Study finds American families love playing games together on consoles Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 11, 2015 2 min Many of us grew up in a world where video games were a brand new phenomenon, and that meant they confused and frightened our... Continue Reading 2 min
Faster hard drives help with Fallout 4’s stuttering Xbox One performance Posted byby GamesBeat November 11, 2015 2 min Fallout 4 has some issues running on Xbox One, but it’s possible to get around them. Both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions... Continue Reading 2 min
Rise of the Tomb Raider enables your Twitch viewers to control part of Lara Croft’s adventure Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 10, 2015 2 min You don’t need to own Rise of the Tomb Raider (our review) to take part in the game — you just need to tune into... Continue Reading 2 min
Microsoft releases list of first 104 Xbox 360 backward compatibility games for Xbox One Posted byby Mike Minotti November 9, 2015 1 min The gaming industry is about to go backward, and this isn’t a bad thing. Xbox Live director of programming Larry “Major Nelse” Hryb today... Continue Reading 1 min
Microsoft works with GameStop to help Xbox One combat PlayStation 4 Black Ops III bundle Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 7, 2015 3 min November and December are the two most important months of the year for game sales, and Microsoft is working with a key retail partner... Continue Reading 3 min
Watch us play Rise of the Tomb Raider Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 5, 2015 1 min We’re on the cusp of one of the biggest weeks of the year for gaming, and we need to spend some time with one... Continue Reading 1 min
Halo 5: Guardians sales top $400M in first week Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 4, 2015 2 min Halo 5: Guardians has sold more than $400 million in its first week on the market, setting new records according to video game publisher... Continue Reading 2 min
Microsoft tells us how Xbox One will win the holiday and why consoles aren’t dying Posted byby Mike Minotti October 31, 2015 14 min Gaming’s biggest battle of year is here: holiday season. This is when Sony and Microsoft bring out the big guns and try to tell... Continue Reading 14 min
Xbox One Elite Controllers sold out: Microsoft plans to replenish stock ‘for the holidays’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 27, 2015 2 min A $150 game controller is crazy, no one is going to buy one of those! Right? Wrong. It turns out that Microsoft underestimated the demand for the Xbox One Elite Controller, which it started selling at retailers today. Continue Reading 2 min
New Xbox One Experience gets November 12 release date Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 27, 2015 1 min Microsoft is sprucing up its Xbox One with a software update next month, and now we know exactly when you can expect that upgrade.... Continue Reading 1 min