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Microsoft’s Dennis Durkin says the company won’t try to force Kinect on core gamers.

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Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin believes Microsoft Game Studios’ system is “superior” to Sony or Nintendo, due to the first party performance “in terms of quality bars and units per title.”

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Microsoft IEB CFO Dennis Durkin has said that the company isn’t looking to compete with TV providers over the upcoming launch of the LiveTV service that was debuted at E3.

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So a bad thing happened to PSN recently. You may have heard about it. Given that it has ears everywhere, Microsoft also caught wind of Sony’s no good, very bad month. Make no mistake, however: the console-maker’s not popping any champagne bottles over its bitter rival’s darkest of hours.

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Microsoft corporate VP of its interactive business, Dennis Durkin, has said the company feels “great” in regards to the post-Bungie future of Halo.

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Microsoft’s head of Interactive Entertainment Business, Dennis Durkin, has said half of Microsoft’s 25 million Xbox Live members are have Gold subscriptions.

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Following comments from Xbox COO Dennis Durkin that suggested Kinect could be used as a data collection tool for marketing purposes, Microsoft has sought to assuage fears of being watched by the peripheral.

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Microsoft said at the BMO Capital Markets Annual Digital Entertainment Conference in New York yesterday that Xbox live Gold subs use the service for an average of three hours per day.

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Looks as though Microsoft’s broken into dream-like territory with Live cash, pointing to a ten-figure count in the just-ended FY.

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After 19 years of faithful service to Microsoft, Shane Kim has decided to leave the company in order to spend more time with his family. Kim, for those just tuning in, is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, and one of the most prevalent “faces” of the not-actually-micro mega-company’s gaming division. He’ll be making his exit this fall, according to a report by Industry Gamers.

In Kim’s wake, Phil Spencer will be promoted to corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios. He was formerly its GM.

For now, Microsoft doesn’t plan on filling Kim’s vacated position in its IEB, but you can bet that Phil Spencer will be seeing even more action without Kim around to lighten the load. Fortunately, he’ll be assisted by Dennis Durkin, who’s taken up the newly created mantel of chief operating officer of Microsoft’s IEB.

Has it really been 19 years already? Best of luck, Shane. Tell the wife we said “hello.”