Xbox 720 rumors roundup

You can hear it in the distance; the dawn of a new gaming generation driven by powerhouse chips, sentient CPUs, motion controls, awkward codenames, and digital dreams.

What Halo 4 tells us about Xbox 720

Crystal ball gazing, care of Madame Master Chief. "If we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox," Microsoft Games Studios vice-president Phil Spencer told OXM last August, shortly after the unveiling of not one, not two, but three new Halo games, together dubbed the "Reclaimer" trilogy. It's a significant choice of callsign if you're a Halo buff - "Reclaimers", after all, are ...

Is Xbox Still Gaming To The Core?

Late April, 2005. The NDA was signed and delivered, and I was waiting for the call from the US. Having foolishly failed to remember the connector for capturing an audio feed, I relocated to a quiet corner of the office on a different floor and carefully laid out two analogue tape decks next to the phone to record the conversation via its external speaker, just to be sure.

Comcast CTO: VOD To Xbox Goes Over A Dedicated IP Path

Rebutting accusations that Comcast is violating the FCC's network neutrality rules, chief technology officer Tony Werner said the MSO is sending VOD to Xbox 360 consoles over a separate, additional segment of IP bandwidth but isn't "prioritizing" that over Internet traffic.

Of Releases and Pushed Back Release Dates

Of late, two giants in the video gaming area have started a “trend” of sorts, by respectively pushing back the release dates of two game titles – Tomb Raider (Square Enix/Crystal Dynamics) and BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games).