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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.


December 15, 2010
News

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.


November 4, 2010
In Real Life

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.


October 31, 2010
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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.


October 2, 2010
News

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.


September 30, 2010
News

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.


September 23, 2010
News

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?


September 21, 2010
News

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.


August 5, 2010

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.


June 15, 2010
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Kinect Brings Voice And Motion Control To Xbox Live

Kinect engineer Ron Forbes demonstrated how users will navigate Xbox Live using Microsoft’s motion-control system today, using a combination of movement and voice controls.