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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 »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, …
Read More »Xbox Q1 hardware sales down 17%, but Xbox Live numbers swell
Microsoft has said that combined Xbox One and Xbox 360 shipments for its fiscal Q1 were down 17 per cent year-on-year. The company hasn’t revealed the actual sales figure, though did say the decline was mainly due to falling sales of the older Xbox 360 platform. In the same period …
Read More »‘Plenty of chance’ Halo 5 will come to PC, says head of franchise
The core Halo series could return to PC in the future, according to the director for the franchise at 343 Industries. Frank O’Connor was discussing the possibility of Microsoft’s flagship shooter expanding beyond its Xbox home on a GamesRadar livestream when he suggested upcoming entry Halo 5: Guardians could come …
Read More »Telltale details Game of Thrones season finale release
The sixth and final release of Telltale’s debut Game of Thrones episodic will land next week, the studio has announced. Dubbed The Ice Dragon, the episode will arrive simultaneously across all platforms on November 17th – a first for a Telltale release. Along with the release dates of the upcoming …
Read More »Special edition Xbox One Fallout 4 controller emerges
Bethesda is now selling a Fallout 4-themed Xbox One controller. The Fallout and Elder Scrolls publisher has the special edition gamepad (pictured)listed on its website. It will set consumers back $59.99 which is roughly 39. The controller features a blue and gold colour scheme that mimics that of the Fallout …
Read More »Xbox One and PS4 are up 40% on last-gen sales
But year-on-year hardware sales declined by 23 per cent in September in the US
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