All the stories tagged with: xbox
Job listing hints at deep Skype integration for the Xbox
05/29/2012, Last month it was spotted in a job listing that Microsoft was looking to hire individuals that would help with the integration of Skype into its Xbox gaming console. Given Microsoft’s acquisition of the VoIP company last year, we guess [...]
Next-gen Xbox speculated for 2013 release thanks to Activision lawsuit
05/25/2012, It is safe to assume that come E3 next month, both Microsoft and Sony will not be making any announcements pertaining to the launch of their next-gen consoles, but we’re sure the question on many peoples’ minds are when will [...]
Free Xbox 360 with a PC purchase
05/18/2012, Students, listen up! It is time to live out the proverb, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, which is why Microsoft decided to offer a free Xbox 360 with each PC purchased from May 20th onwards. [...]
Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox (Xbox 720/Durango) rumored to be in production
05/04/2012, Rumors of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console have been floating around for quite a while now. The device has been called the Xbox 720 and even has a codename “Durango”. Naturally none of this can be confirmed for now, but if [...]
Chrome Xbox 360 controllers come with Dragon’s Dogma DLC in Japan
04/23/2012, Earlier this month, we received an announcement from Microsoft that pointed to chrome Xbox 360 controllers that are said to arrive when May 2012 rolls around. Well, May is just slightly more than a week away, and apart from the [...]
Microsoft job listing points at Skype integration for Xbox
04/20/2012, Last year when Microsoft announced their plans to buy Skype, it was also announced that the company would be seeing Skype integrated across a variety of their products, such as Windows Phone and Microsoft’s gaming console, the Xbox 360. While [...]
Wild Xbox 720 rumor: 16-cores CPU
04/12/2012, The Xbox 720 is nowhere near announcement, says Microsoft, but Xbox World came published that the next-gen Xbox console would feature a 16-core processor. This is based on the idea that development machines, which are built to represent the level [...]
Gamestop says next Xbox won’t have anti-rental technology
03/23/2012, There have been some rumors floating around saying that the next-generation Xbox console will feature anti-rental technology, meaning that the console would be able to lock out players if the system detects that the game they’re trying to play wasn’t [...]
Minecraft on Xbox 360 this May 9th
03/23/2012, Minecraft has picked up quite the following over time, and even Minecraft Pocket Edition has started to feature pigs (I wonder if that has anything to do with being inspired by the Angry Birds franchise), you know for sure the [...]
BBC iPlayer arrives on Xbox 360
03/20/2012, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console is not only good for playing games, but it also is able to keep you entertained in a different method – now that BBC’s iPlayer is made available on the home console. This would mean the [...]
No Xbox 720 announcement at this year’s E3
03/15/2012, We’ve heard rumors about Microsoft announcing the next Xbox at this year’s E3, but it looks like they’ll be nothing more than just rumors. Microsoft’s Product Manager, David Dennis mentioned to a Bloomberg reporter today that that the company will [...]
Microsof’s next-gen Xbox hinted in job listing
03/15/2012, A Microsoft job posting, which has since been pulled (thanks Google Cache!), has revealed that the company is indeed working on a next-generation console, although no names were mentioned. The listing is for a software development engineer, with the job [...]
Xbox 720 won’t have a disc drive?
03/09/2012, While we know that there still is plenty of life left for the Xbox 360, rumors about its upcoming successor (tentatively named Xbox 720) are still sprouting all over the place. Apparently Microsoft recently held a secret developer meeting in [...]
