[Update: In a welcomed reversal, Microsoft has announced it is not going to change the price of Xbox Live Gold. Not only that, but it is changing its policy on free-to-play games. In the coming months, players will no longer need ...

Former Electronic Arts and Xbox executive Peter Moore announced that he has accepted a new role in Unity Technologies, the developer behind the prolific and widely used Unity multimedia toolsets. Moore will take the role of SVP and GM of Sp...

For most of us, 2020 was far too miserable to note. But one field that did see an upturn in fortunes in the past 12 months - at least in a financial sense - is the U.S. gaming industry, which raked in a record-breaking total of $56.9 billio...

Just a quick Friday afternoon reminder before the weekend gets here: you can now grab Dead Rising and Breakdown for free on Xbox through Games with Gold. The promo just popped up today. Most of us have played Dead Rising before, and many of...

In today's contest you can win a customizable Xbox Series X controller from Mega Modz! The last time we heard from Mega Modz, I was fresh off of losing a fight over the remote with my step dad, Terry. Oh, also we also gave away a PS4 contro...

Xbox Final Fantasy fans will be pleased to hear that more titles from Square Enix's legendary JRPG franchise will be joining the Xbox Game Pass service in 2021, following on from last year's additions of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII...

This year sees the 20th anniversary of Microsoft's first foray into the console market, Xbox. While today the brand is a powerful name in gaming in its own right, things could've been quite different. Bloomberg's Dina Bass has conducted sev...

The new console wars have begun, and we are all winning this battle. This generation, it feels like there's something for everyone. PC is still an ever-present constant. VR is gaining traction on some platforms. The Switch offers up a long-...

Xbox Game Pass! You are the gift that keeps on giving. A lot of my holiday was fueled by flipping through Game Pass, and this month, a few intriguing additions are coming into the fold. Most notably on January 7, Injustice 2 is being a...

In today’s contest, UK residents can win a Twin Mirror custom Xbox controller, along with a free copy of the game! Are all you chaps in the UK sad that you can never win physical prizes because most of the contests are US-ba...

Xbox has sputtered and come up short with Games with Gold for most of 2020. That's an unfortunate byproduct of Xbox Game Pass being so well-rounded. Having so many titles on Game Pass means that Games with Gold suffers when it comes t...

Xbox fans who dig Infuse Studios' Spirit of the North will be pleased to hear that the dreamlike adventure title is making the journey to Series X. Publisher Merge Games announced that Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition - currently avail...

One thing I've noticed with the past few console launches, something that became quite evident the day I preordered my Xbox Series S, is that I no longer feel the excitement I once did when moving into a new generation. Even last week, when...

Already in unprecedented territory, we're moving further and further into the uncharted. Hell, we're moving further and further into The Twilight Zone. Shit is downright bizarre right now. On the heels of Sony and Microsoft both offering fu...

Late last night, Sony made a massive unprecedented business decision. It pulled the trigger on offering full refunds for anyone who bought Cyberpunk 2077 through the PlayStation Store. That might happen with some low-profile indies, bu...

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen all year, and a bright gaming spot in an otherwise rough 2020. As Modern Vintage Gamer has pointed out, it is possible to run the system link feature across four generations of Xbox. As i...

This, broadly speaking, has been a year of silver linings. It's the only way you can stay sane. If you focus exclusively on all the ways our lives have been upended in 2020, you'll doom and gloom yourself into sleeping 18 hours a day. Every...

It's the most excruciating week of the year for a games blogger, the week where the only stuff that qualifies as news is "Something might happen at The Game Awards." Thus, I am here again to tell you that something else might happen at The ...

This morning, Microsoft let it slip that Doom Eternal would be hitting Xbox Game Pass on PC. But as it turns out, December is getting at least one other big release; and a few good ones. As revealed today, Control is hitting Xbox ...

Just as the seasons change, so too do the console generations. Not long ago -- like, two weeks -- the Xbox 360 was just last-gen. Now, it's last-last-gen. Or, more succinctly and better-phrased, two gens ago. And that's where you have to l...

Developer Smilegate has announced that its military shooter CrossfireX will no longer meet its intended 2020 release date. Citing roadblocks caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the free-to-play Xbox One title is now expected to launch ...

Back in September, in one of the year's most industry-shaking announcements, Microsoft confirmed that it had acquired ZeniMax Media, bringing a host of studios including Bethesda, MachineGames, id Software, Arkane, and others under the Xbox...

Xbox head Phil Spencer has been making the rounds as of late. That's bound to happen when you're in the middle of launching a new generation of hardware. We've learned stuff like: He's played a good chunk of Elden Ring and is evidently...

Xbox vice-president of gaming, Phil Spencer, has suggested that there is no truth to the recent reports that Xbox is in the market to purchase a Japanese development studio. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Spencer noted that while the ...

We'll be able to estimate but never truly know how many units the Xbox Series X or the Xbox Series S moved. It could be one, it could be one hundred billion. It could be somewhere in the middle. Microsoft's done disclosing how many consoles...