XBOX popularity and XBOX trends

Do gamers prefer to build or destroy? A look at the combat-intensive themes of most top-selling console games would suggest the latter.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces plans about Xbox at CES 2010. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired More »

An ITC judge recommends a U.S. ban for the Xbox 360, even though that seems highly unlikely

Microsoft is not saying when it will be unveiling a new Xbox console, but, thanks to a lawsuit between Activision and some former employees, timing details are a little clearer.

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symbolset writes "In the long running dispute between Motorola and Microsoft, Judge David Shaw of the ITC recommended Monday an import ban on Xbox 360 S consoles, as they are found to infringe Motorola's patents (PDF). The judge also ordered Microsoft post a bond of 7 percent of the retail price of all unsold U.S. Xbox inventory. The decision will go to the ITC's board of commissioners, who wil...

Mit XBox 360 nebst Kinect-Einheit wird der Körper zum Spiele-Controller. Eine Firma will demnächst eine Gestensteuerung anbieten, die noch viel mehr kann.Foto: Leapmotion.comMehr zum ThemaEndlich Sommer! - Coole Technik für die Open-Air-Saison

Second wave of content for first-person shooter available now for Xbox 360.

This sounds extreme, but Comcast continues to push the boundaries in separation of its broadband service with its cable service. It is walking a thin line between being a broadband provider, offering fast Internet access to millions of subscribers, and treating its Xfinity Xbox 360 App as a priority over customers not having its cable service. Saying the Xbox 360 is just another set-top-box for...

Microsoft, just like Apple, usually runs a major back-to-school promotion every summer that is meant to give students (and their parents) some extra incentives to buy a new computer. The company's just-announced back-to-school deal for the U.S. and Canada is pretty much the same as last year's. A year ago, Microsoft gave students who bought a new PC and Xbox 360 and this year it's doing exactly...

PC phenomenon Minecraft makes its way to Xbox 360 with considerable success, writes Emily Richardson.

What do the Nike+ FuelBand, the Boxee box, and the Xbox 360+ have in common? All were all given a boost by Astro Studios a San Francisco-based design firm you may not have heard of.

When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google and Apple, with Microsoft as an also-ran. But as television begins to resemble the mobile business, Microsoft is in the lead with the Xbox, according to a new report out Wednesday from Forrester Research.

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The Xbox Live version of Minecraft has broken the previous launch-day record, announced its creator Markus Persson, citing early figures based on user participation.

This is also the first time motion controllers like Kinect on Xbox and the Move on PlayStation can be used with Sega's official Olympic video on hurdles, volleyball and shooting.

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Motorola Mobility must wait longer to find out if it will be allowed to enforce a ban on Microsoft's Xbox and other products in Germany.

Microsoft began testing whether a pricing strategy that has been a hit with smartphones will invigorate sales of its Xbox 360 videogame consoles.

Il n'y a pas si longtemps, dans la galaxie, la très grande galaxie des jeux vidéo... débarqua Kinect. Périphérique de reconnaissance gestuelle couplé à la Xbox, il allait révolutionner l'approche ludique de la console « made by » Microsoft. Hormis quelques vraies prouesses, genre « Eden » ou «  Dance central », force est de constater que le bouleversement n'a pas eu lieu. Dernière excroissance ...

SEATTLE -- Microsoft is offering its Xbox 360 gaming consoles with the Kinect motion controller for $99 for people who sign up for a two-year Xbox Live Gold membership at $15 per month.Microsoft Corp. says people who buy the console at the discounted price but cancel the monthly Live membership are subject to an early termination fee. The fee ranges from $12 to $250 depending on when they cance...

Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) were down 0.8% in recent trading to $31.50, but Stifel, Nicolaus says the stock could shoot 20% higher, to $38. Today, analyst Brad Reback resumed coverage of the stock with a Buy rating, noting that the shares look attractively valued, given the company’s product cycle, its leverage to emerging trends like [...]

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Berlin (dpa) - Microsoft will seine Spielekonsole Xbox 360 einem Medienbericht zufolge in der kommenden Woche auch im Abo auf den Markt bringen - vermutlich vorerst nur in den USA. Wie das Blo...

A GERMAN court has ruled that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility’s patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its popular Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software from the German market.

BERLIN (AP) -- A court in Germany ruled Wednesday that Microsoft infringed two patents held by Motorola, in a case that could affect sales of its popular Xbox 360 console and the Windows 7 operating system....

Neuer Höhepunkt im dauernden Patentstreit in der IT-Branche: Motorola erreichte heute in Deutschland ein Verkaufsverbot für Microsofts Windows 7 und die Spielekonsole Xbox 360. Und Nokia schlug mit einer Mega-Klagewelle gegen gleich drei Konkurrenten zu.

A court in Mannheim ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility's patents and ordered Microsoft to remove its Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software from...

Eedoo’s CT510 the first legal home entertainment console in a decade; still more expensive than smuggled grey-market Xbox and PS3 devices

Im Patentstreit mit Microsoft hat Motorola den bislang schwersten Treffer gelandet: Ein deutsches Gericht findet Patentverletzungen in Windows 7 und der Spielekonsole Xbox 360. Dennoch bleiben die Produkte im Handel - vorerst.

Motorola Mobility is granted a sales ban against the Xbox 360 and Windows 7 in Germany.

Mannheim (dpa) - Im Patentstreit mit Microsoft hat Motorola den bislang schwersten Treffer gelandet. Ein deutsches Gericht fand Patentverletzungen in Windows 7 und der Spielekonsole Xbox 360. Allerdi...

Un tribunal allemand a jugé mercredi que Microsoft avait violé des brevets de Motorola, au cours de la fabrication de sa console de jeux vidéos Xbox. Le juge a déclaré que Microsoft avait contrevenu à un accord avec Motorola, que Google est en train de racheter, en utilisant certains logiciels de...

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly rehearsing for the launch of a new digital music service for its Xbox Live platform and elsewhere that could be announced at E3, set to take place in Los Angeles in June.  The possibility, first reported in The Verge, would replace the Zune Music Pass service that Microsoft currently offers in favor of a more versatile service that would be available on more devic...

Players use a basketball, which is an innovation for Kinect's motion-sensing controller.

It appears that 2012 will be the first year that sales of flat-panel TVs have declined, and last month it was announced that owners of Microsoft's Xbox console now spend more time watching entertainment content than playing games.

A US International Trade Commission judge has sided with Motorola Mobility in its claim the Xbox infringes four patents

Trotz aller Prophezeiungen, dass der klassische PC ein Auslaufmodell sei, läuft das Geschäft des Software-Konzerns Microsoft rund. Sogar die Verkäufe von Windows 7 legen kurz vor der Ablösung durch Windows 8 noch einmal zu. Die Xbox wird hingegen zum Verlustbringer.

Microsoft's sales growth for Xbox and Kinect slowed sharply last quarter, but other sectors like Windows helped the company post earnings that beat analysts' estimates.

À partir de demain, les possesseurs de la Livebox d'Orange vont pouvoir...

Im Sommer stehen die Olympischen Spiele in London an. Mit „Summer Stars 2012“ können sich Besitzer von Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 oder Wii schon jetzt warmlaufen.

Jacob David Hartley, of Lakeland, Florida, had baby Colton sitting on him for around 30 minutes out of an almost five hour video game session on Thursday.

Last summer, some kids ran wild in the riots. The long break was seen as a ‘cause’ of the chaos. Many kids are left with nothing, or just a Xbox, to engage them.

Xbox takes others’ content, distributed over others’ networks, and makes it easier to find and use. It has competitors in this role

Microsoft will unveil a stripped-down 'Xbox Lite' next year priced as low as $100, a well-connected blogger has claimed.

China's government has helped Microsoft's business there by improving intellectual-property protection, the company's top China executive said, but continues to hurt it with regulations blocking the Xbox.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft says it's not coming out with a new Xbox gaming console anytime soon....

Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots around the deck. With an increase in unmanned planes, MIT researchers are setting out to do the same with the autonomous robots.

Türkisfarbene Zöpfe, Schuluniform und eine Mädchenstimme: Die 16-jährige Miku Hatsune gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten Popstars in Japan und tritt in ausverkauften Hallen auf. Dabei ist sie kein Mensch, sondern eine virtuelle Figur.Mehr zum ThemaNeuer Streaming-Dienst - Spotify-Musik mitschneiden – erlaubt oder nicht?Microsofts Spielkonsole - Die Xbox feiert zehnten GeburtstagNeue Suchformel ...

Attendu pour le 20 avril sur PS3, Xbox360 et PC, Test Drive : Ferrari Racing Legends lève le voile sur les bolides de la marque au cheval cabré que les joueurs pourront piloter. Développé par Slightly Mad Studios, papa...

Auf den Tipp-Champion der UEFA Champions League wartet eine Xbox 360 inklusive dem Videospiel "FIFA 2012".

The latest edition of the role-playing game Final Fantasy seems to be an overreaction to criticisms of its predecessor.

Hamburg (ots) - Square Enix gibt bekannt, dass FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 ab sofort als Standard und Limited Collector`s Edition für PlayStation 3 und Xbox 360 im Handel erhältlich ist. FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 ist die direkte Fortsetzung des millionenfach verkauften FINAL FANTASY XIII und bietet ...

In what has to be one of the weirdest American traditions next to stabbing each other's faces off for a 10% off Xbox360 controller the day after Thanksgiving, hundreds pulled themselves out of bed to gather around Punxsutawney Phil's burrow hole in Pennsylvania to predict if we'll have six more weeks of whatever season we're in. The weather tells me that it's not winter, because I wore a...

Für Nutzer - allen voran Spieler - ist sie vor allem ein Ärgernis: Microsofts hauseigene Währung, die Microsoft Points. Damit können auf der Spielekonsole Xbox 360 und via PC online Spiele, Filme und Musik gekauft werden. Microsoft spart so Kreditkarten-Spesen, für den User jedoch ist die Preisgestaltung undurchsichtig. Damit soll laut einem Bericht bald Schluss sein.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine....

300 STAFF at Xbox 360 plant in mass suicide threat if wage demands aren't met

Le directeur général de Microsoft Steve Ballmer a annoncé la migration de système de commandes gestuelles et vocales Kinect, conçu pour la console de jeux XBox 360, vers les o...lire la suite

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Computerised war simulations for British troops have been radically improved to cater for recruits who are used to playing high-quality video games on their Xboxes, according to a Ministry of Defence scientist.

THE ABC has announced that its online catch-up TV service, iview, will be available on Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform.

Print - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics Human judgments, of course, are never made in a vacuum. Pilots are part of a complex system that can either increase or reduce the probability that they will make a mistake. After this accident, the million-dollar question is whether training, instrumentation, and cockpit procedures can be modified all around the world so th...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Microsoft is the latest technology giant to storm cable's barricades. The company is unveiling overhauls to its Xbox 360 console and Xbox Live online arm this week -- a facelift that will bring with it a slew of new entertainment partners and an improved voice-activated control system. Or as Xbox's slightly grandiloquent ads promise: "TV is becoming more amazing." Th...

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new interface for its Xbox game console users — one that allows you to navigate through music, movies, TV shows and games with the wave of your hand or the sound of your voice. The interface, first demonstrated by CEO Steve Ballmer in September, is set up similarly to Microsoft Corp.’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system with a series of large pane...

La mujer que atacó con gas a un grupo de compradores para ganar un Xbox en el mayor día de rebajas se entregó a la policía

"I like playing with the joystick" said Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie "I've always liked playing with the joystick from an early age" Then she cracked up laughing at Ubisoft’s Monday night launch party at Hollywood’s Supperclub for The Black Eyed Peas Experience An interactive video game for Wii and Xbox...

Yes, we'll win medals - but the lasting value of the Olympics lies in motivating our youth, writes Boris Johnson.

Krefeld (ots) - Nach dem großen internationalen Erfolg, den das uDraw GameTablet für Nintendo Wii verzeichnen konnte, wird es in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz ab morgen auch für PlayStation®3 und Xbox 360® zu haben sein. Somit kommen alle Konsolenbesitzer in den Genuss, sich ...

As often happens, Activision hasn't been able to prevent everybody from getting their hands on Modern Warfare 3 before its official launchGamers willing to pay above the odds can get their hands on an early copy of this year's must-have game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – if they're willing to pay £60, rather than the £35 it costs online.The games were on sale at least 48 hours ahead of the ...

A look at some of the kinds of images you can make with the 3-D scanner project that evolved from Microsoft's Xbox controller.

Xbox 360 gets an image makeover to compete with the Wii. Image: Microsoft By Yi-Wyn Yen The Xbox 360 is getting a major software update designed to transform it into a multimedia machine. Starting Wednesday, all Xbox 360 owners will be required to update their gaming consoles so that they can watch movies in high-definition, stream TV shows and movies from Netflix (NFLX) and navigate categor...