This week on Xbox Live: Expansions for Battlefield 3, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, and Gears of War 3
Microsoft has expanded Xbox Live to enable new entertainment options such as YouTube and Verizon’s FiOS TV, but the bread and butter of the...
Microsoft’s first game for iOS is… Kinectimals?
When even Microsoft and Google start turning to the iTunes Store in hopes of finding success, you know Apple has done something right. Microsoft...
YouTube now available on the Xbox 360
Now, you can surf for cute cat videos from the comfort of your couch. Microsoft has added a YouTube app to its Xbox 360...
Kaggle launches competition to help Microsoft Kinect learn new gestures
What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut? Big data...
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse
Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in...
10 of the most anticipated video games of 2012
Looking back, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t agree that 2011 was a great year for video games. It was...
Tired of ads on your Xbox dashboard? Reddit shows you how to block them
The Xbox Metro dashboard has brought lots of shiny new features to the console, but many gamers are troubled by the amount of advertising...
Indie devs losing faith in Microsoft following Xbox dashboard update
A number of indie developers have expressed concerns about the updated Xbox dashboard, with some suggesting it is guilty of burying Xbox Live Indie...
Halo Waypoint, ATLAS coming to mobile devices on Dec. 10
Right on the heels of the My Xbox LIVE release, Microsoft is bringing two Halo apps to smartphones. The first, Halo Waypoint, will function...
Get the e-book of “Xbox: The Making of a Bad-Ass Machine”
To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox, VentureBeat’s lead games writer Dean Takahashi wrote an epic two-part story on the history of the...