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With the launch of its latest expansion, Diablo IV has managed to surpass its previous peak player count on Steam with a CCU of just under 65 thousand.

Microsoft's financial results have been released, covering Q3 of the fiscal year. Xbox revenue saw another decline, but looking beyond percentage-based headlines, the overall numbers are still enormous. 

Microsoft is reportedly working on a solution to its ever-growing Windows 11 problem, with Project K2 said to improve all aspects of the OS; gaming included.

Earlier this week, we learned that Microsoft was reversing last year's price hike on PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions. Alongside that, Microsoft also appears to be testing out ideas for new, cheaper tiers of the Game Pass service.  Dataminers like Redphx have discovered new strings on the …

Black Ops 7 Season 3 officially launches next week, adding tons of new content, including a surprise crossover with RoboCop.

Xbox’s new CEO Asha Sharma has been quick to take action following the executive’s recent appointment, announcing that Game Pass prices would be coming down, while Call of Duty will no longer be a day-one addition to the service. Teasing even more changes, Sharma has revealed that Xbox’s partnership with the social platform Discord is set to grow further.

Earlier this week, Microsoft confirmed that it would be unwinding last year's Game Pass price hike, reducing the price for both Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Now, the UK price changes have been confirmed.  As we know already, over in the US, Game Pass Ultimate is coming down …

Many criticised last year's Game Pass price hikes. When new Xbox leadership came into place in 2026, we began to hear that people within Microsoft now deemed the service as too expensive. That turned out to be true, as Microsoft is now bringing Game Pass prices back down.  As first …

April’s Xbox Game Pass line-up has been revealed, including the day-one additions of Vampire Crawlers and Double Fine Productions’ Kiln.

Recently we learned through a leaked internal memo that the new leadership at Xbox now believes Game Pass to be too expensive, tasking the team with exploring ideas for new tiers and other ways to make pricing more flexible. One of the ideas already floating around is a new Game …

Following its announcement last year, the live-action Call of Duty film adaptation has officially gotten a release date, script writer and director.

Years on from its first teaser, Gears of War: E-Day is set to receive a lengthy 30-minute presentation during this Summer’s upcoming Xbox Games Direct Showcase.

It came as quite the surprise when Pete Hines left Bethesda. The company's long-time PR lead departed once Starfield hit the market, and it sounds like the merger with Microsoft played a major factor. In a recent interview with Firezide Chat (via VGC), Hines said that it “it was really …

Microsoft has begun removing Copilot AI branding and icons from the latest versions of Notepad and Snipping Tool in Windows 11. Following reports of negative user sentiment, the company has rebranded AI-driven features such as rewrite and summarise as “Writing tools” and paused the forced inclusion of AI buttons across …

Insiders have claimed that Microsoft is considering removing future Call of Duty entries from its day-one Xbox Game Pass program.

Initially set to launch sometime in Autumn 2026, industry insiders have claimed that Playground Games’ Fable could be delayed – possibly to 2027.

With State of Decay 3 finally starting to pick up steam, Undead Labs have confirmed that its initial 2020 announcement trailer was little more than a “concept.”

Two and a half years on from its initial release on Xbox and PC, Bethesda Game Studios’ Starfield is finally set to land on the PlayStation 5. Arriving tomorrow alongside the long-awaited Terran Armada DLC (and their ‘free lanes’ update), the team have detailed all of the various PS5 exclusive features being implemented – including creative use of the DualSense controller.

Blizzard have announced and released the first couple chapters of their brand new 40-part Overwatch: Undivided Webtoon; available now.

Following the release of South of Midnight, Compulsion Games have confirmed that their next project will once again be a brand new IP.

The Xbox Game Pass tier lineup might be about to change once again. Following the recent appointment of Asha Sharma as the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, reports are surfacing that a budget-friendly, first-party-focused Game Pass tier is currently being planned.  According to findings shared by Better xCloud, the Triton tier is …

With user sentiment toward Windows 11 reaching a new low, evidenced by the increasingly popular “Microslop” slang, Microsoft appears to have finally hit the brakes. The software giant is now acknowledging that its aggressive push for AI integration and a “simplified” UI has come at the expense of core OS …

As part of their latest deep-dive, Playground Games have detailed all of the many improvements coming to Forza Horizon 6’s vehicle customisation.

Xbox Insiders are getting a new firmware update, bringing improved customisation, new Quick Resume options, QoL additions and more.

Initially announced during Microsoft's Xbox Developer Direct, Double Fine’s next project – KILN – is officially set to launch in just over a month’s time.

Security researcher Markus Gaasedelen delivered a presentation at the RE//verse 2026 conference, where he unveiled a boot ROM-level exploit for the original Xbox One. This discovery is particularly significant because the Xbox One has long been regarded as the “unbreakable” console, having survived over a decade without a public hardware …

Microsoft is preparing its OS for the upcoming wave of 1000Hz monitors with the release of Insider builds 26100.8106 and 26200.8106. This update, documented under the cumulative package KB5079387, quietly removes a long-standing artificial ceiling within the Windows display stack that previously hindered the OS's ability to communicate with ultra-high …

For decades, there has been a discrepency between the level of optimisation game developers are able to achieve on a console versus the PC hardware equivelant. As Microsoft continues its PC gaming push, it is hoping to close that gap with major updates to DirectX.

AMD is in the middle of developing a new version of FidelityFX Super Resolution. Currently codenamed FSR Diamond, this new FSR version was designed with Microsoft's next-generation gaming console, Project Helix, in mind.  As per Jack Huynh's post (via VideoCardz), FSR Diamond is anticipated to be much more than a …

A second major Call of Duty leaker / dataminer has now revealed that they will be stepping away following contact from Activision.