Big ideas, big titles and a big controller: in 2000, the DirectX Box was pitched to Bill Gates. The rest is history... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Not many people remember this, but the original Xbox got its name from Microsoft’s plans to deliver a “DirectX Box” to the home console market. Not many people remember this, but the original Xbox got ...

Fries, who was instrumental in creating Microsoft's first console, tells CNET about the "DirectX box", wooing developers, and uncertainty around "Halo". Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...

Before Microsoft began work on its first console, the DirectX Box – later to become known by the more familiar moniker Xbox – the company approached both Nintendo and Sony, separately, to propose a ...

Microsoft launched the original Xbox ten years ago today, officially entering the video game console industry. Although it had a relatively small lifespan of roughly less than four years, the console ...