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Microsoft Explains Why You’re Waiting So Long For Those Xbox Exclusives
13.6.2023
Microsoft revealed some exciting new first-party games like InExile’s Clockwork Revolution and Compulsion Games South of Midnight at its June 11 Xbox Showcase. But others like Fable and Avowed were first teased years ago and still don’t have clear release dates. What’s taking so long?Read more
Microsoft Announces New Xbox For Those Giant Games Taking Up Your Storage
11.6.2023
It’s not an all-out hardware refresh, but the Xbox Series X/S family is growing. Microsoft announced a new Carbon Black Xbox Series S with 1TB of SSD storage for $350. It arrives September 1, just in time for Starfield and the beginning of a steady stream of big new Game Pass releases. Read more
Your Next Roguelite Obsession Is Now On Xbox Game Pass
4.4.2023
Xbox announced its first round of April Game Pass offerings in a blog post earlier today. I’ll cut to the chase and tell you the best part—you can play one of the more intriguing titles, Loop Hero, right now. Read more
Final Fantasy Creator On Why He Thinks ‘Quality’ Japanese Games Saw A Brief Drop
15.3.2023
While Japanese games of varying genres are enjoying success these days, the 2000s and 2010s weren’t as kind, especially in Western markets. Since then, there’s been a lot of speculation as to why Japanese games struggled during these years, often from westerners themselves, with some pointing...
Xbox Announces A Solid Month For Game Pass, Adding Dead Space And More
7.3.2023
Xbox shared the latest games to join its subscription service Game Pass in a blog announcement earlier today, and it’s looking pretty good. This early month update adds Guilty Gear Strive, plenty of Dead Space, and a few important updates to games you already have.Read more
Xbox Confirms That Game Pass Leads To ‘Decline’ In Sales
13.2.2023
As Microsoft continues its year-long journey to consume Activision Blizzard King, we keep learning more and more about the inner workings of the various corporations involved. And today, via the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional report on the deal, we learned that when games...
PS5 Owners Are Worried About Standing The Console Vertically (They Shouldn't Be)
12.1.2023
Recently, there’s been some concern about whether or not PS5’s are safe to stand vertically. Videos and observations from independent console technician TheCod3r and a followup article from Wololo that quoted one such video out of context led to palpable worry among some that standing the PS5 in...
Dead Space 2 Free On Steam For Those Who Order PC Remake
9.1.2023
If you’re planning on playing the upcoming remake of 2009’s Dead Space, Electronic Arts is throwing in a little something extra to sweeten the deal on PC: a free copy of Dead Space 2. January’s cold, dark, and continuing the revival of PS3 and Xbox 360 era space alien horror.Read more
The State Of Xbox And Game Pass In 2022
22.12.2022
2022 was somehow both a very big, successful year for Xbox and Game Pass and also one that it felt as if the gaming giant was starting to lose some steam. Read more
High On Life Is Now The Most Popular Game On Game Pass
20.12.2022
Wacky shooter High On Life, only a week after its initial release on PC and Xbox Game Pass, is currently the most popular game on the service, beating out big-name Xbox titles and long-running games like Minecraft. It’s a sign the shooter has a lot of fans, but also an indication of just how sparse...
Starfield Will Be $70 As Microsoft Confirms New-Gen Price Hike
5.12.2022
Starting next year, Microsoft will raise the price of its first-party games from $60 to $70, joining other publishers and video game companies who are doing the same. Welcome to the era of the $70 game, folks. Read more
The Xbox 360 Controller Is Coming Back For Its 17th Birthday
22.11.2022
I remember my first console controller—the polished black batwing I used to steer my Xbox 360—as vaguely sticky. What do middle schoolers do to cover everything they touch in a thin, gummy worm film? Aside from eating many gummy worms? (In my case, at least.) Peripheral manufacturer Hyperkin...
Microsoft Shelved Game Pass Streaming Box Because It Was Too Expensive
16.11.2022
Earlier this year, it seemed like Microsoft would reveal its Xbox Game Pass streaming device, codenamed Keystone, at any moment. Fans even thought the company was teasing its release when it mysteriously appeared on a shelf last month. Instead, we got an app exclusive to Samsung smart TVs. And...
The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
26.10.2022
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3...
Fans Think Xbox Boss Just Revealed Game Pass Streaming Device
10.10.2022
Xbox fans have been waiting for a glimpse of a new, standalone Game Pass streaming device called “Keystone” since it was first teased at E3 2021. Now Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer may have just given it to them in his latest shelfie. It looks like a micro-Xbox Series S.Read more
Xbox Game Pass Is Surprisingly Loaded This Month
4.10.2022
The spooky season is upon us and a lowkey stacked October for Xbox Game Pass is bringing the rat kings, H. R. Giger body horror, and twee trick-or-treating to celebrate. Whether you just want to go medieval against online strangers in Chivalry 2 or bask in the striking beauty of A Plague Tale:...
Xbox Launches 'Project Amplify' To Address Gaming’s Desperate Need For More Black Developers
23.9.2022
To cap off National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, Xbox announced “Project Amplify,” an outreach program to help the next generation of Black game developers begin charting their career paths within the industry.Read more
Xbox Update Might Finally Shut Up Annoying Background Chat Noises Like Eating, Music
7.9.2022
Microsoft is pushing out a new update today to Xbox Series X/S consoles that introduces the ability to “jump right into a game from your friends’ shared captures on mobile and PC.” That’s cool, picking up a game directly from where your friend took a screenshot or video, but the other feature might...
The Xbox Features Most People Forget About
18.8.2022
We did it for the Switch. We did it for the PlayStation 5. It’s only fair that we do it for the Xbox, too. Earlier this month, Sony announced it’d purge the barely-used Accolades feature from PS5, which allowed you to bestow awards on others in multiplayer games. This spurred a thought exercise:...
PS4 Sold Twice As Well As Xbox One, Microsoft Reveals
15.8.2022
For years, Microsoft has refused to share sales numbers for its Xbox consoles, leaving us in the dark on just how well or poorly they have sold compared to PlayStation and Nintendo’s machines. But now, new court docs reveal that the PS4 reportedly sold more than twice as well as the Xbox...