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15 Jun 2010 by Chris Leyton
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12 Oct 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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22 Jul 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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18 Jul 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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28 Jun 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
Separate reports continue to emanate from trusted websites claiming that Microsoft's next console will emerge in 2012...
14 Jun 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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06 Jun 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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06 Jun 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
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27 Apr 2011 by Kiran Earwaker
Strange happenings over Xbox Live...
31 Mar 2011 by Kiran Earwaker
Microsoft are said to be trialling a new Xbox 360 disc format that provides an extra 1GB of space...
10 Mar 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft announces worldwide Kinect sales of 10 million units, breaking a world record in the process...
02 Feb 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
Kinect did "very, very well" at launch according to EA's COO, John Schappert...
06 Jan 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
Online report links Red Ring of Death occurrences to Microsoft's new Kinect peripheral...
06 Jan 2011 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft announces Kinect sales and its new Avatar Kinect feature for Xbox Live at CES...
30 Nov 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Major Nelson confirms worldwide sales of 2.5 million units for Kinect following the Black Friday rush...
24 Nov 2010 by Kiran Earwaker
Microsoft announces plans to open up development for the Xbox 360 Motion Controller...
16 Nov 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft reveals initial figures of 1 million Kinect sales within its first 10 days on sale...
12 Nov 2010 by Kiran Earwaker
Teardown analysis of motion controller’s innards suggests components cost less than the price of a new game...
05 Nov 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Major UK retailers appear to be short-stocked on Kinect ahead of its impending launch...
04 Nov 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft reasserts previous indications that Lionhead's Project Milo will never make it into shops as a game...
13 Oct 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Game and Amazon have seemingly run out of pre-order allocations for Microsoft's Kinect Sensor...
21 Sep 2010 by Chris Leyton
Bridging the gap between Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, Microsoft announces a bold expansion for Zune across the UK...
01 Sep 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's rumoured elevating d-pad becomes a reality as a redesigned Xbox 360 controller emerges...
31 Aug 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Rumours abound about a new d-pad for the Xbox 360 controller that will lift up as you rotate it...
31 Aug 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Price hike will hit US gamers hardest as prices go up for all available subscription packages...
17 Aug 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Kinect will be arriving on European shores on November 10th following its US release on November 4th...
03 Aug 2010 by Chris Leyton
Survey of British gamers finds strong interest for Sony Move but a lack of interest in Kinect...
20 Jul 2010 by Chris Leyton
Microsoft announces a price for the motion sensor that also comes with Kinect Adventures...
19 Jul 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's redesigned Xbox 360 enjoys greater launch sales in the UK than either Sony's PS2 or PS3 Slim consoles...
15 Jul 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft confirms that its 1 vs 100 Xbox Live quiz show won't be returning for a third season this year...
09 Jul 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Sony Worldwide Studios' Shuhei Yoshida kick-starts rumour and speculation about next-gen hardware...
06 Jul 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's Kinect rebranding reveals its strategy for the compatibility of different types of games with the peripheral...
22 Jun 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
A directory on the Microsoft Store website lists the company's Kinect peripheral for $150...
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Zune, Sky, Facebook and Twitter all take advantage as Microsoft announces videoKinect...
14 Jun 2010 by Chris Leyton
Watch Hollywood celebs and VIPs fall over themselves for Microsoft's new toy...
14 Jun 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's unveiling of 'Kinect' leaves much to be desired as we're left pining for Project Natal...
14 Jun 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Online adverts point towards an E3 reveal of a redesigned Xbox 360 console from Microsoft...
14 Jun 2010 by Chris Leyton
Microsoft officially gives Project Natal a new name and shows the world with the help of Cirque du Soleil...
07 Jun 2010 by Chris Leyton
Plenty of flailing limbs in this comical look at Project Natal...
28 May 2010 by Chris Leyton
Report suggest Microsoft has decided upon a new title for its motion controller...
25 May 2010 by Chris Leyton
Financial report suggests Microsoft's about to make some big changes at the division most famous for the Xbox...
17 May 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Multiple Swedish retailers put a 1499 Kronor (£130) price tag on Microsoft's Project Natal hardware...
11 May 2010 by Chris Leyton
A release date for Microsoft's motion camera is finally nailed down, according to a Microsoft Saudi spokesperson...
29 Apr 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Rare's George Andreas is set to keynote this year's Develop Conference where he'll talk about a Rare launch title for Natal...
27 Apr 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
TVG scours the Xbox forums to find the most hilariously enraged comments from banned Xbox Live users...
27 Apr 2010 by Chris Leyton
Yu Suzuki's Shenmue spotted on XBLA under the banner of Project Berkley 2...
23 Apr 2010 by Chris Leyton
Despite sales slowing Microsoft notches up another Xbox 360 achievement...
21 Apr 2010 by Chris Leyton
Former News Corp. president in discussion with Microsoft to bring re-runs and original content for a few extra bucks...
19 Apr 2010 by Chris Leyton
French publisher becomes an "industry leader at saving trees" with in-game digital game manuals...
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Microsoft announces the support of, a leader in 3D sensing and recognition technologies, for Project Natal...
30 Mar 2010 by Chris Leyton
US retailer suggests official USB memory sticks will cost a packet...
19 Mar 2010 by
US report suggests Microsoft will finally adopt the universal storage format for the Xbox 360...
17 Mar 2010 by
An image of a smaller 360 motherboard with combine CPU/GPU surfaces, but we're not entirely convinced...
23 Feb 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Following a playtest yesterday, Jonathan Ross admits that Microsoft's Project Natal is "not quite there yet"...
09 Feb 2010 by
EA's executive goes on the record stating that today's line-up consists of its Natal/Arc launch titles...
28 Jan 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Sony plans to launch 10 games for its Motion Controller before the end of 2010...
22 Jan 2010 by
Japanese Xbox website hints towards a new Capcom exclusive next week...
18 Jan 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
A job ad for Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios indicates that the company's Forza series could be set for Natal integration...
14 Jan 2010 by Chris Leyton
Ubisoft's CEO confirms that developing a range of Natal titles costs the same as one full price game...
12 Jan 2010 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's Robbie Bach states that 70-80% of the world's game publishers are working on Natal games...
12 Jan 2010 by
Once again, Microsoft confirms the Xbox 360 is designed to last longer than normal...
07 Jan 2010 by Chris Leyton
Project Natal looses its custom internal processor to ensure the price is attractive...
07 Jan 2010 by Chris Leyton
Project Natal, Alan Wake and Game Room provided the key components of this year's Microsoft CES keynote...
17 Dec 2009 by Chris Leyton
Leading UK retailers chop £50 from the Arcade price just in time for Christmas...
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Microsoft's insistence that iPlayer only available to Gold subscribers stopping the service from appearing...
13 Nov 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Xbox Live holds in 2 million users at one time, helped in no small part by the presence of Modern Warfare 2...
02 Nov 2009 by Chris Leyton
Sky Corp apologises for the delay following the Sky Player launch on the Xbox 360...
22 Oct 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer appears to announce that Blu-ray drives will be made available for the Xbox 360...
19 Oct 2009 by Chris Leyton
Industry analyst suggests Microsoft could double the price of Xbox Live in a couple of years...
14 Oct 2009 by Chris Leyton
We're not entirely sure about this one, but it's out there so we thought we'd bring it to your attention...
24 Sep 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Hideo Kojima compares Microsoft's Natal to the graphical shift from 2D to 3D graphics in the 1990s...
21 Sep 2009 by Chris Leyton
Yoichi Wada sees the Wii holding on until 2011 and suggests Microsoft and Sony's motion controllers may only have a limited effect...
17 Sep 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Forza 3 gets bundled onto Microsoft's 250GB Xbox 360 for a mere £249.99 this October 23rd...
16 Sep 2009 by Chris Leyton
Activision and Microsoft confirm plans to release a limited edition Xbox 360 console...
04 Sep 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
SEGA reveals that it will be unveiling its motion sensing tech plans early next year...
02 Sep 2009 by Chris Leyton
Chart Track confirms that the recent price cut provided a surge in sales for the Xbox 360...
02 Sep 2009 by Chris Leyton
Revenue down for the quarter as Take-Two settle San Andreas lawsuit and talk GTA5, LA Noire, and Project Natal...
28 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Full access to the upcoming Facebook and Twitter applications for Xbox Live will be limited to Gold members...
28 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
EA's Rich Hilleman suggests that there are still more current-gen SKUs coming before the PS4 and Xbox 720...
28 Aug 2009 by Chris Leyton
German online retailer once again leaks the details with the suggestion of a bigger hard-drive for the Xbox 360...
27 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
"Exchange rate fluctuations" is Microsoft's official line as to why the Xbox 360 Arcade price has been increased...
27 Aug 2009 by Chris Leyton
Xbox 360 Elite drops to £199.99 while the Arcade goes up to £159.99...
26 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Argos listing suggests that Microsoft's alleged £30 price hike on its Xbox 360 Arcade console is imminent...
19 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Industry speculation suggests that Microsoft cancelled an Xbox 360 price cut announcement at GamesCom...
17 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
UK retailers reveal that Microsoft is planning to raise the price of its Xbox 360 Arcade SKU in September...
14 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
A listing on Argos' website states that Microsoft has discontinued the Xbox 360 Pro model...
12 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
New job post suggests that Microsoft is looking to bring its Xbox Live service to Windows Mobile...
11 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Go forth and enjoy the new Games on Demand and Avatar Marketplace on Xbox Live in the latest dash update...
07 Aug 2009 by Chris Leyton
It seems even developers working on non-Halo titles can run at less then 720p on the Xbox 360...
05 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
The latest Inside Xbox video on Xbox Live appears to show a price of 1600 MP for Games on Demand...
05 Aug 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
EA is "really positive" about Sony's motion sensing technology and Microsoft's Project Natal...
05 Aug 2009 by Chris Leyton
21 titles coming to Xbox 360’s Games On Demand when the service launches next week...
30 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Shane Kim says that Microsoft is "not anywhere close" to offering new game releases on demand over Xbox Live...
27 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
At the current rate of growth, PS3 sales will overtake those of the Xbox 360 in January 2011...
24 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
The Redmond giant announces its financial results for its 2009 fiscal year...
22 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft reveals an August 11th launch date for the next Xbox 360 dash update...
17 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft has detailed some of the changes it will be making to the Xbox 360 dashboard this autumn...
16 Jul 2009 by Chris Leyton
Former Microsoft CEO envisions Project Natal changing the way people work in the office...
06 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
Microsoft's European arm reveals July 10th Launch for 1 vs 100 in the UK and Ireland, July 12th in France and Germany...
01 Jul 2009 by Gwynne Dixon
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Added:Tue 12th Jul 2011 00:16, Post No: 612
at last normal game talk rather than that supid fanboy crap thats been littering this site a few months ago, keep up the good work.
Added:Wed 29th Jun 2011 11:55, Post No: 611
@Peter Corr: You'd be surprised actually. I've done TVG's news on a daily basis for nearly 4 years now, and the amount of rumours that end up having some kind of relevance to them is higher than you'd think. I'd maybe estimate it somewhere in the realms of 30-40% of rumours are at least based on something that was true somewhere along the line.
The real problem is the Chinese whispers effect: after a few drinks at a press event, one journalist tells another journalist something they overheard on a recent studio tour, and the whole thing ends up getting misconstrued and overblown in a rumour article. It's why the sources are often referred to as "familiar with the matter" or "close to [the developer]" etc.
In my career, I've held back a handful of potentially huge rumour articles like this (which have turned out to be vaguely true in the end, I might add). It's usually been because my 'source' told me with confidence that I wouldn't report it, or because the story would have been poorly verified and potentially inflammatory unless it was more substantiated. However, many other journalists would just report these kinds of stories anyway.
In terms of the speculation on new consoles that you're referring to, no rumours are going to force console manufacturers into rushing a new system out of the door. One of the Next Xbox rumours suggested that Microsoft has been working on a new system since 2006, and this wouldn't surprise me at all. My boss and I looked through Nintendo's R&D spending a couple of years back, and it's eye-opening to see how R&D spending ramps-up quite a few years before a new console's announcement.
A good rule of thumb is that you can expect a console manufacturer to at least be in the planning stages for a new system within 2 or 3 years of releasing its current machine. If Microsoft hadn't been sketching out ideas for its NeXtbox by 2008, then I'd be very surprised. Make no mistake, there will be a new Xbox machine somewhere within Microsoft's Redmond HQ by now. The only question is whether or not it's in the hands of developers at this point as well.
As far as rumoured images of new consoles are concerned, you're right - more often than not they tend to look nothing like the final product. There's a couple of reasons for this: fake images can be easily mocked-up by NeoGaf users with far too much time on their hands, but also a new console's design goes through numerous prototype stages before it reaches its final form. Rumoured images may have been accurate at one point but simply didn't end up reflecting the final design.
Added:Tue 28th Jun 2011 19:19, Post No: 610
haha fair enough.
to be honest though, over all the years, only a small handful of rumours in the gaming industry ever turn out to be actually true. even before the internet, i have loads of old mags i could show you where they're going on about the next console, even with pics, which have all turned out untrue, or specualtion on the inevitable.
i think it's the media/whoever trying to force sony/microsoft into the next generation earlier than they both plan, which IMO would be a big mistake. even the best pc hardware isn't AMAZING compared to the 2 current gen consoles. ps3 is doing most of what a top end pc is doing with battlefront 3 for examples (albeit with a smaller resolution and a slower framerate), but seriously, i don't want to pay £500 for a ps4 for such a small step up right now. there's not enough additional quality in the tech yet to warrant it.
there's plenty of scope in this gen yet imo. 'next gen' needs to be a much bigger step up. ps1>ps2>ps3, each one was a huge step up in technology. there's nothing like that to challenge ps3/360 yet, don't you think? (don't even mention the wii2, nobody knows the specs yet hehe)
Added:Tue 28th Jun 2011 15:43, Post No: 609
@Peter Corr: This is the game industry. Publishers and developers will deny whatever they want and call it rumour and speculation until they officially announce it themselves.
That's how it works. They will deny accurate reports to keep their publicity campaigns intact, or because they're under non-disclosure agreements.
For what it's worth, I find this latest round of rumours pretty sketchy anyway, which is why I wrote a couple of paragraphs at the bottom voicing doubt on the whole thing.
I had initially put up resistance to reporting on this latest round of Xbox 720 rumours but, as the rumours started to mount up, I thought it was at least worth bringing it to our readers' attention. To reiterate though, personally I'm sceptical and I think that's reflected in the tone of my writing.
Added:Tue 28th Jun 2011 15:42, Post No: 608
@Post 607: Sorry, I didn't realise you'd used it first anon :)
Added:Tue 28th Jun 2011 14:43, Post No: 607
...you stole my term "nextbox"! ><.
Added:Tue 28th Jun 2011 13:48, Post No: 606
who wrote this? they've since denied there's even a timesplitters 4 in production, microsoft has said last week "xbox is half way through its cycle" and EA have quickly called the rumours about them "100% untrue". this is a complete non story. surely there's something better to report to us than absolutely made up nonsense? lol
Added:Sun 08th May 2011 22:10, Post No: 605
now thats just a childish and quite poor responce from what your making out to be a mature adult, i clearly stated there is less chance of getting an infection by using legal web sites however nothing is hacker proof "learn to read please". google OS is or might not even come to light for at least a few years yet and dont expect linux to steal any of microsofts market share, if it really bothers you that much get an apple mac but really is there any need for the quite silly argumenton a gaming website.
untill you grow up and act your age please stop filling up these pages with your hate, if you dont like microsoft fair enough your not alone but for the people that do like microsoft please stop trolling them its just childish and the only one your showing up is your self.
i dont see any other music producers or games developers with such petty responces such as yours, they have more important things to do than going to gaming websites and sending childish replys, quite obviously you have quite a lot of time on your hands as most developers/music creators have their own blog sites in which to chat when they have some spare time.
Added:Sun 08th May 2011 21:13, Post No: 604
lmao, i'm a music producer and i produce pc games for the likes of popcap too. in other words, i do not pirate anything, from movies to music. it's killing our scenes. i've had a virus (which the virus software killed, not microsoft's windows or IE) simply from clicking a link from a mates phised account of facebook before. you can get a virus from any website, especially if a nice hacker decided to leave the code on a normally trusted and active website. (facebook being a good example).
quite unbelievable that you're calling me a 'fanboy' when you go on too then defend microsoft windows and IE on security with a total falsity of 'dont download illegal things then'. erm, i dont. it's no co-incidence that i've not a problem since flipping to google chrome. i'm just waiting for linux to be more compatibile and/or google to come up with the os that's been rumoured, then i can get MS out my life forever. and i recommend everyone else do the same.
Added:Sun 08th May 2011 20:40, Post No: 603
jesus post 600 did your rattle fall out of your pram and post 602 your right post 600 is a hypocrite, the playstation has been hacked loads of times, just cause all the times before sony didnt shut its servers down dont mean its better or hasnt been hacked lol, the only poeople who get seriously bad security breaches in windows and internet explorer are morons who download illegal digital content, the security provided with windows is secure enough for people who dont partisipate in illegal activity such as illegally downloading games, movies, music and software.
if you just bought official software, games, movies, music ect you would have far less chance of being hacked, im not saying you wont get hacked just there is far less chance of it happening, nothing is hacker proof you moronic hypocrite.