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The Xbox gaming console has evolved over the years, and Microsoft?s Yusuf Mehdi has revealed that the system is only in its beginning stages.

In 2010 Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Motorola over patent fees for Xbox 360 technology. The phone manufacturer then countered with a lawsuit against Microsoft that could affect Xbox 360 sales in the United States.

No official release date has been set for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 720, but legal documents could provide gamers with a time frame. According to TG Daily, Activision and Bungie have formed plans for a joint publishing deal.

?Halo 4? is slated for a release date of Nov. 6th, and multiplayer information is beginning to emerge. Known collectively as ?Infinity Multiplayer,? the game will introduce a brand new mode called ?Spartan Ops.? This will act as an episode-based continuation the ?Halo 4? campaign mode, and tells the story of the UNSC Infinity.

New toys based on the ?Halo? franchise have given some insight as to which enemies will be included in ?Halo 4.? No information has been officially revealed, but leaked images of action figures show that a Crawler and Watcher toy are to come soon.

Microsoft unofficially announced that Minecraft: Xbox 360 has broken all previous digital sales records, selling more digital copies in its first 24 hours available than any other title in Xbox LIVE arcade history. No official number has been disclosed, but an employee has revealed that over 400,000 copies were sold.

According to the latest reports, work on FIFA 13 will commence sometime in October or November. Gamers and fans are expecting a host of changes and improvements with the game's engine as well as graphical output. So what kinds of improvements should we expect from the upcoming FIFA title?

The long-running ?Halo? franchise is more than just a widely-successful first person shooter; it has been a flagship title of Microsoft?s Xbox system for over a decade. And just as the gaming console has evolved since its inception, so has the action-shooter game formerly owned by Bungie Studios. The Official Xbox 360 Magazine UK (OXM) notes that Xbox Live developed alongside ?Halo 2,? and the case may be the same for ?Halo 4? and the next-generation console.

?Dead Space 3,? the follow-up to Electronic Arts action adventure horror, may include drop-in drop-out co-op, reports IGN. Players will have the option of slaying aliens alongside a male character with a ?gnarly scar? on his face, his own engineering RIG, and ?glowing red eyes peering from his helmet.?

BioShock Infinite, which was supposed to have a release date set for this October, will now be delayed until February 2013. But gamers shouldn?t be too disappointed, as the pushed-back launch only means that fans will get an even better game.

The Microsoft Xbox 360 with Kinect is only $99 -- if you're able to get to one of the 16 participating Microsoft Stores in the United States

Microsoft?s next generation Xbox, rumored to be called the 720 and codenamed Durango, is in its manufacturing stages according to IGN. A source told the gaming website that assembly of the upcoming console?s hardware has started recently at the Austin, Texas division of Flextronics. The electronics company is also responsible for manufacturing the current Xbox 30 console and the original Xbox.

Microsoft is planning the deal of a lifetime for gamers who have not yet purchased an Xbox, as the company is offering the console package along with a monthly subscription for just $99 beginning next week.

Motorola Mobility Holdings (Nasdaq: MMI) won a patent ruling in Germany that bans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, from selling Windows 7 and other products.

There?s been a lot of buzz about next-generation gaming consoles, with Sony?s upcoming PlayStation 4 known internally as ?Orbis,? Microsoft?s Xbox 720 code named ?Durango? and Nintendo?s double-screen experienced Wii U. Despite the generated hype, market analysts say that this next breed of gaming devices will not reach the same audience its predecessors did.

NVidia expects smartphone graphics to surpass the Xbox 360 by 2014. Smartphone graphics could match the Xbox 360 as soon as 2013.

Fans of Bethesda’s newest addition to the “Elder Scrolls” series “Skyrim” have been anticipating a downloadable content package since the game’s November release. Although the never-ending game offers many side missions and quests to explore in addition to the main objective, for many players the story has just begun.

“Halo 4” is expected to leak during the 2012 holiday season, and information on the upcoming first person shooter has already begun to slip out. In the beginning of April new concept art leaked, and at the end of March fans caught a glimpse of what’s to come when a high-resolution video surfaced.

Fans of the epic RPG adventure game “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” have been patiently awaiting new downloadable content. Developer Bethesda Softworks assured fans that the DLC on its way, but console fans may be receiving the additional content packs before PC players.

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it won a ruling in a Seattle court effectively preventing phone company Motorola Mobility from immediately obtaining an injunction in Germany that could stop Microsoft from selling its Xbox and other software products there, due to a patent disagreement.

“Crysis 3,” the third installment in the action shooter series, was accidentally leaked onto its own Origin website this morning. The unannounced game was accidentally revealed, as spotted by game forum NeoGAF.