Headline RePLAY – 3.26.12

Today on Headline RePLAY: Yet another new Xbox rumor, Mojang’s Minecraft makes bank and Namco-Bandai releases a baffling teaser site.


Another week, another Xbox rumor from yet another anonymous source: this time from Reddit user “MSnerd” who claims that the next Xbox is not a next-gen console but rather a basic system that plays Arcade-style games and media apps with the Kinect.

According to MSnerd, the new Xbox will be an “ARM-based platform” that is “price competitive” with Apple TV. Like other sources, MSnerd predicts the system will be released in late 2013.

MSnerd notes that there is a successor to the 360 in the works, but details are “very hazy” beyond the fact that it will cater towards “core-audiences” and be able to play the same Kinect media apps.

*Source: reddit via Joystiq


Rovio’s Angry Birds may have a 700 million download head start, but Mojang’s Minecraft is catching up financially with $80 million in earnings since October 2010; in contrast to Rovio’s $100 million in revenues last year.

Minecraft is still nowhere close to Angry Birds’ massive downloads, but the financial reports prove that Mojang’s flagship title has a bright future ahead.



Namco-Bandai has opened up yet another teaser site that leaves much to the imagination: it’s a giant, pulsing black X behind a black background.

…wait, what? 

It’s currently unknown if this site has any relation to the Sega and Capcom collaboration or if it’s a new title entirely.

Namco-Bandai continues to troll the internet with these sites that only tells us that they’re working on… something.

*Source: Bandai Games

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