Former Nintendo Exec Damon Baker Joins Xbox as Head of Portfolio
Nintendo’s former head of partner management, Damon Baker, is now the new head of portfolio for Xbox. He shared the news on Twitter on Monday. Baker said he’s been “soaking up knowledge this last...
View ArticleXbox’s Phil Spencer on ‘Crackdown 3,’ E3 2019 and Project xCloud
Xbox boss Phil Spencer recently sat down with Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, Xbox Live’s director of programming, to discuss the anticipated action game “Crackdown 3,” Project xCloud, this year’s E3, and...
View ArticleXbox Live Hits 64 Million Active Users
Xbox Live now has 64 million monthly active users, up 8% from the same time last year, Microsoft noted in its second quarter 2019 earnings report released Wednesday. The news comes alongside news of a...
View ArticleA Love Letter to Video Games
As a relatively new father, I’m trying to indulge my inner optimist more often, if only to model the kind of joyful life untainted by default cynicism I wish for my son. The community of games is too...
View ArticleXbox Reveals Striking Limited Edition Phantom White Controller
Microsoft unveiled a new limited edition Xbox Wireless Controller during an Inside Xbox broadcast on Tuesday. The Phantom White Special Edition controller is the second in Xbox’s Phantom series. The...
View Article‘Pikmin’ Meets ‘Luigi’s Mansion’ in ‘The Wild at Heart’ Adventure
Imagine a game with “Pikmin’s” real-time critter management and the Poltergust 3000 from “Luigi’s Mansion’s” meshed together into a gorgeous “Where the Wild Things Are”-styled adventure that takes you...
View ArticleMicrosoft Employees Confront Microsoft CEO About Sexism, Harassment at Company
A large group of Microsoft employees met with CEO Satya Nadella Thursday to protest the company’s treatment of women including discrimination and sexual harassment, according to reports by Quartz and...
View ArticleXbox Will Reveal Its E3 2019 And FanFest Plans Next Week
Microsoft is airing an all-new episode of Inside Xbox on Tuesday, Apr. 16 at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET where it will talk about its plans for E3 2019 and Xbox FanFest, it announced on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Rumored Disc-less Xbox One S Could Release In May
The Xbox One S All Digital console could arrive as early as May 7 for around $260, according to marketing images uncovered by German tech site Winfuture.de (via CNET). The images appear to reveal an...
View ArticleXbox Will Hold Its E3 2019 Briefing on Jun. 9
Xbox revealed the date and time for its E3 2019 briefing in a blog post on Tuesday. It takes place on Sunday, Jun. 9 at 1 p.m. PDT. While competitor Sony is dropping out of the annual media event this...
View ArticleXbox One ‘Redacted’ News Hits Tuesday (Watch)
Microsoft’s regular Inside Xbox video goes live Tuesday at 5 p.m. ET bringing with it not just news about Xbox Game Pass, “Sea of Thieves,” but also REDACTED. That’s not Variety being coy, that’s what...
View ArticleNew ‘Gears 5’ Series, Esports Tournament Debuts in June
“Gears 5” makes its esports debut this summer with the “ELeague Gears Summer Series: The Bonds and Betrayals of Brotherhood,” Xbox and ELeague announced during an Inside Xbox episode on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleXbox Sees Increase in Revenue Despite One-Third Drop in Hardware Sales
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming revenue for the quarter ending on March 31, was $2.36 billion, up about 5% from the same period last year, driven by Xbox software and service growth of 12%, the company...
View ArticleAstro Gaming’s Jump From Headphones to a Gamepad
More than a dozen years after launching as a premier video game peripheral company, Astro Gaming is finally getting around to the impetus for its creation: creating a game controller. The spark that...
View ArticleXbox Aids Dept. of Veterans Affairs in Making Gaming More Accessible
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are joining forces to offer the Xbox Adaptive Controller to VA rehab centers across the United States. The controller and additional gaming...
View ArticleRumors of the Death of Physical Video Games Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
“The record labels still make CDs and the movie studios still make DVDs, so yes, I’d say it’s too soon to abandon discs for consoles,” writes Michael Pachter, managing director at Wedbush Securities...
View ArticleXbox Giving Away Two Custom ‘Game of Thrones’ Consoles
Xbox is honoring the final season of “Game of Thrones” with a giveaway worthy of a king (or five). It’s offering fans the opportunity to snag one of two custom consoles featuring designs inspired by...
View ArticleXbox Chief Phil Spencer Outlines Plan to Combat Online Toxicity
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer outlined new plans to combat toxicity and promote online safety in a post on the Microsoft Blog on Monday. Spencer believes in two fundamental truths about gaming, he said....
View ArticleMicrosoft Introduces Improved Xbox Game Bar For Windows 10
Microsoft unveiled its newly-updated Xbox Game Bar for Windows 10, meant as part of the company’s efforts to “improve the gaming experience” on the platform. The Xbox Game Bar is a customizable gaming...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Project xCloud Rollout Hits 13 Regions, Capcom, Paradox Testing
Microsoft’s take on cloud-gaming — an approach to game development and deployment that theoretically makes games playable on any system without the need for porting — continues its rollout, with the...
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