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• REVEALED: Inside Microsoft's Sydney flagship store (+35 photos)

  Microsoft's new flagship store in Sydney, the first outside North America, will be all things to all people if the company has its way.

• Microsoft targets June 13 to launch original Xbox programming

  For a year, Xbox users have heard about Microsoft's plans to bring original programming to its gaming console. Now they have a firm date: Mark June 13, 2014 on your calendar, Xbox fans, because that's when Xbox Entertainment Studios (XES) will start transmitting interactive shows to Web-connected Xboxes.

• Xbox One software update will fix some major omissions

  Microsoft will deliver a meaty software update for the Xbox One next week, adding key features that had been missing since the console's November launch.

• Xbox One NZ publicity stunt has teeth

  New Zealand will be the first country to get the Xbox One, at midnight on November 21. Microsoft has placed one console in a waterproof enclosure at the Kelly Tarlton’s SEA LIFE Aquarium in Auckland, surrounded by live sharks. That console will be retrieved and given on launch day to "one lucky fan".

• Microsoft: Xbox One will launch in fewer markets than previously announced

  Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Xbox One console will launch in November in 13 countries instead of the initially planned 21.