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Microsoft Studios Director disregards gamers for always-online Xbox Durango + New rumors

Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth recently tweeted about his feelings on devices being “always on”. He expresses that people without internet should “get with the times“. Furthermore, he disregarded users who are in rural areas that don’t have a stable internet connection.

Check out the tweets below…
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Quite a view there. Even if he was just joking, it doesn’t show a very customer oriented way of thinking. … [ Read More... ]

Having More Diverse Characters in Video Games Will Make Them Sell Better?

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Tom Abernathy, Microsoft’s narrative designer had started his narrative talk at GDCGame Developers Conference, with a tale about his daughter..

“[My daughter] made it clear that she didn’t like listening to songs that weren’t sung by girls, watching movies without girls, reading books not about girls, and her least favorite thing was when she’d be playing a game and she had to play a guy. Or [ Read More... ]

Possible new Xbox logo revealed

Not a lot information on this one, but this could be the new Xbox Durango/Xbox Next/Xbox 720 logo.

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It was discovered by way of a mysterious Twitter account that has no other posts than this image. It’s also tagged “#xbox #xbox720 #xboxevent“.

As you can see, the new logo is now a flat looking circle, continuing Microsofts aesthetic of Windows 8. It says … [ Read More... ]

Xbox Durango SDK documentation details Always On internet + Games only played on HDD

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The next Xbox, codenamed Durango internally at Microsoft, has been surrounded in rumors for a long time. Microsoft offers no information as they hold out for their big console announcement. We don’t even know what it will really be called… Xbox 720? Xbox Next? Who knows. But we do know a little bit more about the next-gen console thanks to screenshots of the developer kit. The … [ Read More... ]