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Looks Like More People Played A 13-Year-Old Call of Duty Game This Weekend Than Halo Infinite
17.7.2023
In a surprise move, Activision has revived the multiplayer servers for a number of Xbox 360-era Call of Duty games, and it’s proved to be a popular decision. In fact, this past weekend, Xbox 360 Call of Duty games reportedly had more players than both Halo Infinite and Battlefield 2042...
Major Nelson Is Leaving Xbox After Two Decades
14.7.2023
Xbox’s Director of Programming and long-time public figure in the company’s history, Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb has announced he’s leaving Microsoft after 22 years at the company.Read more
Did Microsoft Just Announce A PlayStation 5 Slim And Pro?
4.7.2023
It’d be fairly weird if Sony didn’t announce a PlayStation 5 Slim in the coming months. The console will be three years old by then, and that’s generally the pattern. But it’d definitely very weird if instead Microsoft were the company to reveal it. Which might be what just happened.Read more
10 Things You Should Never Say to a PS5 Gamer
30.6.2023
On Thursday, we went over how PC gamers were clearly superior to their console ilk. Just kidding, that’s elitism. But now we’re back to talk about all the major consoles and their merits. Reliable, sturdy, and won’t break your bank for chasing the graphics, what’s not to love about picking...
PlayStation Boss Says Xbox Games Do Better In U.S. Due To 'Shooting,' 'Multiplayer'
27.6.2023
The intense court battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft over the latter’s attempted $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard is still underway. During the latest hearing, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan weighed in yet again, this time pontificating on why Xbox games seem...
Grand Theft Auto V PC Players Are Getting Left Behind Thanks To Updates
23.6.2023
Technically, Grand Theft Auto Online is alive and well on PC, receiving all the same updates the console versions of the popular online crime sim get, as they get them. Well, most of them. Because see, Rockstar has begun sneaking more and more exclusive features into the two next-gen console ports...
The Latest Game Pass Titles Are Mostly Hidden Gems
20.6.2023
Xbox announced a new wave of subscription service Game Pass titles in a June 20 blog post, and it looks like late June and early July will be stocked with hidden gems. Read more
Why The Missing Titanic Tourist Sub Has Everyone Talking About A Cheap Old Gaming Controller
20.6.2023
Five people are currently missing after a tourist sub called the Titan tried searching for remains of the HMS Titanic. We don’t yet know why contact was lost, but the emergency search now underway has people pouring over every detail of the OceanGate Expeditions voyage and how the sub for it...
8 Games To Play This Weekend
17.6.2023
The week is over. Juneteenth is almost here. Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief and focus on the important things: What games will you be playing this weekend? Maybe we can give you some ideas.Read more
Replica Xbox 360 Controller Nails The Vibes, But Lack Of Wireless Hurts
16.6.2023
The Xbox’s gamepad wasn’t a hit right out of the gate. The original console’s first controller, often nicknamed “the Duke” for its comically large size, is remembered for just that: being enormous. Its followup, the “Controller S,” was serviceable but not particularly notable. Read more
Report: Netflix Doubles Down On Games As Stock Plummets
22.4.2022
Netflix built its foundation on streamlined DVD rentals and, eventually, on tepid “prestige” TV series that people talk about for a week before forgetting they ever existed in the first place. Now, amid a rare financial stagnation, Netflix plans to commit hard to games, per a new report in...
The Xbox Series X Is Easy To Buy For The First Time In Years
1.4.2022
It seems an extraordinary thing for it to be a news story that, one-and-a-half years after release, you can buy an Xbox. But we live in extraordinary times, and right now is the first time the Xbox Series X has ever been easily available. You can just buy one! You know, if you have a spare...
In Twenty Years, Microsoft Has Only Sold 2.3 Million Xboxes In Japan
7.3.2022
Two decades ago, the first Xbox went on sale in Japan. In the U.S., Microsoft’s gaming machines have always been big hits, but that’s not been the case in Japan. To date, only 2.3 million Xbox consoles across all generations have been sold in the country. Read more
Xbox Game Pass Is Losing Some Of Its Best Games
1.2.2022
The Xbox hard drives of the world needed a break eventually. For February 2022, Xbox Game Pass isn’t cluttering the most jam-packed release slate in recent memory. Not only is the upcoming lineup fairly slight, but some of the best and biggest on Microsoft’s games-on-demand service will soon...
The Xbox One Is Officially Dead
13.1.2022
The Xbox One is officially dead. RIP. It will not be missed.Read more
11 Things Every New Xbox Series X/S Owner Should Try Or Consider
25.12.2021
Congratulations, you got a next-gen console. It’s hard to believe that over a year after the launch of the Xbox Series X/S, it’s still so damn hard to find one. But you did it. Or someone who really loves you did and gifted it to you for the holidays. How nice of them! Either way, now that you...
Don’t Let Halo Infinite Make You Forget About The Great New Game Pass Additions
16.11.2021
It’s hard to believe, I know, but there are other games coming to Xbox that don’t start with Halo and end with Infinite. Over the next two weeks, Microsoft will add 10 more games to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s what’s struck me: I’ve been watching these rollouts like a hawk for several years. For...
70+ Classic Games Are Coming To Xbox, Some of Them With Performance Boosts
15.11.2021
Today during Microsoft’s 20th anniversary Xbox event, the company announced that 76 new games are being added to the Xbox backwards compatibility library, including the entire Max Payne franchise, F.E.A.R series, multiple Star Wars games, and more. Xbox also announced that some of these classics...
Dune’s Timothée Chalamet Was Once An Xbox YouTuber
27.10.2021
Timothée Chalamet: Hollywood superstar, GQ cover model, and...former gaming YouTuber? Yes, more than a decade ago, the Dune actor used to operate a YouTube channel under the handle ModdedController360, where he showed off custom paint jobs of Xbox 360 controllers.Read more
Xbox 20th Anniversary Controller Is Bad At Being Nostalgic
7.10.2021
Announced today via Xbox Wire along with a fancy headset, controller charger, and some celebratory clothing, the 20th Anniversary Special Edition controller is “a fresh spin on the translucent green of the original Xbox Debug kit.” Not sure if a completely different color counts as “a fresh spin,”...