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...
View ArticleMicrosoft-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...
View ArticleDoes 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...
View ArticleXbox 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 –...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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, 2004....
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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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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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