June2022
News Xbox Plans To Release At Least 5 Exclusives Within The Next Year
The company is on track to match last fiscal year's output
After the unfortunate delays to Starfield and Redfall, we can't say we weren't a tad worried about Xbox exclusives over the next few months. However, from a recent media briefing, Xbox has raised our hopes once again. The company recently went ahead and detailed its plans over the course of...
May2022
News The Final Runtime Of Xbox's Games Showcase Hasn't Been Confirmed Yet
"Will keep folks posted as we get closer"
Recently, a calendar invite on the official Xbox website seemingly revealed the upcoming Xbox & Bethesda Showcase would be around 90 minutes in length. It appears that this might just be a placeholder though. While these showcases are "typically" around this time frame according to Xbox's Aaron...
April2022
News Phil Spencer: Microsoft's Latest Earnings 'A Nice Moment For Xbox'
Well done, team
It's been a pretty good week for Microsoft - with the company once again knocking it out of the park in its latest earnings report from an Xbox perspective. Team Green also announced it would be hosting an Xbox and Bethesda showcase this June. Of course, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been watching it all unfold, and he's rather...
News Xbox Gaming Revenue Up 6% YoY In Latest Earnings Report
Driven by demand for Game Pass, Xbox hardware and first-party titles
Microsoft's latest earnings results have been published for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 (FY22 Q3) - revealing Xbox's gaming revenue has increased by 6% year-over-year. Xbox's "content and services revenue" grew by 4% and was once again driven by growth in first-party titles...
March2022
News Xbox Wants To Provide A 'Steady Flow Of Great Games' Moving Forward
It's not quite there yet, according to Phil
There are a lot of talented developers working under the Xbox banner now, and according to Microsoft's gaming CEO, Phil Spencer, the aim for the tech giant from here on out is to provide an ongoing stream of "great" video game content. Phil touched on this during the same Xbox Era podcast - noting how...
News Xbox Boss 'Incredibly Excited' About State Of Decay 3's Advancements
The game Phil is most looking forward to
One upcoming Xbox project that we still don't know much about is State of Decay 3 by the team at Undead Labs. The Microsoft-owned developer has so far shared a brief announcement trailer, and apart from that, they've been hiring for the project. For those who are excited about the third game, you're not...
News Xbox Wire Officially Launches In Japan
"Reinforcing our commitment to Japanese gamers"
The Xbox brand is growing in popularity within Japan thanks to services like Game Pass and Cloud Gaming, and locally developed games jumping on board. To help increase awareness, Xbox has now launched its news service 'Xbox Wire' in the country. This will allow the Xbox team to deliver "fully...
February2022
News Xbox Exclusive 'As Dusk Falls' Gets ESRB Rating Ahead Of Game Pass Release
Shadow drop?
Some of you may remember As Dusk Falls, an Xbox published title revealed way back at the Xbox Games Showcase in July 2020. We've seen nothing on the game since then, but it looks like release may be closer than expected. The ESRB, the American ratings board, has just rated As Dusk Falls. It'll be a rated M title when it
January2022
News 343 Hoping To Release Halo Infinite Big Team Battle Hotfix Next Week
Cat ears will also return in Season 1
343 Industries issued a hotfix for Halo Infinite multiplayer earlier this month - attempting to resolve the matchmaking issues associated with the Big Team Battle. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work and eventually led to the team temporarily removing Challenges in the game that required BTB. Now, in the latest...
News Halo Infinite Is Officially The 'Biggest Launch' In Franchise History
More than 20 million Spartans have joined the fight
Alongside Microsoft's latest earnings report, 343 Industries has revealed more than 20 million Spartans (aka players) have now joined the fight in the latest Halo entry, Halo Infinite. This makes Halo Infinite "the biggest launch in Halo's franchise history - we'll let that sink in for a moment...
News Xbox Gaming Revenue Up 8% YoY In Latest Earnings Report
Driven by Game Pass, first-party releases and hardware
Microsoft's latest earnings results have been published for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 (FY22 Q2), revealing Xbox gaming revenue has increased by 8% year-over-year. Xbox's content and services revenue grew by 10% and was driven by growth in first-party titles and Xbox Game Pass...
News Xbox Can't Really Talk About Activision Blizzard Until The Deal Is Done
"The reality is, this is gonna take a while"
Earlier this week, Microsoft broke the internet when it announced it would be acquiring Activision Blizzard for close to $70 billion. While there's a lot of conversation surrounding this future acquisition and how it will pan out, don't expect to learn too much about it right away. According to Xbox's...
News Rare's N64 Classic Banjo-Kazooie Is Out This Week On Switch
Another "modern way" to enjoy this title
Update: Rare has passed on the news to Xbox fans that its classic N64 title Banjo-Kazooie is out on the Switch tomorrow. Of course, Xbox fans can still play the title via Game Pass and Rare Replay. Original article [Fri 24th Sep, 2021 03:30 BST]: Rare might have been purchased by Microsoft long ago, but...
News Halo Co-Creator Praises Halo Infinite's Campaign, Says It 'Brings Back The Magic'
Master Chief is in top form
Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has given the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi series, Halo Infinite, the thumbs up. In an incredibly brief tweet over on the social media platform Twitter, Lehto mentioned how he had really been enjoying his time with the campaign so far, noting how it "brings back" the magic...
December2021
News Halo Infinite Dataminers Appear To Uncover Various New Multiplayer Modes
Multi-team Slayer, Grifball, Zombies and more...
Tired of playing the same old modes in Halo Infinite multiplayer again and again? Well, read on... It appears this part of the newest game in the series will be getting an update in the future that reintroduces some popular Halo modes from past entries. This is all according to a Halo dataminer...
News Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Is Receiving Four New Playlists Next Week
Slayer, Fiesta, FFA and SWAT
343 has officially confirmed via the Halo subreddit that new playlists for the Halo Infinite multiplayer component will be dropping next week on December 14th. This update will include the much-requested Slayer playlist alongside Fiesta, FFA, and SWAT. It's also noted how this update will introduce a new challenge...
November2021
News Saints Row 5 Artist Signs On With State Of Decay 3 Developer Undead Labs
Joins the Xbox studio as a 'Principal Technical Artist'
It's been a while since we've heard anything about State of Decay 3, but if you were wondering how this upcoming Xbox Series X|S release is going - it seems the project is still chugging along. As highlighted by @klobrille, Undead Labs recently recruited an employee from the Sain
News Halo Live-Action Series 'First-Look' Trailer To Air At The Game Awards
Releasing on Paramount Plus in 2022
It's been a huge week for Xbox and Halo, and as part of the celebrations, earlier this week we got a teaser trailer of the new Halo live-action series due out on Paramount Plus in 2022. It showed us a glimpse of Master Chief himself putting on his armour and helmet and the famous 117 emblem and Cortana saying...
News Phil Spencer Calls For Industry-Wide Support Of Emulation To Preserve Video Games
"Buy any game, or own any game and continue to play"
Just days after Xbox's compatibility program lead Peggy Lo said the team had "reached the limit" of its ability to bring new games to the backwards compatible catalog due to various technical and licensing roadblocks, head of Xbox Phil Spencer has now called for the entire games industry to get...
News Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector Is Coming To Xbox Game Pass This December
PC Game Pass, too
Developer Black Lab Games and publisher Slitherine have announced they'll be bringing their turn-based strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC on 2nd December. "Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is going to be released on the Windows Store on the same day, on December 2. The same version...
Random Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Has 'Finally' Secured An Xbox Series X
Just in time for Halo Infinite!
Xbox Series X is in demand around the globe, and even in Japan, there have been shortages due to the pandemic and various other factors in play. Game Pass and xCloud have also increased the system's popularity and Halo Infinite is just around the corner, too. Taking this into account, it seems the legendary Super...
"The real people who made Xbox successful are gamers and fans"
In some parts of the world, it's now the 15th of November, and that means it's officially the 20th anniversary of Xbox. Yes, Microsoft's original Xbox hardware first launched in the US on 15th November 2001. If you weren't around back then, nobody really knew what to expect from this...
News Xbox's Anniversary Controller Contains A Hidden Message From Phil Spencer
You can find it in the battery compartment
Xbox is celebrating its 20th anniversary and as part of this, it's released a new Special Edition Xbox Series X|S controller. In case you didn't know, it contains a hidden surprise. If you flip it over and remove the battery compartment lid, inside you'll find a signature from the head of Xbox, Phil...
Random Oops! Xbox Has Broken Its Own Twitter Account
Update: And it's back!
Update [Sat 13th Nov, 2021 04:14 GMT]: And it's back! The issue has now been resolved: When a big-name social media account goes down, often you can assume it's been hacked or something like that. In this particular case, things are a bit different though. We're not entirely sure what's gone on, but it seems Xbox's...
News Xbox Series X|S Appears To Have Already Surpassed Xbox One's Lifetime Sales In Japan
Excellent news for Microsoft
It looks like Xbox's efforts to crack the Japanese market might finally be paying off. After one year of availability worldwide, the Xbox Series X|S model has apparently already outsold the lifetime sales of the Xbox One in the region. This information comes via Game Data Library. It's apparently shifted around 116,119...
