Microsoft continues to trail the PS4 in worldwide sales, and is introducing some major changes to the Xbox One that it hopes will narrow the gap. Starting in June, the company will launch a $399 version of the console without Kinect, expand Games with Gold, and decouple entertainment apps like Netflix from an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
Microsoft announced Friday that its popular “Games with Gold” promotion, which gives Xbox Live Gold subscribers two free Xbox 360 games each month, will continue indefinitely.
Picture It It’s an early morning in November. Thousands of eager gamers from all over the United States and many other countries have just returned home from overnight campouts at local electronics and big-box stores and tens of thousands more are unboxing a recently-delivered package. The cause of this commotion? Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming and entertainment console. All of these gamers quickly connect the Xbox One to their televisions and press the power button with excitement. The familiar Xbox logo…
Despite rumors and poor interactions with its customers, Microsoft’s next Xbox will not require an Internet connection for all functionality, according to an internal Microsoft email reportedly obtained by Ars Technica. Traditional “offline” activities, such as watching live TV, playing a Blu-ray movie, and playing a single player game, will not require an Internet connection, the memo states. Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today’s…
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In a move that can be classified as either the next major step in integrating living room devices into our lives or the beginning of the end of Western civilization, Microsoft and Pizza Hut have teamed up to offer a new Xbox 360 app that allows users to order food directly from their console without ever leaving the couch. After logging in and determining a user’s location, the entire local Pizza Hut menu is browsable via the app. Users can…