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Microsoft announces Xbox One, with more SmartGlass and TV integration

by Mike Schramm (May 21st, 2013)

Microsoft has announced a brand-new game console today, though the company would probably be disappointed to hear that I called it that. The Xbox One is really more of an entertainment center all-in-one -- it's designed to connect your games, your streaming media and cable television all ...

Bungie's Pathways Into Darkness comes back to Mac for free

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2013)

Back before Halo was the biggest title on Microsoft's Xbox, it was actually planned as a Mac title. That's because Bungie, the game's developer, was actually a Mac game company -- they made a number of really terrific shooters for the Mac, including Marathon (which has since been released on ...

YouTube adds AirPlay competitor to iOS app

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 1st, 2013)

In another push to compete against AirPlay and the Apple TV, the latest YouTube update for iOS adds the ability to direcly stream video to a TV without AirPlay. This is a feature its Android brother has had since November. You can stream video from the YouTube app to the Xbox, PlayStation 3 ...

Sega's After Burner Climax flying over to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2013)

After Burner Climax is a 2006 update of the popular old-school arcade game. It arrived in arcades upon first release and was later ported over to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Now, Sega has announced it's bringing the game to iOS. There's no release date yet, as Sega has simply said ...

Xbox SmartGlass for iOS hits the App Store

by Randy Nelson (Nov 6th, 2012)

Just in time for today's launch of its blockbuster sci-fi shooter Halo 4, Microsoft has debuted its Xbox SmartGlass app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. The free app acts as an interactive second screen for the Xbox 360, allowing you to browse content on your console and launch it, then ...

Microsoft's Xbox Music to challenge iTunes, others

by Steven Sande (Oct 15th, 2012)

Microsoft has announced Xbox Music, a digital music service designed to work initially with the 67 million Xbox gaming consoles that have been sold since 2005. With Xbox Music, Microsoft wants to challenge the dominance of Apple's iTunes and services like Pandora. The service debuts on the ...

Microsoft updates iPhone app to control Xbox 360

by Mike Schramm (Jun 13th, 2012)

Microsoft has dropped an update for its My Xbox Live app in the App Store, and it adds a pretty significant bit of functionality. You can now control your Xbox 360 over a wireless network directly from your iPhone. The app can see recent console activity, browse and play media, and even hit ...

Infinity Blade looks great on a 50" HDTV via iPad 2

by Dana Franklin (Mar 16th, 2011)

The new iPad 2 paired with Apple's Digital AV Adapter is perfect for watching movies with your family, teaching lessons to a classroom or presenting the latest sales figures to a boardroom on an HDTV. TouchGen found it's also an awesome new way to enjoy your favorite iPad games, like Real Racing 2 ...

Report: Steve Jobs was 'furious' over Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

Apple hasn't shown a lot of initiative on the gaming side of things (this past "Back to the Mac" event was the first time the company even mentioned Steam coming to the Mac, something even Valve has admitted is a huge deal), but apparently Steve Jobs still has somewhat of a competitive ...

Microsoft joins Apple in stance against Blu-ray

by Mike Schramm (Sep 22nd, 2010)

Apple has a surprising ally in its campaign of apathy against Sony's Blu-ray disc format. Microsoft, of all companies, has also stepped out with a passive-aggressive stance against the standard, as UK head of Xbox gaming head Steven McGill says that "Blu-ray is going to be passed by as a format." He ...

TUAW's Daily App: PSN Go

by Mike Schramm (Aug 9th, 2010)

We've spotlighted a few different Xbox Live browsers here on the site before, so here's a little console balance. PSN Go is an app designed to let you browse and control your PlayStation Network account (the account that you set up when you've got a PS3 connected to the Internet). It's unofficial ...

TUAW's Daily App: Uprising

by Mike Schramm (May 17th, 2010)

Match-3 games are pretty easy to come by, so presentation is the really the qualifier -- does it do something a little more interesting than the average block-matcher? On that level, Uprising succeeds. While the core gameplay is pretty common (you pull blocks around a board, trying to match them ...

Sonic 4 coming to the iPhone/iPad?

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

Sega surprised everyone last night with the reveal of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 -- apparently the newest game in the series will be a download-only episodic title coming to the Xbox and PS3 later this year. And the iPhone, too? The very end of the trailer, as you can see above, has a blank rectangle ...

Xbox Live app for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2009)

360 Live [App Store link] certainly isn't the first Xbox 360 app to hit the iPhone, but it's definitely one of the most full-featured, offering gamertag management, complete friends list access, messaging capability, games library browsing (with achievements and all), and even a CoverFlow-style ...

OS Xbox Pro is the hottest hackintosh ever

by Mike Schramm (Nov 26th, 2009)

Warning: some NSFW lyrics on the music in the video above. What do you get when you combine an old Xbox with OS X and some Mac Pro level hardware? This monstrosity. Built by Will Urbina, the OS Xbox Pro is a hackintosh casemodded into an original Xbox dev kit, with some crazy hardware under the ...