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Microsoft Xbox SmartGlass: an in‑depth preview | The Verge
Microsoft Xbox SmartGlass: An In-Depth Preview
Xbox Music service announced, coming to Xbox, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 | The Verge
Xbox Music service announced, coming to Xbox, Windows Phone, and Windows 8
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X-Box Still Going Strong Entering Final Years of Lifecycle (Chart too)
Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On X-Box Live
Microsoft’s interactive Kinect NUads rolling out in ‘late spring’ | The Verge
Microsoft’s interactive Kinect NUads rolling out in ‘late spring’
Exclusive: $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle launching next week with two-year subscription | The Verge
X-Box 360 Bundle To Be Sold On Contract
Xbox Grows, With Users, Beyond Videogames – Katherine Boehret – The Digital Solution – AllThingsD
Xbox’s Expanding Platform, Beyond Videogames
Immersive tech pulls players at E3 2010
The annual games bacchanalia otherwise known as E3 recently drew to a close and despite the chaos of multi-story megabooths staffed by both the bizarrely and scantily clad, two important trends were easily identifiable. Here’s a quick overview of this year’s dominant themes.
Motion control
Imagine you’re playing a baseball game. Would you rather push a button that tells the pitcher to initiate a throwing motion or would you rather whip your arm forward and watch the player mimic your movement. Anybody who’s played a videogame in the last 30 years is familiar with the button paradigm; at E3 2010, the games industry was clearly intent on adding the more novel notion of physicality to the controller mix. Continue reading “Immersive tech pulls players at E3 2010”
Video game consoles amp up the video
Column originally featured on MediaPost
Game consoles are continuing their stealthy takeover of the living room. We’ve been seeing this trend for a while, but the pace is accelerating as the holiday season approaches.
The PlayStation 3 is going Netflix next month. The second console to get the streaming video service, this added functionality should help the PS3 sales for the holiday (which are already predicted to be high due to the lower price point of the PS3 Slim). The solution currently works using a disc shipped out from Netflix, though it’s been confirmed that eventually a native client will be released. There are still rumors of a similar disc-based approach coming to the Wii. Read More.
