Xbox Live
The annual Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale starts today. The week long promotion will feature some hefty discounts on a number of Xbox 360 titles. All of them will be available through the Xbox Live storefront, although each day will feature a new set of deals.
Microsoft has officially revealed Defense Grid: The Awakening as the first title to be made available by the Games With Gold promotion. The game will be available to Xbox Live Gold members for free between now and July 15.
PlayStation 4 owners will have to subscribe to PlayStation Plus in order to play online, but this could be a good thing overall for the system.
The Xbox One has promised to change the way that gamers use their system, and to revamp the parts of the Microsoft traditional services. This includes changes to the achievement system, the popular system of awarding gamers points for completing certain tasks in a game. Microsoft has released a new notice about the achievement system, which includes information on their newest reward system: challenges.
With E3 approaching, we look at what is known about the next-gen Xbox Live and PSN.
We review several features we hope make it to the next version of Xbox Live.
Microsoft has released a statement concerning the hacking of several "high profile" Xbox Live accounts of current and former employees.
A giant Xbox Live sale is starting today and will run through March 4. A number of Games on Demand titles will be heavily discounted, with a new set of selections every day. It's being dubbed the Ultimate Game Sale, and over the course of the week, over 60 Xbox 360 games will be available for surprisingly low prices.
There's a new video streaming service, by Redbox and Verizon, coming to the Xbox 360, according to an announcement on the blog of Xbox Live gamer "Major Nelson," also known as Larry Hryb, Director of Programming at Microsoft.
While Sony may have grabbed the recent spotlight by hinting at a PlayStation 4 unveiling on Feb. 20, there's some new details about the Microsoft Xbox 720 that are just as interesting. It seems that Microsoft's next-gen console will require an Internet connection, second-hand games could be blocked, and that Kinect 2.0 will ship with the system.
No one could have expected Minecraft to become such a phenomenon.
Microsoft's Xbox empire was built on the backs of two things: Halo and Xbox Live.
Microsoft's mission to clamp down control of consumers living rooms was rallied today by the launch of a new SkyDrive app for the company's console, granting users access to a cloud based server from the comfort of their couch.
Earlier this week, Microsoft celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Xbox Live, and surprised select early adopters who have been using the service for a decade with a free special edition Xbox 360.
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled a new subscription plan for purchasing the Xbox 360.
