Doom, Xbox Live, Xbox Live Arcade, and more.

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News: Bungie trademarks Marathon name on Eurogamer
Old IP ready for a comeback? Bungie’s filed a new trademark to secure the name Marathon for a videogame. Marathon, remember, was Bungie’s game for…


More Xbox 360 news.

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OnLive features ‘cloud’ session saves, disables graphics settings on Joystiq
In a demo of its upcoming streaming service, OnLive president and CEO Steve Perlman confirmed something long suspected — players will not be able to adjust graphics settings. “We don’t want somebody going and changing the settings to something…


Mass Effect and more.

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Sony shows what an epic game really is with God of War III on VentureBeat
Sony’s role in video games seems to be to remind us every now and then what an epic game is all about. It is doing so again today with the launch of God of War III for the PlayStation 3. It’s been three years since God of War II came…


Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Xbox Live, and more.

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Splinter Cell Conviction Demo Out This Week [Splinter Cell] on Kotaku
# splintercell It’s a bit hard to believe the long-delayed Splinter Cell: Conviction will actually be out soon. If you needed something tangible as proof, you could always try the Xbox Live demo of the…


Xbox Live and more.

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Microsoft XNA, Xbox Live Arcade, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and more.

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Attack of the Movies 3D also attacking Xbox 360 on Joystiq
This May, Wii owners won’t be alone in shooting their way through scenes reminiscent of classic action movies in glorious, anaglyph 3D. Majesco has announced that it will release Attack of the Movies 3D on Xbox 360 as well. Attack of the…

Splinter Cell Conviction demo drops March 18 on Joystiq
Last week, we brought you the incredibly exciting news that a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo was confirmed for release on Xbox Live. That thrilling news just got too awesome to bear: the demo will be out this week. March 18, in fact,…

Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 Series dev partners and details apps: Sling, Pandora, Foursquare and Xbox gaming (video!) on Engadget Mobile
Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX 10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation , we’ve also got a list of launch software partners and some screenshots of apps…

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD First Look At The Inevitable Re-purchase [Gdc10] on Kotaku
# gdc10 Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, the Nintendo DS strategy-RPG that went under-appreciated—and under-purchased—by too many last year, is getting a second chance on Xbox Live Arcade…

Joanna Dark Returns, GTA: San Andreas Goes Cheap On XBLA This Week [Xbox Live Arcade] on Kotaku
# xboxlivearcade Perfect Dark keeps Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade Block Party going, with the re-release of Rare’s 10-year-old first-person shooter hitting the Xbox 360 this Wednesday. Also,…

Windows Phone 7 Playing an Xbox Live-Linked Game [Clips] on Kotaku
# clips The MIX10 conference kicked off today in Las Vegas. Most of the stuff they’ll be talking about puts me to sleep instantly, but Microsoft let us know to expect some Windows Phone 7 news…

Crackdown 2 Busting Heads In July [Release Date] on Kotaku
# releasedate Ruffian Games and Microsoft do what they can to take care of the traditional summer gaming drought with Crackdown 2, heading to the Xbox 360 the first week of July. …

Windows Phone 7 Apps: Everything You Need To Know on Fast Company
Windows Phone 7 Series: It’s a thing ! And it looks pretty great, so far. Last month’s announcement , though, left a lot of questions . Questions which will be answered here, in Gizmodo’s live coverage of Microsoft MIX 2010 keynote. Constantly…

Novell shows way to port Xbox 360 games to iPhone, Android on MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Software developer Novell on Monday demonstrated new technology that should bring some Xbox 360 games to iPhone and Android users. MonoTouch, which recognizes the XNA 4.0 kit needed for the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7, will have the ability to…

Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 SDK on PC PRO
Windows Phone 7 apps and games to be built on Silverlight and Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio

Microsoft Tells Windows Phone 7’s App Story on Wired: Gadget Lab
Microsoft on Monday announced details regarding Windows Phone 7 Series’ application store, software development kit and user interface. As leaked documents hinted in February , the Silverlight and XNA programming environments will play major…

Blizzard may license Battle.net down the road on TechSpot
Scheduled to launch alongside StarCraft II, Blizzard’s revamped Battle.net service will bring goodies like in-game achievements, unlockables, improved matchmaking, ladder and chat systems, an online marketplace, and more.

Microsoft outlines Windows Phone development, shows off Xbox Live-linked game on TechSpot
Microsoft’s MIX10 conference kicked off a few hours ago in Las Vegas and already it seems that Windows Phone 7 Series is set to be the star of the show. Company executives took the stage today to show off some of the platform’s features, including a…

Perfect Dark N64/Xbox 360 Video Comparison on digg.com: Stories / Gaming / Popular
A Perfect Dark comparison video between the new XLBA version, and the original N64 game.

Microsoft’s Game Room for Xbox ‘rewinds’ the hits in our hands-on demo on Engadget
Microsoft showed off its new retro-tastic Game Room UI for Xbox 360 in playable form at GDC last week. While the “make a virtual representation of a gaming space” idea might seem ripped straight from Sony’s Home , there aren’t really any actual…


Microsoft XNA, Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and more.

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Majority of readers own more than one console, but not majority of gamers on Infendo – Nintendo blog
After nearly 1000 votes, 59 percent of Infendo readers say they own more than one current generation console, which include Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3. Given that the majority of Infendo readers are gaming enthusiasts, that’s less than one might…

Bikini Zombie Slayers Xbox 360 $11 or Wii $9 and eligible for free ship at Amazon or Battlestations Pacific $13 on Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
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Microsoft awarded one-click purchase Xbox Live DLC content patent on Geek.com
Microsoft has been awarded a rather obscure, but altogether profitable patent relating to the purchase of DLC on the Xbox Live service. The official title of the patent is “Automated Direct Bids to Purchase Entertainment Content upon a…

Microsoft Challenges iPhone By Highlighting Easy App Development For Windows Phone 7 on mocoNews
As Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) plays catch-up in the mobile phone space, it detailed plans for mobile applications today for Windows Phone 7 at its MIX developer conference in Las Vegas. The big take-away message is that Microsoft is trying to make…

Connecting an Xbox 360 to a computer monitor ( BONUS! HOOKING IT UP TO THE INTERNET, THROUGH YOUR PC!) on Instructables: exploring
 Ok, I know that a lot of this stuff is frustrating, and it took me forever to do, because I was figuring it out on my own, BUT, you guys got lucky, because I just make this stuff look easy. WHAT THIS INSTRUCTABLE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO DO: …

Microsoft: No native code for Windows Phone 7 on Network World NetFlash
Microsoft officials Monday confirmed at the company’s MIX 10 developers event in Las Vegas that native applications will not be allowed on Windows Phone 7 devices. Only applications running in the Silverlight runtime environment or games in the XNA…

Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 Series dev partners and details apps: Sling, Pandora, Foursquare and Xbox gaming (video!) on Engadget
Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX 10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation , we’ve also got a list of launch software partners and some screenshots of apps…

Microsoft tells its Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, tools available today on Engadget
At its dev-focused MIX10 event kicking off today, Microsoft’s closing the loop on some of the Windows Phone 7 Series third-party development details it started sharing in the days leading up to GDC last week — and as you might expect, …

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition + $10 GC Ps3 or Xbox 360 $50, PC $40 on SlickDeals.net

Windows Phone 7 Series actually looks pretty good on Betanews
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Zune — along with Expression Blend, Silverlight, Visual Studio and XNA — may yet save Windows Phone 7 Series. During the kick-off MIX10 keynote earlier today, Microsoft product managers showcased features, …

Windows Phone 7 Series has Netflix streaming, Xbox Live gaming on Betanews
By Tim Conneally , Betanews One year can change a lot. Today, Microsoft used the MIX ‘10 stage in Las Vegas to show off a lot of the applications that are currently being prepared to launch with Windows Phone 7 Series, and they are a far cry…

Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler on Slashdot
Bethesda Softworks took advantage of the recent Game Developers Conference to take the wraps off a new game called Hunted: The Demon’s Forge that they’re partnering with development studio inXile to create. It’s planned for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3,…

BioShock 2’s First DLC Already On Disc on Slashdot
An anonymous reader writes with this quote from 1Up: “Trouble is brewing in Rapture. The recently released Sinclair Solutions multiplayer pack for BioShock 2 is facing upset players over the revelation that the content is already on the disc, and the…


Microsoft XNA, Xbox Live, and more.

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Go Get It – The Windows Phone Developer Training Kit on The Windows Blog
Today, during the Mix opening keynote , we saw some amazingly cool Windows Phone (WP) demos. Although Windows Phone was announced about a month ago, today we heard the complete end-to-end story for both the user and the developer. On top of that,…

Xbox 360 Games: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 $40, Battlefield Bad Company 2 $40 on SlickDeals.net

Faster Downloads: Exotic Racing Series DLC coming to NFS Shift [w/video] on Autoblog
Filed under: Videos , Toys/Games Need for Speed SHIFT Exotic Racing Series DLC – Click above for high-res image gallery Playstation3 gamers: If you were disappointed that only XBox 360 players got the Ferrari DLC package for Need…


Microsoft XNA and more.

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Windows Phone 7 Series Even More Impressive Than Previously Thought on Digital Daily
Microsoft added a bit more to its Windows Phone 7 Series story at its MIX10 event this morning, revealing some of the mobile operating system’s features and detailing how developers can write software for it. While it’s obviously far…

Windows Phone 7 development, marketplace detailed on MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Microsoft at its MIX10 developer event detailed some of how app development and sales will work for Windows Phone 7. Confirming that it’s based on Silverlight and XNA, the mobile OS will fence off third-party apps from true native code but will give…


Microsoft XNA, Xbox Live Arcade, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

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Novell to unveil technology to bring Xbox 360 games to the iPhone on Geek.com
According to PCWorld, sometime today Novell is slated to demonstrate some impressive new technology that will allow developers to port their Xbox 360 games into iPhone apps, as well as Android games. It’s worth noting here that no one’s…

The Windows Phone Marketplace: A different shopping experience for a different kind of phone on The Windows Blog
Today we’re disclosing the details of the Windows Phone 7 application development platform and tools and how to create more compelling and creative applications and games based on Silverlight and XNA. Everything starts there, but it doesn’t end…

The Right MIX on The Windows Blog
Today at MIX ‘10 we’re looking under the hood of Windows Phone 7 Series, showing people what this phone can do and giving designers and developers the tools and information they need to expand their horizons. We’ve shown the…

Hands-on: Limbo on Joystiq
Very few games manage to instill a pure kind of terror such as Limbo , an aptly-titled puzzle-platformer in development for the past four years. Winner of multiple IGF awards , Limbo is a beautiful and haunting journey, one that must be…

Xbox 360 Arcade currently $130 in Canada on Joystiq
If you’ve been holding out on buying an Xbox 360 for the last five years until it drops below $150, and, um, you live in Canada, you’ll be totally psyched to hear that the Arcade bundle of Microsoft’s console is currently on sale in the great white…

Bethesda & InXile announce ‘Hunted: The Demon’s Forge,’ a co-op ‘roots’ game on Joystiq
Click to descend into the Lair of Screenshots If you and your friends are eager to dive into a monster-filled dungeon — and who isn’t — then Bethesda has a thrilling announcement for you: The publisher is handling a new co-op fantasy action…

Final Fantasy XIII tops UK sales chart, Just Dance shows stamina on Joystiq
In its first week at retail, Final Fantasy XIII charged up the UK sales charts like a Lightning bolt, becoming the “fastest selling” game of the year — a record set by Bad Company 2 just last week . According to Chart-Track , the console sales…

Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Holiday Bundle + $50 Gift Card $299 at Walmart on BensBargains.net Latest Headlines
Walmart has the Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Holiday Bundle and Bonus $50 eGift Card for $299 + shipping. Shipping is about $5; free site-to-store pickup at most locations. Bundle includes 120GB detachable hard drive, LEGO Batman and PURE video games,…

Microsoft: “Everyone’s Windows Phone 7 Series device is a Zune” on MobileBurn.com
At the MIX conference in Las Vegas today, Microsoft demoed some of Windows 7 Phone Series user interface, including the Zune media player, social networking contact features, and some new third-party Silverlight apps, including an Xbox Live 3D game…