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Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom

Price and ship date are always the biggest concerns when new gadgets or hardware hits the market, but in the case of the Xbox One, it's likely to help determine whether the "home entertainment system," as Microsoft is characterizing it, becomes the category-busting, revolutionary multi-purpose livin

The 360 Figures to Hang Around a Lot Longer than the Original Xbox Did

The Xbox 360 launched Nov. 22, 2005. Within two years, Microsoft unceremoniously discontinued its predecessor. The company expects the 360 to be with us a little longer this time.

What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft's Spruce Goose

Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant.

CrunchWeek: Yahoo's $1.1B Tumblr Purchase, Lyft's Big Raise, And Microsoft's Xbox One

It"s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days.

Top 10 Tech This Week

As we enjoy Memorial Weekend, we look back to another great week in the world of technology. And if you're wondering what happened in the last seven days, worry not — Top 10 Tech brings you a list of the most important techno-stories of the week.

Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing

An anonymous reader writes "Twilio's Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he's learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: 'I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android.

Microsoft wants to sell another 25 million Xbox 360 consoles

Despite all this Xbox One whoopla going on, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about its other horse in this console dog and pony show.

15 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Memorial Day weekend has arrived in a hurry, spreading some unseasonably cold weather across the country. If you've been busy prepping for your weekend getaway plans and haven't had time to check out the news — don't worry, we've got you covered.

Can the Wii U Survive Against the PS4 and Xbox One?

An anonymous reader writes "Now that both Sony and Microsoft have announced their next-gen consoles, and we've gotten solid information about their hardware, technology, and features, Eurogamer asks whether Nintendo's struggling Wii U will be able to hold its own once the new compet

Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo, We're In A Console Rut

Something occurred to me as I reflected on this week's Xbox One announcement. The "best" part of the hour long presentation was near the beginning, when it was demonstrated that the Xbox could flip seamlessly between television and the console with a simple voice or gesture command.