states that it could take 15-20 minutes to…
Xbox Live Gold Free For All Users This Weekend
All Xbox 360 users will have access to all Xbox Live Gold features for this weekend only. From Friday 4th October to Sunday 6th October anyone with an Xbox Live account will automatically be granted access to all Xbox Live Gold features including online multiplayer and voice chat. This free…