From u.s. Patent Office comes an interesting novelty: in January 15, 2013 date Microsoft has filed documents for registering a new brand called Gunpowder , literally "gunpowder". According to the findings from a note attached, this is a patent on " entertainment services, namely providing online computer games ". A rather vague description, but can only refer to some game or gaming service, maybe for the next generation of consoles. So stay tuned for further developments.