Microsoft Archive

  • Review: The Splatters

    Review: The Splatters

    Perhaps you’ve grown tired of flinging feathered friends at packs of thieving pigs and toppling towers of blocks in Rio and in orbit around the moon. If you’re suffering from an A-grade case of Angry Birds fatigue, say a sloppy hello to The Splatters, your...

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  • Making Halo 4 ViDoc: Composing Worlds

    Making Halo 4 ViDoc: Composing Worlds

    Music has always been an emotional driving force in the Halo games, something 343 Industries has no intention of letting slide now that it has taken over development of the franchise from Bungie. For Halo 4, famed composer Neil Davidge has been enlisted to score...

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  • Halo 4 Launching Worldwide November 6

    Halo 4 Launching Worldwide November 6

    Master Chief returns to start a new Halo saga in Halo 4, officially launching across the globe on November 6th exclusively for Xbox 360. The series’ iconic hero took a break for the two previous games–three if you want to count Halo Wars–but, four years...

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  • Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Diabolical Pitch is like that wild ‘n’ crazy rookie pitching prospect, the guy with the sick breaking ball that no batter can seem to touch. You bring him up to the majors for the Big Game—or in this case download him to your Xbox 360...

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  • Review: Sine Mora

    Review: Sine Mora

    Enemy fighters, towering leviathan robots and incessant rainbow bursts of deadly projectiles aren’t your biggest enemies in Sine Mora, the high-class shmup from the head-trip kids at Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality. Not even close. No, public enemy one is the white digital timer at...

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  • Trials, Fable, Minecraft and Bloodforge Headline XBLA’s ‘Arcade Next’

    Trials, Fable, Minecraft and Bloodforge Headline XBLA’s ‘Arcade Next’

    Microsoft Studios is proud to present Arcade Next, a new Xbox Live Arcade promo series scheduled to deliver four hot titles to help gamers burn away any springtime showers that may come between April 18th and May 9th. Ubisoft and RedLynx’s dirt bike racer Trials...

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  • Kinect Star Wars Play Modes Overview

    Kinect Star Wars Play Modes Overview

    Kinect Star Wars is shaping up to be a grab bag of motion-control activities from a galaxy far, far away. Parts of it appear to be good fun. Other parts, ummm…not so much. This latest developer video provides a broader view and description for the...

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  • Kinect Rush Embarks on a Disney•Pixar Adventure This Week

    Kinect Rush Embarks on a Disney•Pixar Adventure This Week

    Quietly launching this week for Xbox 360 Kinect, Kinect Rush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure brings motion-control gaming to the whole family in the form of fun activities based on classic Disney•Pixar films, including The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Cars and Toy Story. Players will use their bodies...

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  • Pod Racing, Jedi Dueling and Stormtrooper Dancing in Kinect Star Wars

    Pod Racing, Jedi Dueling and Stormtrooper Dancing in Kinect Star Wars

    On branding alone, Kinect Star Wars has garnered a lot of hype and attention, despite looking consistently lousy in every trailer, gameplay clip and stage demo it’s ever appeared in. Star Wars fans simply cannot stop the nostalgic yearning for a true motion-control lightsaber combat...

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  • Diabolical Pitch Trailer Tosses a Goofy Kinect Curveball

    Diabolical Pitch Trailer Tosses a Goofy Kinect Curveball

    Only Suda 51 and his crazy team of Grasshopper Manufacture developers could come up with a Kinect game about a baseball pitcher with a bionic arm who throws for survival in a demented amusement park shooting gallery crawling with evil, big-headed animal mascots. I’m not...

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