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Na atualização do dia 04 de dezembro, o Xbox 360 vai passar a suportar vídeos .AVI em codecs Xvid e Divx. Ele poderá rodar esses vídeos tanto em dispositivos conectados pelas portas USB dele (pen drive, disco rígido externo), em CDs/DVDs ou até mesmo do Windows Media Player de um PC com Windows…

Lançado em 2002 somente nos Estados Unidos, finalmente chegou ao Brasil o Windows Media Center, o meu produto favorito para mídia digital. Conhecido inicialmente como Windows XP Media Center Edition (seu apelido era Windows MCE), ele agora vem dentro das versões Home Premium e Ultimate do Windows…

In previous Blog entries I've talked about the next wave in remote physiological monitoring. Mobile technologies, devices and web services will soon allow us to remotely monitor patients suffering from chronic diseases or elderly people living alone in their homes. The devices and technologies will…

Starting 12 February, Old Spice and Xbox Live are kicking off the Old Spice Experience Challenge. The purveyors of your grandfather's fragrance are challenging gamers to increase their Gamerscore by a few thousand points. The minimum increase is 1,500, which will earn you an exclusive gamer picture…

The silicon guts of your favorite game console (and ours) had to be designed by someone right? Charles from Channel 9 interviewed Nick Baker, the managing architect for Xbox 360 hardware. Their candid discussion covers the interesting motivations behind putting PowerPC technology at the core of the…

Happy Holiday's Gamers!  Yes, don't let the 80 degrees and sunny skies throw you off.  Jen Puzio and I talk about what you can look forward to this holiday season from the Xbox team.  Including the Xbox Experience with Avatars, downloading movies from NetFlix, Lips and You're in…

Laura and Tina serve up their most recent fun findings from the net.

As part of the UK launch of XNA Games Studio Express, Microsoft Games Studio company Rare ran a series of XNA workshops for academia at the Rare offices. I tagged along to get the tour of Rare and discuss game development with workshop organiser and Rare software engineer Nick Burton.I've had…

This morning we announced support for Netflix service as being built-in in an upcoming software update to 360 service. As C|Net points out, there have been some workarounds for this in the meantime, but this solution will allow you to stream natively and without a dedicated Media Center…

Recently the game Braid was released on Xbox Live Marketplace. In the first week, this side scroller brought in nearly a million dollars in revenue. What sets this game apart from others is that it wasn't developed by one of the big game companies, but rather by Jonathan Blow with graphics…