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- A video game console from Microsoft that was designed to compete with Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube. Introduced in 2001 with a 733MHz Pentium III CPU, 5x DVD drive...
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- Forums aflame over 'Grand Theft Auto IV' freeze
- With the heavily anticipated release of 'Grand Theft Auto IV,' Rockstar finds itself dealing with still more troubleshooting trouble, as online forums are buzzing with reports of crashes. Last month, the launch of Rockstar Games' Bully on the Xbox 360 was marred by a bevy of crash bugs and...
- News items 2008-04-30
- Ozzie: Innovation coming from consumer, not corporate, market
- Until fairly recently, many Microsoft watchers -- including Softies themselves -- would likely say that the Redmond software maker was far more focused on business users than consumers. But there's a noticeable shift happening in where Microsoft sees innovation taking place.Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie summed things up rather succinctly...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- New hires, datacenter investments evident in Microsoft earnings
- Most of the reports of Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2007 and full year results are focusing on how the $1 billion one-time charge Microsoft took to offset Xbox hardware failures affected the company's bottom line.But there were lots of other meaty bits buried in the Microsoft balance sheets -- including the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Microsoft Xbox Chief Peter Moore: Did he jump or was he pushed?
- Peter Moore, the Corporate Vice President of Microosft's Interactive Entertainment Business -- and the point guy on Xbox and Games for Windows -- is leaving Microsoft to become President of Electronic Arts' Sports label.Microsoft made the announcement of Moore's pending departure he starts at EA in September on July 17,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Sony is / is not slashing the PS3 price
- Corporate approaches to media relations never cease to amaze me. Just last week, Sony's president, Ryoji Chubachi, claimed that no price cut on the PS3 was in the works. This morning, however, news from Reuters reported that the PS3 price WILL be slashed by $100.00...at least in the United States.That's...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Microsoft takes a $1 billion hit for Xbox 360 console problems
- After a rash of recent reports about Xbox 360 hardware problems, Microsoft has opted to extend Xbox 360 warranties to three years.The company announced its plan to extend Xbox warranties on July 5.The upside: Microsoft has done what's right for customers, by reimbursing anyone who has experienced the "three flashing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- The battle for the living room platform
- Nintendo announced yesterday WiiWare, a program which will enable developers to create games that can be downloaded to the Wii console. Such games can be sold through the Wii Shop Channel, creating revenue opportunities for smaller-scale developers who wouldn't have the resources to create more labor intensive productions of a...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Sony's nightmare scenario
- Reports all across the web have suggested that Microsoft will lower the price of the XBOX 360 game console sooner rather than later. This report claims the reduction will be on the order of $100.00 for the Core edition, bringing the price down to $199.00 for a base XBOX 360...
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- The race for low-cost HD players
- Sony recently lowered the price of its upcoming HD Blu-ray player, to $499.00. Though Sony claimed that this was due to lower productions costs for Blu-ray related parts, it is clearly a response to Toshiba's $100.00 rebate, which appears to have injected a lot of life into HD-DVD player sales....
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Is Microsoft becoming a hardware vendor?
- Microsoft for years has been building keyboards, mice and joysticks. More recently, it started building Xbox gaming consoles. Then Zune MP3 players. Now, with the company's official unveiling of Surface, a k a Milan/PlayTable, Microsoft is mamufacturing large-screen, multitouch, gesture-recognizing computing devices.Does all this mean that software vendor Microsoft is...
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Do you want a Surface Computer?
- Microsoft went public at 12:01 a.m. on May 30 with the name of its "Milan"/PlayTable technology. The combined hardware/software device is now known as the Surface Computer and is due to debut in November.In one of many press releases on Milan and surface computing on Microsoft's PressPass site this morning,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of Microsoft
- When it comes to building community -- and profiting from it -- Microsofts Xbox team is helping write the playbook. That fact isnt lost on the rest of the company. Increasingly, other divisions at Microsoft are studying what the Xbox folks are doing right and trying to apply those...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Meet Microsoft, the advertising company
- Microsoft, first and foremost, is a software company. Or is it? Consider these recent developments: * On May 3, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire European-based mobile-phone advertising company ScreenTonic. * Microsoft is promoting its Personal Expressions for Windows Live Messenger theme packs, which incorporate an expanded...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Xbox 360 and HD-DVD
- In a recent discussion, a friend wondered why Microsoft had opted not to include an HD-DVD drive in the recent update to the XBOX 360 console (the XBOX 360 Elite). The logic would seem obvious. In the US, 94% of Blu-Ray players sold are included as part of the PS3...
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Will Microsoft integrate other Live services with the Xbox?
- Microsofts announcement on April 9 that it will integrate Windows Live Messenger into the Xbox 360 got me thinking about what other Windows Live services might be a natural complement to Microsofts gaming console/service. Might the Softies integrate Windows Live Product Search with Xbox Live? Windows Live Alerts?...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Game consoles are evil
- Richard Stallman is the godfather of the Free Software Movement. He is also maddeningly hard core in his beliefs, to the point where I wonder if he would allow doctors to work on him if the machines they were using run anything but open source software. The following is an...
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360 released
- Activision has ported its popular PS2 game franchise, Guitar Hero, to the XBOX 360. Now XBOX 360 users can pretend they are musician gods of old, stopping meteorites with the force of their strumming and releasing endless streams of near-perfect albums because, heck, us moderns just cant do music anymore...
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 Elite
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 EliteHDMIMS better plan on offering an HDMI "add-on" for existing 360 owners.They were idiots not to include it in the first place. They better not make it worse by burning their early adopters. The hardware is there - just not the interface.Still may be a hard...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Xbox Live to include PC gamers
- According to a press release today, Microsoft will extend its XBOX Live network to include PC gamers, creating for the first time the ability for XBOX gamers to play against PC gamers. This has been in the pipeline for awhile, apparently, and according to an older Engadget post, the possibility...
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Apple TV and Mac Office
- According to this post over on Apple Insider found by way of Engadget, Apple might have some gaming plans for their new Apple TV set-top box device. The evidence is mildly forensic, based as it is on some message strings from a localization table included with the latest release of...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
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