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Helsing fights its way onto December’s Xbox Games with Gold

The latest batch of games in the Xbox Games with Gold programme is ready for download. The first batch of games for the month…

Xbox Live revived after outage, Xbox 360 social features still affected

Microsoft‘s having a pretty bad start to the week it seems. Xbox Live dropped off the map earlier today for reasons yet unknown. The…

Xbox Live Gold games for March includes ‘Rayman Legends’, ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘BioShock Infinite’

There are some seriously great games coming to Xbox Live Gold in March, including the likes of Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite and Rayman Legends….

Lizard Squad fells PlayStation Network in latest festive attack

The festive season might be fast approaching, but the mood around the PlayStation Network camp can’t be too jolly. Lizard Squad, the group of…

Xbox Live temporarily knocked on its face thanks to hackers

After such a good Black Friday showing for the company’s current-gen console, Xbox Live has just about recovered from a DDOS attack earlier today,…

Netflix, Hulu no longer trapped behind Xbox Live Gold paywall

Well, here’s some news arriving earlier than expected. After speculation that Microsoft will drop Xbox Live Gold’s streaming paywall for services like Netflix and Hulu,…

Finally: Xbox Live Gold paywall for Hulu, Netflix to die off

The much-hated Xbox Live Gold paywall may soon be relaxed, allowing all Xbox Live users access to premium content, ArsTechnica reports. Currently Netflix and Hulu…

Inflated Xbox Live beta pricing issues an ‘unintended error’ says Microsoft

When Xbox Live updates later this month, it’s going to remove Microsoft Points and replace them with local currency options. Some lucky users got…

Xbox One E3 games roundup: a collection of assured hits

It was amazing how many of the new launch games for Microsoft’s Xbox One use online to power their best features. At this year’s…

iPhone 5 gets full-screen update to Xbox SmartGlass app

Microsoft’s SmartGlass app, a cross-platform Xbox 360 controller that works through a smartphone, has been updated to take full advantage of the iPhone 5’s…

Xbox LIVE launches new apps in US, UK and Europe

Yesterday, Xbox LIVE Director of Programming Larry Hryb, announced via his pseudo blog Major Nelson that the company had launched new entertainment apps in…

Meet SA’s most-played games and downloadable titles [Report]

According to MWEB, a South African ISP, gaming has “quietly mushroomed” under gamers feet. Its first ever gaming report tells us what the top…

Snag an Xbox for US$99 — the catch? It’s on a two year contract

This is some beautiful forward thinking by the big-M. US customers can run down to a Microsoft store with coupon in hand, slap it…

I am Alive – tactics over action

With a turbulent history, I am Alive barely made it out at all. But with developer Ubisoft Shanghai using creative mechanics to overcome technical…

Fez: breaking the fourth wall [Review]

Fez is a dreamy platformer, the purest distillation of gaming I’ve played in years. Press start, and sink into a pillow of 16-bit gaming…

Halo 4 tea-bags its way into your living room 6 November

It’s Halo 4, and it’s coming 6 November 2012. Microsoft is calling this “the year’s most anticipated video game release” and for once, it’s…

Indie darling Fez drops onto XBLA 13 April

We’ve harped on about Fez before on Gearburn. Simply put, it’s one of the most exciting independent games ever made. On 13 April, Fez…

‘No new Xbox in 2012’ says Microsoft

The Xbox 360 is doing well. After hanging onto the top of the charts for a year and change and dominating 46% of the…

Xbox Live may be coming to Android and iOS

Microsoft could be on the verge of launching Xbox Live for devices running Android and iOS. The move has the potential to put the…

My Xbox Live App brings iOS users closer to the MS fold

The newly updated Xbox Live Fall Dashboard brings with it a surprise for iOS users in the form of the Companion App, dubbed “My…

‘Cinderella Law’ curbs gaming zombie kids in Korea

The endless midnight gaming sessions of South Korea’s children are set to be curbed by stringent new laws. If children are 15 years or…

Xbox to offer cable TV

Streaming TV shows are next for Microsoft’s console, the Xbox 360. Microsoft recently announced that it will start live-streaming a wide variety of TV…

Games from the ether: Xbox & PlayStation downloadable collection

Even though I’ve been connected to Xbox Live and the PSN network for a while now, there is one aspect of those services which…

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