We’re at least a couple of months away from Microsoft divulging the official price of the Xbox One, but that hasn’t stopped a few retailers letting you pre-order one with a “to be announced” price.
Amazon Germany is being a bit more speculative…
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Xbox One price listed as $770 on Amazon Germany
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 24th, 2013
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Endgame: The Xbox One wants to own HDMI1
Posted by Russell Holly on May 24th, 2013
Microsoft doesn’t just want the Xbox One to live on your entertainment center, the company wants it to occupy the most important input on your TV.
Around three years ago, it seems the entertainment industry figured out that it wasn’t good enough to…
Xbox One case design revealed by Forza 5 listing
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 24th, 2013
Unlike Sony, Microsoft was happy to reveal exactly what its new console looked like earlier this week. And now another question has been answered: what will the Xbox One game cases look like?
The design has been outed thanks to a listing on Amazon for …
Gran Turismo 6 is on PS3 because of 70 million consoles
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 24th, 2013
The release of a new console ultimately lives or dies by the games you can play on it. It doesn’t matter how great the hardware is, if there isn’t the games then no one will buy it, just ask Nintendo about that. So if console manufacturers have ver…
Microsoft and publishers will take a cut of every Xbox One used game sale
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 24th, 2013
Microsoft has decided that with the launch of the Xbox One it is going to take control of the used game market and have it generate revenue for itself and publishers. And in the process it’s going to upset gamers and severely limit the amount of mone…
Atari plans to auction off all its game assets in July
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 23rd, 2013
Back in January Atari US filed for bankruptcy in New York, but hoped to sell off all its games assets in a single sale to pay off debtors. Initially interest was strong with more than 180 buyers coming forward. But as the months went by only 90 signed …
Yahoo buys PlayerScale, will fight Google for game devs
Posted by Russell Holly on May 23rd, 2013
Marissa Mayer shows she isn’t done with her new checkbook yet as Yahoo acquires PlayerScale, a company focused on delivering turn-key game features to app developers.
Hot on the heels of Google announcing a massive salvo of game-specific features for…
Grand Theft Auto V Special and Collector’s editions announced
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 23rd, 2013
As soon as Grand Theft Auto V was announced retailers started allowing you to place a speculative pre-order. However, we didn’t know about any special editions of the game until today, and now Rockstar Games has announced two of them.
First up we’v…
Xbox One already has 11 confirmed games
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 22nd, 2013
One of the big complaints about the Xbox One unveiling yesterday was the lack of games announcements. That’s true, the focus was almost completely on games and services, and in particular TV, but a few games were announced.
However, the Xbox One libr…
Microsoft confirms indies can’t self-publish games on Xbox One
Posted by Matthew Humphries on May 22nd, 2013
Sony has made it clear indie developers are very welcome on the PS4, and Sony is happy to let indies self-publish their games. But that’s not the case for Microsoft and the Xbox One.
Microsoft has confirmed that self-publishing is not an option for i…
