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Following a full day of presentations, interviews, tours, tech demos, and teases of the Xbox One' s game-changing potential, the powers that be at Microsoft finally let us get our mitts on the new hardware's controller. While our time behind the gamepad doesn't allow us to tear up the blacktop in...

Slick new pixel-pushing hardware is only part of the plan. Xbox One is a gateway to some major Microsoft services.

Microsoft took the wraps off of its upcoming Xbox One console earlier this week, and it is now possible to compare Microsoft and Sony's next-generation hardware. Prior to the Xbox One launch, Forbes contributor Paul Tassi postulated that Microsoft would be going a different route than Sony with its...

There is an awful lot of excitement to go around in the game industry today, as Microsoft has finally (finally!) shown off its next-generation console, the Xbox One. From images and videos of the device, it appears to be good-looking, should deliver high-quality gameplay, and will integrate a host...

One of the more controversial bits of news to come out of yesterday's Xbox One reveal was the discovery that the newly christened console would not be able to play Xbox 360 games . Backwards compatibility has been a sore subject for some gamers but Microsoft's Don Mattrick says the company is...

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You saw the news yesterday. The Xbox One was everywhere , and everyone talked a lot about it. But when a new console hits, often we'll latch onto the biggest, shiniest new baubles. Now though, having slept on it, let's dig into the real nerd porn. It's worth a look. Read more...

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World , a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. Now that Microsoft has given its quick reveal of the new Xbox One game console / set-top box, we have a pretty good idea of what we should be expecting once the...

Don Mattrick said only 5 per cent of gamers played old titles on new consoles

New game consoles don’t exactly come along every week. Microsoft unveiled its current one, the Xbox 360, back on May 12, 2005 — an era when the newest version of Windows was XP, almost all forms of gadget input involved clacky little buttons and the fastest way to get Netflix into your living room...