E3 2012 is shaping up to not be so much about the games, but more about the functionality that the big 3 want to bring to their existing consoles.  According to this latest rumor it appears that Microsoft is finally ready to bring a web browsing experience right to the [...]

For the first time ever Xbox’ers will be able to watch all the goodies and surprises that Microsoft has in store during their keynote at E3 2012 live on their Xbox’s.  While it will more than likely be a direct stream from Spike TV, who is also broadcasting the show [...]

Microsoft has brought the long-running Inside Xbox video series to an end. The series brought a range of original programming to Xbox users’ dashboards, from Major’s Minute (starring Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb) to Insider Moves and Featured Videos. Major Nelson himself posted on his blog yesterday about the end of [...]

Unless you have been under a rock the past few weeks all the rage on the Interwebs has been over who’s cloud storage service is best.  Microsoft has SkyDrive, Google has Drive, there is Dropbox, plus many others.  Amazon got into the cloud storage and cloud music player business before [...]

When Microsoft bought Skype the first thing that I thought of was when will it be available as an app on the Xbox 360.  Seriously, how awesome would that be, to be able to login to your account and video chat using a Kinect to anyone you know on Skype. [...]

Poll time again!  As some of you know I’m a big gamer, I love video games, and I love series.  COD, Battlefield, and of course Gears!  But Halo has always had a small little spot in my heart, mostly for the story.  Microsoft has finally told the world that Halo [...]

What do the majority of Xbox 360 users do with their console?  If you guessed played games you are wrong, actually.  More than half of Xbox owners now use their console to stream media such as movies and TV shows.  Microsoft knows this and they want to give everyone the [...]

Everyone, go get some salt because this rumor is sure to need a lot of it.  According to sources familiar with internal plans at Microsoft, VG247 has learned quite a few things about what the Xbox 360 successor will have.  First off, they believe the current possible launch date to [...]

Rumor has it Microsoft could have a stripped down Xbox ready to launch next year. The “Xbox Lite” would run about $100, and will have a newer, cheaper processor.  It will play Arcade games downloaded from Microsoft, as well as Xbox’s media apps, including video-on-demand services, like Netflix. It could also [...]

Microsoft’s current plan is to get one more year out of the Xbox 360 before a ‘possible’ debut of it’s successor at E3 – in 2013. Company spokesman David Dennis had already stated on the record that there will be no new Xbox hardware at this year’s E3, so this [...]