Microsoft Game Studios Archives

Crackdown 3 lets you roam the city as an agent of destruction.

Crackdown 3 creative director interview — How Microsoft’s cloud makes the Wrecking Zone so destructible

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2019
9 min

When you play the Wrecking Zone multiplayer mode of Crackdown 3, you’ll notice how completely destructible the environment is. You can shoot out the...

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9 min

Minecraft Marketplace December 2018’s top 10 creations: Exponential growth

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 21, 2019
6 min

December was the Minecraft Marketplace’s biggest month yet. Downloads skyrocketed to 10,872,443 on Windows 10, iOS and Android, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. December...

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6 min

The Carlton and Floss dances are no longer in Forza Horizon 4

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 16, 2019
2 min

We can dance if we want to. We can leave your friends behind. But if your friends dance the “Carlton” and “Floss” in Forza...

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2 min

Minecraft will have only two primary versions going forward, and the Bedrock version won't be on Apple TV.

Minecraft’s Apple TV version is done

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 9, 2018
2 min

Microsoft has brought Minecraft to every platform, but it is actually retreating from at least one device. The company announced last month that it is...

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2 min

Forza Horizon 4 drives Xbox Game Pass into must-have territory

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 27, 2018
2 min

It’s not a coincidence that PlayStation Now began enabling players to download PS4 and PS2 games last week. Microsoft’s competing Game Pass service has...

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2 min

Xbox One gets keyboard-and-mouse support

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 25, 2018
2 min

Microsoft revealed that keyboard-and-mouse support is coming to Xbox One soon. During one of its Inside Xbox livestreaming events today, Xbox boss Phil Spencer...

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2 min

X018: Xbox One fan event returns in November

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 25, 2018
2 min

Microsoft wants to bring its gaming fans together for a massive gathering. The company revealed that it is bringing back its Xbox expo this...

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2 min

Forza Horizon 4 review — Better than ever

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 25, 2018
4 min

Forza Horizon 4 is a gorgeous spectacle. It is varied, challenging, and fast. In other words, it is everything you want from a racing...

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4 min

Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, talks about the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

Fortnite helps Xbox revenue jump 39% to $2.29 billion

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 19, 2018
2 min

The Xbox division helped Microsoft grow its bottom line during the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2018, the company revealed during its quarterly financial...

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2 min

The new Brigantine ship that Rare designed for three-player crews.

Sea of Thieves: Cursed Sails leaves dock with skeleton crews July 31

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 17, 2018
2 min

Rare has four teams that are all working on new content updates for the online multiplayer pirate simulator Sea of Thieves, and after releasing...

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2 min