Microsoft is Trying Vapourware Again (to Keep Developers and Gamers From Fleeing)
VAPOURWARE:
![[Tom Warren = Microsoft propagandist, fake 'leak' about project that does not exist] The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge’s Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, the 2013 Xbox One, and the 2020 Xbox Series, as well as any new Helix titles.](/i/2026/08/verge-xbox.png)
A site formerly (proudly) edited by Bill Epsteingate, according to its own boasting articles, is trying to tell us that there is a "next" XBox rather than no XBox, just Windows 'rebranded' as "XBox".
This seems like another strategic (deliberate) fake "leak" meant to generate hype over nothing or to distract from awful news. Microsoft does this all the time. For XBox, the main thing over the horizon is additional layoffs. Then sunset.
Tom Warren is still managed by Microsoft. He does not leak about Microsoft, he catches leakers for Microsoft, just like his buddy in the Microsoft-sponsored GeekWire. Those are both Microsoft-captured publishers.
Corporate "embedded" journalism is not journalism but a weapon against real, independent journalism. It's PaaS, propaganda-as-a-service. █