Microsoft has caught a lot of heat for restricting the sale and trading of used games on Xbox One, and requiring the consoles to phone home every 24 hours for verification. Basically, for having hefty DRM. Well good news for whiners everywhere: Microsoft is giving up. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mr Tennent:
"Only because the outrage has been so great. I dont trust Microsoft one bit Ive just been looking at the comments section on Engadget and I think its s..." More »
As E3 closes up shop for the year, we finally have a moment to reflect on a week of gorging ourselves on news about the continuing console war between Microsoft and Sony (and, uh, Nintendo). It's all very new and exciting news about the next half-decade of gaming, but in a lot of ways, it feels like the same old fight we've been having for decades now. It's time for something new. Read More >>
E3 is over, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. An internal, seemingly official Microsoft PR document about the Xbox One just leaked out, but it's not full of horrible secrets, or general shadiness. Nope, it's actually full of good news that Microsoft just didn't bother to stress. Read More >>
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"It will halt it - they'll use essentially uncrackable activation, that's why Steam hasn't been cracked - you have to connect to the internet every few..." More »
A lot of mud has been slung Microsoft's way this week; much of it deserved. Used game restrictions, mandatory internet check-ins; these new impositions don't sit so well with everyone. But they also distract from the single worst thing about the Xbox One, which was also the single worst thing about Xbox 360: The tyranny of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"No. They are another middle man, they pay for the systems and servers that allow the box to connect to Netflix. You can have Netflix on your PC for fr..." More »
When the Xbox One launches in November, Microsoft's achievements system will undergo its biggest overhaul since its implementation. There'll be two kinds of achievements. Stuff you can earn that aren't achievements. Achievements for watching TV. And more. Read More >>
Featured comment by Rieger.Dan:
"They're trash talking the Xbox One! Quick, give them points for using it! Everybody is happier with points and achievements!" More »
Well, it's finally time to have this discussion. What should you buy, the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One. It helps that we've finally got some facts to work with in the new console war, instead of just chasing rumours and misinformation. So here's the definitive look at how the two new consoles stack up against each other, and more importantly, what those comparisons actually mean. Read More >>
Featured comment by soothsayer36:
"glad to see someone has the money to waste if he buys a game he does not like . it can sit there making a nice big £50+ coaster . unless of course he..." More »
Gamers who think their core is hard have always thought of Kinect as just some gimmick Wii-successor that they'd never use, because true gamers use analogue sticks or fight pads or morse code or something. And maybe the first Kinect was like that. The Kinect 2 on Xbox One? Completely different. It's truly an extension of the controller without the constraints of a controller. Read More >>
Featured comment by aholvoet:
"What's the difference between my "always on-line" laptop with built-in camera and the kinect? I can't understand what the problem is... do people real..." More »
Microsoft's amazingly catastrophic Xbox One campaign has unloaded another bullet into the bloody stumps where its feet used to be, with Xbox team exec Don Mattrick suggesting people with no little or no internet access bypass Xbox One's 24-hour check-in requirement by... sticking with Xbox 360. Read More >>
Featured comment by Ebbysantos:
"I would imagine that this is exactly what they've done, just looked at home many xboxes they've sold Vs number of xboxes online and found that only a ..." More »
Microsoft and Facebook have joined Google in complaining about the US government's privacy restrictions, asking US authorities to let them tell the public how many data requests they receive from security agencies. So we might be a bit less suspicious of them. Read More >>
Featured comment by To be or not to be...is a stupid question.:
"Didn't read the article but that picture saying "your friends and the CIA" had me rolling on the floor. Good one!" More »
Microsoft really can't get anything right -- forget the Xbox One, they managed to screw up a game demo with a bit of 'unscripted banter' that devolved far to quickly into rape jokes. On stage. In front of the world's press. (And it wasn't even a funny joke.) Read More >>
Microsoft Research has come up with a clever way to let users actually feel what they're interacting with on a touchscreen. And it doesn't involve complex finger contraptions, or bulky gloves. Instead, the researchers simply installed the display on a robotic mount that moves in response to where and what is being touched, simulating an interaction with what's on-screen. Read More >>
According to the acknowledged font of all internet knowledge, Reddit, Sony has won the console war. We're not so sure; but in any case, post-E3 feels like a good time to take a moment, recover, and examine the past few months' console war via the medium of YouTube sarcasm. Read More >>
Featured comment by dirtymagic86:
"Isn't the price pretty much the same when you take into account that the xbox comes with Kinect and the PS4 doesn't come with Move (or whatever its ca..." More »
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