Halo Infinite review — 2021’s biggest game surpasses expectations
I never loved Halo. I won’t bore you with my history with the series. What’s exciting is that I do love the franchise now....
Ed Fries interview — From building games for the original Xbox to investing in gaming startups
Without good games, the original Xbox would have crumbled in defeat before the gaming might of Sony and Nintendo. While Microsoft is a solid...
Nintendo’s Doug Bowser calls Activision Blizzard reports ‘disturbing’
Nintendo has joined fellow console makers PlayStation and Xbox in expressing concern over the Activision Blizzard scandal. An internal email reveals the company is...
Halo boss says tech companies must own their ethical responsibilities
The social implications of AR, VR, and online communities are important to consider. In a roundtable conservation as part of Microsoft’s Alumni Network YouTube...
Halo studio boss reveals the 3 pillars of why Xbox is thriving
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is finishing the year strong. Unlike the 2020 holidays, the company isn’t only relying on new hardware to carry its...
Peter Moore is still angry about Sony “FUDing” the Dreamcast
Sega hasn’t had a home console in two decades — yet some executives are still having trouble letting it go. In a roundtable conservation...
Halo Infinite feels like Master Chief’s Breath of the Wild
I’m playing Halo Infinite. Or, at least, I’m trying to. My Xbox is broken and keeps crashing, but while I wait for the replacement...
Xbox boss wants the games industry to embrace ‘legal emulation’
Like any creative medium, video game developers rely on a certain amount of riffing on other people’s ideas. But in order to evolve an...
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand now works on Xbox Series X/S (so do 75 other games)
Microsoft is expanding support for backward compatibility on its Xbox consoles. That starts with a huge drop of new … uh, old games to...
Back 4 Blood sales seem unphased by day-one Xbox Game Pass launch
The common wisdom surrounding Xbox Game Pass is that it’s great, but it will destroy game sales. And yet, we can definitely seen evidence...