As if Xbox Live gamers weren’t still giddy from excitement from the announcement of the XBL rewards scheme, now they have yet another way to earn free stuff on the service. Introducing the Refer-A-Friend promotion, as reported by Joystiq. Open to Gold members, you can refer friends (via their Gamertag) and earn yourself tokens, which in turn can be used to redeem any one of four rewards, as...
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Yes…you read right. Microsoft’s Community man Larry Hyrb (aka Major Nelson) confirmed that the firm had such strong sales over the holiday period in the States, they ran out of consoles in the process. He commented via Twitter: “I found out we ran out of consoles at end of the month so don’t expect to win December” “Jan/Feb supply is tight as well. Likely amazing y...
As promised a few years ago, we have travelled through the annals of time into the distant future and returned to present day with more juicy information about time travelling shooter, Zeit². The guys behind Zeit², Brightside Games, have spared some of their time to answer a few questions on their forthcoming side-scrolling shooter. Zeit² will be available for download on the XBLA from Ja...
Thanks to Kotaku, the tech wizadry behind avatar Kinect can finally be revealed. So if you’d like to see how Kinect is able to track the head and multiple facial points, and translate those into animation and emotes on the user’s avatar, then watch this video.
Dr Who fans will be more than familiar with time travel, however I suspect that shoot-‘em-up fans have rarely had the need to consider this bizarre concept. Zeit² is a brand new side-scrolling shooter by Brightside Games, and yes time travel is involved, but without any need of a Tardis. Close analysis of the title “Zeit²” reveals that we can break the formula down to Zeit multiplied by...
Speaking to IGN at the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s Group Manager for PR David Dennis made a point of reassuring core gamers that they were not being abandoned. He acknowledged that despite the dizzying sales numbers that Kinect has posted (8 million units in 60 days), the core audience that got XBox Live to the position it is in at the moment will be catered for as well this year...
Microsoft has announced Avatar Kinect, a party chat type service coming exclusively to Xbox Live Gold subscribers. As revealed during the CES 2011 keynote, Avatar Keynote will attempt to track movements (including facial expressions) onto your Avatar. Conversations can be recorded and uploaded to Facebook. 15 “creative locations” will be available for friends to explore and chat withi...
When Microsoft suggested they hoped to sell 5 million Kinect sensors many in the community felt they were being optimistic… well tonight during the Microsoft CES keynote speech Steve Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft not only hit this target, they exceeded it. Sales within the first 60 days of Kinect hit 8 million units! Pretty impressive stuff by anyone’s standards.
Major Nelson announced via his blog that Microsoft will be streaming its keynote live from the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas. How you ask? Well, if you point your browsers at the official Microsoft page on Facebook, you can watch the keynote address live. It all kicks off on Wednesday the 5th of January 2011 (today) at 9:30pm EST/ 6:30pm PST. For those in the UK, that’s 2:30am...
For the first in its history EA Sports will take golfers into the hallowed grounds of Augusta National Golf Club in the latest game in its golfing franchise. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12 : The Masters, will see gamers progress through the ranks mirroring an amateur golfer right through to wearing the fabled green jersey from a masters win. Gamers from the previous version will have a kick start in the...
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