Found first at /., Daily Radar has obtained an interview with Michael Abrash of the Microsoft Games Group. He talks a lot about why the X-Box looks so good as a development platform for him and others. For one thing, he seems to addresss some of his comments at the crowd that expect for the X-Box to be nothing more than a watered-down PC. Here's a blurb:

Thanks to 3of9 for posting some new links to our forum. First of all, Microsoft announced 150 third-party developers for the X-Box. And second, they came out with a new logo for the X-Box, which is now prominently displayed on the official website. As far as a new name... that one appeared to be false.

You can't cite a source more informative than Microsoft itself, and XBox.IGN did just that. Here's a blurb:

Kudos to Ax for reporting this article from FGN Online. In it, FGN reports that Microsoft may tomorrow be revealing a new name and design for the X-Box.

Here are a few things from the X-Box universe:

Kudos to CH, who passed along a link to an interesting XBox article at the New York Times site (if you don't have a login/pass, just use the RHL pair, rampancy/rampant). Nothing Bungie specific in this article, simply a look at how the XBox and other consoles stack up against each other, and some hard questions about the viability of the platform. All in all, a good read.