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Titanfall: Hands-On With Xbox One's First Real Game
The Xbox One’s first major title is out, and we were there at the official launch party to see it all go down. To say gamers were excited about Titanfall, a first-person shooter with a twist, is beyond...
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Twitch Is Turning Into The Netflix Of Spectator Gaming
By all accounts, the world’s largest video network for gamers—and the lucrative arena of competitive gaming that it powers—is on a path to colossal growth. Twitch, a social platform where users can...
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Pro Gaming
If "professional gaming” was once an oxymoron, those days are long gone. Video games, once a somewhat solitary affair, have exploded into full-featured social affairs, thanks to the rise of massive...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft's Original Programming Might Not Help The Xbox One
In just two short months, Xbox Entertainment Studios will start trickling out original content onto its digital media delivery service, Xbox Live. Formerly a domain exclusive to gamers, Xbox Live is...
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See Atari's Buried Treasure: E.T. Among 30 Retro Games Unearthed In The Desert
Just as the desert winds kicked up to 35 m.p.h., with prematurely disappointed onlookers already streaming away from the dusty hole in the ground, the team tasked with digging up Atari’s long-rumored...
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Playing The Xbox One Long Game, Microsoft Shifts Toward Setting Its Console Free
In an about-face to some of its least popular Xbox One policies, Microsoft has proven it's still listening to its customers—and willing to give gamers what they want. Starting June 9, the company will...
View ArticleXbox One Finally Supports External Storage, Frees Netflix And Takes (Real) Names
When it comes to Microsoft and the Xbox (as with Apple earlier this week), ask and ye shall receive. A major monthly update rolling out to users finally adds much-requested support for external...
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The New "One Microsoft" Is About To Get Slimmer
Bloomberg News reported today that Microsoft is on the verge of what could be its biggest round of layoffs in history. New CEO Satya Nadella will reportedly cut jobs in marketing and engineering, as...
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Microsoft: We're Selling More Gadgets! (But For Lower Profit)
Microsoft's efforts to make itself a company all about "devices and services"—as opposed to, you know, desktop PC software—appears to be bearing some fruit. According to the company’s latest earnings...
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"The Interview" Is Now Showing At A Streaming Site Near You
In an abrupt turnaround, Sony Pictures Entertainment released its controversial film "The Interview" on a number of streaming sites at 10am Pacific Time this morning. The film is now available as a...
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Microsoft Updates Xbox To Cement Hold On Living Room
Microsoft’s new Smartglass technology, due Friday, combined with a new update to the Xbox, puts the company clearly in the driver’s seat to control the evolution of the living room.Microsoft said...
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A Microsoft 'Xbox Surface' Tablet Could Bridge PC-Mobile-Console Gaming
Microsoft is reportedly building its own “Xbox Surface” gaming tablet, which could give the company a true mobile gaming strategy.Microsoft officials declined to comment, but the rumored 7-inch tablet...
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Microsoft Wants To Turn Xbox 360 Kinect Into Big Brother!
A Microsoft patent application published this week suggests that the software giant could use its Xbox 360 Kinect hardware as a “Big Brother” sensor to prevent too many people from watching rented...
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Cheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and...
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Microsoft-Motorola Wi-Fi Patent Tussle Won't Stop Xbox Sales
Good news for Holiday shoppers -- Microsoft's Xbox game console will continue to appear on store shelves.Judge James Robart, a federal judge based in Seattle, ruled (PDF) late last week that Microsoft...
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Gaming Legend Peter Molyneux: What Makes A Great Game Great?
How do you make a truly great game? Peter Molyneux has been asked that question countless times. For the 53-year-old British gaming luminary known for both his veteran status in the industry and his...
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Does Microsoft Still Matter? 2013 Will Decide
2013 will be a make-or-break year for Microsoft. Not so much from a financial standpoint, but for how the company is perceived.Traditionally, Microsoft has built itself around the PC, anchoring itself...
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Xbox 720 Already Lowering Expectations
Start figuring your gaming budget for 2013, because the clock is ticking down to the Xbox 720's debut at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next June. Microsoft's official Xbox blogger Major Nelson has...
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Xbox Kinect: Microsoft's Key To The Living Room?
It's official. Long after the XBox 360 is relegated to scrap heaps and Gamestop bargain bins, the Microsoft Kinect – the XBox peripheral that lets you control the action with body movements alone –...
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Microsoft Movie Deal Makes The Xbox 'A Player' - Premieres "Pulp"
Table stakes in the online content industry these days is owning the rights to "exclusive" content, and Microsoft took a small step in that direction, agreeing to distribute Pulp, a "comedy about...
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Will Microsoft's New Xbox Event In May Reveal Always-Online Requirements?
Microsoft's follow-up to the Xbox 360, currently code named 'Durango,' will likely be unveiled on May 21 at a "small venue" with a focus on initial details and a 2013 company roadmap, sources tell The...
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9 Things Microsoft Does Right
M$: Short for Microsoft, used to imply Microsoft cares more for money than it does for security, stability, and anything else that could make a good Operating System." - Urban Dictionary,...
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My Video Gamer Is Smarter Than Your Honor Roll Student
Serial entrepreneur and homeschool advocate Penelope Trunk claims that videogames, not traditional schooling, better prepares children for a future world of highly collaborative, analytical knowledge...
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How Skype On Xbox Could Destroy The Line Between Work And Play
After months of promises, Microsoft finally integrated Skype with Outlook.com, its cloud email and calendaring service. But for its next act, Microsoft may well put Skype on its Xbox console — a move...
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Ouya's Crowd-Funded, Android-Powered, Cloud-Gaming Console Has Finally Arrived
After a longer-than-expected wait, some shipping glitches, and a good deal of anticipation, my open-source, crowd-funded, cloud-gaming, Android-powered Ouya game console arrived in Friday's mail. I...
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Xbox One: Microsoft's Big Bid To Pwn The Living Room
It's not every day one of the big three gaming powerhouses announces a new console. In fact, we've been waiting a solid eight years. In an event on its Redmond, Washington home turf today, Microsoft...
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Xbox One Photo Gallery: A Close-Up Look At Microsoft's Shiny, Shiny Future Of...
Today in Redmond, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, its vision for the future of home entertainment. The Xbox One will expand Microsoft's Xbox agenda well beyond gaming, blurring the boundaries of...
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Xbox One: The Most Restrictive Game Console Ever Made
If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.In an event Tuesday morning that felt like a casual bar conversation compared to Sony's brain-exploding...
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Microsoft Xbox One To Launch In November, But You Won't Like The Price
When Microsoft jumped the gun and announced its next-generation Xbox console last month in Redmond, Wash., it left out two of the most important details — when and how much? On Monday, at its...
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PS4 vs. Xbox One: Who Will Win The Living Room?
The PlayStation 4 made a dramatic entrance Monday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) — and Sony had way more tricks up its sleeve than anyone could have anticipated. With Nintendo rendered...
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5 Games That Make The Sony-Microsoft Console War Meaningless
After last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the console war drums are now beginning to beat in a frenzy. Microsoft and Sony have unveiled details of their next-generation video-game consoles, the...
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Xbox One Eighty: Microsoft Finds It Still Needs Gamers To Sell Gaming Consoles
Apparently, Microsoft has just remembered that it needs gamers to sell a gaming console. In a complete and humbling reversal, Microsoft's next-gen console just dropped some of the contentious bits that...
View ArticleAfter Ballmer: One Microsoft, Or Many?
Steve Ballmer will be out as Microsoft CEO sometime within the next 12 months. Will his successor run the same company Ballmer is leaving?There have always been calls to break up the software giant,...
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The Case For Microsoft's Xbox One
You’ve seen the Xbox One's glossy black chassis. You’ve followed its ups and downs—and the ups again. You’ve heard the argument for the competition. Now it’s time to take a look at Microsoft’s...
View ArticleThat Shiny New Microsoft Gadget Is Missing Something—An Outlook.com Account
Sponsored by Microsoft. As a promotional post, this post reflects the views of the writer, not ReadWrite's editors.You wouldn’t give an electric train without batteries, would you? Don’t let the tech...
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Microsoft Missed Mobile, So Now It Wants To Own VR
Microsoft hit gamers with a blizzard of announcements Monday at E3, the industry's big annual conference. You'll likely hear buzz about new, exclusive Halo, Forza, and Tomb Raider games. But one...
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