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The former creative director for Kinect is to take on a role at Microsoft outside of the firm’s Xbox group. Kudo Tsunoda took on the responsibility of heading up a number of Xbox developers earlier this year, including Rare, Lionhead, Twisted Pixel and Lift London, plus the teams behind Scalebound,Quantum …
Read More »Halo World Championship 2016 starts in December, prize pool now $1.7m
Microsoft has revealed that its Halo World Championship tournament will kick off at the start of this December. The event will debut on December 6th with online ladders. Then between December 19th 2015 and January 31st 2016, Xbox will be holding its online qualifiers and regional in-person live events. From …
Read More »Forza 6 adds ‘optional’ microtransactions
Developer Turn 10 has introduced in-game purchases to Forza Motorsport 6 – but players can choose to turn them off. Microtransactions were a hotly-discussed point of contention in Forza 5, and many players and critics were pleased when this year’s follow-up launched without them. Two months after launch, however, and …
Read More »Microsoft adds button remapping support for Xbox One standard wireless controller
Microsoft has announced the addition of button mapping support to standard Xbox One controllers. Aspromised last monthby the firm upon the arrival of the Xbox One Elite controller, the ability to customize button inputs isnow availablefor all Xbox One wireless controllers. The support does carry a few limitations, when compared …
Read More »Microsoft hits back at Sony’s game-sharing jibe with backwards compatibility video
Xbox One is now backwardly compatible with some Xbox 360 titles, and Microsoft is doing all it can to make the most of the positive PR. As spotted by VG247, a new video from Microsoft explaining how to play Xbox 360 games on the new console seems very much to …
Read More »Microsoft sees Xbox One controller sales spike in 2015
Microsoft’s first-party controller revenue has shot up by two-thirds during 2015, according to GfK Chart-Track. The news follows the release of the premium Xbox One Elite Controller, which launched in late October for 120 and quickly sold out across the US and UK. Microsoft has said stock will remain in …
Read More »Halo 5 does what it was designed to do – gets Xbox One back on top
The long-awaited arrival of the Master Chief on Xbox One has helped the console achieve a rare monthly win in the US. November has become the second month of 2015 (the other being April) that Xbox One has outsold PS4 in the region. It did so thanks to an 81 …
Read More »Microsoft explains Xbox One backwards compatibility for 360 DLC
DLC for backwardly compatible Xbox 360 games will work on Xbox One, but a tiny hoop must be jumped through. Xbox One’s new backwards compatibility, which will be added to consoles that have upgraded to the New Experience UI tonight, is feature rich and technically impressive. However, the one thing …
Read More »Minecraft looks to be tunnelling its way to Wii U
It seems as if the long-awaited debut of Minecraft on Nintendo hardware is upon us. Neogaf spotted a listing on the PEGI site for ‘Minecraft: Wii U Edition’. It’s the first ever mention of a Wii U port, but it seems likely that we’ll hear more tonight on Nintendo’s impromptu …
Read More »Kinect gestures dropped from new Xbox One Experience update
Microsoft has confirmed that it has cut the ability for users to control their Xbox Ones via gestures in its New Xbox One Experience update for the console. When we looked at the New Xbox One Experience we wanted to prioritize features that customers were asking for, plus areas of …
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