Tag Archives: Xbox Live

Online gaming has in the past suffered from a less-than-stellar reputation, particularly when it comes to toxicity and safeguarding users. While this has improved significantly over the years, Microsoft has now announced a new initiative to further ensure user safety, revealing their “Enforcement Strike System.” Making the announcement on the …

A week ago, Microsoft announced plans to officially retire Xbox Live Gold. The original console multiplayer gaming subscription will end on September 1st and will be replaced by a new entry-level Game Pass subscription. Now, the final batch of free Games with Gold has been announced.  In August, Xbox Live …

Microsoft is planning to officially retire Xbox Live Gold. The service has offered online multiplayer to Xbox console gamers for decades but with the company now focusing more on Game Pass, Xbox Live's position has been in question for a while now. The Xbox Live subscription will be going away …

Ever since Microsoft chose to focus on growing its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, the quality of games being offered as part of the console manufacturer’s Games with Gold program has seen quite a decline. March’s free games have now been announced, continuing the downward trend of the service. Making …

Ever since Microsoft chose to focus on growing its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, the quality of games being offered as part of the console manufacturer’s Games with Gold program has seen quite a decline. February’s free games have now been announced, continuing the downward trend of the service. Making …

Over the weekend, the Xbox Live network saw repeated outages, leading to outcry from players across all supported platforms over DRM policies. Due to the outage, a lot of players were unable to access their digital games, including offline, single-player titles. Now, we have some clarification over how Xbox DRM …

Earlier today, the free games for PlayStation+ subscribers in January leaked online. Now, this has promptly been followed up with a leak for Microsoft's planned games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers next month.  Xbox Live Gold, and by extension, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, will be able to claim four …

Xbox Live is as synonymous with the Xbox brand as the console itself. Since its launch in 2002, Xbox Live has allowed owners of Microsoft’s console to go online and play games with friends. After 18 years however, the console manufacturer has confirmed that the Xbox Live name will be …

While the Yakuza series has historically been synonymous with PlayStation, Microsoft have put a great deal of effort into bringing the much-loved series to Xbox, even going so far as to make the next-gen version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon a timed-exclusive on Xbox Series X/S. If you have yet …

Since the introduction of Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s other subscription service, Xbox Live Gold and its Games with Gold program, appears to have fallen to the wayside a little bit. Still, for the month of October, Microsoft is offering those with Xbox Live Gold memberships a number of games suitable …

The online gaming world has seen a sharp rise in activity over the last week as more and more people self isolate at home to avoid catching or spreading the coronavirus. Steam set new records for active concurrent users, CS:GO hit over one million concurrent players for the first time, …

Last month, details of the next Xbox Live SDK leaked out, revealing new features for iOS, Android and Switch integration. Now, Microsoft has made two out of those three official, with Xbox Live coming to iOS and Android devices. As part of Microsoft's push for cross-platform gaming and the build-up …

Microsoft has been pushing for cross-platform gaming for a few years now. Things started off with Xbox and PC, but with the impending launch of Project xCloud, Microsoft is also looking to push Xbox Live support to iOS, Android and even other consoles, like the Nintendo Switch. Microsoft is currently …

Back in the Xbox 360 days, Microsoft launched Xbox Live Indie Games to allow developers to self publish their titles. However, with that console now well out of the picture, it is time for Microsoft to pull the plug on a few of its services. At the end of this …

It looks like the person behind the infamous Microsoft and Sony DDOS attack back in 2014 has been sentenced to two years in prison. The teen was 16 years old when he began selling access to his network of breached IP addresses, earning around £386,000 in the process. The ‘Titanium …

Update: Yesterday, we learned that many users across the world were having issues with Microsoft's account-based services, with customers unable to login to Xbox, Outlook, Office 365 and even Skype. At the time, we didn't have official acknowledgement from Microsoft on the wide-spread issue but today, the company finally got …

Earlier this year, Microsoft reclaimed one million inactive Xbox Live gamertags and put them back into the wild for current Xbox players to claim. Now going forward if you want to keep your Xbox Live gamertag you need to sign in once every five years, or your account will expire. …

Earlier this week, Microsoft issued an open invitation for developers to create cross-platform games between the PC and Xbox One. The company also noted that it would be open to games being cross platform with other networks, like the PlayStation Network and since then, Sony has answered a few questions …

Last night, Xbox Live began having a lot of issues with its core services, which spread through to things like app connectivity and games. During this time, people had trouble launching apps like YouTube, Netflix, Plex or catch up services, users also couldn't access things like the store or go …

Last year over the course of Christmas day, a group of cyber criminals launched a series of DDOS attacks on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Some involved claimed it was to force kids to appreciate family time over the holiday, others claimed it was due to poor security on …

In December last year, a group of people launched a large-scale DDOS attack on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Different people involved had different opinions on why the attack went ahead, but the disappointing fact is that both services were down over the holidays, preventing many from enjoying their …

The new Xbox One dashboard is on the way and alongside that will be the addition of backwards compatibility, a long sought after feature for the console. Right now, Microsoft is working with publishers to get permission to make specific Xbox 360 games backwards compatible with the Xbox One and …

In Microsoft's never ending quest to improve its Xbox One console, the company has revealed that it will soon be making changes to its ‘reputation' system, which has been around since the early Xbox 360 days. These changes will be coming soon, ahead of the new dashboard. The newly designed …

With this generation of consoles, Sony and Microsoft increased its emphasis on digital downloads in an attempt to push the industry forward from physical discs. However, despite the fact that digital games are cheaper for publishers to release in the long run, we often see digital copies remaining fairly expensive …

Two years ago, Microsoft announced Games with Gold, the companies Xbox competitor to Sony's PlayStation Plus membership, which saw two PlayStation 3 games given away to subscribers every month, they were often pretty good games as well so the service became pretty popular. So far  for Xbox One owners, Games …

Microsoft has announced plans to bring plenty of its Xbox Live features over to the PC with Windows 10. While console gamers have to pay for many of these features, like multiplayer gaming, Microsoft does not expect the PC crowd to do the same thing. Microsoft has no plans to …

Microsoft has launched the ultimate game sale on Xbox Live, bringing discounts on many Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles, giving Xbox gamers the chance to save up to 85 per cent on some games. Those who have an Xbox Live Gold subscription will get an extra 10 per cent …

The UK police have arrested a second member of online troll group, Lizard Squad, following the Christmas day DDOS attacks on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. An 18 year old was taken in to custody today after being linked directly to the attacks. The arrest was carried out by …

Christmas day was a frustrating one for many, as despite the new games they'd opened from Father Christmas, they were unable to play them online as both Xbox Live and the PlayStation network were down. Laying claim to the DDOS attack that caused it was a hacking group called Lizard Squad, …

Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network are back online following the Christmas period DDOS attacks which saw both services suffer from issues for a few days. The attack was carried out by Lizard Squad, a group of ‘hackers' that threatened to take down Microsoft and Sony's respective online services earlier this …