Mircosoft today announced that its Xbox 360 console has sold over 10 million in North America since launch, making it the first ‘next-gen’ (now current-gen) entertainment system to do so.
“This year will be the largest in the history of the video game industry, with Xbox 360 leading the charge in the U.S. and abroad,” said Don Mattrick, senior vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business in the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. “
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Kotaku reports that Microsoft is releasing the Community Technology Preview for the XNA Zune platform. What does this mean exactly? For those of you lucky readers that already own a Zune, you will soon be able to download games to play on your Zune 4/8/80 and potentially even do multiplayer and Co-Op with local Zunes. This may be a small step forward, but it is a step.
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It was reported a few days ago that Pegatron Technology received some orders from Microsoft for an Xbox 360 SKU equipped with a Blu-ray drive. Gamepro reports that Microsoft sent them an email firmly denying it requested such an order.
“As we have stated, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360,” said a Microsoft official in an email to GamePro on Monday. “Games are what drive consumers to purchase game consoles, and we remain focused on providing the largest library of blockbuster games available.”
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Economic Daily News (EDN), a Taiwanese news source, says that the recently formed subsidiary of Asus - Pegatron Technology, has received an order from Microsoft to begin manufacturing a Blu-ray equipped model of the Xbox 360.
According to the EDN report, Pegatron claims they will start producing this HD model in the near future, and plans to ship it within six months, close to the holidays.
It was also revealed that the Arcade (formerly Core) version of the console is getting a price cut, but sadly no further details were provided.
Via Kotaku
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The latest Kotaku feature article offers some interesting commentary on the large amount of rumors surrounding Microsoft’s alleged version of the Wiimote for the Xbox 360.
“There’s absolutely no truth to the rumors, and I have no idea where they’re coming from,” said a genuinely perplexed-sounding Zac Rivera, the PR rep for Movea Inc., the company that purchased Gyration in January 2008. He added, “Gyration is working on some game-related projects, but it won’t be announced until later this year, and it is not related to the Xbox 360.”
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We’ve known about Peter Jackson’s Halo project for quite some time now, but as of late there has been little or no new information.
However MTV Multiplayer is now reporting that Microsoft is hiring people for the project this week, according to recently published job listings for a team assigned to “help develop a new experience in the Halo universe.”
These listings state that the team will get to work on the project with an “external luminary”, a person suspected to be Peter Jackson. Hopefully this will turn out to be more than a mere rumour.
MTV Multiplayer Via Joystiq
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Microsoft today revealed plans to distribute hundreds of Xbox 360 kiosks to children’s hospitals across the United States. The company says that they basically aim to cheer up the sick kids.
The first lucky hospitals to receive these Xbox 360 kiosks will be the Orange County Children’s Hospital, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, and Regional Medical Center of Seattle.
Microsoft is doing this for no profit in return, and has partnered up with an organization called Companions in Courage Foundation.
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Mario Kart Wii’s success is evident, as the Nintendo racer maintains it number #1 spot on the charts. Mario & Sonic At the Olympics still refuse to give up, and can to be found at #2.
Following closely behind at #3, is Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5: Prologue. While no detailed sales figures have been released so far, we’re guessing the title has moved bucketloads of units.
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Microsoft today announced that it has appointed Daniel Maher as Xbox LIVE Editor for European territories.
By accepting this position, Maher immediately leaves his job at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s International Software Development team.
Read on for a press release.
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Here’s something interesting - although some of you probably saw it coming already, an EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) scan revealing LEGO Halo has leaked on to the Web.
No announcements regarding this title has been made so far, but it does look pretty authentic.
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The latest Japanese hardware sales numbers are in, and as usual Nintendo appears to be dominating with its extremely popular DS Lite and Wii.
Do note that the latter is being boosted by the great success of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Nintendo Wii - 78,583
DS Lite - 62,362
PlayStation Portable - 59,654
PlayStation 3 - 17,637
PlayStation 2 - 11,266
Xbox 360 - 2,198
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Analyst firm Pacific Crest Securities believes that in just two years from now, Microsoft and Nintendo will be launching new gaming consoles.
“We believe that peak industry sales will occur in 2010, given that Microsoft will likely introduce its next console that year and Nintendo will likely launch before then,” said Evan Wilson in a GameIndustry.biz article.
The analyst firm also mentioned that the highly popular Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable will reach the end of their life cycles at the same time as the consoles, and will be replaced with new handhelds.
Check out the GameIndustry BIZ article here.
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According to MTV Multiplayer, the upcoming multi-platform Traveller’s Tales title LEGO: Indiana Jones will feature a four-player online co-operative mode, and will most likely see a June 3rd release in the US.
Also to be noted, while the game does indeed ship close to the release of the new Indiana Jones movie, it will only feature content from the original films.
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GamePro magazine predicts that Microsoft will buy the fast-growing game developer Epic Games.
“Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer,” wrote GamePro assistant editor, Travis Moses in the latest issue of the magazine.
It’s a bit early to draw conclusions as to whether or not this is true, but it wouldn’t be *that* far-fetched, as Microsoft’s game publisher division already paid Epic millions of dollars for developing the multi-award-winning Xbox 360 title Gears of War in 2006.
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