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Report: $100 subsidized Xbox 360 Kinect bundle coming next week

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 11:02am

An Xbox 360 in every home. That's Microsoft's line of thought. A new report details Microsoft's plans to bring a low-cost Xbox 360 by bundling it with a mandatory two-year monthly Xbox Live Gold subscription. Who still needs an Xbox 360?

Microsoft splashes the Union Jack all over the Xbox 360

Raymond Wong

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 3:57pm

Good news my U.K. gaming comrades. There's a new limited edition Xbox 360. Hope you absolutely love the Union Jack because this Xbox 360, Kinect and controller has the British flag slapped all over them.

Microsoft Research developing an operating system for your home

Evan Ackerman

Monday, April 30, 2012 - 3:33pm

There are lots of discouragingly complicated ways to go about connecting electronic devices in your home, especially devices not intended for such, like a toaster. Microsoft is experimenting with its new HomeOS to try to make it fast and easy to make your home smarter, more efficient and more fun.

Official live-action Halo Web series coming this fall

Raymond Wong

Monday, April 30, 2012 - 12:39pm

The Halo movie might be canned for good due to what is essentially greed, but that doesn't mean the live-action Halo dream is dead. Microsoft's planning a huge Web series around its FPS franchise to coincide with the launch of Halo 4 this November.

Microsoft's prepping new cross-platform Xbox music service for E3

Raymond Wong

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 9:02am

This June's E3 won't bring any next-gen Xbox hardware, but The Verge has heard that Microsoft is going to debut a new cross-platform Xbox music service that'll replace the current Zune service.

Microsoft: Kinect 2.0 could detect tone of voice and body stance

Raymond Wong

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 8:24am

Kinect might be a paradise for hackers to fiddle with, but Kinect games — especially the recent Kinect Star Wars — have been either lackluster or mostly skewed towards the casual/kiddie end because of the sensor's limitations. Kinect 2.0 could track more than just your body skeleton.

Dynamic history of the world wins best procrastination tool ever

Travis Andrews

Monday, March 26, 2012 - 12:54pm

Launched by Microsoft Research, Moscow State University and UC Berkeley, ChronoZoom has, oh, just about 14 billion years for you to learn about as you travel through time. You didn't have anything else planned today, did you?

New Microsoft patent reveals gaming helmet with laser projections

Raymond Wong

Monday, March 19, 2012 - 2:58pm

Have motion controls not whet your appetite yet? Good, because the future of gaming could look decidedly different. A recently unearthed Microsoft patent points to work on a gaming helmet that'll use lasers to project virtual images in front of each eye.

Thanks, Microsoft: Patent charges you for skipping commercials

Kevin Hall

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 1:57pm

A recently discovered patent put in by Microsoft back in November is for "Control-based Content Pricing," which is a fancy way of saying that it'd track and monetize (read: penalize) the actions a viewer takes with a TV remote. DVR a show and want to skip the ads? Well, pay up, buster.

Microsoft's Kinect, now picking out your perfect jeans

Kevin Hall

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 8:13am

Welcome to the future of trying on jeans: instead of stepping into a dressing room with a pair you think will fit, you'll instead enter the fitting room of tomorrow, equipped with a ring of eight Kinect sensors. They'll see your body from every angle and, after mapping your contours in mere seconds, knows exactly what pair of pants will fit you best.

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Report: $100 subsidized Xbox 360 Kinect bundle coming next week

Microsoft splashes the Union Jack all over the Xbox 360

Microsoft Research developing an operating system for your home

Official live-action Halo Web series coming this fall

Microsoft's prepping new cross-platform Xbox music service for E3

Microsoft: Kinect 2.0 could detect tone of voice and body stance

Dynamic history of the world wins best procrastination tool ever

New Microsoft patent reveals gaming helmet with laser projections

Thanks, Microsoft: Patent charges you for skipping commercials

Microsoft's Kinect, now picking out your perfect jeans

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