It has been a long, strange trip for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console. Here's what happened, from its odd beginnings to the next-gen consoles expected this year.
Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth resigns after implicating that the Next Xbox would require a persistent Internet connection on Twitter last week.
A source claims the Next Xbox will cost $500 on its own, but just $300 with a subscription to go with it, evolving from the $99 plus subscription Xbox 360.
Based on comments from Adam Orth, rumore that Microsoft will require a constant Internet connection to run games and apps on the Next Xbox are all too true.
Now that it's settled its trademark dispute with Fox, Microsoft and Rare Inc. can finally bring back the long lost fighting game series Killer Instinct.
BioWare has confirmed that the next round of its famous RPGS, Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, will be running on the same engine as Battlefield 4.
Leaked information from new Xbox development tools say that Microsoft's next box blocks used games by forcing you to install every game and always be online.
The Xbox Entertainment Awards website was hacked this week, leaking the information of 2,892 people, continuing a trend of small scale attacks on the Xbox business.
Based on the spring game release schedule and Microsoft's past history announcing new consoles, all signs point to an April coming out party for Xbox 720.
The rumor is that every Xbox 720 will come with a next-generation Kinect packed in, but what can the Kinect 2 actually do? See more in a smaller space for starters.
GameStop's CFO Rob Llloyd says that the retailer is doing all it can to make sure that Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox 720 continue supporting used games.
Bracing itself for the impending new console market, GameStop will close 50 more stores in addition to the 200 it originally planned to shut down in 2013.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 will turn eight-years-old this year. It's lived a good life with 76 million consoles sold, but sales of the Kinect motion control sensor have slowed.
NPD Group reported sales data for all game software, both digital and physical, in 2012. Digital isn't growing as quickly as physical game sales are declining.
Many details about Bungie's long-awaited follow up to the Halo series came out in 2012, but it appears that Destiny will miss its proposed 2013 release date.
Microsoft's original Xbox programming has been growing slowly over the past five years, and now the British indie comedy Pulp sees it stretching into movies.
Microsoft didn't have the holiday season it wanted, with earnings flat despite the release of big new products like Windows 8. The quarter also saw the Xbox 360, Microsoft's more reliable commodity in recent years, fading as a consumer force.
One of the "next-gen" games that made headlines in 2012 may make it to the current generation of video game consoles after all as Sony's German office claims that Star Wars 1313 is coming to PlayStation 3.
After spending $8.5 billion acquiring voice over IP giant Skype in 2011, Microsoft may hope to see a return on its investment by tasking the firm with control of voice chat in the successor to the Xbox 360.