Here's a fun perk coming to Windows Phone for you Xbox 360 gamers out there: you'll soon be able to control your console from your phone, at least the video/entertainment aspects of it.

If you're short, things are about to get worse — if you're into Kinect. A new patent filed by Microsoft suggests it's planning to use Kinect's body detecting powers to guess a user's age and block content when necessary, based on pre-configured parental settings.

Many fans of the first-person shooter swear that they just can't get he same accuracy from a console controller than they can from a mouse. Those thumbsticks just aren't precise enough! Well, the Splitfish FragFX aims to solve that problem.

The "premium" ride is officially over. Microsoft's ditching the gloss finish on the Xbox 360 and bringing matte back. Die fingerprints, die!