Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get four free games in January as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on Jan. 1, 2022 with Treasure’s Sega Saturn-era shoot-’em-up…
Read MoreDriving vehicles into unwanted places is the definitive Halo experience
Have you really ever played Halo: Combat Evolved if you haven’t attempted to drive a Warthog into the map room at the end of Silent Cartographer? Well, yes — but the tight-squeeze challenge still feels like an essential way to…
Read MoreHalo 2’s Lockout is the quintessential arena map
I hear three consecutive beeps, and I tense up. I used to believe this reaction was thanks to Mario Kart 64 or some other Nintendo 64 game. Years later, I realized it was from playing Halo 2 on the weekends…
Read MoreSpace Jam 2 is getting a video game tie-in
Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to the iconic ’90s sports comedy with Looney Tunes characters, is getting a video game tie-in. Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game will launch exclusively as part of the Xbox Game…
Read MoreXbox Games with Gold offers Lego Batman, Armello in May
Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get four free games in May as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on May 1 with Traveller’s Tales’ kid-friendly action brawler…
Read MoreMicrosoft announces some free-to-play games, including Fortnite and Warzone, now playable without Xbox Live Gold
Many free-to-play games on Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and Xbox One consoles will no longer require an Xbox Live Gold membership, Microsoft announced on Wednesday. The change was made official after Microsoft started lifting the restriction in its…
Read MoreSkyrim, Fallout 4, and other Bethesda games get FPS Boost on Xbox Series X
Five games from publisher Bethesda Softworks now support Microsoft’s FPS Boost feature, the technology that increases frame rates for games running on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, nearly doubling their original frame rates. Those titles are Dishonored: Definitive…
Read MoreXbox Games With Gold gave us few options to consider in 2020
If you pay Microsoft to play online multiplayer with Xbox Live Gold, but you’re not paying them $5 extra for Xbox Game Pass, then you probably don’t care about the free games, anyway. The Games With Gold offerings in 2020…
Read MoreXbox head Phil Spencer says Xbox app could come to TVs next year
Playing Xbox games on your TV may not require an Xbox at all soon. Xbox head Phil Spencer tells The Verge that we may see a dedicated Xbox app for smart TVs by next year, one that could stream console…
Read MoreMicrosoft acquires Bethesda Softworks in $7.5B deal
Microsoft has acquired ZeniMax Media and publisher Bethesda Softworks, the company announced Monday. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, published a letter on Xbox Wire, welcoming the The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, and Quake franchises, as well as Starfield…
Read MoreHere’s how the Xbox Series S and Series X will handle backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is one of the major pillars of Microsoft’s pitch for its next-generation consoles: The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, the company says, will launch with the ability to play “thousands of Xbox One, Xbox 360, and…
Read MoreHere’s how the Xbox Series S and Series X will handle backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is one of the major pillars of Microsoft’s pitch for its next-generation consoles: The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, the company says, will launch with the ability to play “thousands of Xbox One, Xbox 360, and…
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