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Xbox Division Sees 66 Percent Slide in ’09 Profit Despite 11 Million Units Shipped
Microsoft’s Xbox division booked an eye-popping 66 percent drop in profit for the 2009 fiscal year, reflecting a terrible economy and mirroring steep declines across all of the software behemoth’s business segments. For the fiscal year, Microsoft’s revenue from the Xbox 360 and from PC gaming was down $161 million, which the company mainly attributed…
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Champions Online Combat Preview: Challenge Accepted
After some hands-on time with Champions Online earlier this month, I pronounced myself skeptical of the combat system. My beef was that a lot of massively multiplayer online game developers claim that their combat is somehow fundamentally different than the usual system of point, click, cool down, then click again established in MMOs like EverQuest…
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GLAAD Panel: Pearls of Wisdom And Points Of Discussion
I’ve got a re-cap of last Saturday’s Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation right here, but if you’re looking for quick quotes and interesting issues to rehash, here are a few gems. Caryl Shaw, Senior Producer at EA’s Maxis To developers: “Who doesn’t want to be a gay super hero? Are you thinking about this…
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Your Comments Fuel Gay Gaming Conference
Physically, you may not have been at EA Redwood Shores this weekend. But if you commented on to Justin Cole’s op-ed column to Kotaku, you were there in spirit. Cole used commenters’ responses to his post, The Impact of Homophobia in Virtual Communities, to drive discussion among panelists Caryl Shaw (Senior Producer at EA’s Maxis),…
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Preview The Next 360 System Update
Microsoft is inviting thousands of Xbox 360 owners to help beta test the next big Xbox 360 system update, and your chance is just a modest survey away. As they did with the New Xbox Experience last year, so Microsoft is doing with the next big system update, inviting users by the thousands to test…
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Ten Years Ago: “Halo is the Name of This Game.”
In 1999, Bungie was probably the best-known studio developing specifically for Macintosh, having delivered titles like Marathon, Myth, and Pathways Into Darkness. At Macworld 1999, Steve Jobs introduced the studio’s next big Mac exclusive: Halo. Within a year, Bungie would be bought out by Microsoft and Halo would become a launch title that, more than…
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Microsoft Actually Responds to Obama’s Xbox Line in Speech
Getting huffy about President Obama using video games as a rhetorical punching bag in speeches on personal responsibility is pointlessly argumentative. But Microsoft has responded to POTUS’ latest call-out, this time of the Xbox. In his speech to the NAACP at its 100th anniversary celebration, Obama said parents can’t demand achievement in school and then…
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Microsoft Seeks a Few Good Store Managers
Would you like an exciting career in retail management? Can you upsell a 13-month Xbox Live Gold subscription on a $100 wireless adapter? Can you answer “What’s a Zune?” without using the word “iPod”? If so, Microsoft has a job for you. As previously reported, the first stores in Microsoft’s grand plan to battle Apple…
By Owen Good
