Xbox Co-creator Announces His Game Plan
News Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley is set to unveil his new venture on Friday, the first independent production company focused on video games. Kevin Bachus, another member of Microsoft's original Xbox team and one of Blackley's partners in the new...
[May 10, 2002, 13:16]
Xbox Creator Quits Microsoft
News Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox and one of the company's most prominent spokesmen for the game machine, has resigned from Microsoft, a company spokesman confirmed Monday. He's left Microsoft to pursue other opportunities, and we...
[April 23, 2002, 8:55]
Q&A: Why Xbox Creator Left Microsoft
News Seamus Blackley, the co-creator and technical director of the Xbox platform, has left Microsoft to start a new venture. Blackley, who helped design the hardware and many of the development tools for the Xbox, was a visible figure in the early days...
[April 24, 2002, 7:31]
Consoles Put The Squeeze On PC Games
News The panel gathered on Thursday to debate the future of PC-based games in an era of steadily climbing interest in set-top consoles such as Sony's PlayStation2 and Microsoft's upcoming Xbox. That will change, however, as next-generation consoles such...
[March 23, 2001, 9:48]
Library Flaw Puts Applications At Risk
News Just about everything uses zlib, from Xbox games consoles and mobile phones to OpenSSH, so the potential impact is very high," Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux security audit team wrote in an e-mail interview.
[July 8, 2005, 9:15]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News Antony "Sin-Tex" Jarrett, creator of the British Xbox hacking site Xbox Emulation, said Xbox enthusiasts such as himself will mainly use the mod chips to play imported games and run homemade software, although the chips will also be a boon to...
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Hackers 'improve' Xbox
News It's a very powerful piece of hardware -- that's what motivates us," said Dan Johnson, a high school senior from Sugarland, Texas, and creator of XboxHacker, a Web site dedicated to disseminating the latest information on Xbox tweaks.
[December 12, 2001, 15:22]
Microsoft And Apple's Interoperability Tussle
News If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console hits stores later this month, Microsoft invites you to use tunes straight off your iPod as an alternative to the game's sound track.
[November 4, 2005, 17:25]
Game Firms Look To The Wiki Ethos
News Speaking at The Entertainment Gathering in Los Angeles, Sims creator Will Wright and Microsoft Xbox team head J Allard both cast a spotlight on the growing role that game players will have in creating content for the biggest games.
[February 6, 2006, 12:40]
Tiga Adds Teeth To UK Games Industry
News We at the DTI want to ensure the voice of game developers is heard in the policy-making process, and TIGA will make this easier," he said at the launch, which was also attended by representatives from Xbox creator Microsoft.
[March 14, 2001, 7:32]
Nintendo's GameCube To Be Co-branded By IBM
News Microsoft will enter the market on 8 November with its Xbox console. Analysts see GameCube as a worthy competitor to the Xbox and Sony's already-popular PlayStation2 for a number of reasons, including game software based on exclusive Nintendo...
[August 23, 2001, 10:42]
