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Microsoft May Pay Royalties to Apple for Every Xbox One Sold

When the Xbox 360 and PS3 launched, the consoles underscored the brief battle between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 backed HD-DVD via a peripheral, while Sony’s PS3 used an embedded Blu-ray drive to introduce the format, much like the PS2 doubled as many consumers’ DVD player. Part of Microsoft’s support for

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Xbox One Games Pre-Orders: Is Xbox One the Next GameCube?

The back-and-forth battle between Xbox One pre-orders and PS4 pre-orders has waged since Microsoft and Sony announced their respective consoles’ pricing and release this holiday season. But while the posturing among fanboys has focused on hardware pre-orders, nobody’s discussed how game pre-orders are performing. That tale is equally interesting, because the trend in Xbox One

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Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Pirate Ship Docking at Comic-Con

If you’re headed to San Diego Comic-Con and are an Assassin’s Creed fan, you’ll want to make sure you stop by the Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag pirate ship, which will be docked at Comic-Con. The Jackdaw will be open on July 19-20 from 10am to 7pm at 5th Avenue Landing, behind the convention center.

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Don Mattrick Leaving Microsoft Before Xbox One Even Launches?

Microsoft executive Don Mattrick, the public face and organizational leader for Microsoft’s Xbox division, may resign from Microsoft as early as this afternoon to assume the CEO role for social-gaming company Zynga. If the report from the Wall Street Journal is true, it would appear to be a significant setback to the upcoming launch of

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