Enough people wanted to see a return of the original Xbox's massive "Duke" controller that the dream has become reality. Xbox designer Seamus Blackley and Hyperkin teamed up to make a new Duke for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC, and that produc...

Following that recent batch of Xbox games headed to Xbox One including Morrowind, Jade Empire, and Conker: Live & Reloaded, Microsoft has rolled out another wave of backward-compatible titles. Starting today, you'll be able to play thes...

While the PC version of PUBG is expecting a third map, Xbox One player's have been stuck with the original since the launch late last year. While originally touted as coming in May, console players will finally get the chance to experience ...

May's Xbox Games with Gold offerings are confirmed, and as usual it's a pretty good mix. The big highlights are easily Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain, a game that everyone needs to have played at some point, as well as Vanquish, the Plati...

A bunch more original Xbox games will become playable on Xbox One this month, but Microsoft is splitting them up into two groups. The first wave rolls out today. Here's what we're looking at: Blinx: The Time Sweeper Breakdown Conker: Live ...

Well, it happened -- Morrowind is coming to the Xbox One by way of backward compatibility. No longer do I need to rely on my fished-out original Xbox to play the console version of the game (as I often do along with Jet Set Radio Future), a...

Microsoft has been pivoting toward old game support quite a bit this generation, and for good reason -- people have been asking for it, and its competitors aren't supporting it. Backward compatibility is a great thing, as it allows my old g...

Yesterday, we wrote about the sprawl of E3 events as the week's timeline gets longer and longer. There's a different kind of sprawl too, though. There's the physical sprawl of several different publishers holding their festivities outside t...

The sprawl of E3 festivities is like the elastic band on a well-worn pair of tighty whities. It only gets more and more stretched out as time goes on. At some point, you stop expecting it to spring back to its original elasticity. You just ...

Xbox is switching up -- or at least expanding -- how it makes announcements. Usually press releases, Xbox Wire, and Major Nelson's blog are the main sources for Microsoft gaming news. Now, video will play a bigger role. Xbox has just ...

It's still hard to believe the original Xbox controller is mounting a comeback in 2018. Xbox designer Seamus Blackley and Hyperkin have updated "the Duke" for Xbox One and PC players who (for one reason or another) have fond memories of the...

Coming at some point this year, Microsoft will be launching a "Career" system for gamer profiles that will follow you around through all of your activities on Xbox. This new effort is meant to reward people, such as esports players, who sti...

Here's another big one for you guys, just in time for Christmas/Holiday fun! The awesome folks at ConsoleTuner.com are at it again: letting you pick your choice of controller (xb360, xb1, PS3 or PS4), and a free console of your choice: Nin...

2017 has been an incredibly fruitful year for Xbox One backward compatibility. The console defining feature not only saw a large amount of 360 games, but also introduced original Xbox support and even 4K remasters of some 360 games. To say ...

The Golden Joystick Awards took place yesterday, one of the first major "Year in Review" events to happen thus far, with many of this year's best and brightest titles clamoring for the retro-chic trophy.Nintendo's Zelda: Breath of the Wild ...

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is one of the PS2 classics I remember well enough to know I played it, but have let almost every other detail escape from my mind. Eurocom and THQ's Zelda-like set in ancient Egypt was a fun attempt at a new...

A while back, Microsoft stopped sharing hardware sales data for the Xbox One. As far as we know, the Xbox One totals are estimated around 25-30 million, which is about half of Sony's 67.5 million figure. Now that former bit of data is ...

I remember being at E3 for the unveiling of the Kinect, back when it was commonly referred to as "Project Natal." Because Microsoft heavily advertised the hardware in the bathrooms of the Anaheim Convention Center there was a running joke t...

The Xbox One might not have many exclusives to its name, but the biggest feature it has over the competition is backward compatibility. Starting tomorrow, that service won't be limited to just the Xbox 360 as Microsoft is bringing original ...

Ever since Microsoft revealed backward compatibility with original Xbox games at E3 this year, there has been something of an air of tempered expectations around it. When it did the same for Xbox 360 games in 2015, it was a major talking po...

Across years of releases, video game consoles have had almost every look under the sun. From the loud, bright-green-on-black of the original Xbox, to the translucent black Sega Saturn which adamantly declares on its disc tray "Thi...

In some rather bizarre news, the Navy will be adding Xbox 360 controllers to Virginia-class submarines to make controlling the vessels' periscopes easier.  The Xbox controllers will be replacing a $38,000 joystick system designed by Lo...

The original Xbox's original controller, the Duke, frightened me at the time. It kinda still does! There's been talk of bringing the gamepad back for Xbox One and Windows 10 and that initiative -- led by Xbox designer Seamus Blackley -- is ...

Xbox head Phil Spencer has received plenty of praise over the past few years for the way that the Xbox One has changed under his leadership. It's not just external parties who have taken notice. Microsoft just rewarded Spencer in a big way....

[If you ask Sony, they'll tell you that no one cares about backward compatibility. But Microsoft? This is one thing they get. Help Michael Griff talk about some hidden gems from the original Xbox that you'd like to play on your Xbox One...i...