Larry Hyrb

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• Xbox One multiplayer improvements discussed in new trailer, watch here

  Xbox One will deliver a ‘ton’ of multiplayer improvements according to Microsoft. Community reps Graeme Boyd and Larry Hyrb have spoken with five members of the Xbox team to find out more about what’s changed.

• Microsoft issues Kinect marketing statement: will not target ads, "unless you choose to allow us to do so"

  Xbox One and Kinect marketing chatter has caused a bit of a stir this week, after an Advertising Age report suggested that Microsoft was poised to share captured marketing data with third-party firms. The company has since debunked the article, and has now issued a further statement on the matter.

• Xbox One development was not rushed, insists Major Nelson

  Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb has taken to Reddit to address concerns that Xbox One development has been rushed. He has stressed that this is not the case.

• Xbox One controller has 40 different improvements, new video discusses them

  Microsoft has published a new video in which Xbox community mouthpiece Larry Hyrb and Xbox One general manager Zulfi Alam discuss the creation of the console’s brand-new controller.

• Microsoft will "absolutely not" block Xbox One games if your Live account is banned, says Nelson

  Microsoft’s community figure Major Nelson has stated that the company will not block your library of Xbox One games should your Xbox Live account become banned. The statement was given at E3 last week and comes as confusion clouds the matter.

• Xbox One: Microsoft aware of anti-DRM campaigns, is listening to concerns

  Xbox One’s pre-owned charge and Kinect DRM policy have caused quite a stir in the gaming world, and Microsoft’s Major Nelson has responded to gamers, suggesting that the company is definitely listening.

• Xbox 720 reveal: Microsoft staff tweet pictures of venue's creation

  Microsoft is gearing up to unveil its Xbox successor on May 21, and is currently building a venue for the big day. Chief of staff for interactive entertainment business Aaron Greenberg and Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb have been tweeting photos of the venue’s creation.

• Xbox 360 update expected to resolve voice recognition issues

  Some further details of this week’s mysterious Xbox 360 update have surfaced. According to Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, also known as Major Nelson, the update is intended to “quickly fix some voice recognition issues affecting our non-English speaking members”. Thanks, Shack.

• TGS: "Some incredibly cool Kinect news" coming this week, says MS

  So here we are. After San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cologne, we’ve come to the last stop in gaming’s conference calendar: Tokyo. And it sounds as though Microsoft’s readying some decent Kinect news.

• Major Nelson's Gamertag gets hacked

  Xbox’s Larry Hyrb, aka Major Nelson, has had his Live profile hacked.

• New games to be announced at X10, says Nelson

  Some good stuff is going to be revealed at X10 in San Francisco next week, according to Major Nelson.

• MS: "We have no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360"

  Xbox Live director of programning Larry Hyrb aka Major Nelson has posted on his blog that Microsoft has “no plans” to introduce a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360. It comes as earlier this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seemed to have confirmed that an add-on for the 360 would be forthcoming. However, Hyrb says […]