Tag Archives: Major Nelson

Over the years Xbox has amassed a good number of recognisable names and faces within the company’s upper levels, including the likes of Phil Spencer, Matt Booty and Sarah Bond – to name a few. Among these, one of the most user-facing employees is Larry Hryb AKA Major Nelson. After …

The Xbox One reveal was mostly a disaster but the console had a few redeeming features, one of which was Microsoft's game sharing program. Since Microsoft reversed its policies, this feature disappeared but Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, has said that the sharing plan is set to return, it …

Microsoft has been promising to up its PC support recently but many were surprised to find that the Xbox One controller didn't support the PC on or even near release despite the success of the Xbox 360 controller on the platform. However, Microsoft has now released the PC drivers for …

Microsoft is having an Xbox 360 sale today, with digital games priced down significantly. Almost everything up for grabs is at least two thirds off, with everything from AAA critically lauded titles like Dishonored and Portal 2, to Xbox Live Arcade games like Bastion and Guardians of Middle Earth. Announced …

The past few days must seem like a dream to Youtube user Moonlightswami. First he posts up a video showing off his newly arrived Xbox One console – which retailer Target accidently shipped out early – which led to his machine receiving the “banned,” message that a few other customers did. …

If you were wondering how fast you could redeem a code using Kinect 2.0, then keep reading as Microsoft's Major Nelson released a Vine video showing off the Kinect feature. In the video, Major Nelson is holding up a QR code for Xbox Live Gold and asks Kinect to redeem …

Microsoft dug itself into quite a hole earlier this year with its Xbox One reveal. It wasn't so much that every idea was bad, family sharing would have been pretty cool, but other than that all of the restrictions and privacy concerns with Kinect just didn't seem worth it. After …