George “Geohot” Hotz, famous for having “jailbroken” the iPhone as well as recently publishing the rootkey of the Playstation 3, recently announced on his website that he intends to go and buy a Windows Mobile 7 device. In response to this message, Brandon Watson, an entrepreneur currently working with Microsoft, twittered that he would give a phone […]
The “Red Ring of Death” may be back, warns a recent report by the BBC. The news organization, specifically the BBC Radio 4 show “You and Yours”, spoke to many individuals claiming hardware failures due to Microsoft’s Kinect motion control setup, also claiming that online forums are “buzzing with accounts of consoles showing the Red […]
Most announcements coming from major companies at each CES show in Las Vegas are elaborations on known products and services. Microsoft managed a few surprises this year with Kinect, the most noteworthy being a new fully animated Avatar Chat feature dubbed Avatar Kinect. The live chatroom service, coming to Xbox 360 this Spring, will be […]
Microsoft has announced that Torchlight, the old-school dungeon crawler that was released by Runic Games in 2009, will be coming to the Xbox Live Marketplace some time next month. The game will be released during the Xbox Live Arcade House party, during which multiple new releases will be promoted, and several other games will be […]