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Microsoft Brings It Back to Gaming at E3: Xbox 360 Revamp, Xbox One Game Reveals
The Xbox One really needed something for gamers after what felt like a huge flop for the gaming community when Microsoft showed that the company intended to make the new console into an entertainment center. During the controversial Xbox reveal, Microsoft frustrated the gaming community with the potential of always-on DRM (now expected as call-home ...
Amazon Shows Love for Indie Game Developers with the Indie Game Store
Amazon announced today that they would be entering the indie video game scene with a new store on their website focused entirely on this particular niche of video game development. Indie developers for a long time have become the art-filled mayhem of the gaming market versus the glitz-and-glam of the triple-A game makers, and while ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 5: The Federal Reserve ‘Studies’ Bitcoin’s Impact, EFF Thanks the Bitcoin Community, Humble Indie Bundle 8
While this week hasn’t been overly dramatic for the Bitcoin market, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot of questions still rolling around about regulation and government activity. Last month, we saw MtGox’s Dwolla account sized by the US government, Liberty Reserve get shut down for criminal activity, and further money exchange domains have ...
O’Reilly Fluent Startup Showcase: Modulus.io for Developers, Scoot for Scooters, and kWIQly for Energy #fluentconf
Yesterday, the O’Reilly Fluent Startup Showcase had 11 different startups demonstrate their products in front of 4 judges– Chris Wilson (Google), Simon St. Laurent (O’Reilly Media), Peter Cooper (Cooper Press), and Brady Forrest (PCH)—the judges chose two startups and the community voted on a third. Those selected presented, quite briefly, for the crowd to show ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 29: OKPay Turns Back on Bitcoin, BitAngels Announces $6.7 Million in Funding, Coinbase Paper Wallets
Mt. Gox hasn’t been having the best month with payment sources with the freeze of its Dwolla account and now OKPay apparently withdrawing entirely from bitcoin processing and funding of exchanges. In what seemed like a surprise to everyone, the payment processor posted a one-sentence notice that it was no longer working with bitcoin and ...
OKPay To Suspend Money Services for Bitcoin Exchanges, Says Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox is informing customers that OKPay, a long-time money-transfer partner with the Bitcoin exchange, will be suspending operations with Bitcoin-related exchanges. The Tokoyo-based exchange has published this news in a PDF online as a press release that makes it clear this change is immediate, but that customers who usually use OKPay for transfers will ...
Xbox One Could Be Microsoft’s Fertile Ground for Massively-Multiplayer Games
The Xbox isn’t the place to go to for MMOs, free-to-play or otherwise. As a whole, consoles have not been that big of a breeding ground for massively-multiplayer online games and part of that may be due to the general video-game making culture related to consoles which tend to favor sports and shooter games (can ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 22: Butterfly Labs ASIC Miners Ship, Canadian Regulators Lighten Fears, and the EFF Accept BTC as Donations Again
It’s been a sunny week for Bitcoin with some interesting turbulence, some shifting fronts, the odd cloud, and a lot of bright spots. First on the plate is that Butterfly Labs is shipping their promised ASIC miners after over a 10 month delay. Canadian money regulators have sent a now-leaked letter to Bitcoin exchanges in that country ...
Under the Hood of Xbox One with Microsoft’s Marc Whitten #XboxReveal
As part of the presentation today for #XboxReveal in which Microsoft unveiled the next-generation Xbox One console, Marc Whitten took the stage to talk about what makes the gaming console tick. He started by describing how software, hardware, and sensors all work together to produce the experience described earlier by Don Mattrick and Yusuf Mehdi. ...
Behold the Xbox One: Intelligent TV, Personalized, Powerful, Cloud-Centric
Don Mattrick took the stage before a cheering and excited audience in an auditorium on Microsoft campus. In order to launch, a commercial was run that spoke to the intentions of Xbox as it moves into the future using the cloud, personalization, and further connectivity of community and social–it’s obvious that Kinect, Xbox Live, and ...