"Game platforms" news, interviews, and features

News about Game platforms

• Microsoft's NFL partnership enters next generation with new apps

  Fans get new apps for Xbox One and Windows 10, while football coaches get new Surface Pro 3 tablets

• Video gaming sparks excitement in China

  The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were big attractions at this year's ChinaJoy show

• Nintendo shutters TVii video service for Wii U

  Users could use game pads to control video content, but TVii had few fans

• Xbox One, PS4 sales in China could be disappointing

  Niko Partners expects sales of the consoles to be less than 550,000 units in 2015

• Xbox One-to-PC game streaming launched Monday

  Preview program members can send games to their Windows 10 PCs ahead of public launch later this year

• Upcoming Xbox update brings new user interface, Cortana integration

  Cortana will play a larger role with the new console and let users run complex commands

Features about Game platforms

• Opinion: Xbox One - built for... business?

  Microsoft pitches its latest video game console as a tool for small business owners. No, really!

• Nintendo Wii U: What you need to know

  Nintendo's Wii U gaming console hits stores. Here are some of the questions about it that we are interested in.

• Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft

  Microsoft says that it can rapidly improve the technology by using the cloud to learn about how people use voice recognition

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  The Kinect gaming device has been hacked and is now being modified to work in ways it was never intended.

• US to ban violent video games?

  Violent game ban could set a dangerous precedent

• New Xbox 360 in development for two years

  Microsoft's Senior Director of Xbox Product Management talks about the design decisions that led to its new slimline Xbox 360