Articles tagged with 'xbox 360'

Xbox LIVE policy change: It's good to be gay

Friday, 05 March 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

Break out your secret collection of Erasure CDs and get celebrating! Microsoft has just published a new Xbox LIVE Code of Conduct, which now allows disclosure of sexual orientation in your gamertag or profile ...

Lost Planet 2 content cut due to Xbox 360 disc capacity

Friday, 19 February 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

Capcom's upcoming action shooter, Lost Planet 2, has apparently been substantially reduced to fit onto the Xbox 360's 8.54 GB DVD ...

Project Natal's five-year plan

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

Speaking with CVG at last week's X10 event in San Francisco, Microsoft's project management guy Aaron Greenberg shot down claims that Project Natal is an upgraded EyeToy ...

Suspected school shooter caught via Xbox LIVE

Monday, 15 February 2010 Steven De Klerk

An unnamed Texas teenager intending to "make the headlines so that people would remember him forever" by gunning down his classmates has been arrested thanks to some quick thinking by a fellow gamer, reports local news outlets in the area ...

Microsoft looking to put the Xbox 360 into health care

Thursday, 11 February 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

The games-kill-people lobby isn't going to like this one. Microsoft's e-health people are currently looking at ways to put the Xbox 360 to work in hospitals, according to a report on Yahoo ...

MS to discontinue Xbox LIVE for original Xbox consoles and games

Friday, 05 February 2010 Henry Dowling

After many years of faithful service, the end is near for those gamers wishing to access Xbox LIVE from their original Xbox console, or play Xbox 1 games over Xbox LIVE. Xbox LIVE general manager Marc Whitten announced today via a press release that Microsoft will discontinue the service on 15 April, a decision which will apparently "provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community. ...

250GB Xbox 360 HDD headed to Japan, but what about South Africa?

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 Henry Dowling

Microsoft has announced that the heavyweight 250GB HDD, the one which so far has only been available coupled with the Super Elite, will be released as a standalone in Japan this March, according to a report by Joystiq ...

Microsoft game division profits up $245 million

Friday, 29 January 2010 Henry Dowling

Microsoft has released their figures for the second quarter (ending 31 December) which show a significant increase in profits for the Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes the Xbox 360, Games for Windows and Zune ...

Xbox 360 sales reach $4.8 billion in US for 2009

Friday, 15 January 2010 Steven De Klerk

Microsoft has reported that US consumers spent $4.8 billion on Xbox 360 hardware, software and accessories in 2009. This is slightly down on 2008's sales figure of $5.0 billion, and $5.1 billion the year before ...