Microsoft has been trying their hardest to fight against the growing threat of Google and their next stage of attack is an alternative to Google Maps, and as you can see in this video it is really rather cool! IT will be interesting to see how Google counters this, we have already seen the Google Image search engine go under a major overhaul in the past week which makes it more like Microsoft’s Bing image search. Look out for a Microsoft Maps camera car in your street soon.
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Newsgush: First New Halo Screenshots
0 CommentsFebruary 1, 2010 – 5:30 pm
Now that’s a thing of beauty aint it? Microsoft may be parting company with Halo creators Bungie after this release, and game details are still sketchy, but these new screenshots that leaked out today show that if this is the last hurrah for the series, it’ll be amazing to watch!
Check out more images below – lock n’ load!
Newsgush: Bill Gates joins Twitter
1 CommentsJanuary 20, 2010 – 11:05 am
Microsoft, I remember when you used to be cool.
Well, not cool, but evil at least! With your big, lumbering, expensive, horrible products and your total disdain for the average Joe who just wants to set up his wireless internet. But never mind all that. Now we’ve learned via Pocketlint that Bill Gates, figurehead of Microsoft despite being several years retired – is on Twitter and making himself (and by extension Microsoft) look all cuddly and approachable.
Boo! I don’t like friendly Microsoft, I miss evil, seven-billion-pounds-for-the-student-edition Microsoft! No wonder Google have taken over as Apple’s main competitor. If this keeps up it wont be long before they ‘do a Sega’ and drop out of the race entirely. they’ll probably choose to ‘focus exclusively on their touchscreen dinner-table division’ or somesuch.
Sorry, this has turned into a bit of a rant about how Microsoft are less powerful and evil than I wish they were. What this says about me I’m not sure, but anyway – you can follow Captain Gates himself at twitter.com/billgates
Newgush: Project Natal by the end of the year
0 CommentsJanuary 7, 2010 – 11:05 am
Now particularly observant readers will have noticed that this year has only just started, and so this announcement, made at the recently-commenced Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, maybe isn’t all that shocking. But it’s still pleasant to hear it confirmed by the Microsoft head-honchos: Project Natal will be available to buy this coming holiday season.
Thoughts?
Thoughtful Preview: Final Fantasy XIII
0 CommentsDecember 4, 2009 – 10:59 pm
Release date: 9th March, 2010.
To call Final Fantasy XIII hotly anticipated is something of an understatement. “The reason thousands of people bought a PS3 before discovering it was no longer a Sony-exclusive” might be a more appropriate tag – if the wind is right you can just about hear the sound of a million eager fanfiction authors sharpening their quills in anticipation. It’s going to be massive, it’s going to sell millions. At worst it’s going to be passable, at best it could be genre-defining.
Not many games are really afforded the luxury of selling fantastically well despite how good they actually are. A bad game can be made to sell via a major PR effort, (a la Kane and Lynch) but it’s hard to begrudge Square Enix their inevitable success, because Read More
