Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox offer better matchmaking for game devs
Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox divisions have joined together to offer game developers matchmaking and multiplayer parties at no cost when used by an...
November 2019 Xbox Live Games With Gold: Star Wars and Sherlock Holmes
We are just one night of trick-or-treating away from November, and that means it’s time for a new set of complementary games on Xbox...
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...