A leaked internal Microsoft video allegedly provides some hints as to what the company’s Windows Gaming eXperience (WGX) team is attempting to do. The video, dug up by ZDnet, showcases what appears to be several concepts that could cross between Windows, Xbox and mobile platforms. The video is PC-focused, but features Microsoft’s Avatars moving around screens using Kinect functionality, while interacting with social games and media, along with the Avatar Marketplace.

A now-removed LinkedIn job posting reportedly described the function of the WGX Team as creating a “new world-class gaming platform” to define “the next generation of Windows and Web gaming to 300 million potential customers.”

According to ZDnet, the video was dated May 2010 — in this world of corporate ADD and division restructuring, take nothing of what you see in the clip as the gospel of Windows future according to Microsoft.

Source: Joystiq

The online portfolio of industrial designer Ben Peterson lists all sorts of projects he’s worked on or is working. One of those is apparently the next Xbox.

In the past, Peterson’s work, like this concept “magnify” or electric kettle, made waves online. But an entry posted just yesterday in his online portfolio is bound to make the biggest waves.

His portfolio reads:

Website ZDNet believes that the March 2011 dating means that the project has just got underway. By 2015, the Xbox 360 would be ten years old, making it an ideal time for a new consoles. However, it is unconfirmed whether Ben Peterson is involved or not in the next Xbox.

Microsoft, and all electronics companies, are always working on new machines. What form they take if and when they make it to the market is another issue altogether.

Source: Kotaku

A leaked internal Microsoft video allegedly provides some hints as to what the company’s Windows Gaming eXperience (WGX) team is attempting to do. The video, dug up by ZDnet, showcases what appears to be several concepts that could cross between Windows, Xbox and mobile platforms. The video is PC-focused, but features Microsoft’s Avatars moving around screens using Kinect functionality, while interacting with social games and media, along with the Avatar Marketplace.

A now-removed LinkedIn job posting reportedly described the function of the WGX Team as creating a “new world-class gaming platform” to define “the next generation of Windows and Web gaming to 300 million potential customers.”

According to ZDnet, the video was dated May 2010 — in this world of corporate ADD and division restructuring, take nothing of what you see in the clip as the gospel of Windows future according to Microsoft.

Source: Joystiq