Mover over Wednesday night, Sunday morning is the new Black Friday, at least - according to major retailers. Starting today, you can already pick up the Black Friday advertised $199 Xbox One S 1TB Minecraft Creators Bundle at various retail...

In today's episode, me and Associate Editor Peter Glagowski discuss the recent purchasing habits from Microsoft, which lately has included a number of notable game studios. From Obsidian Entertainment (the fine folks behind Fallout: New Ve...

With Microsoft starting to invest heavily in its Game Pass subscription service, this latest report holds some credence. According to Thurrott, Microsoft is preparing two new SKUs for the Xbox One family of consoles. One version will be a r...

Microsoft just wrapped X018, its "celebration of all things Xbox." What went down? A lot of crowd cheering, an on-stage selfie with Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto, and a release date for Crackdown 3. While much of the show's news was Game P...

So this happened. Back in October Microsoft was allegedly in talks to acquire Obsidian Entertainment, purveyor of the best modern Fallout in New Vegas (we have proof) and more recently, the Pillars of Eternity series. Well, t...

Looking back inXile has a history of buddying up with Microsoft, so when recent rumors suggested that they were working out a deal to become acquired by them, it made sense. Back in 2013 its CEO Brian Fargo talked up Microsoft's approach to...

Mouse and keyboard support for consoles has been a divisive issue for over a decade. Microsoft even tried experimenting with it Shadowrun on the Xbox 360 and the results were mixed (I was there! It was a wild time for online gaming). It's t...

Of all places, we're learning more about an anime game at Microsoft's X018 event today. Jump Force has been gaining momentum since its E3 reveal and today publisher Bandai Namco confirmed two more characters: SSGSS (Super Saiyan God Super S...

Microsoft has been steadily increasing their cachet of backward compatible games: during their X018 celebrating today they shared that there's "more than 500 Xbox 360 games (25 of which are Xbox One X enhanced) and 32 original Xbox classics...

This weekend will see Mexico City play host to the X018 event, a weekend of Xbox-related fun 'n' games which will see fans gather for news, trailers and no doubt a glut of great multiplayer action.Videocasters Inside Xbox will be on hand, b...

It looks like Microsoft has opened the floodgate with their $100 off Xbox One console bundle with purchase Red Dead Redemption 2 as we're seeing some heavy duty discount even on the game itself without having to pick up a console with it. T...

Dante's Inferno was quite a divisive game when it launched in 2010. Some people believed it spit on the legacy of a classic piece of literature and others were taken by how creatively weird Visceral's vision of hell was. It also copied the ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to bring console-quality games to smartphones. Dubbed "Project xCloud," the idea behind the service is to allow everyone to be able to play Xbox exclusive titles without the need for owning an X...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced that Microsoft intends to expand the "Xbox Game Pass" program to the PC platform. In its FY19 Q1 earnings report, Microsoft noted increased growth with gaming revenue rising by around 44%. Xbox soft...

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how incredible The Orange Box was? The bundle brought Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal to a lot of households that might not have otherwise played all three games. I never did send the garden ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has passed away today at the age of 65. He had suffered complications from his recurring non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which ultimately took his life this afternoon. He is survived by his sister, Jody Allen, who issu...

Shake the sand loose from those undesirable places because it's time we fill them with video game news from today's episode that features the following: Slimy Nintendo Switch hardware rumors! Pokémon GO is getting more strange litt...

505 Games and Ninja Theory have announced that a physical edition of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice will be coming to PS4 and Xbox One on December 4, 2018. The retail version will go for $29.99 and will also contain a digital documentary on t...

At E3 2018, Microsoft boldly revealed its new initiative to release more first-party games for Xbox and Windows 10 PC through acquisition of talented studios. It came alongside the announcement from Xbox head Phil Spencer that Microsoft had...

Xbox boss Phil Spencer makes a very quick pitch at the start of this Project xCloud video: "what would we have to do to allow everyone to play Halo." The answer is simple: "build a cloud gaming service." It's been done before, and fail...

For years people have been lauding the World of Warcraft model that's been in place for 14 years now: build with expansions and don't split the playerbase. Some companies like Bungie defied this (creating Destiny 2 right as Destin...

At this point people who refer to Minecraft as a fad are just as ridiculous as the folks who said the same thing about Pokemon in the early 2000s. It's just as popular as ever, appeals to pretty much all ages and skill levels, and is n...

Mouse and keyboard support on consoles can be a tricky thing to sort out, particularly when it comes to competitive games like shooters. Do you let keyboard and mouse users take on gamepad players? Do you split them up? Do you even have a b...

I've been shouting about Overcooked for what feels like ages, so I'll keep this short. If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, an extra controller, and someone to play co-op games with, October is your chance to hop on one of the best m...

Paid loot boxes are currently the crème de la crème of gaming monetization (along with gacha gambling), but thanks to recent legislative pushes, some publishers might be pivoting. A "we don't have loot boxes, look at us" ...