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As I exclusively revealed last year, Microsoft has been slowly killing its Zune brand and switching its media-related services over to Xbox branding. Today, the company confirmed this move in a blog post, indicating that it would have more to share about this transition next week at the E3 trade show....More

Microsoft’s handful of retail stores are now offering an exclusive deal to purchase a 4 GB Xbox 360 video game console and Kinect motion sensor add-on for just $99. Which sounds like quite a deal until you read the fine print. As it turns out, this isn't a good deal at all....More

The deeper I dive into Windows 8’s App Previews, the stranger it gets. There are half-complete apps, semi-useless apps, apps that promote commerce over your local content, and apps that make no sense at all. And then there’s Xbox LIVE Games, which seems to break every rule in the book. It’s fun, but bizarre....More

Microsoft today highlighted some of the Xbox LIVE titles that will ship in 2012 on the Xbox 360 console and Windows Phone. Of course, this has me wondering: What about the new Xbox LIVE titles for Windows?...More

Microsoft has delivered its improved Kinect for Windows, a motion sensor device that aims to bring Kinect entertainment to the PC masses. But unlike its Xbox 360 forefather, the Kinect for Windows comes sans any utilities or games. So for now at least, it's a plaything for developers only....More

Microsoft announced last night that Kinect for Windows is now available. Tied to the hardware release is the Kinect SDK and runtime 1.0 for Windows, a set of programmer-related tools. This means that third parties can now build and release their own software solutions that utilize the new version of the Kinect hardware, designed specifically for Windows....More

The best-selling video game of the holiday 2011 season is getting even better this month: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) is being bolstered by its first add-on maps and a new mobile app for both iOS and Android....More

In this fourth and final look at the Fall 2011 Dashboard Update for the Xbox 360, I examine the new TV and entertainment services that Microsoft and its partners are adding to Xbox LIVE, a move that finally puts the software giant's console over the top as a living room set-top box....More

More TV and entertainment services have popped up on Xbox LIVE this week, with Dailymotion, UFC, and Vudu HD Movies now available in the United States. These and other providers--services availability varies by region--have bolstered the ever-growing set of services that Microsoft has begun adding since the latest Xbox 360 Dashboard Update went live earlier this month....More

I'll be writing more about this in my ongoing review of the Fall 2011 Dashboard Update for Xbox 360 once there's more available, but this week, Microsoft's partners began releasing the previously-promised TV and entertainment content. Finally, this is starting to get interesting....More

In just the latest indication that video games are bigger than any other form of entertainment, Activision's latest shooter, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has earned over $1 billion in just 16 days. That's faster than the best-selling movie ever, Avatar, and faster even than last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops. Please remind me why we worship film and TV "celebrities" again....More

The Xbox 360 Fall 2011 Dashboard Update brings Microsoft's video game console inline with Windows and Windows Phone from a user experience perspective but is in many ways an evolutionary update over the previous UI, called NXE. And while the exciting stuff is happening largely under the hood, it's understandable that many are overly focused on the UI changes. So I'll examine those first....More