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Halo 4 Bonus Downloadable Content Says It Works One Way, Actually Works Another

(Alan Rappa)With Misty’s order for the Halo 4 Xbox console and a limited edition of the new game, she got a bunch of codes for downloadable content to be used inside the game. In previous editions,...

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Microsoft Offers Free Month Of Service To Make Up For Recent Xbox Live Cloud...

(Ron Dauphin) What’s better than an apology? An apology with some free stuff thrown in to sweeten the pot and turn those frowns upside down. Microsoft is apologizing for a recent cloud outage that left...

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Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Will Take 10 Minutes To Download This Post Over A...

Who misses dialup? Among the readers and tipsters of Consumerist are a brave band of explorers on a sacred mission to advance human knowledge. Their quest: to find really, really old crap sitting on...

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Next Xbox May Require Internet Access At All Times, Microsoft Creative...

(kenfagerdotcom)After a mediocre showing in the last few Worst Company In America tournaments, Microsoft seems intent on making sure the next generation of its Xbox gaming console earns it a top seed...

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Microsoft Apologizes For Loudmouthed Creative Director’s Tweets

(Paxton Holley)Earlier this week, a Microsoft Studios creative director stepped into a huge, flaming virtual bag full of doo-doo when he decided to make his case for always-online gaming, and possibly...

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In-Store-Only Digital Downloads Are Not The Way To Get People Flocking Inside...

For brick-and-mortar retailers, getting customers to walk into their stores has always been a challenge. Today, it’s even more so. But the secret to success in the third decade of the e-commerce era...

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Could It Be Possible That The New Xbox Will Actually Let Users Play Games...

(Mark Turnauckas) In a world where game makers are releasing titles that demand players always be connected to the Internet or just not play, it’s not surprising that fans of Microsoft’s XBox were...

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Microsoft To Announce New Xbox Tomorrow; Sony Teases Video Of Playstation 4...

It’s been three full months since Sony announced — but did not unveil — the Playstation 4 videogame console. And with Microsoft about to announce its follow-up to the Xbox 360 tomorrow, Sony must have...

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The Xbox One Is Intended To Be An All-In-One Home Entertainment Solution

It’s been eight years since Microsoft launched the Xbox 360, a wildly successful gaming console that has gradually evolved into a home entertainment hub for many users. Today, the company finally got...

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4 Early Concerns About The Xbox One

Earlier this week, Microsoft finally got around to showing off Xbox One, the console some gamers have been waiting for since the Xbox 360 came out eight years ago. The company made sure to highlight...

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Xbox Exec Flees Microsoft To Fix The Failing Virtual Farm That Is Zynga

Zynga has added Mattrick to its company masthead, but hasn’t given him a cute little avatar yet.A couple weeks back, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick defended the Xbox One’s most controversial aspects – and...

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New Monopoly Teaches Kids The Importance Of Xbox, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and EA!

This is a real thing that a real company is actually selling, and which some people will purchase.The folks at Hasbro have never had a problem letting everything from towns to universities to movies to...

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Xbox Owner Tracks Down Stolen Device After Thief Goes Online To Use It

(Ron Dauphin) Sometimes it’s not enough for thieves to simply steal your electronics — they apparently just have to use them afterwards as well. Which can turn out to be a very good thing that they do...

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Microsoft Promises That New Kinect Is Not (Always) A Crazy Spying Machine

With the new Xbox One console only weeks away from launch, Microsoft is doing its best to quell concerns that the new Kinect motion and voice sensor will be spying on users and storing important,...

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Xbox One Dropping Your Online Games? You Might Be Able To Blame Comcast For...

(Maggie Deegan) Does the shiny new Xbox One that Santa left under the tree work when you turn it on, but not actually do the whole online gaming thing so well?  If you’re also a Comcast customer, you...

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Man Runs Into Burning Home To Rescue Xbox

(ABC15) There’s a story I used to tell my college roommate’s little sisters that would make them squeal with joy every single time: There was once a fire in my house (not the laughter part) and upon...

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Microsoft Wants To Run More Political Campaign Ads On Xbox

(SA_Steve)You know those ads that you ignore on your Xbox dashboard? President Obama used them as part of his re-election campaign in 2012, and with midterm elections on the horizon, Microsoft is doing...

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The Competition Is As Fake As The Blood: Why New Video Games Are Always The...

(Of Corgis & Cocktails)Video games have gotten ridiculously predictable. Not in stories, writing, or mechanics (although sometimes those, too) but in release, pricing, and distribution. When it...

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Microsoft May No Longer Require Xbox Users To Pay Extra For Access To...

(Katherine McAdoo)UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed this report and additionally announced that it will soon begin selling a Kinect-free version of the Xbox One for $100 less than the current sticker...

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Soon You Can Use Your Xbox One To Stream Live TV To Your Phone (But Not In...

(Al Ibrahim) The Xbox One gaming console is getting a new function added to it, Microsoft announced today. As of this fall, the late-2013, next-gen, still-new gaming and media device will also function...

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