Xbox consoles prices rise up to 33% in Europe
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles got price increases as much as 33% this weekend as the company dealt with a rise in memory chip and SSD...
After 25 years, there’s so much to love and hate about Halo Campaign Evolved | The DeanBeat review
I’ve completed the Halo: Campaign Evolved single-player game and collected my thoughts about it. But a little preamble first. I’ve been with Halo since...
Xbox app rolls out to more smart TVs from Hisense
Microsoft announced that it is rolling out the Xbox app to millions more people via Hisense smart TV models. The aim is to bring...
Microsoft reports strong Q2 results amid big Xbox layoffs
This will probably anger game developers and gamers. Microsoft reported strong fiscal-fourth-quarter revenues of $90 billion, up 18% from a year earlier. Analysts had...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang leads charge for open source AI
In his first tweet ever, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called for federal policymakers to avoid putting premature restrictions on “open-weight” AI models because that...
Microsoft tests ad-supported game streaming with Xbox Insiders
Microsoft Xbox announced today it is starting to test an ad-supported way to stream select games from your library for a limited time, available...
Microsoft Xbox is the new Burning Platform | Jon Kimmich guest post
This story was written as a guest post by Jon Kimmich. Dean Takahashi asked me what I thought of this week’s Xbox layoff and...
CWA union says Xbox treated workers as disposable
Microsoft eliminated an initial wave of 1,600 jobs across its Xbox division, including hundreds of union video game workers represented by the Communications Workers...
Xbox layoff reactions | The industry and ex-employees react to Microsoft’s biggest course correction in gaming
This post was put together by GamesBeat’s staff including Alex Lee, Dean Takahashi and Jolie Feld. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced today that Microsoft...
Microsoft brings Mojang and King under the Xbox umbrella
Microsoft is bringing Mojang and King closer to the core of the tech giant’s gaming division. Amid a wave of layoffs today, July 6,...