Posts Tagged ‘Xbox 360’

If you missed it: Evidently, a bunch of folks, largely in Europe, got tricked by an email offering free Microsoft points by going to a fake website and disclosing their credit card information. The cost to each person is estimated to be between $150 and $400. So, how can people be so stupid? Actually, what you should be asking is: How can you make sure you don’t make the same embarrassing mistake?

A patent IP firm has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and Sony claiming that the companies should be liable for infringing on a patent that holds the rights to being able to set player preferences in a video gaming device – such as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Game consoles are generally perceived as instant-on devices. However, the current generation suffers from a mandatory update syndrome that strangles the purpose of a family room entertainment device. Sony and Microsoft, this has to improve in the next generation.

If Microsoft could build and sell operating systems in the same way as it develops, builds and sells its game console system, Microsoft would be a much stronger player than it is today. Microsoft’s future flagship may not be so much Windows anymore, it may be the Xbox 360 and Kinect.

Microsoft recently applied for a body scan patent that largely describes Kinect sensor technology, but also touches the potential next generation of Kinect and a step beyond Kinect avatars: Surrogates.

Microsoft’s entertainment division has turned into the company’s fastest growing business.

The Xbox 360 may have been outselling Sony’s PS3 in the U.S., but Sony has now taken the lead globally.

Not too long ago, Microsoft’s Social Sam told ‘Scriptkiddies’ that hacking Kinect for the purpose of using the controller with Windows is a waste of time. It was. Microsoft has announced a Kinect for Windows SDK.

IHS Screen Digest has published new movie download market share numbers and it appears that iTunes has suffered the first major drop in movie download revenue share in the U.S. in several years.

Microsoft’s SoCal Sam blogger published an interesting view and advice for “Script Kiddies” trying to hack the Kinect sensor and software or Apple’s iPad: Think about your purpose in life and learn HTML5.

If you are still wondering what to give your children for Christmas, you may find some ideas in this video.

Power consumption may not be your first concern when you are playing video games, but when your kids are playing for hours every day and you occasionally hear the fan spinning up to cool the console down, you may wonder how much power these entertainment machines consume. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has the numbers.