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Xbox One Without Kinect “Kills Chances of Original Kinect Title” – Zumba Fitness Dev

Xbox One Without Kinect “Kills Chances of Original Kinect Title” – Zumba Fitness Dev

Zumba Fitness dev is hopeful of indie devs trying something new with the product though.

Xbox One Will Lead The PS4 By 2015 – Analyst

Xbox One Will Lead The PS4 By 2015 – Analyst

Looks like that price cut is going to really work for Microsoft.

Microsoft Mulling Making Xbox One More Powerful By Freeing Up System Resources Dedicated to Kinect

Microsoft Mulling Making Xbox One More Powerful By Freeing Up System Resources Dedicated to Kinect

System resources formerly dedicated to Kinect can now be used for other things.

Microsoft Will Offer Refunds To Everyone Who Cancels Xbox Live Gold in June

Microsoft Will Offer Refunds To Everyone Who Cancels Xbox Live Gold in June

Get a pro-rate refund on your remaining Live subscription if you cancel.

Phil Spencer: Decoupling Xbox One and Kinect Will Lead to Better Kinect Sales Later

Phil Spencer: Decoupling Xbox One and Kinect Will Lead to Better Kinect Sales Later

Head of Xbox believes "experience with Kinect is the best Xbox One experience".

Xbox One Games and Price Now Key Factors for Microsoft, Kinect Shifts to Periphery – IHS

Xbox One Games and Price Now Key Factors for Microsoft, Kinect Shifts to Periphery – IHS

Analyst believes Microsoft is returning an Xbox 360-like strategy for Kinect.

Xbox One Early Adopters Won’t Receive Any Bonuses

Xbox One Early Adopters Won’t Receive Any Bonuses

Microsoft won't offer anything to those who picked up the console before the price drop.

Industry Developers React To Xbox One’s Kinect-Less SKU

Industry Developers React To Xbox One’s Kinect-Less SKU

Xbox One Boss Phil Spencer being praised.

Xbox One’s Price Cut Is Not Only For Ramping Up Sales: Microsoft

Xbox One’s Price Cut Is Not Only For Ramping Up Sales: Microsoft

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi explains the reason behind the price cut.

CryEngine On PS4 Yields Same Results As Xbox One, Crytek Explains Why 30fps Is Here To Stay

CryEngine On PS4 Yields Same Results As Xbox One, Crytek Explains Why 30fps Is Here To Stay

Sean Tracy of Crytek talks in detail about exploiting the power of the PS4 and Xbox One.

Sunset Overdrive Like Tony Hawk, More Interactive “Than Games Like inFamous”

Sunset Overdrive Like Tony Hawk, More Interactive “Than Games Like inFamous”

Insomniac talks about the movement system in their upcoming Xbox One exclusive.

Xbox One Without Kinect Available on June 9th for $399

Xbox One Without Kinect Available on June 9th for $399

You can finally pick up an Xbox One without the Kinect sensor.

PS4 Code Testing is “Straightforward”, Xbox One Has Been a “F**king Mess”: Developer

PS4 Code Testing is “Straightforward”, Xbox One Has Been a “F**king Mess”: Developer

PS4 & Xbox One developer talks about the various development issues facing both consoles.

Xbox One Receives Party Chat, Game DVR And System Update Tweaks

Xbox One Receives Party Chat, Game DVR And System Update Tweaks

Also addresses Game DVR and Update Console issues.

Sunset Overdrive Xbox One Exclusivity About “Controlling and Owning the IP” – Insomniac

Sunset Overdrive Xbox One Exclusivity About “Controlling and Owning the IP” – Insomniac

Reveals that Microsoft "believes in the idea" enough to fund and publish the game,

Halo 5 Teased in Official Xbox One Video, Immediately Gets Debunked By 343 Industries

Halo 5 Teased in Official Xbox One Video, Immediately Gets Debunked By 343 Industries

Is 343 Industries playing around?

Crytek Shares Secrets of Using Xbox One eSRAM’s Full Potential, Resulted In ‘Big’ Bandwidth Saves

Crytek Shares Secrets of Using Xbox One eSRAM’s Full Potential, Resulted In ‘Big’ Bandwidth Saves

Crytek's Sean Tracy talks about how the Ryse dev team took advantage of the Xbox One.

DX12’s Reduced CPU Overhead & Multithreading Gains Are Exciting, May Not Be Beneficial To Indies

DX12’s Reduced CPU Overhead & Multithreading Gains Are Exciting, May Not Be Beneficial To Indies

"Small studios aren't focused on the latest and greatest tech," explains Greg Lesky, Lead Designer at DrinkBox Studios

Microsoft Cloud Improving Particle FX Unlikely In Upcoming Years Due To Infrastructure Latency

Microsoft Cloud Improving Particle FX Unlikely In Upcoming Years Due To Infrastructure Latency

If connections really allow for computation offloading to servers then it could be a possibility.

Gears of War On Xbox One Could Learn from Halo 4 – Black Tusk Studios

Gears of War On Xbox One Could Learn from Halo 4 – Black Tusk Studios

Which is obvious since their situation is somewhat similar to what 343 Industries went through during Halo 4.