How Microsoft engineered Kinect to withstand gamers and lightning strikes
Microsoft engineers spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about how they built the Kinect motion sensing system, offering a rare glimpse inside the...
Hands on with Microsoft’s slick speech-powered Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 (video)
Microsoft is rolling out a whole host of speech recognition features for its Windows Phone 7 devices and Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 consoles in a...
Windows Phone 7 gets new Xbox Live features and 14 new games
Microsoft previewed some new Xbox Live games and features for its Windows Phone 7 platform today at the annual Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany....
Sony confirms PS 3 rumors, cutting price $50 to $249
Sony has confirmed that it has cut the price of the PlayStation 3 video game console from $299 to $249. Sony made the announcement...
Age of Empires Online could make free-to-play games mainstream
A new age is dawning in the video game business, and Microsoft wants to be part of it. Today, Microsoft is formally launching its...
Former Xbox chief Robbie Bach emerges on Sonos board
Robbie Bach, former chief Xbox officer at Microsoft, has resurfaced on the board at Sonos, the maker of internet-based audio electronics. Bach has kept...
Hands-on preview of Gears of War 3: an epic story with closure
Gears of War 3 from Epic Games will be one of the game industry’s early seasonal blockbusters when the third-person shooter game debuts on Microsoft’s Xbox...
Gears of War 3 producer describes the end to an epic series (video)
Gears of War 3 debuts on Sept. 20. It will bring to a close the trilogy of sci-fi games that started in 2006 and...
July retail video game sales drop 26 percent, worst month since 2006
The U.S. retail game industry continues to suffer from a low rate of new game releases. Now we know just how much, thanks to...
Why Nintendo should start making games for iPhone and Android
Nintendo investors are extremely unhappy with the company’s nearly 30-year old strategy of making games only for its own consoles and have started demanding...