Windows 8′s gaming plan

Anyone who remembers Windows Vista and 7 knows Microsoft have tried desperately to unify the gaming experience on Windows versus Xbox before gaming catches up on other platforms (hint: Mac). Vista was an unmitigated disaster, but did have some wins in that communication across Xbox Live was brought in under the Windows Live...

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XBLA on Windows 7 phone

Windows 7 Phone is the new operating system from microsoft, destined to run on mobile devices, but a phone itself is due for release soon, and powered by XNA, developers have had a chance to create games for the device at launch. Castlevania, Halo: Waypoint, Star Wars, Crackdown, and Guitar Her will launch alongside a slew of...

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Xbox Live Activity

We haven’t posted this in some time but here’s the week’s chart rundown of top-played titles on XBL! 1 Modern Warfare 2 2 Halo 3 3 Call of Duty: WaW 4 Battlefield Bad Co. 2 5 FIFA 10 6 Call of Duty 4 7 Halo 3: ODST 8 GTA IV 9 Gears of War 2 10 Splinter Cell Conviction It’ll be interesting to see how the Reach...

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Xbox LIVE Deal – Crash Course 20% off

This week’s Xbox Live deal of the week sees the DLC for Valve’s zombie shooter Left 4 Dead – Crash Course – available for 20% off, at 320 Microsoft Points (€4) for Xbox Live Gold members until the end of the week. As with all Xbox Live deals, it is only available to Gold subscribers and not to Silver...

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Major Nelson gets his acc Hacked

The word Fail could well be said to have been over used a lot over the last few years. There are however times when only the classics will do the job. Microsoft, you have failed. Now – Hard, slippery and sticky as this fail is, I can’t help but think that I should be worried. If Larry Hryb Microsoft’s Xbox Live...

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