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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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