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In an unsurprising move, Microsoft has reportedly slashed its unlimited Xbox Cloud Streaming due to the “compute demands for AI.”

As Sony and Microsoft prepare for next‑gen hardware, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that either company will be able to offer disc drives, even as optional add‑ons, regardless of whether they actually want to. It has come to light that the supply chain for disc drives themselves is going extinct. 

Almost a decade since its cancellation, Hideki Kamiya is still hoping Microsoft will revive the ill-fated action-RPG Scalebound.

Xbox Game Pass is set to lose one of its most marketed features: no longer offering unlimited cloud streaming from November onwards.

Microsoft has a new collection of peripherals, bringing together cosy-themed gaming gear from 8BitDo, SteelSeries, and KontrolFreek. Available now, the Cozy Collection lineup includes a custom keyboard, mouse, wireless controller, earbuds, and thumb grips styled in matcha and yuzu colour palettes. 8BitDo contributes three peripherals to the range, starting with …

The next wave of Xbox Game Pass titles has been announced. This month, we will see Black Ops Cold War added, continuing the slow roll out of older COD titles to Game Pass.

Playground Games has shared plenty of new Fable gameplay this summer, and now we’re starting to get a clearer picture of how long the studio’s first RPG will actually be. According to the developers, players can expect a reasonably sized adventure rather than a massive, hundred‑hour epic.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has revealed that Project Helix will actually be more than one device. Like the Xbox Series generation, Microsoft intends to have multiple hardware offerings for its next-gen push. 

Ahead of its arrival next year, State of Decay 3 will be hosting a closed beta test later in 2026, with sign-ups available now.

Initially planned to arrive before the end of the year, insiders have claimed that Forza Horizon 6’s PS5 launch has been seemingly delayed.

Razer has announced the Razer Xbox 25 Anniversary Collection, a limited-edition peripheral lineup created in collaboration with Xbox to mark the brand's 25th anniversary. The range includes translucent green versions of three core products: the Basilisk V3 Pro 35K mouse, the BlackWidow V4 75% mechanical keyboard, and the Hammerhead V3 …

Funcom have confirmed that Dune: Awakening will be officially getting cross-play support – albeit some time after the game’s PS5 and Xbox launch.

After months of leaks, Microsoft has today announced its new disc-to-digital program, allowing players to obtain digital licenses for their physical games, without sacrificing any of the benefits of physical media, such as being able to sell or trade your unwanted games later down the line. In a blog post …

Following a slight controversy back during Summer Game Fest, Microsoft has now stopped listing its competitors' platforms on trailers.

A rumour circulated over the weekend claiming that Microsoft had quietly greenlit a sequel to Ori and the Will of the Wisps, with development supposedly handed to another studio. However, Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler has now dismissed the speculation, stating that “the Ori 3 rumors are nonsense”.

A few days on from revealing the updated PC system requirements for The Blood of Dawnwalker, the team at Rebel Wolves has now also announced a major change for the launch-day version of the game on consoles. At first, the game was going to launch without a true ‘Performance' mode …

Microsoft’s translucent green Xbox Series X25 is set to launch later this year to mark the Xbox's 25th anniversary, and a new report now claims the limited‑edition console will retail for €899.99 in Europe, with a release date scheduled for Black Friday 2026.

Following Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions have confirmed that they are once again officially independent from Microsoft.

Compulsion Games is officially independent once again, with its back-catalogue of titles such as South of Midnight now being self-published.

Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games have now locked in the release date for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, confirming that the new horror title will arrive this October. Alongside the date, the studio has also released a new trailer to set the tone for the game’s twisted take on the Hellraiser universe.

Ampere Analysis has issued a new forecast warning that next‑generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft could see sales drop by as much as 40% over their first five years. The decline would be driven primarily by expected price hikes, with analysts increasingly anticipating launch prices above $1,000.

Microsoft has announced the next wave of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass, headlined by Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, which arrives as a day‑one release later this month. A number of other new titles will also be joining the library across console, PC and cloud.

The previews have been out for a while and by most accounts, Star Wars: Zero Company is going to be a must-play title for anyone who is a fan of XCOM style strategy. Ahead of the game's launch next week, one final trailer for the game has dropped.

For the last few years, Sledgehammer Games has been the odd one out in the Call of Duty-sphere, with Activision primarily focusing on Treyarch's Black Ops series and Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare. Microsoft may have a new plan for Sledgehammer in the near future though, one that involves Halo.  Since …

The Kingdom Hearts panel at D23 this year did not disappoint. Not only did we get a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, but a 2027 release date was also confirmed, alongside a new anime series. 

Microsoft has announced two new Gears of War: E-Day Xbox Wireless Controllers, alongside an officially licensed 8BitDo charging dock, to celebrate the launch of the next entry in the series. Available for preorder starting today, the Gears of War: E-Day Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller features a 3D-moulded, laser-etched exterior …

Bethesda and Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, have begun teasing the title for the next Elder Scrolls game. Fans were given just one clue this week, the number of characters in the game’s subtitle. With just that information, fans appear to have quickly sussed out what the true title for The Elder Scrolls VI is. 

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has claimed that The Elder Scrolls VI features “incredible” grandeur and scale with its story being “even greater.”

Without Activision Blizzard, it is highly likely that Xbox would have been in a steep decline over the last couple of years, with games like Call of Duty and Candy Crush contributing heavily to Xbox's financials. As it turns out, Blizzard itself has been the top-performing studio under Xbox over the past year.

When Microsoft first kicked off the current console generation, it opted to launch a cheaper Xbox Series S system at $299. Fast forward six years and the base-model Xbox Series S now costs closer to $400, and a 2TB expansion SSD is more expensive than the day-one price of the console itself.