Tina Summerford: Why the story of Xbox is so compelling 20 years later
Power On: The Story of Xbox is a six-part documentary debuting Monday about the making of Microsoft’ s Xbox video game consoles. I recorded...
Game of X captures the making of Microsoft’s Xbox and its Windows gaming business
Rusel DeMaria is interested in the history of games, and he doesn’t want it to slip away from us. DeMaria wrote High Score! The...
A life in game journalism
Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I thought I would do something different for a holiday message this year. It’s based on a talk I...
Xbox cofounder Seamus Blackley takes R&D post at augmented reality firm Daqri
Seamus Blackley, the cofounder of the Xbox, has teamed up with augmented reality startup Daqri to run a new research and development for them....
The Duke returns? Xbox One could get the original Xbox’s gargantuan controller
When future civilizations look back to try to figure out what event led to the extinction of modern humans, they will have to consider...
Microsoft: ‘All virtual reality platforms will converge to mixed reality’
SAN FRANCISCO – Virtual reality is just a stepping stone for augmented reality. This was a conclusion a group of panelist reached during a...
Xbox co-creator wants a home in the Smithsonian for physicist Richard Feynman’s van
Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, is on a new mission. And this one takes him back to the days of his first...
Panel to explore the super-geek gaming future
We’ve had tantalizing glimpses of the future with demos of augmented reality, virtual reality, user-generated content, esports, and the coolest new mobile devices. At the high end, gaming PCs using Intel’s Skylake processors, and dedicated graphics chips can power multiple screens and even motion simulators.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Blizzard hacked, Nividia earnings rise, and more bad news for Zynga
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
The golden age returns? Seamus Blackley’s Innovative Leisure mobile game startup raises seed round (exclusive)
Innovative Leisure has raised a seed round to fund its "new arcade" mobile games.