Post Tagged with: "Microsoft"

Kinect Sales Hit 2.5 Million in 25 Days!

Love it or hate it you had to figure Kinect was going to be a sales success…but 2.5 million in 25 days?!?!

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Xbox Live Free Weekend for UK Begins Tomorrow

UK Xbox owners who don’t have a ‘Gold’ subscription will be able to access all of the features of such an account this weekend – free.

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Alan Wake Joins Xbox LIVE Games On Demand Service November 23rd

If your idea of Thanksgiving fun involves carving turkey, forking cranberry sauce, and filling zombified would be attackers with lead, Xbox LIVE Games on Demand has a pre-turkey day treat for you.

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Kinect Hacked, Open Source Drivers Available For Download

Not long after MS Kinect became available on shelves, it was hacked like all things inevitably are. Yesterday, the hacker posted a video proving that he was able to …

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Kinect’s Star Wars & Forza Titles Slated For Christmas 2011

Microsoft Kinect’s Creative Director, Kudo Tsunoda, recently revealed to BBC News that both LucasArts’ Star Wars Kinect exclusive and Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Kinect compatible title will not be hitting store shelves until the 2011 holiday season.

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Kinect Flattens Family Hour With Elbow Power

What does Microsoft’s latest addition to gaming technology and Ludacris’ rap about southern hospitality have in common? Apparently both require you to … “throw them bows!” Don’t believe me? Check this out …

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Project Gotham Racing Revival Planned

Microsoft is apparently in talks with a number of European independent developers in regards to bringing the Project Gotham series back to life on the Xbox 360…

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White Boy Raps The History of Gaming

Did you ever wonder what all those people you went to high school with have been up to? Well, some went on to be doctors, some lawyers, and others . . .

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Oprah Features Kinect and the Audience Goes WILD (Video)

Today on Oprah, she featured Microsoft’s Kinect and gave away free Xbox 360′s with Kinect to everyone present in the audience!

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Microsoft: “It’s Safe To Say We’re Not Done With Halo”

Last week RipTen was fortunate enough to be invited to the Halo:Reach launch event in Times Square, NY. We spent some time talking to Bungie and Microsoft about Halo, and both said …

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Five O’Clock Fan Art – Halo

With the weekend within Reach, it’s now socially acceptable to put your responsibilities aside and kick back. For the next few days, you can stop Reaching for the stars and instead Reach for your favorite video game. Maybe even the game pictured above, whose name I can’t remember at the moment. I’m pacing around in circles, burning a Halo into my carpet as I Reach for the answer!

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Week One Japanese Sales Of Slim 360 Fail to Perform

This week Japan saw the launch of the new Xbox 360 slim, but Japan didn’t seem to get suckered in. The revised console sold about …

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Halo Reach Sales Hit $200 Million Day One

You read the title right: 200 Million Dollars!!

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RipTen Review: Halo: Reach (Xbox 360)

It’s Bungie’s last hurrah. The end of a beautiful partnership. A final product after nearly a decade of love. It’s Halo: Reach. How does the game stack up? Read the Ripten review to find out…

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Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Hits Over 300K Xbox Live Downloads

Xbox 360 gamers have downloaded over 300,000 copies of the Dead Rising 2 prequel Case Zero, according to GamerBytes.

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