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.

Microsoft claims the annual "January Purge" is cancelled this year, calling the rumors of 22,000 job cuts "100% made up." Given their track record, I'll believe it when February starts.

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.

The weirdest custody battle in gaming history has finally borne fruit: you can now stream Call of Duty through a Ubisoft subscription.

Phil Spencer sat down with Famitsu to give the most corporate-spun answers ever. I'm reading between the lines on Halo's "rest," OD's release, and the "next console."

Ah, a new Microsoft feature. Gamers are already accusing the new Gaming Copilot of spying on them for AI training. Classic.