Major Nelson has tweeted this morning that Microsoft has now sold over 8 million Kinect units in their first 60 days. While he isn’t specifying whether that is shipped to retail or customers it is impossible to ignore huge figures like that and the doom mongers who scoffed at the original 3 million figure brandished by Microsoft must now be …
This is quite damned cool. Xbox’s Major Nelson, known to his mother as Larry Hyrb takes you on a guided tour of the Microsoft’s Xbox Headquarters. You’ll get to see the Entertainment and Devices division building, where the Xbox team works and plays – and god dammit I want a job there. Fantastic facilities, holograms..and an elephant? The thing that …
I am absolutely loving Call of Duty Black Ops and now that my Xbox 360 is packed away while I jet off home I am starting to get some withdrawals. I also loved Modern Warfare 2 and pretty much all the other COD titles but I have to admit the latest Xbox 360 rankings left me feeling a little sad …
Yesterday morning I posted up an article about how the PS3 has done really well by closing in on the Xbox 360’s lead and is now a mere 3 million behind. Unfortunately some of the other gaming journalists around pounced on a typo by Major Nelson and inflammatory headlines with exclamation marks and all caps comments flooded the Internet. Last …
Microsoft’s Major Nelson has informed us of a major overhaul for the Xbox.com website, and it should be happening this very instant as we have scheduled this post to go up at exactly the same time that the upgrades begin. The Xbox.com site as well as the forums will be down for a short amount of time, and when it …
[Update: I muddled up the figures between copies sold and money generated – I mentioned that the game generated sales of around $120,000,000.00 from pre-orders alone, but the information given now shows that they made a further $80,000,000.00 or so on the first day. Thanks Ewie for pointing it out.] In my editorial regarding the my experience buying Halo Reach, …
Major Nelson has revealed this week’s Xbox Live Deal Of The Week, and this week it’s everything Forza 3 related. All Forza 3 DLC has been reduced by 40% including the car packs such as the AutoWeek Car Show pack and more, as well as the Nurburgring GP Track pack. So if you have been wanting to add some more …
The big news overnight is that Hulu is coming to the PS3 in the very near future while Xbox 360 fans are going to have to wait until next year July before getting their Hulu on. Major Nelson has claimed that this is due to the Xbox 360 version being customised for the Xbox instead of being a simple port …
A practical look at Twitch audience averages, discovery and the move from Affiliate to Partner.
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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