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Table of Contents

Here’s the table of contents for Game of X v.1. Sans formatting, which didn’t travel well during the download. 

Foreword iv

About This Book viii

Acknowlegments ix

Prologue—The Boardroom x

Part I: Betting Billions

1. Back to “Normal” 1

2. “It Could Never Happen Here” 13

3. Other Microsoft Initiatives 19

4. The Executive Retreat: March 1999 23

5. A Real Danger Emerges 25

6. “Bill” Meetings 31

7. Under New Management 49

8. Changing Vision 57

9. Or We Could Just Buy Someone? 67

10. “Hail Mary” 73

11. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 81

12. Inconceivable 85

13. The GDC Reveal 97

14. It’s a Go! Now What? 101

15. Xbox ATG 105

16. The Xbox OS 119

17. Early Reveal 125

18. Launch Titles 129

19. Third-Party Titles 157

20. Marketing Xbox 165

21. Hardware—A Rocky Finish 181

22. Pre-Launch 187

23. Midnight Madness 191

24. Xbox—the First Year 203

Part II: Xbox Gets Connected

25. Early Live Visions 207

26. Developing Xbox Live 217

27. Completing Xbox Live 227

28. Promoting Xbox Live 231

29. Xbox Live Beta 233

30. Xbox Live Launch 237

Epilogues

The Team 241

Author’s Postscript 245

Appendix 247