Category Archives: Xbox

Ex-head of Microsoft Game Studios Ed Fries has said there’s still “magic” left at Rare, despite the studio moving away from its roots in recent years.

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CD Projekt Red has said if rumors regarding the next iteration of Xbox are true, the anti-used game system in the console can only be “a bad thing.”

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An industry source has told Kotaku that Microsoft’s next Xbox will contain Blu-ray as its disc technology, and that it’ll introduce Kinect 2; and that it’s to contain some kind of anti-used game technology.

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As if one Xbox 720 tech rumour weren’t enough for the day, here’s another.

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A report over on tech blog Fuzil states that last year, Microsoft commissioned IBM and Global Foundries to co-design a processor for its next Xbox console, and the hardware is will be included in development kits which are to start shipping out in April.

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Gamespot‘s suggesting this morning a tablet-based component will come with the next Xbox. It says the tablet will feature with the new hardware “heavily” reminiscent to Nintendo’s Wii U control method. Speculation is rife that Microsoft is set to mention the next-gen hardware in some form at its CES keynote later tonight US time (tomorrow morning UK GMT) following a report last year.

Sony and Microsoft are set to spoil Wii U’s coming out party at E3 by unveiling PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox in Los Angeles in June, MCV is reporting this morning.

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A recently-granted Microsoft patent has suggested that the next Xbox could include DVR functionality.

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Microsoft’s announced its upcoming keynote at CES next month will be the final one from the company.

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A report by CNET.com has indicated that the next generation Xbox console will be arriving in 2013, citing unnamed sources. It’s far from an official confirmation, but as Brenna pointed out yesterday, a much better guess than 2012.

There’s also word today that the design lead on the Xbox 720 project has been swapped. According to CNET, Don Coyner (the past lead) has been replaced by Emma Williams who was part of the team that just revamped the Xbox dashboard. She was officially “general manager of Xbox experiences.”

Via GameSpot.

Chris Lewis, Microsoft’s European vice president of interactive entertainment, has said when Xbox was first released 10 years ago, the firm had “a vision” for what the connected world of online gaming “would mean in the future.”

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Today, Microsoft celebrates a decade in the console industry, with November 15 marking ten years since the introduction of the original Xbox and the series that would later flagship the entire Xbox initiative: Halo.

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Dan Houser, co-founder and vice president of creativity at Rockstar, has said his studio’s open-world GTA games aren’t about violence, but a way to provide players with a medium where freedom of choice is a constant.

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Develop’s rumoured today that Microsoft’s planning an E3 unveil and launch of the next Xbox in 2013, and that first-party Sony studios have started “preliminary” work on PlayStation 4 titles.

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Halo’s strong association with Xbox has been a threat to the franchise, Xbox hardware developer and one-time Microsoft Games Studio boss Ed Fries.

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Rockstar’s released a fantastic video of Grand Theft Auto III, showing nostalgic moments from the game, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this weekend. An iOS and Android version is on the way for some point this fall. Get the trailer below the break.

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After last week’s look at the origins of Xbox, Kristan Reed looks over the games that helped shape Microsoft’s first entry into the console market.

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The name was decided and the hardware shown: but what of the games? Patrick Garratt looks at the original Xbox’s launch line-up and the console’s release in the final part of our four-feature special.

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With the Xbox project finally greenlit, the Microsoft team prepared to show it to the world. Patrick Garratt tells the story of the GDC and CES Bill Gates reveals and why you were nearly playing the “Microsoft 11X”.

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In the second part of the story of the original Xbox’s launch, Patrick Garratt charts the terrific obstacles facing the console’s team as it pushed towards a final greenlight from Microsoft boss Bill Gates.

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