Microsoft buys Havok from Intel, promises to keep licensing physics tech
Microsoft now owns one of gaming’s most popular middleware tools. The Xbox company announced this morning that it has acquired Havok, the technology company best...
Microsoft’s holiday ace card is a Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle
Microsoft’s Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 last November and December, and the company is trying to put itself in a position to repeat...
Xbox Live down intermittently for many gamers (updated)
Updated at 5:15 p.m. Pacific: Microsoft says it has everything up and running once again You may run into some trouble playing games on an...
Minecraft: Story Mode trailer sets narrative-heavy tone for the block-building phenomenon
Minecraft has grown into one of the biggest and best-selling games of all time by empowering players to make their own stories. In about two...
Windows 10 grabs 6.63% market share, Linux finally passes Windows Vista
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade had a bigger impact in the first month than in the second. Windows 10 has now captured more...
The fan that’s trying to re-create Pokémon Red in Minecraft has made some updates
You can make almost anything in Minecraft, and fans have shown over and over that they will. One community creator, who goes by the...
Microsoft reveals 1TB Xbox One holiday bundle with Gears of War, Rare Replay, and Ori
Microsoft is keeping to its promise to announce a new Xbox One bundle every day this week, and today it’s combining some of its...
Microsoft cuts out the microtransactions from Project Spark game-creation engine
Microsoft said tonight that it will transition Project Spark from a free-to-play microtransaction game to a “free and open creation engine.” Starting on October 5,...
Hands-on with the chaotic Warzone multiplayer mode for Halo 5: Guardians
Microsoft is banking that the Warzone multiplayer mode in Halo 5: Guardians will be one of the big attractions that brings players back to the...
A decade later, the former chief Xbox officer revisits his critical decisions
Microsoft lost $5 billion to $7 billion on the original Xbox, launched in 2001. And it made billions of dollars on the Xbox 360....