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Citing "people familiar with the company's plans", Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft intends to launch the next generation Xbox console, dubbed the Xbox 720, in time for the holiday 2013 shopping season.
Earlier today Sony briefly updated the official website for Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls with a "May 25, 2013" release date, potentially leaking when the publisher plans to launch the exclusive PS3 title.
Sony has finally reported their Black Friday results, revealing that they sold over 525,000 PlayStation 3 consoles and 160,000 PS Vita handheld systems in the U.S. between the 18th and 24th of November.
Bethesda Softworks has once again promised that the long-delayed downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will eventually be released.
Bethesda Softworks has revealed that Dishonored has surpassed their internal sales expectations and is now at the point where the publisher is planning to develop the IP into their next franchise.
Take-Two Interactive has announced that life-to-date shipments of the entire Grand Theft Auto franchise have topped 125 million copies worldwide (up from 114 million in September 2011), with Grand Theft Auto IV accounting for 25 million units of that total.
Microsoft has just announced that sales of their Xbox 360 console in the U.S. reached 750,000 units over the Black Friday period (November 18 - 23) , exceeding their own internal forecasts.
Two former Free Radical staffers have revealed that TimeSplitters 4 was in early production prior to the studio's closure (and subsequent acquisition by Crytek in 2008), however, the poor reception of Haze and resistance from marketing teams blocked their efforts to find a publisher for the shooter.
Bethesda Softworks has announced that Dunwall City Trials, the first piece of downloadable content for Dishonored, will launch in two weeks (December 11th) on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC for $4.99/400 Microsoft Points.