Xbox Game Pass and hardware sales push Microsoft gaming revenue up 11%
Gaming continues to return growth for Microsoft. The company reported its fourth-quarter earnings today, and game division generated $357 million more in the three-month...
June 2021 NPD: Xbox and Switch outsell the competition
Hardware sales had a huge month in the United States in June. Consumers snapped up $401 million in new consoles, which is up 112%...
Tango Gameworks delays PlayStation 5’s Ghostwire: Tokyo into 2022
Earlier this month, Sony Interactive Entertainment showcased some upcoming games in a State of Play presentation. That even did not include the upcoming PlayStation...
Hideo Kojima’s deal with Xbox reaches key milestone
Hideo Kojima and Microsoft have signed a letter of intent that states the two parties intend to work out the details on a publishing...
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on all iPhones and iPads
Microsoft is expanding the availability of its cloud-gaming service with more ways to access the Xbox Cloud. In tandem with this move, the company...
Xbox hires Portal dev Kim Swift to make cloud games (like Kojima’s)
Microsoft is getting serious again about cloud-native games. To that end, the company’s Xbox division announced today it has hired former Stadia game design...
Xbox Design Lab reopens with Microsoft’s updated Series X/S controller
Microsoft is bringing back its custom-controller webstore after taking some time off to retool it. Xbox Design Lab is available now, and it uses...
Xbox leaders reunion panel — What went right and almost went wrong
The former leaders of the original Xbox game leadership team got together for a reunion panel during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I moderated...
Bethesda’s Arkane reveals vampire shooter Redfall
Arkane Studios revealed Redfall, a futuristic survival-horror shooter with vampires. It’s an open-world co-op FPS. Bethesda’s Arkane Studios, now owned by Microsoft, revealed the...
Xbox/Bethesda E3 2021: Where were games like Avowed, Perfect Dark, and Fable?
Microsoft has a lot of games in the works, but the company is dealing with limits of physics as well as some poor timing....