March 17, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Tags: certain-piece, content, excitement, friends, game, in-game-prompt, make-purchases, microsoft, playing-games, xbox, xbox 360 news forum
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Nothing derails the excitement of playing games online with your friends quite like finding out that you don’t have a certain piece of DLC required to join their game. The USPTO recently approved a Microsoft patent application (filed way back in August 2008) for a system that would enable users to seamlessly purchase and download game add-ons from the Xbox Live Marketplace when alerted by an in-game prompt, provided the content was required for a particular online game they attempted to launch. The process would allow you to make purchases without being forced out of a game lobby you might be sharing with friends — though, really, what kind of “friends” wouldn’t warn you about your game’s newfound incompatibility before inviting you in?
March 17, 2010 - 11:17 pm
Tags: after-the-break, console-modder, design-engineer, diet, microsoft, slimming-down, work, xbox, Xbox 360, xbox 360 news forum
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Been to the gym lately? If not, then let this be your new motivation. What we’re looking at here is a purportedly forthcoming Xbox 360 motherboard redesign that takes aim at slimming down the portly figure of Microsoft’s console.
March 17, 2010 - 9:41 pm
Tags: analogue-stick, companies, console-makers, decision, fenner, genuine-issues, majority, material-fact, microsoft, nintendo, reasonable-jury, sued-the-two, the-companies, Wii
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A Washington court of appeal has ruled in favour of Nintendo and Microsoft following accusations the companies breached a patent relating to controller power conversions. Patent holder Fenner Investments first sued the two console makers three years ago, reports Gamasutra, claiming that their devices used a design they had patented. The patent in question is for a ‘Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface’ described as an analogue stick which outputs to a digital signal – which is found in the majority of controllers for home consoles.
It’s not got the good looks of Ben Heck’s previous Xbox 360 laptops , but modder TheTwoJ’s efforts aren’t bad—and unlike Heck’s creations, you can bid for it on eBay with the starting price listed as $1,950. More
March 17, 2010 - 10:12 am
Tags: console, gaming, leaked-photo, posts-tagged, rumor, rumors, smallest, supposed, their-gamble, their-hands, xbox
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Our brothers in the know at Kotaku have got their hands on what is alleged to be the motherboard for a new Xbox 360 . If their gamble plays out, it could be the smallest Xbox yet. More
March 17, 2010 - 8:50 am
Tags: cellphones, clear, handset-shown, microsoft, omniahd, phone, samsung, samsung omnia hd, windows phone, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 series, windowsphone7, wp7
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Just as we thought, Samsung’s Windows Phone 7 Series handset shown off at Mix 2010 the other day was the Omnia HD —but according to Samsung “it’s not yet clear whether existing i8910HD users will be able to upgrade.” More
The most interesting parts of Microsoft’s Mix conference have come to a close, leaving us with two steaming news lumps: One for Windows Phone 7 , and one for Internet Explorer 9 . Here’s what’s in them! More
March 17, 2010 - 12:51 am
Tags: appling-apple, good-job, iphone, least-on-paper, microsoft, none-solid, phone, rant, windows, windows phone
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Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7 . At least on paper
Today at MIX10 Microsoft told our sibling site WMExperts that there would be no cut, copy, and paste in Windows Phone 7 Series, which follows on the news of an Apple iPhone-style closed app market and lack of 3rd party multitasking .
Windows Phone 7 won’t have full multitasking for third party apps, which, given Windows Mobile’s multitasking past, took people off guard. Here’s how Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie answers for this. Warning: The rationalizations might sound a little familiar.
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