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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday reported its financial results for the fourth quarter as well as for the while fiscal year 2013. Thanks to sales of chips for video game consoles, such as Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4, the company managed to return to profitability and boost its …

Over the last couple of years the OEM PC business has been hurting, causing many system manufacturers to move in to the tablet business citing mobile computing as the future. Some will tell you that Windows 8 is to blame as even after the 8.1 update, consumers still don't want to …

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8.1 has hardly become a success on the market of traditional desktops and laptops. Some PC makers are now offering to install Windows 7 instead of Windows 8.1 on their systems, which is a catastrophe for the software giant. Therefore, Microsoft has to take immediate actions. The …

In a turn of events that isn't exactly shocking considering it's a tactic others have used before, Microsoft purportedly offered to pay Youtubers to talk about the Xbox One. However, what's a little disturbing, is that Microsoft stipulated that if you took part, you'd have to remain completely silent on …

Microsoft Corp.’s latest Windows 8 operating system has failed to meet expectations of millions of customers as well as the software giant’s own sales projections. Needless to say that Microsoft is working hard on improved Windows and today the first details emerged about the code-named “Threshold” operating system that is …

Last week’s launch of PlayStation Now service that can stream PlayStation games to various devices will affect the future of video games in general and game consoles in particular. Some people might think that if it is possible to stream a game, why buy a dedicated console? Nonetheless, the head …

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system has long been a darling of gamers thanks to its compatibility with a broad selection of hardware, software, application programming interfaces (APIs) and so on. Likewise, the Xbox consoles are admired by core gamers. However, powerful new platforms designed for video games are incoming and …

Following PlayStation sales report by Sony earlier on Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. also announced cumulative global shipments results for its Xbox One game system in 2013. Quite expectedly, the software giant sold less of its new-generation consoles than its arch-rival due to a number of reasons. Over three million Xbox One …

Various market rumours pointed at Alan Mulally, current chief executive officer (CEO) of Ford Motor Co., as a potential candidate to be Microsoft Corp.’s next head, despite of the fact that he never disclosed plans to leave his current position. This week, the man who led reshaping of Ford several …

Respawn, the developer behind the upcoming Microsoft exclusive game Titanfall, has just announced that the game's multiplayer mode will only allow for 12 players in 6V6 matches online. Respawn Vice President, Vince Zampella, confirmed this on Twitter: “6v6 is max player count. Turned out to be the best balance with AI …

Microsoft Corp. has quietly started to ship an updated version of its Surface Pro 2 tablet with a new microprocessor inside. The new CPU works at higher clock-rate and provides better performance compared to the one that Microsoft used initially with its latest slate. When Microsoft first introduced the Surface …

With the progress that services like Steam, Origin and Netflix are making these days, many think that packaged media is a thing of the past. Despite this, they continue to play an important role in the industry, but not so much that Microsoft didn't consider removing the optical disc drive …

The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked in to the official Skype Twitter account to accuse Microsoft of selling user data to governments around the world. The first in a series of tweets reads: “Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook). They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the …

Crank up the rumour mill folks, it's time for a doozy. According to some unnamed sources (who as usual, are within a reasonably proximity to the situation at hand) over at The Information, Microsoft might be teaming up with Sony for its next Windows based smartphone. Why would Sony high-five …

Did you think the Xbox One was expensive at launch? Well, it was and is, but it's far from the worst culprit on the chart this Redditor put together, listing all of the consoles from the past near four decades and adjusting their prices for inflation. Without scrolling down, take …

As far as exclusive titles go, Dead Rising 3 has been pretty well received on the Xbox One. Of course with a AAA game that does well on a console, it normally doesn't take long for DLC to start showing up and this game is no exception, as details of …

When long term Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners found out that the new consoles weren't going to have backwards compatibility, many were pretty disappointed. Unfortunately though, some Xbox One owners didn't want to accept that and have now bricked their consoles through messing with the developer settings. help writing …

Last week we put out an article on the Xbox One day one edition boxes being sold for as much as the console on eBay but this week's story definitely takes the cake. A 19 year old from Nottingham has paid £450 for a badly printed photo of a day …

Despite the fact that it only announced an expansion of the Canadian based Victoria development studio last year, Microsoft has announced that it'll be shuttering it. While a large expansion was announced and planned in 2012, ultimately growth wasn't quite as high as expected, though this will still leave around …

The Xbox One has been out for a couple of weeks now meaning that players and Indie developers alike have the console in their hands. One of the things Microsoft did to try and win gamers over was announce its self publishing program for Indie developers and today, Chris Charla, Director …

Project Spark is Microsoft's upcoming game creation suite for Windows 8, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It lets you create your game while playing it by allowing users to customise everything as they go along. You can create custom worlds, characters and animations, sort of like Little Big Planet but better …

While a handful of Xbox One owners have suffered from that wobbly gear problem, Microsoft has been good enough to be quite prompt with replacements. It's also been offering up a free game to apologise for the gaff. However, one Kitguru reader who got his replaced through retailer GAME, has …

If you're one of the unfortunate few who bought an Xbox One last Friday and rushed home to play it, only to find that as soon as you put a disc in the drive it sounds like you just turned on a fan with a missing blade, then you're in …

Microsoft has come out and said it, this was the biggest Xbox launch ever, which puts it ahead of its last generation fan-favourite, the Xbox 360. With over a million consoles sold, Microsoft's now-current-gen machine is sitting right alongside Sony which also managed to sell that many in its first …

Windows phone has been lagging behind a bit when it comes to app availability on the platform but we could see a turn around as Joe Belfiore, the Vice President and Manager for Windows Phone Program Management, turned to Twitter to let it be known that the 3rd ecosystem is finally …

I know a lot of gamers don't like the Xbox One and I know I won't be buying one for a while, because who's going to spend that much for a handful of average launch games? But that doesn't mean that the limited edition white version given to those that …

It's still a few days until the Xbox One officially goes on sale in most territories, but the first reviews for the launch titles have already started to appear and for the most part, while there's a couple of solid entries, some of the biggest and baddest just aren't that …

While search engines might be the first place most of us go when we're looking for pictures of anything, child abuse isn't something you'd expect either search engine to offer up. However apparently they can lead to it, which is why both Google and Microsoft have pledged to block results …

Many of us are sceptical on cloud gaming and it seems Microsoft is too as the company's Director of Product Planning, Albert Penello, has told us why there won't there won't be a Gaikai like service for the Xbox One. Sony has promised Playstation gamers it'll incorporate the Gaikai service in …

While most of the world and his dog needs to wait until 22nd November to get their hands on an Xbox One, that's not necessarily the case for everyone. US retail chain Target has admitted it made a mistake and has been shipping out Xbox One consoles to pre-order customers. …