May 5th: Video proof is uploaded of the Xtender modchip, the first modchip to boot game backups.
March 14th: The Xbox is released in Australia and Europe.Īpril 19th: NEO-X, the would-be first Xbox modchip, is announced, promising to remove region locks on games.Īpril 23rd: Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Xbox and widely seen as the project’s father, resigned from Microsoft,Īpril 25th: XBConnect v1.0, the first System Link tunneling program, is released.Īpril 28th: The S-type Controller is released in North America.
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Late January: Bunnie extracts the bootloader decryption key, kernel decryption key, and magic check number thus enabling the ability to run original code on the Xbox.įebruary 22nd: The Xbox is released in Japan. November 20th: Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a graduate student at MIT, extracts the Xbox BIOS and begins a website detailing his exploration of the Xbox. Seamus Blackley proposes to his fiancée at the event. Bill Gates gives away the first Xbox at Toys R Us in Times Square. November 15th: Xbox is released in North America for $299.99. November 12th: Xbox-Scene website is created in anticipation of the release of the Xbox. March 12th: Microsoft shows off first Xbox games at Gamestock. January 3rd: The Xbox is demonstrated by Bill Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show. September 23rd: Xbox-Scene, a popular Xbox and Xbox 360 news site, is created. September 20th: It is publicly announced that "Xbox" is official product name and the Xbox logo is unveiled at a press conference in San Francisco, California. July 31st: The first Xbox development kit (XDK) is released. July 27th: Xbox marketing budget set at $500 million. June 19th: Microsoft acquires game developer Bungie for about $30 million. May 11th: Halo: Combat Evolved is unveiled at E3 2000. March 10th: The Xbox is announced at the Game Developer’s Conference. September: Consumer focus group testing begins.ĭecember 21st: Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates approve delay of project until 2001.įebruary 14th: Final approval from Bill Gates for the Xbox. July 21st: The Xbox gets official approval, and Rick Thompson is chosen to lead the group. July 14th: The Xbox team meets with chip maker AMD. May 13th: The console takes on the code name "Project Midway", named after the World War II naval battle. May 6th: The Xbox Team meets with Intel to discuss a console. May 5th: The Xbox Team meets with Bill Gates to present its plan to enter the video game industry with a PC-based console. March 30th: The first formal meeting of the Xbox team is held.Īpril 16th: Microsoft Game Studios chief Ed Fries meets with the Xbox Team.Īpril 29th: Dave Kirk, chief scientist of Nvidia, visits Redmond to discuss game business. March ?th: Future Xbox Team members, Seamus Blackley, Kevin Bachus, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase send an email to Bill Gates proposing an Xbox game console. March 18th: Microsoft executives hold retreat at Semiahmoo Resort in Washington and discuss entering the video game business.