Entries in 'live' (159)
1 vs 100 arriving in UK this Friday
Whilst the North American beta continues to impress on the other side of the Atlantic, Microsoft has announced that the UK version of Xbox Live multiplayer quiz show 1 vs ...
Battlefield 1943 out next week
The next instalment in DICE’s popular multiplayer war series Battlefield 1943 will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 next week, publisher EA has confirmed.
Last.FM free to XBL Gold members
Microsoft has outlined some early details concerning its upcoming Xbox Live tie-up with popular music streaming service Last.fm, and the good news is that access will be free to Gold ...
Xbox Community Games market "too small"
Daniel Jones, the director of developer Binary Tweed and the man behind Xbox Live Community Games hit Clover has cast doubt on the credentials of Microsoft’s indie publishing platform as ...
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Championship Manager 2010 dated
Eidos has announced that the next instalment in its noteworthy football management series, dubbed Championship Manager 2010, will be released this September.
Will 360 Games on Demand worry retail?
Microsoft insists that its new Xbox 360 Games on Demand service won’t dampen retail sales.
No plans to sell new releases on Xbox Live
Microsoft has stated that new release titles will not be sold on its upcoming Xbox 360 games on demand service – for now.
NPD: 360 has the digital edge over PS3
North American stats behemoth NPD has revealed that 18 per cent of Xbox 360 owners who subscribe to Microsoft’s Gold Membership “regularly” download content – markedly higher than the 10 ...
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E3 2009 conference schedule
As you’re more than likely already well aware, next week sees the games industry’s most important event take place in LA – and MCV will be here covering all the ...
Xbox 360 TV news on the way next week
Microsoft is to hold a press event next week that will detail a new Xbox 360 content agreement that is in some way related to TV.
Triple-A dev model ‘no longer appealing’
Speaking to MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz, the business development director of Strawdog Studios Dan Marchant has stated that the triple-A games development model is not as appealing to the wider ...
Xbox Live 1 vs 100 to be free for Gold members
Having missed its initial launch window alongside Microsoft’s revamped New Xbox Experience dashboard update, details are now starting to trickle through regarding intriguing online console quiz title 1 vs 100.
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Marvel vs Capcom resurrected
Street Fighter publisher Capcom is to bring one of its popular fighting series to Xbox 360 and PS3 this summer, with a download-only version of Marvel vs Capcom 2 now ...
Plants vs. Zombies could be coming to consoles
Ahead of the release of new casual games IP Plants vs. Zombies on May 5th, publisher PopCap has told CasualGaming.biz that the game could be set for an arrival on ...
MCV Awards updates on Twitter tonight
Tonight is the biggest night in the UK games industry as all the people who matter descend on London’s The Brewery for the 2009 MCV Industry Excellence Awards – and ...
Now Amazon starts selling WiiWare codes
Not long after Amazon shook up the games retail world by introducing Xbox Live Arcade download codes through its North American portal, the retailer has now started selling WiiWare games ...
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GfK-ChartTrack: ‘We want digital chart this year’
Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year.
UK retail 'wants to be part of digital revolution'
UK retail has told MCV that it wants to be a part of the digital revolution, following news that Amazon is selling Xbox Live Arcade game codes in the US ...
Retail finally enters console downloads space
The North American arm of online retailer Amazon has begun selling Xbox Live Arcade games via its portal in the form of purchasable Xbox Live codes.
Bethesda pulls latest Fallout 3 DLC
Just hours after publisher Bethesda released its second piece of Xbox 360 exclusive DLC for Fallout 3, the firm has been forced to remove the content after a number of ...
Microsoft slashes XBL price
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has cut the price of Gold membership to its Xbox Live service in both Europe and North America in what it is describing as a ...
Peggle prepping console blitz
PopCap’s globally popular Peggle franchise is to make the jump to consoles with three staggered releases over the next three months, starting today with the North American release of Peggle ...
Square Enix “very interested” in XBLA, PSN and WiiWare
In an exclusive interview with MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz, Square Enix president and CEO John Yamamoto has said that online distribution channels such as Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and WiiWare ...
Xbox Live revenues ahead of PSN
It had appeared that Sony had got one over rival Microsoft when it announced earlier this week that the number of registered users on PSN has passed 20 million – ...
56% of Xbox Live members pay Gold subscription
An internal Microsoft document has revealed that 56 per cent of Microsoft’s global Xbox 360 userbase pays the annual $49.99/£39.99 subscription charge to access the Gold version of the service.
