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The Master Chief wears so much armour he could surely barely move, which serves also to highlight the contrast with Cortana’s choice of clothing. Or lack of, as she doesn’t wear any. 343’s Halo franchise director Frank O’Connor has in an interview with GamesRadar tried to explain the disparity. "She’s …
Read More »Microsoft to roll out Xbox 360 backwards-compatibility for Xbox One next month
Compatible games include Halo 3, Mass Effect, Borderlands and Gears of War
Read More »Microsoft: Tomb Raider can rise to the Fallout 4 challenge
Releasing on the same week as Fallout 4 is no easy task, but Microsoft is hopeful that Rise of the Tomb Raider will not lose out in its sales battle with Bethesda’s RPG. Speaking to KindaFunnyGames in an interview transcribed by VG247, Xbox’s head of marketing Aaron Greenberg admitted that …
Read More »Backwards compatibility update hitting Xbox One next month
Microsoft will publicly roll out its Xbox 360 backwards compatibility update for Xbox One on November 12th. The update, which has been available to preview members for some time now, allows a selection of 360 titles to be downloaded and played on Microsoft’s newer hardware. The functionality was one of …
Read More »‘Halo 5 is the biggest Xbox launch to date’
You know a company plans to go big with a game when it starts the marketing for it almost a year in advance. That’s precisely what Xbox has done with Halo 5: Guardians, the latest in the 65 million unit-selling sci-fi super franchise. We have considerable expectations for Halo 5: …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Halo 5 merchandise
Microsoft icon Master Chief is back in action in the first full-bodied Halo game on Xbox One. MCV checks in with the Chief’s best merchandise How do you follow one of the biggest games of all time? That’s the question that Halo 5: Guardians aims to answer. The first full …
Read More »Microsoft stops reporting console sales
Platform holder will now release details on Xbox Live metrics instead
Read More »Xbox Live lead architect quits Microsoft
Eric Neustadter departs after 18 years with the company
Read More »Microsoft no longer reporting console sales
A Microsoft source has confirmed to Game Informer that the company will no longer provide sales updates for Xbox One. The reportstates that the firm has stopped reporting console sale totals as ofits most recent quarterly report– which explains why the usual figures were mysteriously absent from Microsoft’s results earlier …
Read More »Xbox Live co-creator Eric Neustadter leaves Microsoft
Eric Neustadter – one of the creators of Xbox Live – has announced his exit from Microsoft after nearly two decades with the firm. Engadget reports on the departure. Neustadter is best-known for evolving Xbox Live from a network of in-house desktop computers to a multi-platform service boasting 39m users, …
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