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The great folks over at Ars Technica have a post that explains in granular detail exactly how Xbox Games on Windows will function. Given that the project is a standard Microsoft soup of this and that, TNW decided to break it into bite sized bits for all of you, our readership. After all, explication is Continue Reading →

Been wondering what your gaming options will be when you first take a new Windows 8 PC or Windows RT tablet out of the box? Microsoft has confirmed today that its first wave of Xbox titles (as they’re now known) for the OS will include 40 games, 29 of which come from Microsoft Studios. Those Continue Reading →

We liked Bastion quite a bit, enough to put it high on our list of 2011’s best videogames. But when Supergiant Games announced that they’d be releasing Bastion for iPad worldwide on Thursday, some were cautiously optimistic. How well could a combat-heavy Xbox 360 game translate to a touchscreen? Pretty well, if it’s in the Continue Reading →

Hey, look at this: Yet another YouTube app overhaul, which features a bunch of … features. See if you can guess what’s most important about the new Xbox app from Google’s perspective, via a PR email YouTube sent out Tuesday morning: “Today we updated the YouTube app on Xbox, making it up to 5X faster Continue Reading →

Whoever might be employing me in the spring of 2013, know this: The moment Netflix debuts the return of Arrested Development, I’m calling in sick. Because on that glorious day, me and the hundreds and thousands of other devotees will be in our pajamas, in front of our laptops and iPads and Xboxes and Rokus, Continue Reading →

Internet giant Amazon Friday morning announced that it has reached an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution. Under the terms of the deal, hundreds of TV episodes from shows like Parks and Recreation, The Starter Wife, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica will be added to Prime Instant Video. Amazon says Prime Continue Reading →

Netflix launched its updated Xbox 360 app a couple of weeks back, and it came with a ‘Just for Kids’ section aimed at under-12s. This brought it into line with the app as it was on other platforms such as the PS3. Well, it seems that the update went one step beyond this, as it Continue Reading →

Microsoft wants Xbox 360 users to get involved in the upcoming elections, so in an effort to keep prospective young voters in the loop, they are teaming up with a number of outlets and gearing up to launch an “Election 2012 on Xbox LIVE” hub on the Xbox 360 dashboard. The hub is scheduled to Continue Reading →

There have been rumors circulating for some time now that Microsoft is planning to load its Windows 8 operating system onto the next-generation Xbox console. A development kit that sold on eBay the other day seems to lends more credibility to this rumor. A few days ago a PC appeared for sale on eBay claiming Continue Reading →

While YouTube has always enjoyed support on Sony’s PlayStation 3 thanks to the console’s Flash-enabled browser and even offered a YouTube XL layout for connected devices, now it’s rolling out a new app to make the video experience even better (and, no doubt, compete with the experience unveiled late last year on the Xbox 360). Continue Reading →