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Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and sporting unkempt graying hair, Larry Hryb looks like just another guy in Microsoft's corporate headquarters.
But Xbox 360 players know Hryb by his alter ego, "Major Nelson," the endlessly energetic and unusually frank voice of the Xbox Live online service that serves as a sort of social networking community for hard-core video game players.
Hryb's business card describes him, rather blandly, as "director of programming" for Xbox Live. In fact, he runs a mini-empire of Xbox-related media: blogs,...
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The anticipated battle between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 for videogame console supremacy has become a sideshow to the unexpected rise of Nintendo's Wii as the new-generation game console of choice.
Once a dark-horse contender, the Wii has outsold both its competitors in recent months. According to sales data from the NPD Group, the Wii sold 335,000 units in February to the Xbox 360's 228,000 and the PS3's 127,000.
Of the three new-generation game consoles, the Xbox 360 has sold the most at 5 million units in the...
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At the PS3 launch event in Paris, Microsoft found an opportunity to do a little guerilla marketing by sending French gamers queueing up for a PS3 a kind reminder via boat.
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Online gaming forums are buzzing with reports that Xbox Live accounts linked to Microsoft's Windows Live ID service are being hijacked by malicious hackers.
Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition, raised the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, calling attention to rumors that Microsoft's Bungie.net was the victim of a breach that exposed a portion of Xbox Live.
"Some folks are having their Microsoft points stolen and or points purchased via their stolen gamer tag," Finisterre said.
A quick...
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In a topsy-turvy year for the digital download biz, a videogame service in just a few million homes is ending 2006 with more momentum than the world's biggest e-tailer.
The relative success of video downloads on Microsoft's Xbox Live and disappointment of Amazon.com's Unbox point to two factors that differentiate Xbox from Amazon and its many other competitors -- consumers who download a movie want a simple way to watch it on their TV, and those with high-def TVs want high-def content.
Thanks to the Xbox 360's direct connection to a TV...
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sleeper 3 years 1 day ago
I made this to show how the streaming videos and music work with the xbox 360 using media center. I have tried to stream using regular windows xp and have never gotten it to work (I think my firewall is blocking it). So anyway, watch the video if you have never seen xbox live streaming:
18: Xbox 360 LiveAdd to My Profile | More Videos
As a special bonus, the ending of the...
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Are you one of those people that complain about advertisements in video games ? People feel that they've already pay the game developers their hard-earned cash, that seeing additional advertisements in the game is kind of double-dipping.
But what if you can get games for free or at a huge reduction in price??
Burger King are releasing three games for the Xbox: SNEAK KING (Get it? Sneaking...), POCKETBIKE RACER, and BIG BUMPIN'.
They're being released tomorrow (Nov 19th) at your local BK and priced at $3.99 each. I might pick them up,...
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The NY Times reports that Microsoft is ending its partnership with IBM to found it's own chip design lab to work on chips for a planned third generation Xbox:
The design effort will initially be split between research labs at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and its Silicon Valley campus here. Tentatively named the Computer Architecture Group, the project underscores sweeping changes in the industry.
One reason for the effort is that Microsoft needs to begin thinking about the next-generation design of its Xbox game console,...
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Microsoft has confirmed the latest figures denoting the continued success of its Xbox Live service, citing an attach rate of 60 per cent as the company strives to add further functionality and user benefits.
Significantly outperforming the service offerings on the original Xbox console, which only managed approximately a 10 per cent attach rate amongst console owners, the next-gen machine is drawing in serious crowds.
It seems that Microsoft couldn’t stand to see its challengers launching portable gaming consoles and, therefore, the software giant intends to develop one itself, more precisely, a handheld equivalent for the Xbox 360, informs The Inquirer.
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