Anyone with a brain can point out that the Xbox One was in a losing battle against the PlayStation 4. The Xbox One launch is up there with one of the worst announcements of any piece of tech. That announcement now lives in infamy and set forth a chain reaction that left Microsoft with the
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Project xCloud is another tool Microsoft have in their already impressive arsenal. Supplementing the behemoth that is Xbox Game Pass, the cloud-based gaming service allows players to stream Xbox games directly to their phones, tablets and other compatible devices. While testing has been ongoing for a while, Microsoft recently revealed a loose release window of
Microsoft is shaking things up as we ebb out of this generation — including their stylization for their new flagship subscription service. In a new update on Twitter, it looks like Xbox has swapped the logo to something a bit less console-specific. Instead of “Xbox Game Pass,” the service logo now simply states “Game Pass.”
In a year without E3, questions immediately arose regarding whether or not the absence of the convention would be a positive or a negative thing overall. Without one major event to collectively draw the eyes of video game players around the world, how would publishers across the industry fare? Well, based on current information, it
This afternoon, Microsoft announced the suite of games available to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers for the month of August. This comes following widespread rumors that Microsoft might be pulling the plug on Xbox Live or that it might be absorbed into Game Pass after Microsoft pulled 1-year Xbox Live Gold pre-paid
Even though games have come a long way since running on 512MB of RAM and using cartridges as a preferred format, hardware still defines what a game can be. For games on PC, that’s a quite literal definition — you can find the PC requirements of most titles sold on Steam right on their store
Following yesterday’s announcement from Microsoft, which officially confirmed the existence of a new Fable entry in Xbox Series X’s line-up, some rumors started to spread on the web indicating that the game will be an MMO, unlike its predecessors. While the developers at Playground Games haven’t reacted to the rumors yet, some reliable Xbox insiders
It’s undisputed that Halo 3 was a pretty big game-changer when it released in 2007. It capped off a now-legendary trilogy of games, bringing with it technology that would influence some of the best first-person shooters for years to come. Even now, almost 13 years after the launch of Halo 3, I still find new
What is Phil Spencer up to? Recent eagle-eyed fans have noticed that Microsoft Store has quietly removed the option to purchase 12-month subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold. With a few months away from the launch of Xbox Series X, it seems like a strikingly anti-consumer move — making Xbox gamers purchase more costly 3-month or
Alongside June’s software sales charts, the NPD group revealed some interesting information regarding the sales of hardware over the same period in the United States. For the first month since February, and since the pandemic really started to become a problem, console sales have dropped. The group reports that when compared to sales in June
It’s that time of the month again when the NPD group reveal the list of top selling games of the previous month, and shocking nobody, this month it’s topped by Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II. This list, which covers US sales only, looks at both physical and digital sales on PC and
Few games this year have had the level of anticipation around them like CD Projekt Red’s long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077, which aims to bring players to a dense futuristic world with nearly-endless possibilities. Though the game was pushed from its original spring release window to November 2020, developer CD Projekt Red is continuing to highlight more
For years at this point, if you have wanted to play games online via an Xbox platform, you needed to be a subscriber to Xbox Live Gold. Microsoft has really added any alterations or changes up the program in quite some time, but now, it seems as though an evolution of some sort could be
In what has already been a busy day for Xbox news, Microsoft confirmed this afternoon that it will soon be ending production of two current Xbox One models. Coming by way of The Verge, Microsoft revealed that it is planning to halt the manufacturing of both the Xbox One X and the Xbox One S
Ubisoft is one of the biggest publishers around in the gaming industry, and with a huge assortment of franchises under its belt, each summer it has taken the opportunity to share its plans for new games on the horizon at E3. Given that this summer for games has been a little different due to the
In the recent years leading up to the next generation of consoles head of Xbox Phil Spencer has been pushing the Xbox narrative away from exclusive titles and more towards gaming for all under the company’s umbrella. It is assumed that for the foreseeable future, first-party Xbox Series X titles will also release on Xbox
According to the latest news from the official website of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the game’s closed beta testing will be kicking off on July 30. All the players who have received the code for the Alpha version will be able to take part in the closed beta phase as well. Revealed during Microsoft’s E3 2019
Despite having purchased seven new studios from across the globe since 2018 to add to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios publishing label, Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, still seems to have an interest in bringing aboard even more developers. In a new report by way of GamesIndustry.biz, Spencer expressed that Microsoft’s checkbook might not be
Microsoft has been advertising the Smart Delivery system for the Xbox Series X since its first reveal. For those who are unfamiliar, Smart Delivery is where select games that have been purchased on current platforms, the Xbox One, will then be offered for free on the Series X when they are enhanced for next-gen. It
8BitD specializes in creating retro-style Bluetooth controllers for gamers to use on their retrospective consoles or PCs. Now, it looks like the company is partnering with Microsoft and creating a controller designed to work with xCloud, Microsoft’s game streaming service that is set to officially launch later this year. Per The Verge, the controller will
A few weeks back, it was reported that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment might be looking to be sold off by parent company AT&T. At the time, publishers like Electronic Arts and Activision were said to be interested in purchasing the brand. Now, another interesting suitor has seemingly come forward. According to a new report from
Well, we had heard rumors about it last week, and this morning, Microsoft has made it official. The forthcoming Xbox Series X event that will be showing off first-party games that are planned to come to the platform is set to take place later this month on July 23. The news was announced via the
July has now officially kicked off, which means that Microsoft’s highly-anticipated Xbox Series X presentation that will feature looks at first-party titles coming to the platform is set to transpire within the next few weeks. While Phil Spencer and the team at Xbox have yet to publicly divulge when this event will be taking place,
It’s an open secret at this point that Microsoft is planning to unveil a second model of the upcoming Xbox Series X console in the future. Not only has this second iteration of the platform been rumored for well over a year, but Microsoft itself recently seemed to confirm its existence in a newly leaked
Mojang’s new title Minecraft Dungeons will be receiving a new DLC pack next month. Over on Minecraft’s website, it has officially been confirmed that the DLC Pack titled “Jungle Awakens” will be releasing on July 1. The updates will include three new story missions, new armors, weapons, and artifacts. On top of that, it will
Fable and Perfect Dark fans could possibly be lining up to get some great news sometime soon if these place holder accounts have some truth behind them. Tom Warren of The Verge posted that there have been two possible Twitter placeholder accounts created for both Fable and Perfect Dark. On top of that, he pointed
As the leaks and rumors have suggested for quite some time, Microsoft has been developing a second Xbox that will be cheaper and less powerful then the Xbox Series X codenamed Lockhart. The console will take the next-gen improvements of the Series X and offer them at a lower price point. Now, a leaked Microsoft
Over the past few months, Microsoft has been hyping up its forthcoming Xbox Series X console, especially when it comes to what the platform can do with backward compatible titles. Just last month, it was stated that the next-gen hardware will be able to improve the frame rate and add HDR to older titles that
Following its release back in March of this year, developer Moon Studios has now unveiled some statistics related to Ori and the Will of the Wisps, including just how many players have now experienced the game for themselves. Divulged via the official Twitter account related to the game, Moon Studios announced that 2 million players across
Facebook is back again with an established gaming platform takeover, this time going after Microsoft’s premier streaming platform. Revealed in a surprise Tweet earlier today, Mixer announced that the streaming platform would be transferring over to Facebook Gaming — a definitive blow to the relatively niche streaming network and high-level names that have migrated over
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