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Australians Can Finally Watch Good TV On Their Xbox 360

Until recently the only show available for Australians on the Xbox LIVE Zune service was The Guild. Now, seemingly overnight, the Zune video service has sort of exploded with new content — with high quality shows such as Arrested Development, Futurama and The Walking Dead now available.


Is The Zune Gone For Good?

Microsoft’s attempt to dethrone the iPod, the music, movie and video game-playing hardware known as the Zune, may have just been put out to pasture. Bloomberg reports the Zune HD, introduced in 2009, will be the last of its kind.


Microsoft Imagines A Word Without iPhones, PS3s, Wii

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The Microsoft Store is like a Bizarro World version of an Apple Store.


Examining Kinect’s Minority Report Effect

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Kinect may be touted as the Xbox 360′s answer to motion gaming, but it’s not just technology meant to make you the controller. It can also let you interact with television, movies, music and the Xbox 360 like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, just without the fancy gloves.


Xbox Live Fall Update Arrives November 1

The Xbox 360′s dashboard will get an overhaul for the third time on Monday, November 1. That’s when the big Xbox Live fall 2010 update, complete with Kinect support, will come to Microsoft’s console.


Microsoft Names New President Of Everything Fun

The man with one of the most impressive houses in the gaming industry now has a title to match, as Microsoft officially makes Don Mattrick the president of its Interactive Entertainment Business.


Xbox 360 Transformed Into A Stereo, Via Zune

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Xbox Live Gold members have been able to use Last.fm to turn their game console into a stereo. Come November, those with a Zune pass can also do the Xbox stereo thing through the Zune library.


Sign Up Now For The New Xbox Live Preview Program

Microsoft is looking for a few thousand folks to test out its next big Xbox Live Update. Who wants an early look at the new Xbox Live dashboard?


Zune Pass Heading For European Xbox 360s

For £9/€10 a month, Xbox 360 owners in the UK, Spain, France and Italy will later this year get access to the Zune Marketplace.


Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect And Why It’s The Future Of Microsoft

Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral; it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now.


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