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Here’s Gears of War 3′s opening cinematic

Around this time yesterday, Epic Games' Cliff Blezsinski excitedly announced on his Twitter account that Gears of War 3 has finally gone gold. In order to celebrate this wondrous occasion for the company, they decided to give a ... continue

Forza Motorsport 4 dev diary shows how the Hockenheim track was made

Our last look at Forza Motorsport 4 showed us a fictional track based on the real-world location of the Bernese Alps. This time around, we get the opposite. The latest Forza Motorsport 4 developer diary shows us just ... continue

The real-time scanning of cell phones pictures would never be misused would it.

One of the touchiest subjects when it comes to technology has to be facial recognition and its use, both good and bad. We have all heard about how all the major tech companies like Facebook, Google, and ... continue

RAGE install on Xbox 360 is 22GB

If you were planning on playing id Software's RAGE on Xbox 360 when it launches this year, you better start clearing out hard drive space if you have any intentions of installing it to the Xbox 360's ... continue

Runic Games says Torchlight 2 is too big for XBLA, would have to be reworked

Back when Torchlight 2 was announced, Runic Games stated plans to release the hack-n'-slash title on XBLA shortly after the PC release, if not day-and-date with it. Unfortunately, it looks like they've run into problems making that ... continue

First Forza Motorsport 4 dev diary shows the making of the Bernese Alps track

Microsoft and Turn 10 have sent out the first of what will apparently be several "making of" videos for their upcoming racing sim, Forza Motorsport 4. The first video gives us a look at the making of the ... continue

New Gears of War 3 trailer shows off Horde 2.0

If you were in attendance at Comic Con, you've probably already seen this trailer - for the rest of us, Epic has put out an all new trailer for Gears of War 3's Horde 2.0 mode. As ... continue

Avatar Kinect out now on Xbox Live

If you're the type of person who prefers chatting with your friends in digital space rather than your standard face-to-face meetup, you and your pals will probably get a kick out of Avatar Kinect, out now on ... continue

Watch the Gears of War 3 Comic Con panel

If you haven't already had your fill of Gears of War 3 content for the day, GameSpot uploaded over an hour's worth of footage from the Gears of War 3 Comic Con panel held yesterday. First up in ... continue

New Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary video shows The Silent Cartographer level

Microsoft and Halo's new caretakers, 343 Industries, put out an all new look at Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, a remake of the Xbox classic that started it all a little under ten years ago. In the latest video, ... continue

Next version of the Xbox will have Avatar-like graphics, says AMD

In the August issue of OXM, AMD's Neal Robison made a pretty bold claim about the next version of the Xbox's graphic capabilities. To be specific, Robison claims that the next Xbox will be capable of pumping out ... continue

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary pre-order bonuses detailed

Microsoft detailed the goodies up for grabs if you pre-order Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary this morning, the first of which is the "Grunt Party" skull, and the second being a certain someone's suit of armor for your ... continue

Simon Maddox on Twitter via the Guardian Online

App developers face very questionable future due to US patent laws

In the beginning patents were conceived of as a way for inventors of all types to protect their ideas from being stolen or copied without any legal repercussions. As idealistic as that might have been we have seen the whole patent ... continue

Warner Bros. releases Bastion launch trailer

Warner Bros. Interactive released the launch trailer for Supergiant Games' debut title, Bastion, which kicks off Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion next week on July 20 for 1200 Microsoft Points. In short, Bastion is an action RPG ... continue

The Inquisitr makes it into the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference big screen

Awhile back I wrote a post here regarding Google, Google Apps and its claim of FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) accreditation and whether they were lying, or just being misleading about that claim. Now flash forward to ... continue

Patents Sale! Judges Approve Nortel Intellectual Property Sales To Apple, Microsoft and Others

Nortel is selling $4.5 billion worth of Patents to a consortium of tech companies that include Apple, Microsoft and Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion after the deal was approved on Monday by judges in both the United ... continue

Nortel Patents Purchased for $4.5b By Apple, Microsoft Led Group

Late Thursday, a consortium of tech companies made up of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony, paid $4.5 billion, five times Google's opening bid, for Nortel's portfolio of more than six-thousand patents and patent ... continue

Windows Phone 7 Now Has 25,000 Apps [Report]

It's nowhere near the size of the Apple App Store but Microsoft on Friday passed an important milestone for their Windows Phone 7 devices, reaching 25,000 available applications. The number which comes from an independent app tracking service ... continue

Microsoft Hires Former Disney Marketing Executive To Sell Windows 8

Microsoft is revving up to sell Windows 8 and to prepare for that launch the company has hired Jay Victor, a former brand strategy director for Disney who will take on the same role at his new ... continue

Forza Motorsport 4 Collector’s Edition Detailed

Turn 10 released our very first look at the Collector's Edition for Forza Motorsport 4 over on the Forza Motorsport site early this morning. As detailed in the post, the game will come in a sleek steelbook ... continue

Microsoft Confirms Kinect Support for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

In news that will surprise just about no one, Microsoft's Phil Spencer casually confirmed in an E3 interview with GameSpot that some form of Kinect integration is coming to the recently-announced Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary remake from ... continue

FTC Approves Microsoft Acquisition Of Skype

In May 2011 Microsoft announced that they would pay $8.5 billion in cash to acquire internet phone and chat provider Skype and less than one month later the FTC has approved that acquisition. While concerns began to arise ... continue