Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox g...
We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series , with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner… … and Xbox LIVE takes the win ! They’ll obviously get an achievement rather than a trophy for this victory. Just a day or so ag...
Xbox 360/PS3/PC; £39.99; cert 16 ; DICE/EA Swedish developer DICE's Battlefield games may lack the glamorous image of rivals such as Call Of Duty, but they are hugely popular among the military first-person game cognoscenti. The Bad Company sub-franchise represents DICE's attempt to add a credible single-player experience to a primarily online series of games, and the second instalment arrives, ...
World gasps in collective surprise. As we're a video game blog it would probably be remiss of me not to mention this... In one of those conference calls to investors yesterday, Mike Griffiths, head of Activision Publishing, confirmed that a Call of Duty title is lined up for Christmas 2010, but wouldn't confirm the developer. (It's Treyarch.) While Modern Warfare 2 sold an impressive 12 million...
I’m a gaming veteran. I’ve been a computer gamer for years now, from the early 80’s loading from cassette onto a ZX Spectrum then playing on a Commodore Amiga , then moving to consoles ( Nintendo 64 , Sony PlayStation ), then hardcore PC gaming for years until I finally returned to consoles. I currently have a dusty X-Box 360 Elite and my gaming machine of choice: a PlayStation 3 .
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Nothing Earth-shattering here. Just, dare we say it, really cute!
The venerable Altoids mint tin has become an icon of the maker culture. Browsing through past articles on Hack a Day, Adafruit or Instructables, you’ll find project after project for which these pocket-sized enclosures provided just the right fit. Eminently practical, affordable, but the aesthetics have occasionally left somethi...
Microsoft has made some major organizational changes to its Entertainment and Devices unit -- the part of the company responsible for its mobile, Zune, Media Center and Mediaroom IPTV products.
Go from being just a gamer to a creator: a powerful collection of tools let you author every detail of a Rock Band track. Not only does your music appear in the game, but you can – if you like – control even every little lighting effect that appears. Screenshots courtesy Harmonix.
Games really are reshaping music. Despite their relatively simple gameplay, the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises...
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The rebirth of Windows Mobile, PC sales soar, and Google bitch slaps China.
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