Microsoft’s E3 Xbox One demos ran on Nvidia-powered PCs It has emerged that Microsoft used Hewlett Packard made PCs equipped with Nvidia GTX 700 series graphics cards to demonstrate Xbox One titles at E3 last week. In one case an E3 attendee played an Xbox One demo which crashed to the Windows 7 desktop. Furthermore, [...]
Xbox One ‘may not work’ in unsupported countries While Microsoft’s controversial Xbox One policies regarding used games and online authentication are a known quantity at this point, the implications of these restrictions are not yet fully clear. A disclaimer posted on the Xbox.com website for the benefit of pre-order customers, for example, has raised the issue of region-locking — [...]
Continue reading …GameStop stock plummets following Xbox One used game reports (Credit: GameStop)Video game retailer GameStop saw its stock take a mighty tumble after Microsoft’s Xbox One was announced earlier this week. Much of the stock’s fall can be attributed to what some see as a sea change in the used game market, something that GameStop has dominated for [...]
Continue reading …New Xbox: What’s Better, What’s Missing Eight years after the debut of the Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced the Xbox One. While it’s no quantum leap forward in gaming, it is attempting to tackle one of the biggest problems we face in our living rooms: a fractured landscape of devices that don’t play nicely together [...]
Continue reading …Expectations high for next Xbox Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about Xbox (Credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s almost time for a new Xbox. Eight years have passed since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360, double the amount of time between the original Xbox debut in 2001 and its high-definition successor’s launch in [...]
Continue reading …With its last season drawing in over 9 million viewers, it’s safe to say STARZ’ ‘Spartacus’ has become on TV‘s hottest commodities. So, in a bid expand its ever growing brand, it is now readying the launch of a video game series named ‘Spartacus Legends‘. Set for a January 2013 release, ‘Legends’ will arrive alongside the show’s final season ‘War Of The Damned’- currently [...]
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