XBOX ONE

The new Xbox One from Microsoft won't be able to play your old Xbox and Xbox 360 games, and here's why.

The Xbox One's full system and controller specs announced, with photos.

SugarDVD, a distributor of pornography, announced that its library will be available for viewing on the next version of Xbox.

One of the co-founders of the Xbox console slammed his former employer in a blog post this week, saying that the major console developers have all but doomed themselves to failure in the next hardware generation.

The government may lift its ban on video game consoles. But Beijing's gamers, and the people who sell the illegal stuff, may not even notice.

Microsoft has acquired start-up id8 Group R2 Studios Inc. to bolster its expansion into technology focused on home and entertainment.

While Microsoft has not yet released its latest operating system Windows 8, the company has already added a high-profile application for the new OS to its Windows Store: Digital streaming service Netflix released an app on Saturday.

The release date for Windows 8 is quickly approaching, and Amazon has officially listed three versions of the software that will be available upon launch.

Markus Persson’s “Minecraft” may be the poster child of indie gaming, but its sales numbers have elevated to a commercial scale. As of Monday, the originally PC-exclusive game has reached 4 million in sales on the Xbox 360 platform.

Microsoft has announced a deal with cloud-streaming company Agawi in its plans to bring the service to its Azure platform. The deal, which effectively gives users of Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS access to game streaming content, indicates Microsoft’s passion for a more cloud-based experience.

Rumors about Microsoft’s Xbox 720, which is the title believed to accompany the PC-maker’s next-generation gaming console, have been circulating for quite some time now. Back in 2010, a document detailing the company’s plans leaked, and now a recently discovered patent reveals that Microsoft intends to take video games out of the television screen and into players’ immediate environment.

The release date for Halo 4 is still a ways away, but the ending of the game may have been leaked, according to the Official Xbox Magazine. A new video documentary has revealed segments of what could be a legitimate Halo 4 script.

Scientists and pet owners alike are finding that animals can be gamers too.

According to OXM.uk, the next Xbox might be closer to release than most people think. Currently codenamed “Durango,” the new Microsoft console is said to include a packed-in version of the Kinect motion-control system that has revolutionized body-scanning/reading technology.

The upcoming “Mass Effect 3” DLC known as “Leviathan” has just been given a release date—August 28. On that day, the single-player expansion will roll out to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC players.

Following confirmed reports of an Xbox 720 development kit being used to leak prospective specs for Microsoft's upcoming next-generation console, the device popped up on eBay over the weekend, ultimately selling for $21,000.

"Thief 4," the long-awaited follow up to the the late-nineties cult stealth action videogame, will be developed for the launch of the next-generation consoles Xbox 720 and Playstation 4, according to a report by the UK branch of Official Xbox Magazine.

There have been numerous alleged leaks concerning Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox 720, but most of them have focused on the console’s hardware or its release date. However, the latest reportedly leaked bit of information revealed some details on the next iteration of the company’s motion-based gameplay device, known as the Kinect 2.

Microsoft has recently revealed in an interview that its next-generation Xbox “720,” code named Durango, has new hardware in development. Now more evidence that the Redmond, Wash.-based company is working on its successor to the Xbox 360 console has surfaced.

“Assassin’s Creed 3” won’t be released until the fall, but the game’s box art has revealed that PlayStation 3 owners will be getting a special bonus. Those playing on Sony’s video game console will receive an exclusive downloadable content that will not be available for the PC, Xbox 360 or Wii U.