(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Microsoft has yet to announce a successor to the Xbox 360, but lots of rumors and speculations have surfaced about the company's next home console, colloquially referred to as the Xbox 720. The information on this page is based on sourced, reasonable speculation, rumored features and alleged leaks.

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According to Crytek's senior technical designer Sean Tracy, the Xbox 720 is reportedly codenamed "Durango." Previous reports referred to the next Xbox as "Loop."

During Samsung’s keynote at CES 2013, Microsoft unveiled IllumiRoom, a new technology that turns the entire room around your TV into an extension of the screen. As explained on Microsoft’s official site, IllumiRoom uses Kinect and a projector “to blur the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds.”

Microsoft explains that IllumiRoom “augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience” and “can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences." Kinect captures the geometry of a room and adapts projected visuals “in real-time without any need to custom pre-process the graphics.”

In a video demo shown off during Samsung’s keynote, Microsoft showed off several different applications of the technology, noting that the footage was “captured live and is not the result of any special effects added in post production.”

IllumiRoom appears to be the realization of the immersive display experience Microsoft patented last year, which aimed to make gaming “more realistic” and eliminating “out of context images” that sit next to your TV.

Whether or not IllumiRoom will tie-in with next Xbox or the next generation of Kinect remains to be seen, but Microsoft says more details will be revealed at the ACM SIGCHI Conference in Paris in April.

Rumored Xbox 720 Titles
The Xbox 720, or Project Durango, has not been confirmed by Microsoft, but next-gen games have been confirmed in various manners by developers and other sources. This page contains a list of likely Xbox 720 games with sources for each.


Next-Gen Call of Duty = Developer Infinity Ward posted a job listing on its site calling for a senior animator "with experience in game development and an interest in working with next-generation technologies."

Bethesda Game = A job listing on Bethesda's site calls for "experienced programmers to work on cutting-edge technology for an unannounced game on future-generation consoles."

Ready at Dawn Next-Gen Game = The developers of the God of War PSP games are developing "an exciting new AAA IP for a Next-Generation home console game system."

Next-Gen Sonic Game = Sega notes that Sonic "won't become photo-real" in next-gen games and that he "will always remain stylized and will have that bright, colorful world. What the high hardware spec will allow us to do is make that more convincing."

Square-Enix "Luminous" Games = Square-Enix is showing off its "Luminous" tech engine, capable of highly realistic next-gen graphics. Luminous will make games 30% cheaper and shorten development cycles.

Crytek Next-Gen Game = Perhaps Homefront 2 or TimeSplitters 4? Crytek was the company that originally outed the Xbox 720's Durango codename.

Lionhead Studios Next-Gen Game = The studio (sans Molyneux) has been on the lookout for programmers with experience using the Unreal Engine, and "significant experience leading teams designing and implementing modern rendering engine." Example given is DirectX11, which is rumored to be compatible with the Xbox 360's successor.

Remedy 'Future-Gen' Game = Alan Wake developer Remedy posted on its community forums that it is hiring more than 20 people for work on a game for "future generation consoles."

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The lack of leaks around the new xbox is a bit worrying. Thanks anywho it was a pretty easy guess for each game.

This article is a little dated, from about September.