That infamous spoiler of secrets, the Korean video games ratings board, may have just made yet another publisher's announcement for them, having posted a rating for a PC port of Xbox One title Sunset Overdrive.Originally launching in way ba...

Limited mobility gamers are an underserved segment of the video game-playing populace. There are controllers out there to serve different needs but they're often highly-specific, in short supply, and/or prohibitively expensive. Xbox just t...

A wild new Xbox One controller has seemingly surfaced, and if reports are to be believed, it's a special piece of hardware indeed. Following a leak posted by Twitter user h0x0d, Windows Central has reported that the device is designed with ...

One of the odder things about each console's digital storefront is that you can't actually gift games to your friends. Microsoft actually introduced the feature on Xbox One last year, but now the feature has come to the Windows Store on Win...

Residents of the U.S. and Canada can throw their names in the hat to win one of five limited edition Xbox One X consoles, emblazoned with the motif of Marvel's billion-dollar making Black Panther movie.The five winners will receive one of t...

I haven't played Minecraft in what feels like ages, but even as a non-player, I have to marvel at the lengths Mojang and Microsoft have taken to unify the game across platforms. The Nintendo Switch version is next in line to receive cross-p...

In case you forgot, Microsoft has a big ol' poll that asks its userbase what it wants to see become backward compatible on Xbox One. It's been in operation for a while and just stopped taking active votes, but I've seen the page pop up a fe...

Once again Destructoid will be covering E3 2018's press conferences live on location, and now that we basically know where everyone stands outside of Sony, it's time to publish the full schedule and see what we're looking at. In the past fe...

We've all seen those seals on video game consoles and other devices that claim "Warranty void if removed." They're usually placed on a central join so that it becomes readily obvious if a console of other such unit has been opened up.Well, ...

Minecraft's next patch, dubbed the "Aquatic" update, will be the final update for the last-gen versions of the game. The reason for this decision is that Microsoft has decided to focus its effort on improving the versions of the game where ...

Earlier this month, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) had sent warnings to six different companies that their "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers on hardware were actually illegal. These stickers had been voiding a 1975 Act that stated no ...

Over on the official Steam page for Battle Royale pioneer PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, a community update reports that arrests have been made as part of developer Bluehole's continuing efforts to crack down on in-game hacking and/or cheat...

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...

Next month, the big-ticket item for most Xbox Game Pass subscribers is likely going to be State of Decay 2. Similar to Sea of Thieves before it, Microsoft Studios is adding the base-building zombie survival title to Game Pass the same day i...

Thanks to Square Enix, Noctis now takes up so many different forms that it's getting hard to keep track. From his normal boy-band-hair-inspired self in the base game, ranging in various resolutions, to multiple games such as Tekken 7 and Di...

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...

Ever since the launch of the Master Chief Collection in late 2014, 343 Industries has been busy with updates to its compendium of Halo titles. With the launch of the Xbox One X, you'd have figured 4K support would've been immediately availa...

Do you remember Microsoft's new avatar system? It was supposed to arrive last year, but was unceremoniously pushed back to 2018. Now it's set for an imminent rollout, and this new leaked video (from YouTube, which was taken down but mirrore...

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 ...

We've known for a while that Switch owners would have to sign up for an Xbox Live Account to connect to the "Better Together" Minecraft system that would allow them to play with basically every other platform outside of PS4, but now we...

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...

[Update: Xbox just confirmed these five and whole lot more. As it turns out, NINETEEN original Xbox games are hitting backward compatibility throughout the month. On April 17, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Breakdown, Conker: Live & Relo...

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...

Xbox Live Gold subscribers are in for another solid month this April. Xbox One owners will be treated to Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and The Witness while 360 owners will be given Cars 2 and Dead Space 2 to keep. Remember, all 360 titles of...

If you're an owner of Microsoft's new machine and have been dying to try Resident Evil 7 in upscaled 4K, then this patch is for you. Released just a few hours ago, Xbox One X gamers can now experience last year's survival horror romp in sli...