Volition dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games would be "fantastic"

The next Xbox possibly disallowing pre-owned games from being played? That would bea "fantastic change for our business", according to Volition (Saints Row) design director Jameson Durall. In an article on #AltDevBlogADay , Durall offered ideas on how Microsoft might implement such technology. "The system is already there for Microsoft," wrote Durall, "all they'd have to do is use the DLC and ...

Witcher 2 dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games "a bad thing"

No, Saints Row developer Volition - the next Xbox possibly preventing people from playing pre-owned games "can be a bad thing". Those words belong to Adam Badowski, managing director of Polish Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt Red, who spoke to Eurogamer today. "It can be a bad thing," Badowski said of the rumoured next Xbox technology. Read more…

Next Xbox pre-owned block "would be fantastic"

A design director at developer Volition has claimed that any next-gen move to block the use of pre-owned software “would be fantastic”. “I think this would be a fantastic change for our business and even though the consumers would be up in arms about it at first they will grow to understand why and that it won’t kill them,” Jameson Durall stated . “The system is already there for Microsoft, all ...

Next Xbox to prevent you from playing used games?

(Credit: Microsoft) Will the next Xbox restrict you from playing your favorite used games? Gaming news site Kotaku reported yesterday that the so-called Xbox 720 will incorporate some type of anti-used game technology . Citing a "reliable industry source," Kotaku admitted that it's not clear how such a technology would be set up and if it means the Xbox wouldn't play used games at all. One ...

Next Xbox Rumors Inbound

The Internet is swirling with rumors today about the graphics capability of Microsoft's next console. According to a report from Fudzilla published today, the power behind the next Xbox will be a PowerPC CPU married to a modified ATI Southern Islands 7000 series GPU. The code name for the 32nm chip is Oban, and the report says it's currently in production. The first run of these chips are being ...

New Xbox coming next fall?

The next generation of Xbox is expected to have six times the power as its predecessor. The next iteration of Microsoft's Xbox could hit retailer shelves as early as next fall. The new Xbox will be in production by the end of this year and arrive in late October or late November 2013, sources close to the project tell IGN . The new game console--often referred to as Xbox720--will be based on AMD ...