Most gamers complain of voice chat abuse on Xbox Live, but those complains may be coming to an end, as Microsoft has been granted a patent for real-time censoring in voice communications.
The company had applied for a patent on an “automatic censoring filter” way back in 2004. The technology will see speech-recognition software scan [...]

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With the new Xbox Experience dashboard dropping next month, Microsoft has taken steps away from its previous announcement that it would delist under-performing games from Xbox Live Arcade.
In an interview to IGN, Microsoft VP John Schappert said that "the information about XBLA de-listing had been taken out of context and [...]

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Bringing out the voters in all of us, Microsoft recently ran an online poll on Xbox Live users to find out who gamers supported the most.
As it stands, the Obama-Biden duo is winning the election race among gamers, taking over 43% of the votes. McCain-Palin got around 31% votes, with the rest undecided. Microsoft [...]

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In a rare occurrence, Xbox Live will be going down for maintenance next Monday, September 29 starting 2am CDT. The downtime can last up to 24 hours.
During this time, Xbox Live and the ‘My Xbox’ section on the console’s website will be unavailable and the Xbox forums will be in read-only mode. The Xbox.com [...]

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Chances are you’ve already downloaded the demo for StarWars: The Force Unleashed because, according to LucasArts, it has become the fastest demo to reach one million downloads on Xbox Live.
LucasArts went on to say that Too Human had held the previous record of 9 days to reach one million downloads, with Star Wars: The Force [...]

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Offering a cool service to Europeans, Microsoft Europe has announced a new program that will allow select members of Xbox Live to see upcoming films before their theatrical debut.
Dubbed the “Xbox Live Film Club”, the service comes as the result of a partnership with Paramount. It will launch with a special sneak preview of [...]

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Good news for frugal gamers, as well as those who held out, Microsoft has slashed the prices on a number of downloadable add-ons available on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Dubbed the Extended Play Download Days, the sale will run until the end of October and offers savings of up to 60% on select pieces of downloadable [...]

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Digital downloads are now a big thing in the States it seems, as Microsoft recently revealed that the Xbox Live Marketplace has seen over $240 million in revenue, with $180 million of that coming in last year.
Gamasutra additionally reports that games with paid downloadable content make an average $21 million more at retail if [...]

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