The Xbox Ally is pretty great out of the box, at least if you’re heavily in the Xbox ecosystem.
For users who frequently use Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Play Anywhere titles, or PC Game Pass, the Xbox Ally is a great companion (ally?) for anyone actively in that ecosystem. Things get a little blurry when you step outside of that experience, however. And even within it, a ton of polish is still needed.
Another week, another new wave of games launching across the Xbox Store.
This week, one of the biggest games of the year finally arrives, with Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. This new title is again led by Treyarch and Raven, with a co-op campaign, expanded Zombies mode, and more. It’s also the final Xbox first-party game to launch in what has been an absolutely packed year.
ARC Raiders is off to a massive start, peaking at well over 260,000 players on release day. The game would go on to eclipse the 350,000 player mark only days later that weekend. Usually, that’s the end of it, but not for ARC Raiders.
Not only did ARC Raiders break that record on Friday, but also on Saturday and Sunday. Hitting an all-new high of 462,488 players on November 9. If you want to know just how absurd that is, I can’t think of another PvP game in the last two years (or really ever) that…
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I remember a few years ago, when Embark Studios first hit the mainstream. Two projects were in the works: a First-person competitive shooter called The Finals and another that would eventually become ARC Raiders.
At the time, the definition of what ARC Raiders was to become wasn’t set in stone. In fact, ARC Raiders was…
Developer Bethesda Game Studios celebrated the 10-year anniversary of one of its biggest and most beloved RPGs, Skyrim, in 2021 with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition — a version of the game that included all its DLC as well as hundreds of curated community-made Creation Club add-ons. Now, four years later, it’s done the same with its popular 2015 shooter RPG Fallout 4.
A full decade after Fallout 4’s initial release, Bethesda has released Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition across Xbox,…
If you’ve been waiting for Xbox Cloud Gaming to go live in India, you might be in luck.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is Microsoft’s subscription based game streaming service, allowing you to play a large variety of games remotely from Microsoft’s Azure cloud.
November 22, 2025, will mark the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest home consoles ever made, the Xbox 360.
To help old-school Xbox fans celebrate, we have found an early Black Friday bargain for the Hyperkin Xenon, a modern recreation of the original Xbox 360 for $39.99 at Amazon, instead of its usual $49.99 MSRP.
Any fans of The Elder Scrolls that are wondering when it’ll finally be time for the sixth mainline entry in Bethesda Game Studios fantasy role-playing series will be waiting a while longer.
The Elder Scrolls 6 is “still a long ways off,” according to executive producer Todd Howard, who shared that small update in an interview with GQ.
“I’m preaching patience,” he says. “I don’t want fans to feel anxious.”
While The Elder Scrolls 6 was first announced with a small teaser all the way back at E3…
The next Xbox is a PC. Well, sort of.
Last week, we revealed that the next Xbox is essentially going to be a PC, and that the Xbox Ally Windows 11 handheld is a “test bed” of sorts to figure out what aspects of the OS need to be improved for that universe. Microsoft is working to boost how Windows handles HDMI, video game shaders, and all sorts of additional things within the Xbox PC ecosystem.
Last month, Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10, forcing users to either upgrade to Windows 11 or enroll in the company’s Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. However, critics have referred to the program as a last-minute snooze button to an already bleeding system since it only postpones the issue by 12 months.
Despite bold statements by the company claiming that “Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3x faster than Windows 10 PCs,” and the use of full-screen multi-page pop-up ads, users are seemingly…
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