Categories Posted inin Business In the game engine wars, Epic and Unity aim at enabling VR Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 16, 2015 6 min Epic Games and Unity Technologies are in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. At a time when game budgets are... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Xbox One backward compatibility already boosting 360 game sales Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 14, 2015 2 min Backward compatibility with the Xbox 360 is one of the big ways Microsoft is trying to set the Xbox One apart from the competition,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development How Microsoft built, and is still building, Windows 10 Posted byby GamesBeat August 13, 2015 12 min Windows 10 for PCs arrived two weeks ago. Thankfully, we don’t need to wait years to say this will be a Microsoft operating system... Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business Xbox Live down for many on Xbox One and 360 Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 12, 2015 1 min You might run into issues playing games on Xbox One and Xbox 360 this evening. Xbox Live is down once again, according to a... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business China’s game console problem and where the real opportunity is Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 7, 2015 7 min SHANGHAI — Xaiofeng Zeng is one of the veteran analysts who studies the Chinese gaming market. And he lives in Shanghai. Zeng works as... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Xbox One NFL app gets Next Generation Stats; Surface Pro 3 coming to teams Posted byby GamesBeat August 7, 2015 4 min Today, Microsoft is announcing updates to its NFL app for the Xbox One console that will give fans a better sense of what’s happening... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business China flexes its muscle in gaming as 272,900 people flock to ChinaJoy Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2015 5 min SHANGHAI — China has become the world’s largest game market, and it has a trade show to match that fact. ChinaJoy drew more than... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Seagate launches a 2-terabyte game drive for Xbox consoles Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 5, 2015 2 min Seagate is announcing today it is launching a 2-terabyte hard disk drive for the Microsoft Xbox One and Xbox 360 video game consoles. Making... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Perfect World CEO still believes game consoles can succeed in China Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 4, 2015 10 min SHANGHAI — Robert Xiao, chief executive of Perfect World, made bets last year on the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Xbox at Gamescom: Watch all the trailers right here Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 4, 2015 1 min Microsoft just held its media presentation at the Gamescom game industry trade show in Cologne, Germany, and we’ve gathered up all of the new trailers... Continue Reading 1 min