Bungie And Microsoft Part Ways

The rumours started earlier in the week are true, Bungie and Microsoft are parting company. MS will retain first dibs on any further Halo games that Bungie wants to make and an equity stake in the company, but Bungie will once more be an independent developer, able to make games for whomever it chooses about [...]

Wii Is Best Selling Console In The World, Official

The Financial Times has reported sales figures from the three biggest videogaming regions, Europe, North America and Japan, and it is now official. The Wii has outstripped the competition to become the biggest selling console this generation.

BBC Shows May Come To Xbox Live

Microsoft is in talks with the British Broadcasting Corporation which may result in some of the corporation’s TV content being available through Xbox Live. Video content is already available in the US where MS has partnered with various broadcatsters including MTV and Disney.

AMD Launches Gaming Website

AMD have launched a new community based website through which gamers can keep up with the latest developements in PC gaming, participate in forums, unlock extra content for their games and enter monthly competitions (not open to people outside North America).

Bioshock Banned By Valve

Potential game of the year, Bioshock, is already courting media controversy with its Little Sister dilemma and now Valve have banned it. Not to worry though you can still get it through Steam, Valve have merely banned it in their offices until The Orange Box is shipped. In yet another interview, this time for [...]

Making DX10 Vista Only Was A Mistake, Says Newell

Gabe Newell, President of Valve, has criticised Microsoft for making DirectX 10 Vista only. Citing figures from a survey of Steam users, only 8% of whom are using vista it seems, he goes on to say that hardware and peripheral manufacturers are wary of creating new devices which support Vista and DX10 simply because there [...]

World Of Warcraft “An anomaly” Says Panel

A discussion panel at the GCDC on Monday, made up of luminaries from the MMO world, analysed whether WoW has killed the MMO or not, coming to the conclusion that there’s plenty of life in the genre yet. Though they did say that the key to WoW’s success was its lack of innovation.

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