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Xbox 720 Is “Going The Apple Route”
10 Nov, 2011 11:00 AM | A-G Sonday So Microsoft has announced that the successor to the Xbox 360 is in development but that’s about all we’ve heard from the company itself. That doesn’t mean other people can’t [...]
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Kinect For Windows Due ‘Early 2012′
7 Nov, 2011 2:30 PM | Azhar It’s recently been Kinect’s birthday, and because it usually goes that we benefit from other big companies’ parties, Microsoft is celebrating this with some announcements for PC gamers. Starting with [...]
Kinect’s “Second Generation” Now Happening
20 Oct, 2011 3:15 PM | Azhar Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, recently speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, said that support for Kinect will improve as it now enters its second generation. So, if [...]
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Everyone’s In On The New Xbox TV Experience
7 Oct, 2011 2:30 PM | A-G Sonday Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the Xbox 360 would have access to content from almost 40 new media partners in over 20 countries by Christmas 2011. The partners in question [...]
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This Skyrim Xbox Will Make You Commit A Double Homicide
29 Aug, 2011 3:15 PM | A-G Sonday As you read this, two lucky bastards people are enjoying ogling and using their very own Elders Scroll V: Skyrim-themed Xbox 360′s given out at a walkthrough of the game [...]
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The Ultimate Modular Sports Controller
29 Aug, 2011 11:00 AM | A-G Sonday No controller is perfect, right? The PS3′s one has clunky ergonomics and sticky trigger buttons whereas the Xbox 360 has a soft D-pad. Do you prefer to 360 or PS3 [...]
Microsoft Believes Kinect Will Grow On Hardcore Gamers
30 Jun, 2011 1:45 PM | A-G Sonday Microsoft believes that Kinect will eventually win hardcore gamers over. Many core gamers were disappointed with Microsoft’s Kinect-centric E3 2011 press conference. Speaking with Eurogamer, Xbox senior product manager David [...]
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E3 2011: Behold Micrsoft’s New Xbox Steering Wheel
7 Jun, 2011 12:00 PM | A-G Sonday Feast your eyes upon the latest official Xbox steering wheel peripheral to come from Microsoft. The biggest thing to notice is the lack of any wires. The wheel is wireless [...]
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Console Price Cuts Are On The Cards According To Kotick
11 May, 2011 4:00 PM | A-G Sonday From the depths of hell, better known as the Activision CEO’s office, have come murmurs from a figure we’d almost forgotten about. Yes, your favourite rabid capitalist and mine, Bobby [...]
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Analysts Give Sales Predictions For April — 3DS Off To A Slow Start
10 May, 2011 1:00 PM | Caveshen Ahead of the NPD Group’s release of official market data this week, game industry analysts have weighed in with their own sales predictions for the month of April, in the [...]
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Xbox LIVE And Kinect Sports Thanks Users For New Guinness World Record
4 May, 2011 1:00 PM | Caveshen Xbox LIVE members across the globe created history, that’s right, history bitch, by setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous online 100m sprint, which featured 10, 539 [...]
New Unreal Engine Justifies PS4, Xbox 720 – Epic
2 Apr, 2011 11:00 AM | A-G Sonday According to Epic Games VP Mark Rein, the all new DX11 Unreal Engine, which was showcased at GDC last month with a tech demo, justifies the next generation of gaming [...]
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Tron Controllers Have Arrived
19 Dec, 2010 5:25 PM | A-G Sonday Behold, the Tron Limited Edition Controllers from Performance Designed Products. The same people who brought us the AfterGlow controllers, PDP has done it again with these awesome Tron controllers. The [...]
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Kinect Sells 2.5 Million Times In Only 25 Days
2 Dec, 2010 12:27 PM | Dean Microsoft has announced that Kinect has sold 2.5 million times in only 25 days of worldwide release. “We are thrilled about the consumer response to Kinect, and are working hard [...]
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Crytek Boss: PC’s Are Ahead Of Consoles, Limited By Developers
26 Nov, 2010 12:59 PM | Dean The Crytek boss is back praising the PC. Cevat Yerli said this time round that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 developers are holding back on game quality for the PC. [...]
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Quick Unboxing: Xbox Kinect + 4Gb Slim Console
26 Nov, 2010 12:38 PM | Dean We received the Xbox Kinect 4gb package with a few games for review. The package includes the Kinect device, Kinect Adventures game, Xbox 4gb Slim console, one remote, and no [...]
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You’ll Be Banned From Xbox Live If You Use A Swastika In Black Ops
26 Nov, 2010 12:02 PM | Dean Microsoft are taking strong action against symbol-abusers in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It was said that if you play on Xbox Live with the infamous swastika symbol in Black [...]
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Microsoft Doesn’t Mind If You Tweak Your Kinect, On Your PC
26 Nov, 2010 11:41 AM | Dean Obviously Microsoft would like to keep their Kinect as is without people tampering too much. And to do so, Microsoft threatened legal action to anyone interested in opening up the [...]
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Kinect Breaches 1 Million Sales In 10 Days
16 Nov, 2010 12:09 PM | Azhar According to Microsoft, Kinect has sold one million units in the peripherals first ten days since launch. Early demand from consumers for Kinect “solidifies [the] biggest year in Xbox history”, [...]
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Microsoft Answers More Xbox Live Questions For South Africa
27 Oct, 2010 10:14 PM | Dean Microsoft has cleared up a few more questions on Xbox Live for South Africa. We’ve quoted the entire piece for ease, and to eliminate that whole he-said she-said debacle. This [...]
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This Is The First Official Xbox 360 Kinect Advert
21 Oct, 2010 10:59 AM | Dean If you keeping hearing “You are the controller,” and remain confused, the below advert might help you. More on Kinect here. Kinect launches in South Africa on the 10th of [...]
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Xbox Live Silver Now Called Xbox Live Free Membership
21 Oct, 2010 10:53 AM | Dean Microsoft has renamed their free Live Silver package to “Xbox Live Free Membership.” The update of the name comes alongside, both, the Gold price hike for November as well as [...]
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You Can Now Sit Down And Use Kinect
18 Oct, 2010 2:32 PM | Dean Previous reports about Kinect stated that the motion-sensing technology could only work with users standing up. Well, new reports state that the technology will be able to focus on those [...]
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Xbox Live Will Launch In South Africa On The 10th Of November, Costs More Than USA
12 Oct, 2010 10:31 AM | Dean It’s finally here. After years of having to cheat the system, Microsoft is finally offering LIVE in South Africa. LIVE allows players to make new friends, download the latest Arcade [...]
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Burning 10 000 Calories Now An Achievement
11 Oct, 2010 9:01 PM | Taahir Could this be harder than completing a game on the highest difficulty level? The achievement list for Your Shape: Fitness Evolved has been revealed on Xbox360Achievements. Most of them are [...]
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Microsoft Announces Changes For 360 Dashboard Update
11 Oct, 2010 12:53 PM | Dean Microsoft has announced the list of changes for the Xbox 360 Dashboard update. Basically the new update will allow for better voice quality, an easier way to change your Gamertag, [...]
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Afrikaans-English The Reason Behind No Voice Capabilites For Kinect In SA?
8 Oct, 2010 4:26 PM | Dean At rAge 2010, GameState interviewed the Xbox Ambassador for South Africa, Werner Joubert who said that the reason behind the lack of voice functionality for Kinect in South Africa is [...]
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Xbox 360 Slim Now Available In South Africa For R2,399
30 Sep, 2010 3:37 PM | Dean Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 Slim has officially gone on sale in South Africa. Not only will the Slim 360 be quieter, but it will also be slimmer [...]
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Microsoft Believes Kinect Launch Will Be Bigger Than PS3, Xbox360, Wii
28 Sep, 2010 4:16 PM | Azhar Microsoft has expressed that Kinect’s launch can be bigger than any console in our gaming industry’s history – and that includes the Xbox360. Microsoft studio boss, Phil Spencer, says that [...]
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Microsoft: An Xbox 720 Is ‘Years Away’
22 Sep, 2010 3:52 PM | Azhar It looks like it will be a really, really long time, years in fact, until we see an Xbox 720. That’s according to Xbox UK boss Stephen McGill. McGill both [...]
Xbox 720 Is “Going The Apple Route”
So Microsoft has announced that the successor to the Xbox 360 is in development but that’s about all we’ve heard from the company itself. That doesn’t mean other people can’t [...]
Kinect For Windows Due ‘Early 2012′
It’s recently been Kinect’s birthday, and because it usually goes that we benefit from other big companies’ parties, Microsoft is celebrating this with some announcements for PC gamers. Starting with [...]
Kinect’s “Second Generation” Now Happening
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, recently speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, said that support for Kinect will improve as it now enters its second generation. So, if [...]
Everyone’s In On The New Xbox TV Experience
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the Xbox 360 would have access to content from almost 40 new media partners in over 20 countries by Christmas 2011. The partners in question [...]
This Skyrim Xbox Will Make You Commit A Double Homicide
As you read this, two lucky bastards people are enjoying ogling and using their very own Elders Scroll V: Skyrim-themed Xbox 360′s given out at a walkthrough of the game [...]
The Ultimate Modular Sports Controller
No controller is perfect, right? The PS3′s one has clunky ergonomics and sticky trigger buttons whereas the Xbox 360 has a soft D-pad. Do you prefer to 360 or PS3 [...]
Microsoft Believes Kinect Will Grow On Hardcore Gamers
Microsoft believes that Kinect will eventually win hardcore gamers over. Many core gamers were disappointed with Microsoft’s Kinect-centric E3 2011 press conference. Speaking with Eurogamer, Xbox senior product manager David [...]
E3 2011: Behold Micrsoft’s New Xbox Steering Wheel
Feast your eyes upon the latest official Xbox steering wheel peripheral to come from Microsoft. The biggest thing to notice is the lack of any wires. The wheel is wireless [...]
Console Price Cuts Are On The Cards According To Kotick
From the depths of hell, better known as the Activision CEO’s office, have come murmurs from a figure we’d almost forgotten about. Yes, your favourite rabid capitalist and mine, Bobby [...]
Analysts Give Sales Predictions For April — 3DS Off To A Slow Start
Ahead of the NPD Group’s release of official market data this week, game industry analysts have weighed in with their own sales predictions for the month of April, in the [...]
Xbox LIVE And Kinect Sports Thanks Users For New Guinness World Record
Xbox LIVE members across the globe created history, that’s right, history bitch, by setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous online 100m sprint, which featured 10, 539 [...]
New Unreal Engine Justifies PS4, Xbox 720 – Epic
According to Epic Games VP Mark Rein, the all new DX11 Unreal Engine, which was showcased at GDC last month with a tech demo, justifies the next generation of gaming [...]
Tron Controllers Have Arrived
Behold, the Tron Limited Edition Controllers from Performance Designed Products. The same people who brought us the AfterGlow controllers, PDP has done it again with these awesome Tron controllers. The [...]
Kinect Sells 2.5 Million Times In Only 25 Days
Microsoft has announced that Kinect has sold 2.5 million times in only 25 days of worldwide release. “We are thrilled about the consumer response to Kinect, and are working hard [...]
Crytek Boss: PC’s Are Ahead Of Consoles, Limited By Developers
The Crytek boss is back praising the PC. Cevat Yerli said this time round that Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 developers are holding back on game quality for the PC. [...]
Quick Unboxing: Xbox Kinect + 4Gb Slim Console
We received the Xbox Kinect 4gb package with a few games for review. The package includes the Kinect device, Kinect Adventures game, Xbox 4gb Slim console, one remote, and no [...]
You’ll Be Banned From Xbox Live If You Use A Swastika In Black Ops
Microsoft are taking strong action against symbol-abusers in Call of Duty: Black Ops. It was said that if you play on Xbox Live with the infamous swastika symbol in Black [...]
Microsoft Doesn’t Mind If You Tweak Your Kinect, On Your PC
Obviously Microsoft would like to keep their Kinect as is without people tampering too much. And to do so, Microsoft threatened legal action to anyone interested in opening up the [...]
Kinect Breaches 1 Million Sales In 10 Days
According to Microsoft, Kinect has sold one million units in the peripherals first ten days since launch. Early demand from consumers for Kinect “solidifies [the] biggest year in Xbox history”, [...]
Microsoft Answers More Xbox Live Questions For South Africa
Microsoft has cleared up a few more questions on Xbox Live for South Africa. We’ve quoted the entire piece for ease, and to eliminate that whole he-said she-said debacle. This [...]
This Is The First Official Xbox 360 Kinect Advert
If you keeping hearing “You are the controller,” and remain confused, the below advert might help you. More on Kinect here. Kinect launches in South Africa on the 10th of [...]
Xbox Live Silver Now Called Xbox Live Free Membership
Microsoft has renamed their free Live Silver package to “Xbox Live Free Membership.” The update of the name comes alongside, both, the Gold price hike for November as well as [...]
You Can Now Sit Down And Use Kinect
Previous reports about Kinect stated that the motion-sensing technology could only work with users standing up. Well, new reports state that the technology will be able to focus on those [...]
Xbox Live Will Launch In South Africa On The 10th Of November, Costs More Than USA
It’s finally here. After years of having to cheat the system, Microsoft is finally offering LIVE in South Africa. LIVE allows players to make new friends, download the latest Arcade [...]
Burning 10 000 Calories Now An Achievement
Could this be harder than completing a game on the highest difficulty level? The achievement list for Your Shape: Fitness Evolved has been revealed on Xbox360Achievements. Most of them are [...]
Microsoft Announces Changes For 360 Dashboard Update
Microsoft has announced the list of changes for the Xbox 360 Dashboard update. Basically the new update will allow for better voice quality, an easier way to change your Gamertag, [...]
Afrikaans-English The Reason Behind No Voice Capabilites For Kinect In SA?
At rAge 2010, GameState interviewed the Xbox Ambassador for South Africa, Werner Joubert who said that the reason behind the lack of voice functionality for Kinect in South Africa is [...]
Xbox 360 Slim Now Available In South Africa For R2,399
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 Slim has officially gone on sale in South Africa. Not only will the Slim 360 be quieter, but it will also be slimmer [...]
Microsoft Believes Kinect Launch Will Be Bigger Than PS3, Xbox360, Wii
Microsoft has expressed that Kinect’s launch can be bigger than any console in our gaming industry’s history – and that includes the Xbox360. Microsoft studio boss, Phil Spencer, says that [...]
Microsoft: An Xbox 720 Is ‘Years Away’
It looks like it will be a really, really long time, years in fact, until we see an Xbox 720. That’s according to Xbox UK boss Stephen McGill. McGill both [...]

