Microsoft Archives

Posted inin Business

Dance Central 3 hops, shuffles, and body rolls its way to greatness (review)

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
October 15, 2012
4 min

Developer Harmonix continues its fantastic legacy of music games with Dance Central 3. Consider the title your yearly reminder of why you bought the Xbox 360's Kinect hardware in the first place.

Continue Reading
4 min

Posted inin Business

Microsoft unveils comprehensive Xbox Music service, including free streaming on Windows 8

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 15, 2012
4 min

With Xbox Music, you can subscribe to an ad-free service, buy tracks a la carte, listen to radio, or get songs streamed to you for no charge.

Continue Reading
4 min

Posted inin Business

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 12, 2012
3 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Continue Reading
3 min

Posted inin Technology

Want NFL stars Drew Brees or Jerry Rice as your Facebook friend?

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 12, 2012
2 min

Microsoft's Xbox team and the NFL have joined forces to make America healthier and reduce childhood obesity. One of the incentives is an actual NFL star friending a kid on Facebook and giving him or her a "social autograph," which kids can then share with their friends.

Continue Reading
2 min

Posted inin Business

Xbox Live tells us who won the vice-presidential debate

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 12, 2012
1 min

Who won? Vice President Joseph Biden or GOP candidate Paul Ryan? Hint: It was a very clear result.

Continue Reading
1 min

Posted inin Business

Windows 8 now defaults to real currency, but Xbox 360 still uses Microsoft Points

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 9, 2012
1 min

Those 400 Genuine Microsoft Points cards are here to stay even though Windows 8 has joined the world of real money.

Continue Reading
1 min

Posted inin Business

Stunning mobile game Contre Jour goes multitouch in HTML5 with Microsoft’s help

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 9, 2012
2 min

Beautiful iOS and Windows Phone game Contre Jour has made the jump to HTML5 and the web, with a version tailor-made for browsers. It's stunning.

Continue Reading
2 min

Posted inin Business

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Cliff Bleszinski, Skylanders Giants, and alleged racism at Kixeye

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 5, 2012
3 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Continue Reading
3 min

Posted inin Business

Notch to Callaham: ‘Thanks for the personal attack’ (UPDATED)

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 2, 2012
3 min

Neowin.net writer John Callaham struck a nerve last Friday, when he wrote an open letter to Marcus "Notch" Persson and called him a hypocrite.

Continue Reading
3 min

Posted inin Business

Minecraft creator refuses Windows 8 certification, tells Microsoft to ‘stop trying to ruin the PC’

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 28, 2012
2 min

In spite of the fact that Minecraft has more than 42 million registered gamers and at least 7.5 million paying customers, don't expect it to hit the Windows Store any time soon.

Continue Reading
2 min