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Microsoft is cooking up a host of family friendly games in a bid to corner the casual market currently bossed by Nintendo.
Specifically, says Microsoft Asia-Pacific's Alan Bowman, the platform holder intends to cater for different age groups by releasing cartoon-based titles and word-puzzle games in a bid to compete with the Wii.
"We're doing a lot in broadening the content for the Xbox 360," said Bowman.
"A key strategy for us is to give broad choice for people. You need to provide content which broadens your base of users from core gamers to different age groups… If you look at Guitar Hero, it's something which can be played by the whole family, by kids, males, females, adults.”
Bowman added that British developer Rare will play a central role in Microsoft’s family friendly push.
"Now they're starting to produce games with very, very broad appeal. Kids also love our Viva Pinata Party Animals game, so it's games like that."
Microsoft Game Studios’ Phil Spencer said recently that Rare’s development of a DS version of Viva Piñata was important in helping the company “... understand what it means to build lightweight, maybe shorter session experiences, and maintain that design innovation”.
YONKERS - Two Leake and Watts Children's Home students were stabbed Wednesday afternoon in a dispute over a stolen $400 Microsoft XBox, Yonkers police said yesterday.
Police arrested Lavon Davis, 18, a student at the home, and charged him with second-degree burglary, a felony, in the theft of the XBox, Yonkers police Lt. Diane Hessler said.
But, Hessler said, police were still trying to determine who stabbed a 17-year-old boy three times, once in the abdomen and twice in the chest during the donnybrook at Fay Field shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
"The investigation is still ongoing," Hessler said.
Another 16-year-old student was treated at St. Joseph's Medical Center for superficial cuts to the face and hands.
Yonkers Police Capt. Frank Intervallo, commander of the Third Precinct, said the dispute was apparently about the stolen game.
Intervallo said the fight started when a coach took about 50 students to Fay Field for gym class. During the class, Intervallo said, several students began to fight about the stolen XBox.
The game was stolen from the dormitory room of one of the students, police said.
Police were called to Fay Field on a report of 50 people fighting shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Most of the students were not involved in the fight, police said.
Police arrived and found the 17-year-old wounded on the ground. Police officers stabilized his wounds until Empress Ambulance arrived and took him to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.
Police investigating the stabbing stopped and detained three people, including Davis, walking into the north east entrance of the 463 Hawthorne Ave. school shortly after the fight.
Two of the students had blood on their clothing, police said.
Davis was later arrested and the two other allowed to return to the school after questioning.
The simExchange October review report, based on information taken from the online prediction market simExchange, believes that the Xbox 360 will outsell the PlayStation 3 in the US by almost 2-to-1 between now and the end of the year.
According to analyst Jesse Divnich the Xbox 360 will sell just over 2 million units, while the PS3 will sell just over 1 million - although the Wii and DS will trump them both handsomely, shifting 3.28 million and 2.86 million units respectively.
The market, which isn't based on actual financial transactions but the predictions of thousands of gamers, developers and industry watchers, does take into account the introduction of the 40GB version of the PS3, but notes that actual software sales for October were lower than market predictions.
Ratchet and Clank Future only sold 74,500 units last month, compared to an estimate of 129,000, although promising reviews of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - predicted to sell 286,000 units in December - could spell an upturn.
In terms of software predictions, sales estimates for Assassin's Creed have fallen sharply on the back of lower-than-expected review scores globally.
Divnich points to an average score in the 80 - 90 per cent bracket, rather than the previously predicted 95 per cent, and revised sales estimates have fallen from 2.85 million units to 1.84 million for the Xbox 360 and from 1.48 million to 1.38 million for the PS3 edition.
Meanwhile the simExchange market predicts Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare to take the number one spot in the US in November - more Activision success following Guitar Hero III's triumph in October.
Finally the report predicts a bumper year for software sales, with November up 31 percent year on year and selling USD 1.05 billion, and December up 27 per cent to USD 2.19 billion.
If you remember, back in September Microsoft and the Sci-Fi Channel teamed up to present the Sci vs Fi episode featured around Halo 3. They are planning to have another episode based around another hit title this fall with Sci vs Fi: Mass Effect.
Tune in Tuesday, Nov. 20, when the Sci Fi Channel celebrates the launch of Mass Effect with a 30-minute special debut, entitled Sci vs. Fi: Mass Effect. The show features in-depth information about the game, exclusive interviews, and exciting, behind-the-scenes footage.
In spite of the title of the VH1 show where the never-wases make fun of has-beens and wannabes, every week really isn't the Best Week Ever.
But this week, in terms of videogames, might really be the best week ever. The slate of games that hit the street is truly momentous:
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- SimCity Societies
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"A key strategy for us is to give broad choice for people. You need to provide content which broadens your base of users from core gamers to different age groups… If you look at Guitar Hero, it's something which can be played by the whole family, by kids, males, females, adults.”
Another 16-year-old student was treated at St. Joseph's Medical Center for superficial cuts to the face and hands.
According to analyst Jesse Divnich the Xbox 360 will sell just over 2 million units, while the PS3 will sell just over 1 million - although the Wii and DS will trump them both handsomely, shifting 3.28 million and 2.86 million units respectively.
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