Many year ago I heard about a rival music distribution system to iTunes and I didn’t need much convincing that this could be a better way to buy and listen to music on my PC. I did research into Zune and immediately loved the look of the brand and its logo (not so much the [...]

Today Microsoft have announced quite a few pieces of information regarding games on several platforms and the release date for Kinect outside the US. First up Microsoft has announced that it is creating a new Age of Empires game, Age of Empires Online. This game will feature Game for Windows Live integration to allow social [...]

Engadget are reporting that Microsoft will soon be introducing a new Xbox Live subscription for the family, it will allow up to four individuals access to Xbox Live Gold memberships for only $99.99 a year. This new subscription package also comes with a new area of the Xbox Dashboard allowing access to Family Settings and [...]

In less than half an hour Microsoft’s E3 announcement will have begun and with it we can expect to hear a lot about Kinect, see the games that have been designed to work with it and there’s speculation/rumour of a new Xbox 360 design. If the Xbox team’s excitement is anything to go this is [...]

It would appear that we are very soon going to see a new branding for the Xbox 360, this thought has come from a new header image found on new games titles for the console. Up until now the header has appeared as the one below with the Xbox green rings on the right hand [...]

I have read a developing rumour that Xbox Live users in the US will be receiving a new part of the service by the end of the year in the way of an Xbox TV channel. This service is thought to be coming to Europe in 2011 or 2012. There is currently a lack of [...]

I have just read an interesting article from Andre Vrignaud, @Ozymandias, who has worked on the Xbox Live integration for Windows Phone 7. The article addresses how the Windows Phone 7 and Xbox team have thought about what it is to game on a device that is with you all the time and came up [...]

Long Zheng has found another excellent video about a new product/service that Microsoft is working on. This time it comes in the way of a Microsoft sponsored project to bring a more visual, perhaps personal, twitter-like service to consumers. This service appears to use the Xbox Live service found on the Xbox and soon Windows [...]

By the end of the year Microsoft will be offering at least 2 new major consumer products in the way of the Kin devices and Windows Phone 7 devices which make both feature Zune and the Zune Pass and Windows Phone 7 features Xbox Live. There is also the possibility that there will be a [...]

This whole idea and ultimate demise all took place yesterday (March 31st). The Background Yesterday I saw a tweet by @ch9 about a video from Channel 9 Live from MIX 10 in which Bill Buxton was talking, as I find Bill’s idea’s fascinating and I was in the middle of a major procrastination session I [...]