Some of the best Microsoft news lately has been about their increasingly diverse and eccentric controllers. Last week we got to look at the Sea of Thieves Special Edition controller with all of its fancy swash-buckling details, but this week we’ve got something even bigger. Seriously, it’s huge. Fans of the original Xbox will remember
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While the official NPD figures will arrive only next week, they’re already in the hands of the relevant parties, and Xbox Games Marketing General Manager Aaron Greenberg let the cat out of the bag on Twitter. According to Greenberg, data from the NPD reveals that the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in the U.S. in
Today Microsoft announced via press release that the closed beta of Rare’s shared world adventure game Sea of Thieves is coming on January 24th. The beta will start from 4:00 AM PST on the 24th (which translates to Noon GMT, 1:00 PM CET, and 7:00 AM EST), and it will end five days later, on
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was one of the biggest success stories of 2017 and while the Xbox One version of the game that released last month has struggled to match the experience of its PC counterpart, new updates are coming to bring the experience up to par, including the latest patch that is improving some of the
Microsoft is continuing its campaign to advertise the power of Xbox One X associated with Madden NFL 18 by Electronic Arts, and today they released another related commercial. Once more, they bring to bear Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch as he talks to his hand. This time around, after a quip on the power
Sea of Thieves lies just over the horizon, and if you’re looking to get in the mood for Microsoft’s upcoming exclusive then you might just have to check out the game’s special edition Xbox One controller. Whether it be drinking grog, singing with shanties, or shooting yourself out of a cannon, the controller in your
It seems like only yesterday that Microsoft’s Kinect was acting as the crown jewel of the Xbox brand. However, as Microsoft has been making the move to new SKUs and increased power, the focus on the Kinect has seen a steep decline. And while the Xbox One S and Xbox One X will still support
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, January 8, 2018. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% off on a slew of video games and DLC add-ons. Highlights featured this week include Diablo III:
After posting an advertisement concept idea for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to Reddit, Reddit user Macsterr realized that Microsoft had posted a very similar tweet without attribution. And just like it was discovered, Microsft removed the Tweet today without explanation. The Reddit post has since risen to the front pages of the social news aggregate site with nearly 200,000
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, January 1, 2018. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% off on a slew of video games and DLC add-ons. Highlights featured this week include HITMAN –
Microsoft its continuing its campaign to advertise the power of the Xbox One X, recently releasing a commercial focusing on the enhancements for the new console featured in Madden NFL 18. The commercial stars Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, as he talks to… his hand, and ends with the familiar slogan “Plays Best on
Tis the season of giving, and Microsoft is trying to chip in with some tremendous discounts. I know, we are coming off the back of some other great deals — namely both the Black Friday sale and The Game Awards sale that happened within the month. However, anyone who is grabbing a holiday bonus or
We’re still quite a few days away from January 2018, but the Holiday break is coming, so someone at Microsoft might be getting all the end-of-the-month work out of the way. We get the announcement of next month’s Games with Gold lineup of games that Xbox Live Gold subscribers will receive with no additional purchase
Microsoft is offering those who are not subscribed to either Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass a chance to grab the first month for $1 or €1, depending on where you live. The initiative is not valid for existing subscribers (but you can still gift it to someone else), and will continue for the
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, December 25, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% off on a slew of video games and DLC expansions. Highlights for this week’s Deals
The Xbox One X has been out for a little while now, and the latest NPD results seem to indicate that it had a quite solid launch in the United States. Yet Microsoft isn’t done promoting it, and today they released an accolade trailer, including a few review scores and quotes from the launch period.
Microsoft’s streaming service Mixer is (slowly but surely) coming for Amazon’s Twitch and Google YouTube Gaming on every platform. While it was announced months ago that a Mixer app was in active development and beta testing for both iOS and Android mobile devices, the culmination of that project is available now to the general public. According
Today, PUBG Corp.’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds officially hits the Xbox One, and to celebrate, Microsoft has released a brand-new trailer to coincide its official release. And this isn’t the only news about the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Earlier this week, Microsoft shared how the controller layout would work for the console version of the game. For
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, December 18, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 85% off on a slew of video games and DLC expansions. Highlights for this week’s
Since it debuted on Steam Early Access back in March, the wildly-successful battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has blown away just about all expectations with the game having reached upwards of over 20 million players, and as such, Microsoft appears to be giving the game prime treatment leading into its Xbox One debut. Speaking in an
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, December 11th, 2017. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 75% on several full titles and DLC expansions. Highlights featured this week include Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen ($20.99),
Yesterday evening, we reported that Xbox Games Marketing General Manager Aaron Greenberg teased that new info about Rare’s Sea of Thieves are going to come at The Game Awards. Today, we get more information on what those will be about within Executive Producer Joe Neate’s new “Insider Report” post. Neate mentions that the release date announcement is
Today, during Microsoft’s Extra Life broadcast, Xbox division head Phil Spencer shared quite a lot of interesting facts and anecdotes about First of all, Spencer explained how console names are greenlighted at Microsoft, focusing on the Xbox One S and Xbox One X. The marketing team comes up with some options based on research, then
Since its introduction in 2015, Xbox One’s lineup of backwards compatible titles has expanded console owners’ libraries to include the greatest hits from the past few generations of systems, with two more titles having been announced for the system today. Microsoft’s Larry Hryb (aka “Major Nelson”) has announced that Earth Defense Force 2017 and Sonic Adventure 2 are
Today, During Microsoft’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella talked about the plans for the gaming business in the future, and the initial performance of the Xbox One X. “We’re mobilizing to pursue an expansive opportunity in the 100+ billion gaming market. This means broadening our approach to how we think about
Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has announced this week’s Xbox Deals With Gold; the following offers are available until Monday, December 4. Xbox One owners with an active Xbox Live subscription can save up to 80% on several full titles and DLC expansions. Highlights featured this week include In Between ($3.96), Mordheim: City
Today Rare released a brand new slice of gameplay of its upcoming shared-world adventure game Sea of Thieves. The gameplay shows a crew of developers manning small ships as they explore an island, fire themselves off cannons and get drunk on grog (with a rather funny wobbly effect). Afterwards, they get into a fight against
Popular retailer GameStop disclosed today its financial results for third quarter of 2017, which ended on October 28th (GameStop uses a different calendar than most companies). During the financial conference call for investors and analysts, the company’s executives talked about the performance of Microsoft’s new Xbox One X console. First of all, Chief Financial Officer Robet
Every year the Black Friday craze hits earlier, and while we aren’t even into the Thanksgiving week just yet, console manufacturers are already battling it out. Microsoft has already opened the dances with its Black Friday deals open to Xbox Live Gold members, but there is a juicy one for everyone. Those who don’t have
Following the top-20 ranking released on Wednesday, the Japanese statistics firm Media Create released its weekly analysis which includes an interesting piece of information on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo’s Console sold very well last week (between November 6th and November 12th), in Japan, but there is one specific product that increased since the week before, and