
What the Original Xbox was Almost Called
It turns out that Xbox – short for DirectX Box – is the least-weird name Microsoft had up its sleeve 12 years ago. Republishing an article from the lost print-only archives of 2003, Edge Online spoke to Seamus Blackley, one of the original minds behind the first Xbox. In the interview, Blackley talked about the process of choosing the name itself and some of the insane names the so-...