Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at...
PlayStation 5: The 4 features that matter (and 4 that don’t)
Sony is slowly building a public vision for the PlayStation 5. In an interview about the next-gen console with Wired today, it confirmed the...
Xbox dominates gaming industry TV spend for September
The gaming industry came roaring back to life in September with an estimated TV ad spend of $39.3 million, a remarkable increase of 983%...
Project xCloud game-streaming test goes public in October
Microsoft is moving Project xCloud into its next phase. The game-streaming technology will open up to a public test in the United States, United...
Gears 5 review — The Coalition nails action and emotion in one of series’ finest games
The Gears of War saga has always been a mixture of intense combat, serious war story, ridiculous over-the-top scenes, and comedy in a world...
Xbox Game Pass gets Devil May Cry 5 and Ape Out
Microsoft announced a number of new additions to its Xbox Game Pass service today for both console and PC. The highlights include Devil May...
The video game industry is a black hole for cybersecurity
New data from Akamai, an internet delivery and cloud services company, has exposed that the video game industry remains a growing threat vector for...
Xbox One sales have slowed to a crawl as the current gen wanes
We are at the end of a video game console generation, and you can see that in Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report. The company revealed...
Microsoft may actually be committed to PC gaming this time
Microsoft has claimed for years that it’s committed to PC gaming. But even as the company began putting more Xbox games on Windows, it...
Newzoo: U.S. will overtake China as No. 1 gaming market in 2019
For the first time since 2015, the United States is the top gaming market in the world. So says market research research firm Newzoo...