Microsoft is looking to extend Xbox LIVE to iOS and potentially Android and other platforms, according to a new job listing at the company, extending the company’s gaming reach beyond its current Windows Phone focus. The posting, spotted by LiveSide, calls for a software development engineer to ”define, design and implement Xbox LIVE mobile experiences on Windows Phone, iOS and other platforms” with the potential for location-based gaming, social networking-enabled titles and more.
Blizzard's decision to push Diablo III back into 2012 met with no small amount of upset from eager gamers, but it seems the wait may be soon over. Best Buy Canada has apparently begun advertising a February 1 2012 midnight launch for the much-anticipated game, according to Joystiq's source in Winnipeg, while a February 3 release is suggested by UK retailer Gameplay.
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LG has previewed its Cinema Screen LCD HDTV design, ahead its official CES launch, slimming the bezel of its big-screen TVs to a mere 1mm as well as using 3D tech to allow two 2D gamers to play at once. The company is describing the new frames as down “to negligible levels” and talking up the similarity between movie theater screens.
Valve disclosed their Steam sales in 2011 more than doubled the mark set in 2010, marking seven consecutive years of 100 percent growth. Can we stop with the cute "PC gaming is dying", and let the numbers speak for themselves? Steam sales are no where near slowing down based on this new information, and the number of simultaneous users surpassing the five million mark. PC gaming is thriving.
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Audio accessories maker Turtle Beach has unveiled its new lineup of gaming headsets ahead of their debut at CES 2012. The new headsets include the Ear Force X42 and the Ear Force X32, both designed for the Xbox 360, as well as the Ear Force Z11 designed for PC gamers. Additionally, the company announced a sound processor and a slew of headsets for mobile devices.
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Earlier today the report was that Sony's Executive Deputy President Kaz Hirai was being lifted up to President, but as reports were not confirmed, so too did the report reflect - now Sony has reached out to the press to assure us all that this simply isn't the situation, but without a formal denial that it COULD happen in the future. The original report came from Japanese news service Nekkei which sited unnamed sources. This report is reinforced by a comment given to Bloomberg this past November which had Sony Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer noting he'd not be going anywhere any time soon.
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There's a new South Park video game coming out inside the second half of 2012 complete with a role-playing perspective on adventures inside everybody's favorite mountain town. This game is called, simply, South Park: The Game, and has you playing the part of a new kid coming into the town to make both friends and enemies in strange environment after strange environment. What we're seeing this week is a set of gameplay screenshots, each of them showing a new scenario you'll be getting in: and it looks fantastic!
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Earlier today we showed off the other piece of this double announcement in the HP Omni 27 all-in-one PC, and now it’s time for the monster – the HP Pavilion HPE h9 Phoenix performance PC. This strangely endearing looking tower has your choice of Intel X79 or AMD 8-core processors and contains some rather lovely red lights under its black and silver exterior. Its innards are revealed to you through the side and gaming prowess throughout. This look like something you’re willing to plop down the side of your desk for $1,149.99, a cool price coming on January 8th?
This week the folks at Qualcomm are letting loose a bit more information on what's now set to be called Snapdragon GameCommand, an environment not unlike what we've seen thus far from NVIDIA and their Tegra Zone, both arenas containing games that, at least for a limited time, work only on their own chipsets. We first heard about this Qualcomm project back in June, it then being nicknamed the Qualcomm Snapdragon Game Pack. Since then they've given a face and a brand new application to the project, and it'll all be shown off on the 10th of this month, right in the middle of CES 2012.
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MSI has pulled the wraps off a pair of new notebook computers ahead of CES 2012. The first is the MSI GT783 hailed by MSI to be the world's fastest gaming laptop. The machine is running the new second gen 2GHz Core i7 quad-core processor under the hood and has an NVIDIA GTX 580M GPU. That is the fastest GPU around according to MSI.
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Microsoft's gaming arm has inked a deal with a social gaming specialist, for a multi-title collaboration that could flesh out the Windows 8 Store or even bring a Halo-style mini-game to Facebook. The agreement [pdf link] between Microsoft Studios and Arkadium will see the two work together to "develop casual and social cross-platform experiences" that will likely benefit Windows PC, tablet, Windows Phone and Xbox users.
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The rumors of next gen Xbox consoles from Microsoft are floating around all over the place over the last few months. Back in November, we heard that there would be two new Xbox consoles launch with one aimed at the gamer and the other packing in some set-top box tech for the gamer that wants to watch TV too. A new patent has surfaced that lends weight to the version with the set-top box capability.
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