The annual Game Developers' Conference (GDC) is taking place this week in San Francisco. New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma promised last week that more details about Project Helix, the next Xbox, would be revealed at GDC and Microsoft did in fact provide some new details on the upcoming device.
Helix is meant to be a hybrid console-PC. During a talk titled "Building for the Future with Xbox" VP of Next Generation Jason Ronald explained what the hybrid means. Think of Helix as akin to Valve's delayed Steam Machine as it will play both PC games and Xbox ones.
