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● Xbox 360 sold more than 750,000 consoles in the U.S. alone –exceeding internal forecasts. ● Three month Xbox LIVE Gold Subscription sales increased more than 50 percent compared to last year’s Black Friday week. ● We saw incredible activity on Xbox over the weekend. For example, on Sunday alone we had more than 14 million people on Xbox LIVE across the world, racking up more than 72 million hours of use in just one day. ● Compared to 2011, we’ve seen a 43 percent increase in U.S. entertainment application hours logged on Xbox LIVE during the week of Black Friday. UK media business Future has confirmed the closure of Xbox World and PSM3 magazines in the UK, as it continues its focus on digital growth.
The final issues of the unofficial magazines will go on sale Wednesday, December 12, with an aim to redeploy affected staff across the business. Clair Porteous, Future's Head of Entertainment, said in a statement: "After careful consideration, Future has made the decision to close Xbox World and PSM3 magazines with the final issues going on sale on December 12. "This decision has been taken as Future continues to focus on its strategy on accelerating digital growth across its international digitally-focussed brand business. "Future's gaming portfolio saw over 14m unique users for October 2012 - up over 20% on October 2011. We intend and fully expect there to be no redundancies and will be looking to redeploy all staff within the business. "Future continues to publish the highly successful Official Magazines for Xbox and PlayStation." Xbox World was launched by Computec Media in 2003, before being purchased by Future later the same year alongside sister mag PlayStation World. PSM3 was launched by Future in 2000 as PSM2 and has published over 160 issues. Microsoft is building its own 7-inch gaming tablet. Multiple sources familiar with plans within Redmond have confirmed that initial hardware planning for an Xbox Surface is underway. Specifications for an Xbox Surface 7-inch tablet computing device leaked back in June ahead of Microsoft's Surface RT and Surface Pro announcement.
The Xbox Surface will likely include a custom ARM processor and high-bandwidth RAM designed specifically for gaming tasks. We're told these specifications could be altered to accommodate an unannounced Intel SoC and that the Xbox Surface is being developed independent of specific hardware architecture. Microsoft's Xbox Surface won't run a full version of Windows, rather this 7-inch tablet will run a custom Windows kernel. Messaging and other tablet functions may be supported, but the focus is on gaming. More info will be posted as it's learned. |
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