"For the future, the big question mark is really AI," says former Microsoft vice president of game publishing, Ed Fries. "There's obvious advantages where AI is going to make building games faster and ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

A US retailer GameStop has issued a declaration that those who grew up with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are officially dusty artefacts, whether they like to admit it or not. It’s always an ...

Today, the Xbox may have fallen off in the console race, but the fact remains that console gaming wouldn't have been the same without Xbox, specifically the Xbox 360. The digital gaming ecosystem and ...

An Xbox 360 on a table, with a TV in the background - David Paul Morris/Getty Images Today, the Xbox may have fallen off in the console race, but the fact remains that console gaming wouldn't have ...

Microsoft may soon allow PC players to enjoy original Xbox and Xbox 360 games thanks to an official emulator for Windows. While the talk of the town is the upcoming Project Helix, a new report ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it’s a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...

The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

The servers for an Xbox 360 game, backward compatible on modern Xbox consoles, have been abruptly resurrected. It’s par for the course that a video game’s servers will shut down eventually. These ...

This year, it feels like Xbox is basically backing down from the so-called console wars. Instead, the company is focusing on developing great games with a multiplatform focus. So while there will ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...