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Facebook’s social experiments are only the beginning. Games have been toying with us forever.
It’s only play-testing, right?
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Cortana is pretty good at predicting World Cup winners
Cortana—everyone’s favorite blue-skinned malfunctioning AI buddy from the Halo games—has a knack for predicting World Cup soccer matches, it seems. Since Microsoft has adopted her voice as the equivalent of Siri for Windows phones, she’s carrying out all kinds of non-shooting-oriented voice commands
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How to recreate this morning’s Xbox press conference at home
Assimilation is inevitable.
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Microsoft’s robot assistants will follow your every move
Yeah, but does it know how I like my coffee?
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Xbox One throws small indie creators a bone
All ye lamenting the death of fart simulators, lament no more. Project Spark for the Xbox One, the formerly PC-only game-maker project aimed at amateur developers, looks to remedy the problem of the walled garden Microsoft created when they got rid of Xbox LIVE Indie Games. As you may recall, the I
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Yearning to be evil in Fable Anniversary
Molyneux’s ten-year-old game did a lot of good things. Evil wasn’t one of them.
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Epic bails on Gears of War, hopefully so they can attach chainsaws to new, interesting objects
Microsoft has snapped up the rights to Gears of War from Epic Games and will be continuing the series, the tech goliath made known today. It sounds like we can expect an indefinite amount of masculine men built like slabs of concrete snapping to cover behind, um, slabs of concrete. This is good news
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Halo: Spartan Assault is the top-down shooter the Halo series didn’t deserve
Sort of like what people who don’t play videogames assume videogames are.
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Is the Kinect (still) the next big thing?
We talk to writer Tim Carmody about what Kinect is doing right and what it still needs to do.
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The past, present and future of the Xbox as Microsoft’s vehicle for convergence
With the Xbox One safely on store shelves, writer Eric Fridén takes a look at the plans Microsoft has for our increasingly convergent future.
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What does it mean when huge companies talk about indie games?
Everybody’s paying lip service to indie developers, for better or worse.
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With Microsoft’s 180, we’re all stuck looking backwards
Why we’re not ready for what Redmond had in mind