38 articles tagged with “Microsoft”
Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler didn't hold back when explaining why No Rest for the Wicked won't hit Xbox alongside PS5 in October, calling Series S specs "not far from mobile."
Warzone Season 04 is live with a refreshed Fortune's Keep, a new PC attestation requirement that restricts cheaters to limited playlists, and a Placement Challenges system that rewards consistent finishes.
A new ESRB filing quietly lists Minecraft for Nintendo Switch 2, almost certainly spoiling what was meant to be a Summer Game Fest announcement this Friday.
A Swedish pension fund argued Activision shareholders got shortchanged when Bobby Kotick rushed the Microsoft deal. Four years of legal drama later, Microsoft is writing a $250 million check to make it all go away.
June's Xbox Game Pass lineup has quietly grown to at least eight confirmed titles, and Microsoft hasn't even made its official Wave 1 announcement yet.
Despite Xbox leadership floating the idea of reevaluating its exclusivity approach, Playground Games has confirmed Fable is still launching on PS5 at launch, and still on track for 2026.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, GameSpot's 2024 Game of the Year, is leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 31 alongside Persona 4 Golden. Meanwhile, 13 new games are rolling in, headlined by Jurassic World Evolution 3 and Remnant II.
Microsoft opened a feedback channel expecting constructive suggestions, but fans turned it into a referendum on the multiplatform strategy.
Xbox launched its Player Voice feedback portal, and the most popular requests from fans tell you exactly where the brand's biggest gaps are.
Forza Horizon 6 pulled in $140 million from early access alone, with over 181,000 concurrent players paying $120 each. The game isn't even officially out yet.
A Brazilian telecommunications regulator has inadvertently revealed the Xbox Elite 3 controller, complete with two mysterious scroll wheels, a removable battery, and a dedicated cloud gaming mode.
A developer apparently forgot to encrypt Forza Horizon 6's files when uploading them to Steam, and pirates had the game running before anyone who paid $100 for early access could touch it.
Double Fine's entire 42-person workforce has filed to unionize with CWA, making it the first studio to test whether Xbox's new CEO will maintain Microsoft's labor neutrality.
Asha Sharma announced Xbox will stop developing Copilot for console and wind it down on mobile, then revealed five new hires pulled largely from Microsoft's CoreAI division.
Thirteen games hit Game Pass in the first half of May, headlined by Forza Horizon 6 on May 19. It's the strongest two-week stretch the service has had in a while.
Forza Horizon 6, Doom: The Dark Ages, Subnautica 2, and Mixtape headline a stacked May for Game Pass, arriving just weeks after Microsoft slashed the subscription price.
Australia gets its first major overhaul since World Update 7 in January 2021, with 40 photogrammetry areas, six Gaya-built airports, and a full mission set.
Microsoft's latest ROG Xbox Ally update finally makes docked play work the way it should, borrowing Nintendo's years-old trick of killing the handheld screen when connected to a TV.
Microsoft's gaming revenue dropped 7% in Q3, and new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is staking her reputation on reversing the slide. But the company's own CFO warns things will get worse before they get better.
Sim Update 5 is live for Microsoft Flight Simulator, bringing version 1.7.27.0 to all players today.
Mike Ybarra, former Blizzard boss and Xbox corporate VP, says World of Warcraft will 'continue to decline' without a firm reset. His comments land as Blizzard scrambles to fix one of the worst patches in recent memory.
A new Game Pass tier called Starter Edition has leaked via Discord datamining, bundling 50+ games and cloud streaming into the existing $9.99 Nitro subscription.
Back-end API leaks have surfaced codenames for modular Game Pass packages, and the list of potential add-ons goes way beyond games.
Microsoft slashed Game Pass prices and pulled Call of Duty from day-one launches. Reports now suggest a 'pick your own plan' model is in the works, and it could reshape the entire subscription.
Kiki Wolfkill, who oversaw Xbox's film and TV division and helped shepherd the Halo series and Fallout TV adaptation, has departed Microsoft after 28 years.
Xbox's next-gen VP had to publicly confirm that Project Helix is a first-party console after leaker claims about third-party chip licensing spiraled into speculation that Microsoft was getting out of the hardware business entirely.
Microsoft is cutting Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, but the trade-off is losing day-one access to Call of Duty. New entries will arrive about a year after launch instead.
Asha Sharma reportedly called Game Pass 'too expensive' and is floating ideas like a first-party-only tier and removing Call of Duty from day one. None of it is a plan. That's the problem.
Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley publicly dismissed Project Helix in a new interview, saying he's far more interested in Steam and whatever Nintendo builds next.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma acknowledged in a leaked internal memo that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players," promising to evolve the service into something more flexible.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told staff in a leaked memo that Game Pass "has become too expensive for players" and that changes are coming. The admission follows a year of aggressive price hikes that doubled the cost of the top tier.
Microsoft has confirmed Metro 2039 will get its first official reveal at a dedicated Xbox First Look showcase this Thursday, marking the franchise's return after seven years away.
Fable may be fleeing GTA 6's shadow. Jeff Grubb says it's been pushed internally, and the maths on the calendar doesn't look great for Microsoft.
Five games are leaving Xbox Game Pass in three days, and if you haven't touched them yet, the clock is ticking. The good news is what's coming in May.
A $300 million loss in potential sales from Black Ops 6 is reportedly forcing Microsoft to rethink whether Call of Duty belongs on Game Pass at launch.
The 2020 State of Decay 3 reveal trailer was pre-rendered concept work made by an external studio, with only four or five people at Undead Labs and no actual game in development. Studio head Philip Holt has now confirmed it on camera, and yes, that means no zombie deer.
Satya Nadella joined new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma for an internal Q&A and told staff Microsoft will 'always' invest in gaming. The timing is deliberate.
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma has officially named Xbox's next-gen console: Project Helix. It plays PC games, and that changes everything about what an Xbox actually is.