A 16-year id Software veteran spent a recent podcast appearance explaining exactly why he thinks Microsoft doesn't understand the business it just gutted, and Doom's own director publicly disagrees with him.

PlayStation tops a new survey of US console use with 46%, the same year its own shipment numbers took a sharp drop.

Xbox says a bug blocked its own physical discs during last week's outage, and its explanation covers how that happened without touching why an online system could reach offline entitlements at all.

The next limited-edition Xbox controller already has a name, a price, and a design, all tied to Gears of War: E-Day, weeks before Microsoft has said anything official.

Microsoft isn't stopping at original Xbox games on PC. A leaked internal document reportedly shows Xbox 360 titles getting the same treatment next, timed to land right alongside Project Helix.

Xbox just raised console prices across three regions for a shortage its own parent company is helping fuel, on a console that's already losing this generation by a landslide.

Jez Corden, who tracks Xbox about as closely as anyone in games media, says Microsoft has PC plans that could open a door out of Steam, then spent his next breath listing reasons he doesn't think they'll walk through it.

Xbox might keep physical media alive through its next hardware jump while Sony just told investors its exit from discs isn't slowing down one bit.

Xbox is testing a way to stream games from your library for free, and the price of admission is a short ad instead of a subscription fee.

Microsoft's letting old Xbox games run on PC and handhelds now, and the four titles it picked to launch with tell you exactly how much this program actually costs to run.

GSC Game World's founder says Xbox handed over more money for timed console exclusivity on STALKER 2 than the studio spent building the game in the first place.

Quest owners paying for Meta Horizon+ just got access to more than 50 Xbox games without opening their wallet any wider.

Mike Brown spent years building Forza Horizon for Xbox, and now he's telling anyone who'll listen that the subscription service propping up the platform never hit the numbers Microsoft needed it to.

Internal friction within Xbox suggests that the corporate dream of an all-you-can-eat subscription service is fracturing from the inside.

Microsoft is reportedly threatening to drop the axe on beloved studios like Double Fine and Ninja Theory. Here is everything you need to know about Xbox's massive internal restructuring.

Obsidian had a brutal 2025, and the casualties are starting to mount. The Outer Worlds franchise is officially dead after the sequel underperformed, though Avowed might get a second chance.

ust when you thought the industry couldn't get any darker, leaked emails reveal Bobby Kotick offering helicopter rides to Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, and Epstein apparently got permabanned from Xbox Live for being too toxic.

The gaming industry is set to break revenue records in 2025, mostly because they decided to charge us $80 for Mario Kart and $30 a month for Game Pass.

Console sales have absolutely cratered this November, and looking at the new price tags for an Xbox or PS5, it is not hard to see why.

PS5 won Black Friday so hard it wasn't even a fight, but the real comedy is a motion-control cube for toddlers beating Xbox in sales.