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• Microsoft prepping an EA partnership announcement for its next Xbox event - report

• niteninja 27/02/2013

  People who think this is only dlc are going to be jaws on the floor shocked come e3, sony are working on similar stuff with other publishers.
  Ive also heard from someone who got busted with a durango dev kit that ms have also secured fallout 4 exclusive from bethesda. Reply 0

• niteninja 27/02/2013

  Remember what arthur gies said on polygon, people are going to be shocked by how many exclusive games there are on each console.
  Getting exclusive dlc was this gen, getting exclusive games is next gen. Reply 0

• niteninja 27/02/2013

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• niteninja 27/02/2013

  This could be utterly massive, respawns new game, new mass effect and dragon age 3 all durango exclusive.
  From what im hearing its a lot more important than just dlc.
  This is a deal for exclusive ea published games including unrevealed crytek games.
  MS has at least 10 first party games in development for durango most of them are new ip. Reply -3

• Next-gen Xbox specs leak

• niteninja 22/01/2013

  Looking at that VGleaks diagram again, I think they fucked up some f the custom hardware stuff. Specifically, there's a hardware block that they don't describe, pertaining to... well. I don't want to get anybody in trouble.
  
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• niteninja 22/01/2013

  I'm just looking at the block diagram and how much silicon Microsoft is dedicating to that and the memory movers (and the audio DSP), all of which is custom to the system and expensive, and wondering why that, instead of more space dedicated to more GPU resources. They're telling developers it brings a number of advantages and frees them up to do "things," which I don't understand in an appreciable way. They spend a lot of time in their documentation talking about them.
  
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• niteninja 22/01/2013

  Let me see if this helps. For Durango:
  
  Rendering into ESRAM: Yes.
  Rendering into DRAM: Yes.
  Texturing from ESRAM: Yes.
  Texturing from DRAM: Yes.
  Resolving into ESRAM: Yes.
  Resolving into DRAM: Yes.
  
  For the 360, that would be yes, no, no, yes, no, yes. Reply +4

• niteninja 22/01/2013

  I believe these are accurate, though, again, the extra hardware they don't explain will play a major part in what Durango does. I've also heard from reliable sources that the GPU CUs are super-efficient, with an aim for almost 100 percent usage at all times. The 360 hit around 60 percent, I understand. Like I've said previously, context is going to be really important for both systems.
  
  source 1
  
  The entire setup reeks of some kind of new tile based/deferred rendering approach along the lines of what makes the PowerVR GPUs so very efficient.
  
  It would also be very scalable (integrated into a PC GPU card, it would basically push crossfire scaling to 100% and solve any micro stuttering issues). It would be the end of huge monolithic GPU chips as we know them.
  
  source 2
  
  Right now were talking...a new approach that throws out traditional pc comparison measurements in pure flops/mm2..etc...really interested in this...
  
  source 3. Reply +2

• Trends of 2013: The last console generation

• niteninja 09/01/2013

  @bad09 we will find out at e3. Reply 0

• niteninja 09/01/2013

  ms first tease of next gen xbox released.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=re1EatGRV0w#! Reply 0

• niteninja 09/01/2013

  http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2011/11/22/xbox_prestige_06.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/11/23/xbox-evolution/&h=379&w=600&sz=91&tbnid=-oRC467B8vDlVM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dxbox%2Bprestige%2Bpicture%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=xbox+prestige+picture&usg=__XlBmjC74CsObrBxsnp5tgx6b6BI=&docid=85LLS0oUfkANjM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bMjtUKeDHuaY1AWczoGYCg&ved=0CDIQ9QEwAA&dur=4137
  
  might not be official but it fits in with people ive spoken to over the last six months. Reply 0

• niteninja 09/01/2013

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• niteninja 09/01/2013

  The games will be on some kind of ssdd card, if those things are going to be sold at retail or if its just the one that comes bundled with the console is not known.
  Either way you have to swipe it to unlock and download the game. Reply 0

• niteninja 09/01/2013

  http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/exclusive-no-disc-drive-for-next-xbox/092534
  
  http://uk.gamespot.com/news/next-gen-will-fail-if-not-digital-only-says-codemasters-cofounder-6385662
  
  http://uk.gamespot.com/news/next-xbox-drops-disc-drive-report-6365403
  
  all the info points towards digital according to my source (no names) the new xbox will include kinect 2 built into the console.
  What happens is you will buy your game over live and swipe a digital card on the kinect to verify your purchase, you then have the option to download or stream the game or both at the same time.
  The card is like a key and the kinect is the lock. Reply +1

• niteninja 09/01/2013

  I've been saying it for ages, next gen consoles will be download only machines with streaming and cloud based tech at the forefront.
  you cannot stop the march to digital only, boxed games are from the dinosaur era.
  The 3ds failed because Nintendo misjudged how relevant 3d was going to be, the vita failed because Sony are stupid retards that priced it to high and did not learn from the psp memory card era, the wiiu is an overpriced 360 with a crappy iPad ripoff controller.
  Next gen will be very powerful consoles that download games straight to the consoles that's a fact. Reply -3

• HMV pins hope on FIFA 13 and Skylanders as it battles through winter

• niteninja 14/12/2012

  Ive seen people walk into hmv listen to an album on the pods,scan the cds barcode into their iphone apps price checker and buy it on the spot from itunes where its 70% cheaper.
  hmv have become a demo shop. Reply +3

• niteninja 14/12/2012

  HMV is a t-rex in the digital age,they overprice everything I used to pay 25 quid for vinyl back in the day.
  You see apple sliced their music business apart with iTunes and amazon outpriced them on games and dvds.
  They stocked millions of cds in the early 2000s just as digital started to take over way way behind the times. Reply 0

• Could The Phantom Pain be the new Metal Gear Solid?

• niteninja 08/12/2012

  Im calling it now from fox two phantoms were born.
  
  Firstly kojima has never used roman numerals in his games so for me this isn't metal gear solid 5.
  This is metal gear solid vita!!!!!.
  MGS ground zeros is the next gen game that will be on xbox 720 and ps4. Reply +1

• GAME not stocking Mass Effect 3 or EA games past SSX

• niteninja 29/02/2012

  I see a lot of hate for game on here and its 100% justified,I work for gamestation and have watched game fuck us up left right and centre.
  Its an embarrassment to have to tell customers who preordered that this train wreck has happened.
  My apologies go to anyone who we fucked over.
  Our jobs are screwed,head office wont talk to us,our area manager has vanished,customer services wont answer the phone.
  Customer confidence is shot to pieces if theres any investors out there help us. Reply +6

• Mass Effect 3 live action trailer debuts

• niteninja 27/02/2012

  The rumours are the me movie will go into production in the summer and sam worthington is in talks to play shepard. Reply 0

• GAME: "we can't stock absolutely everything"

• niteninja 22/02/2012

  The biggest pile of damage control bullshit ive ever heard.
  Stores are not getting stock of new games,high ups are walking out of the company,publishers are losing confidence in game and gamestation,nobody answers the phone at customer service and IT.
  we cant price match with grainger anymore the company can not spin the fact that it has pissed market share away to its rivals. Reply +1

• Who Killed Rare?

• niteninja 08/02/2012

  Think what happened was a lot of the talented people who rare had were poached by other studios.
  Bioware,sony,ea,eidos all have former rare employers on their books now. Reply 0

• Volition dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games would be "fantastic"

• niteninja 06/02/2012

  If this turns out to be true then you can count me out of gaming in the future.
  Still it will give the pirates and hackers all the motivation in the world to find a way around this and they will eventually. Reply +1

• Game Group's share price nose dives

• niteninja 23/11/2011

  The competition has stepped up the price war.
  Grainger games has a strategy to open as many shops next to a gamestation or game as it possibly can.
  Add to the fact that the supermarkets are stocking more games than they ever had before, it becomes clear that game is being left behind by the opposition.
  For example gamestation were doing new 360 250 gig with fifa or cod for 199.99
  grainger were doing the same deal for 169.99 with 30 pound in store vouchers. Reply +6

• The first Syndicate screenshots

• niteninja 13/09/2011

  Wow disappointing, imagine what this could have been as a cutting edge rts.
  It would be like turning the brilliant total war games into a crappy hack and slash. Reply 0