05 Jan 09 Microsoft says Xbox 360 sales top PS3 by 8 million units

Microsoft released a host of statistics early this evening to trumpet what it said was the success of its Xbox 360 video game console.

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05 Jan 09 Xbox 360 Records Its Biggest Year Ever (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Despite a tough economy, the gaming industry held strong in 2008 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system recorded the biggest year in Xbox history, with more consoles, games and online entertainment experiences sold than any previous year.

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05 Jan 09 Early returns show strong holiday video game console sales

Microsoft said its Xbox 360 had the strongest holiday season of its lifetime, while Sony and Nintendo both tout their own sales success. More...

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05 Jan 09 GameStop Halts All Original Xbox Trade-Ins February 9?

With an U.S. install base of over 25 million, it’s perhaps no surprise that the original Xbox still logs more playtime, on average, than the Sony PlayStation 3. But if a rumor making the rounds today is true, that won’t save Microsoft’s black box from extinction. Citing an internal GameStop memo and several anonymous GameStop managers, Destructoid claims that effective February 9th, 2009, the company will stop accepting original Xbox games, systems and accessories for trade-in. While there’s

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05 Jan 09 Gaming News for 01/05/09 : Still No sign of Xbox 360 Jasper

Analyst: Zune phone unlikely, but 10% Microsoft layoffs 'reasonable' Rumor on the nets are something foul might be hitting the fan over in Redmond. I don't want to speculate on speculation but it is unlikely to hit the Xbox division since they are getting a whole new building with a pub in the next couple years.

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05 Jan 09 Report: Xbox 360 represents Microsoft at its best

Report: Xbox 360 represents Microsoft at its best GameRush Entertainment: Feeds Mon, 01/05/2009 - 18:25 As Microsoft enters 2009, its video game console may be the "X factor," as the Xbox 360 represents software giant at its best, according to a new report. "Microsoft delivered a reasonably solid and full- featured product ahead of rivals," said Christopher Saunders of InternetNews.

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05 Jan 09 Xbox 360 Reaches 8 Million In Europe (Gamasutra)

Microsoft says that Xbox 360's 2008 Christmas sales doubled in Europe over the same period in 2007, marking the console's most successful season yet in the region. According to the company, this brings Xbox 360's userbase to eight million in the EMEA territories (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), and gives the console a one million-unit lead over the PlayStation 3 there. "Christmas 2008 was ...

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05 Jan 09 Iron Lore vets demo ‘Black Legion’ - Masshightech.com

Iron Lore ran out of cash last February while trying to duplicate the success it had with Titan Quest, a computer RPG, with an offering on the Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360. That project, dubbed “Black Legion,” is now out to game publishers in a demo, after two former Iron Lore employees quietly formed their own gaming company, Crate Entertainment.

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05 Jan 09 Red Faction: Guerrilla is “too much” for the XBox 360 hardwa

In a long interview to Gameplayer, Red Faction: Guerrilla’s producer Rick White has answered questions about the stage of the game’s developing for the Microsoft console. One of the interesting comments was that, even though the developing continues to be done in schedule, there are some evident programming issues for the XBox 360.

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05 Jan 09 Microsoft celebrate bumper 2008 for Xbox 360 (Ferrago.co.uk)

Lewis speaks of epic growth Xbox Europe boss Chris Lewis says that 2008 was a monumental year for the Xbox 360 console, the exec stating that the 'brand' grew faster than its competition over the year, with festive sales the best the platform holder has ever seen. "2008 saw us grow faster than any of our competitors and we over-achieved in sales during the crucial Christmas selling ...

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05 Jan 09 Microsoft Reveals Top Xbox 360 Games of 2008

As the trend of looking back at 2008 continues, Microsoft has provided lists of the year’s 20 most popular Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade, and original Xbox games.

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05 Jan 09 Microsoft: Xbox 360 rocks Christmas

Microsoft has just announced that the Xbox 360 is celebrating its best European Christmas to date.Latest sales data shows Christmas 2008 was, according to the platform holder, "the biggest sales period ever in the brand's six-year European history, with sales of Xbox 360 almost double those of Christmas 2007."

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