The NPD group recently released information leading researchers to believe that the gaming market is shrinking. With sales in 2010 being announced at $18.58 billion, down from $19.66 billion in 2009, which was a decrease from $21.4 billion in 2008. When divided up, this is a 6% decrease in software sales and 13% drop in [...]
Microsoft announced that their Kinect motion sensor has sold 8 million devices during its first 2 months on the market. The announcement was mad at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. The product was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of November. It is a controller free gaming platform, which lets [...]
Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect is on track to sell 5 million units by the end of the year. The original projection by Microsoft was 3 million units, but after a very positive uptake on sales over the first 10 days of availability Microsoft has upped the ante. The Kinect has sold 1 million units during its [...]
The continuing drama of Microsoft and Motorola just refuses to end. Yesterday it was announced that Microsoft had sued Motorola over inflated royalties on components used in the Xbox gaming console. Today, Motorola has fired back against Microsoft with a lawsuit of their own, claiming patent infringement for the mobile devices that Microsoft has been [...]
Metacritic, a compiler of games reviews, has given Call of Duty: Black Ops an average score of 90% based on 37 Xbox reviews as gamers get a sense of the newly-released shooter. On the PS3, it averaged 89% across 21 reviews. PC gamers, who traditionally have enjoyed the most processing power, give Black Ops 92%, [...]
An Xbox user who ‘modded’ his console – modifying it so that unlicensed games could be played on it – is hoping to use a defence of ‘fair use’ in the upcoming trial. Defense attorneys for 28-year-old Matthew Crippen, of Anaheim in southern California, are arguing that the installation of a mod chip on an [...]
Microsoft says that it expects that by the end of the year it will sell 5 million hand-free control systems for the Xbox 360 video game console. This will increase the sales forecast for the Kinect by almost 70%. The Kinect was officially launched by Microsoft at midnight Wednesday during a New York event. In [...]
Microsoft has announced plans to launch an online store of downloadable games which PC users can play on its software and which will also be integrated with its Xbox and Windows Live services. The Windows Marketplace website will be open for business from November 15th at gamesforwindows.com. According to Microsoft PC and gaming senior global [...]
Xbox Live’s Gold membership fee is to rise from November, owners Microsoft have announced. The $49.99 annual US rate will rise to $59.99 in the United States, a 20% increase. Canada, Mexico and the UK will also also see higher prices charged for their membership fees. In the case of Canada, the fee will rise [...]
To get a job in the gaming industry is every serious gamer’s dream but another fantasy is that the school books would be thrown out in favour of the Xbox or the PS3. But it is not just another ‘final fantasy’: Educators in the US are advocating the use of video games in the classroom [...]
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