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Microsoft: Everyone Knows Call Of Duty: Black Ops Plays Best On Xbox 360
Speaking in an interview with MCV, Mircosoft’s Stephen McGill said that “everybody knows” Black Ops plays best on Xbox 360: “With Kinect and Call of Duty it’s an incredible week for retail; they are going to be so busy,” says McGill. “Obviously everyone knows the best place to play Black Ops is on Xbox 360. […]
Crysis 2 Aims To Overthrow Call Of Duty
Crytek has a lofty goal with Crysis 2 which seeks to overthrow Call of Duty. Speaking to Gamasutra, Crytek’s UK Managing Director Karl Hilton was rather confident about Crysis 2: “In multiplayer you see the numbers that they [Activision] achieve and continue to achieve in terms of sales and ongoing players. We’d like to exceed […]
Hardcore Kinect Games Coming In 2011, Says Microsoft
Kinect has launched and the reviews are surprisingly good. However there’s a dearth (or lack) of hardcore games. That’s soon to change. UK Microsoft marketing chief Stephen MCGill has said in an interview that we can expect hardcore Kinect games to appear in 2011: “We have announced things, at the Tokyo Game Show, a whole […]
Xbox 360 Kinect Dashboard Update Has New Anti-Piracy Measures
Microsoft has apparently included a new anti-piracy measure with the new Kinect Dashboard update for Xbox 360 which locks “backup” games from playing on Xbox Live and (for the first time) prevents “backup” games from loading. Hackers refer to the new checks as “AP 2.5” and while details are scarce about how it actually works, […]
Hybrid Xbox 360 Games Using Both Kinect And Controller On The Way
Alex Kipman, the brain behind the development of Kinect, has told GamesIndustry.biz that there are games on the way to the Xbox 360 which will feature hybrid control methods, utilising aspects of Kinect and traditional controller technology. Speaking in a two-part interview, the director of incubation spoke at length about the future for both Kinect […]
New NFS: Hot Pursuit Trailer Sports Various Locations
EA has released a new trailer for NFS; Hot Pursuit showing off the various locations in the game. Check it out […]
Reader Question: How To Fix Xbox 360 Random Restarts
Today I got an email from Gamersworldbd reader Twisted_Forever saying his modded Xbox 360 restarts for no apparent reason: “360 restarts while playing games (even when it is idle) and [the DVD] drive wont respond. It shows open tray in the dash board (even [when] there is a game disc) and [the] eject button wont […]
New Dead Space 2 Trailer: Ring Around The Rosie
Gamespot has an exclsuive Dead Space 2 Ring Around the Rosie trailer which you can view below. It’s creepy as creepy gets […]
Kinect Launches Today, Get All Reviews Rounded Up Here
Kinect has finally launched today in the USA and we have all the reviews rounded up below, all in one easy place. Microsoft was so confident with Kinect that they upped the sales forecast to 5 million, making it “the biggest Xbox product launch ever in terms of sales”. ==Eurogamer – No score ==Dance Central […]
Microsoft: Kinect To Sell 5 Million, “Biggest Xbox Product Launch”
Microsoft now expects Kinect to sell 5 million units instead of the previously forecasted 3 million, making it “the biggest Xbox product launch ever in terms of sales”. According to Bloomberg’s Dina Bass, who broke the news on Twitter, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said the launch of the peripheral and the projected 5 million in sales […]
Watch James Bond 007: Blood Stone Launch Trailer
Watch the new launch trailer of James Bond 007: Blood Stone below, starring Daniel Craig […]
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Sells “More Than Double” Of Original
EA announced at their latest earnings call that DICE’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has now sold “almost 6 million units,” which easily beats the original. They’re chuffed it enjoys a metascore of 89 and that it’s become a new “stand-alone franchise” for EA to feast on. A Vietnam expansion is due out. “On the spring, […]
NFS Hot Pursuit Demo Impressions: “Most Fun I’ve Had In A While”
I’ll get this out of the way. Remember how fun the original NFS 3: Hot Pursuit and 2002’s NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 were? Yup, Criterion’s NFS: Hot Pursuit is that much fun if not more. From the moment you load up the demo, the intro music makes you ready to be a cop or a […]
EA: Medal Of Honor “Absolutely A Clear Success, A Franchise Now Once Again”
EA CEO John Riccitiello has said that the recent Medal of Honor “is absolutely [a] clear success”. And that means follow-up games. “… Consumer feedback has been strong to suggest that we’ve got a franchise now, once again, that we could successfully and effectively sequel in the future,” he said. “The game has exceeded our […]
