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Casualties mount as war rages on! Is your wallet dead yet?

News came out yesterday that doesn’t seem to bode well for folks over at Microsoft and Nintendo; Sony has topped 10 million in console sales as of 8/12/14. This is sold, not shipped, which means that there are 10 million people out there playing PS4’s right now. Sony is excited about this for many reasons,
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August 13, 2014
Xbox One to Kill Kinect

In case you haven’t seen all the reports, the Xbox One runs at a lower frame rate than the PC or PS4, even as low as 20 frames per second. Seeing the issue Microsoft has announced they will release a patch that will allow developers to use the GPU processing power usually on reserve for
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January 28, 2014
XBOX One will be released on November 22nd!

Mark your calendars Betches! What’s so significant about that date you ask? That’s exactly 8 years after the release of the 360… has it really been that long? GOD DAMN I’M OLD!
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September 4, 2013
Backwards Compatibility, Why We Want it and Why We’re Dumb!

Admit it, even though you may not have yelled it at the top of your lungs you at least mentally cried foul when you heard that the XBOX One and PS4 would not be backwards compatible. It’s ok, many of us felt the same way. Backwards compatibility is continually sought after by us because we
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June 27, 2013
RUMOR: XBOX One Release Date to be November 27th?

Take this with a grain of salt since MS hasn’t put out a Press Release yet, but sources online are saying that the XBOX One will be released on 11/27/13. It would appear that Twitter user David Difranco received an email regarding his preorder being upgraded to “Release Date Delivery” now scheduled for 11/27/13. This
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June 21, 2013
Microsoft Get’s Off the Mat and Dusts Itself Off!

In surprising not-so-surprising news today Microsoft has announced major changes to the XBOX One ecosystem, and it’s about damned time. Microsoft has been under fire as of late since after they released their highly controversial and oft made fun of DRM policies for the XBOX One, and is ready to do a complete 180 on
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June 19, 2013
Is Microsoft Actually Listening to Consumers? *UPDATE* YES!!!!!

None of this has been confirmed by Microsoft yet but Giantbomb.com is reporting that there are big changes to the XBOX One’s game policies, essentially killing all DRM that was going to be imprinted to the console. Those changes are rumored as follows: No more always online requirement The console no longer has to check
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June 19, 2013
XBOX One: Everything We Know *UPDATED*

IBeatItFirst.com was onsite for the official Microsoft E3 Press Event making us one of the lucky ones to learn all of the nitty gritty regarding the newest member of the XBOX family. First off, let’s get the nerdy stuff out of the way. Microsoft worked with AMD to develop a custom 8-core CPU/GPU to help
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June 13, 2013
Sony Takes Further Potshots at XBOX One With a New Sharing Video!

I was going to post this last night but just didn’t have a chance. Shuhei Yoshida was relaxing around the during their PS4 Press Conference rehearsals and someone had the great idea to make a funny video, at Microsoft’s expense. Personally I think it’s freaking HILARIOUS! What do you think though?
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June 12, 2013
Who Wants to Watch Over 9 Minutes of Metal Gear Solid 5?

Oh c’mon, you know you want to. Be forewarned, this is the red band trailer so it can be a bit gory. A huge chunk of this is the portion that we saw at the Microsoft Press Event yesterday.
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June 11, 2013