Xbox Engineering

Since Xbox 360's launch, I've been trolling various message boards for feedback about my biggest feature: voice chat. This post made the previous year of my life completely worth every minute. There's something to be said about the power of Xbox Live...

A reader of this blog asks "how you go about deciding the priorities of features for XBox Live? Is it just like any other software development life cycle? Or is there something unique to the 'gaming' industry?" Yes and yes. At the core, there is a...

There was a good question I saw in my last post: "Why could the play & charge cable not be designed to transmit information over the cable?" For those who have not been initiated, the Play & Charge Cable can be used with an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller...

If you have a favorite feature you've been dieing to know more about, here's your chance. Let us know the features you're interested in learning about - how they were designed & implemented, etc. I'll see if I can round up the folks responsible...

Welcome to the Xbox Team blog! Now that Xbox 360 has been out there and is being enjoyed by a ton of people, a couple of us here on the Xbox team at Microsoft thought we'd give the community an inside scoop on what it's like working here. We'd also like...