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Why the Xbox One might actually be a legitimate business expense
Skype, SkyDrive, Office Web Apps could let the system serve productive purposes.
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Xbox One won’t play games out of the box, requires day-one patch
If you unbox and turn on an Xbox One on November 22nd, make sure you have an internet connection nearby. Microsoft has revealed that a day-one patch for its upcoming next-gen console will be a requirement to play games and access basic apps on the console. "Functionally, you will be able to do very little without taking the day-one update," said Microsoft’s senior director of Xbox product management Albert Penello in an interview with Engadget recently.
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Kinect 2 Full Video Walkthrough: The Xbox Sees You Like Never Before
The new Kinect is kind of awesome. Just by the numbers, it's a huge upgrade. You can see (most of) the full walkthrough we saw just a bit ago here at Microsoft's Redmond campus in the video above. Parts are jaw-dropping.
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Oculus Rift creator: Xbox One and PS4 are far too limited for what we're planning
We're sat opposite Palmer Luckey, 21-year-old inventor of the Oculus Rift. There's so much we want to ask him but right now he's too busy explaining his plans to build the ultimate Pokemon team.
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Reports of bricked PlayStation 4s surface after launch
After its launch on Friday, the PlayStation 4 has come under fire from some gamers who say their units have been dead on arrival. The most troubling reports describe a so-called "blue light of death" syndrome, in which the console's light bar flashes blue but never outputs a video signal or boots up.
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5 Reasons to Buy a PlayStation 4 Now, 5 Reasons Not To
Can't make up your mind? We're here to help.
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Bricked PS4 reports are very real, no replacements available for months
There are a lot of very unhappy PS4 owners right now, as reports of bricked consoles and no available replacements come in from all over the web.
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Foxconn intern claims PS4 was sabotaged during manufacturing
As shipments continue to go out for the PS4, many of the consoles are DOA with the "pulsating blue light" being the most common. Now a Foxconn intern claims the consoles were deliberately sabotaged.
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Xbox One controller cost over $100 million to develop, smell-o-vision and built-in projector were considered
While Sony was content to toy with radical designs for the PlayStation 4's controller, it turns out Microsoft took a more conservative approach when building the Xbox One's gamepad. GamesBeat scored a look at the controller creation process and discovered that Redmond was reluctant to tweak the Xbox 360 controller at all since it considers the hardware "best-in-class."
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Sony’s PlayStation 4 Costs $381 to Build — Only $18 Under Retail Price — In Teardown
When PlayStation 3 was first released by electronics giant Sony in 2006, it was sold at a loss with the hope of making money back on individual games. That’s pretty close to what Sony is doing again with the PS4, although it’s not as extreme. At least that’s the conclusion drawn by the research firm IHS, which will later today release the findings of a teardown analysis of the PS4 and the combined cost of the components used to build it.
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Xbox One Review
Microsoft didn't mean to take over your living room. When it launched in 2005, the Xbox 360 was just a device for games — "the Holy Grail of gaming," in the immortal words of MTV's Sway. It would show your pictures if you plugged in a thumb drive, but it was designed to be the best way ever for gamers to play.
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PS4 vs. Xbox One: Round 1 to Sony
Now that he Xbox One and PS4 have been reviewed, it's time to break down the scorecard and see why CNET gave the higher mark to the PS4.
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Your Guide To The Next-Gen Consoles
Just like that, the Xbox One was released to the public, and the next generation of gaming became the current generation of gaming. In the last two weeks, we've gotten two new consoles in the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. Add last year's Nintendo Wii U, and you've officially got a lot of new video game stuff to take in.
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Report: Xbox One Not as "Sold Out" as Microsoft Claims
People are still able to find plenty of "Day One" Xbox One consoles even in the heart of New York City.
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Microsoft doesn't want you to swear at your Xbox One
The Xbox One's Upload Studio is designed to help you share your most exciting gameplay clips with friends. But as some early console owners are already finding out, using profanity during those recordings can have consequences. Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that it is handing out temporary Xbox Live bans for select gamers found to be using "excessive" foul language in content created with Upload Studio.
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Microsoft Xbox users' accounts suspended after swearing
Users of Microsoft's Xbox One console caught swearing in video clips are having their accounts suspended. Files containing "excessive profanity" will be taken down and their owners will have access to some features on Xbox Live removed. Microsoft said all files uploaded to its Upload Studio were monitored for violations of its code of conduct.
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PlayStation 4 review
Hot on the heels of the Xbox One, Sony’s new console releases this week. Tom Hoggins assesses the merits of the new PlayStation
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Assassin's Creed 4: Xbox One vs. Xbox 360 gameplay comparison video
Below you'll find a new Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag video comparing the opening of the game on Xbox One and Xbox 360.
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Are you willing to spend $500 for “fewer jagged edges”?
If you care the slightest bit about the PS4 and Xbox One, you’ll already know that these new consoles bring much more than improved graphics, including screen recording and even the capability to take over the living room experience. You might even be torn in the decision of picking one of the two next-gen consoles, obsessing over every characteristic.
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Sony sells over 2.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles since launch
After announcing that the PlayStation 4 moved over a million units in its first 24 hours on sale, Sony has revealed the system's total figures as of December 1st. 2.1 million PS4 consoles were sold worldwide since the initial launch in the US on November 15th, of which 700,000 came from Europe and Australasia after two days of availability.
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