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Troubled Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has seen a mass exodus of executives over the last few days, with many of the top brass within the company jumping ship. Five senior employees have now left the company, with one taking to twitter to urge others to follow suit.

Former product strategy manager Eric Lin took to twitter with, “to all my friends still at HTC – just quit. Leave now. It’s tough to do, but you’ll be so much happier, I swear.” The exodus seems to stem from U.S. emplo…

Now that Microsoft’s brand new Xbox One console is launched we will all be looking forward to playing the 8^th generation unit. Microsoft wants to remind us that the Xbox 360 is still around and still selling well, and the company has said a big Xbox 360 announcement is due in E3.

The Xbox 360 has been a huge success for Microsoft and has sold 77 million copies worldwide. The console is still the top selling in the United States month on month and Xbox Live boasts 46 million paid subscribe…

The second hand games market is in many ways what makes the games industry tick by ensuring the gamers have a steady stream of affordable games and maintain interest in the core console products. However, with the 8^th generation of consoles on the way, the second hand market is at risk, but Microsoft has added some good news by saying its newly launched Xbox One will allow the trading and retail reselling of games.

When Sony launched the PlayStation 4 in February, the company was vague on…

To understand exactly what Microsoft is trying to do with its games and new payment method is a complicated thing at the moment and I doubt we’ll fully understand just what they are going to do with it until we near the release date for the “Entertainment System” itself.  I get the feeling that there will be a lot of ironing out of issues and maybe even changes in how everything is going to be done.

The fact is though for average gamers, pre-owned games sellers and even game rental compan…

Sony’s shares rose by 8% yesterday immediately after Microsoft launched the Xbox One console. Sony launched its own 8^th gen home console in February in the form of the PlayStation 4 and the company will be happy to see shares rise on the back of Microsoft’s launch. Though is there more to it than that? Was this share hike all down to investors backing the PlayStation 4 over the Xbox One?

Not quite, as other Sony news from today suggests the share hike was not all down to the Xbox One laun…

Now that things have calmed down after the initial revealing of the Xbox One you would hope that we would have confirmed facts and have some idea of just what we are getting from the new console.  To some extent this is the case, but there is a lot being hidden and misinformation is rife, to the point that it’s arguably somewhat of a disaster in terms of selling the machine to the most important people, the ones who will actually spell their hard earned cash for it.

Stepping back from all…

The mobile message market has become a busy place with companies like WhatsApp, Viber, Google Hangouts and many more jostling for space. MessageMe entered the fray late, but nevertheless the message service is proving popular with Android and iOS users and is further evidence that free messaging is killing off the now humble text SMS.

MessageMe today announced that the app had been downloaded 5 million times in just 75 days, meaning it has been a popular choice among Android and iOS users…

As was expected, Microsoft launched a new version of Kinect alongside the new Xbox One home console today. The new motion capture technology comes with many improvements over the original Kinect, a piece of hardware that became key for the Xbox 360 as that console reached maturity.

The biggest change comes in the form of the camera, which is now a HD 1080p camera, as opposed to the simple VGA cam on the original Kinect. Needless to say the difference is going to be staggering. Kinect and …

The Xbox One is obviously going to be a top gaming platform but Microsoft is aiming for a lot more with its 8^th generation console. For example, apps are a big part of the tech industry and Microsoft is looking to get in on that action with its newest games console.

The introduction of “Snap Mode” for Xbox means that multitasking is now available on a home console. The feature is already available for Windows 8 but is now making its way to another of Microsoft’s products in an effort to m…

So the reveal has finally happened and we know the name of the Xbox, it shall now be known as Xbox One.  We’ve also been given information about just what the console will be able to do and what the specs will be.  The real question is though what do we in fact really know? With a lack of actual in game footage till the very end (through Call of Duty: Ghosts) the presentation was very much on what can the hardware do.

For game fans watching through the live feed it was quite an arduous wa…