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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
The Brilliant Scholar Who’s Challenging Racism In Game Design
2.6.2023
During her keynote speech at last year’s ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in New Orleans, Dr. Kishonna Gray shared a story about the game Pokémon Go.Read more
Not Even Starfield Will Get People To Trade Their PS5s For Series X/S, Says Xbox Boss
4.5.2023
In 2023, digital sales account for the majority of video games sold. But this wasn’t always the case. In fact, this really didn’t start until the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 era of gaming. And according to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, losing to Sony in that generation has put Xbox at...
Game Pass Now Lets You Give Friends Free Trials On PC
2.5.2023
Game Pass PC is full of great games, and a new referral program now lets you invite friends to play them with you free for two weeks. The new benefit arrives alongside Redfall, Xbox’s latest co-op shooter featuring an eerie open world and lots of vampires.Read more
Xbox Manager Claims Game Pass Isn’t 'Disruptive’
31.3.2023
The director of Xbox’s indie division would like you to believe that the Game Pass is not ‘disruptive’ to the gaming ecosystem despite the company’s ambitions for massive PC growth. These comments were made in response to people wondering whether the popular subscription service would fundamentally...
Microsoft Ends $1 Xbox Game Pass Offer
27.3.2023
Microsoft’s long-running introductory offer for its Xbox Game Pass subscription platform, which let users try the service out for $1 for the first month before moving onto more expensive payments, has finally come to a close.Read more
Verizon Customers Can Grab An Xbox Series S For Only $150
1.3.2023
The Xbox Series S may not be the most powerful console out there, but its a perfect little machine for playing most Game Pass bangers and Xbox exclusives. And now, the Series S is available for only $150. The catch: You have to be a Verizon subscriber to take advantage of this limited-time deal....
Ted Cruz Isn’t Really Mad About Your Xbox (He's Full Of Crap)
27.1.2023
There was a time, not that long ago if you can believe it, when Microsoft could publish a news blog talking about its plans to make Xbox more environmentally friendly and nobody would really bat an eye. The world would move on, perhaps a little bit less polluted, and that would be that. But those...
Xbox Is About To Get Some Big Energy Saving Updates
11.1.2023
Today, Microsoft announced a bunch of energy-saving updates coming to the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Naturally, these updates came packaged with the humble brag that Xbox is the first carbon-aware console. Read more
Getting A PS5 Or Xbox Series S/X Is Sorta Easier Two Years Later
23.12.2022
After two years on the market, you’d probably think scooping up a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X would be simpler by now.Read more
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
Xbox Automatically Banned 4 Million Accounts For Cheating Or Botting In 2022
15.11.2022
Microsoft recently published an Xbox transparency report that offers some details on how it moderated its online services during the first six months of 2022. According to the publisher’s report, most enforcements were “proactive,” which means that Xbox issued a ban (in most cases) before anyone...
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 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 Boss Commits To Current Series S/X Console Prices, For Now
16.9.2022
Sony turned a few heads when it unexpectedly hiked prices on the PlayStation 5 in the second year of the current generation of consoles. Naturally, many wondered if the same complicated economic situations we all find ourselves in would see a spike in Xbox prices as well. In a recent interview with...
Xbox’s New Test Dashboard Is Heavy On The Game Pass
13.9.2022
Xbox owners who are part of the company’s Insiders program may have noticed something different about their consoles this week. Rolling out as a test of potential UI changes coming to the console next year, Xbox Insiders will see a new home screen that overhauls the user experience. Now, with...
Xbox Consoles Are Getting A New Menu
9.9.2022
Xbox consoles will be getting a new user interface next year, with Microsoft now testing a refreshed menu is still, 17 years later, not as fast or as practical as the Xbox 360's “blades”.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...
Xbox’s Multiple-Account Game Pass Plan Sounds Like A Great Deal
2.9.2022
Following a wave of rumors and leaks, Xbox has finally unveiled some details about its account-sharing plan for Game Pass. Called Game Pass Friends and Family, it’s not available stateside yet. But when (or if) it eventually becomes available outside the two countries Microsoft is testing it in,...