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El 15 de noviembre de 2001 Microsoft lanzó el dispositivo con el que se metió de lleno en el mundo del hardware gamer

Am 15. November 2001 veröffentlicht Microsoft in den USA seine erste Spielkonsole. Über vier Generationen hinweg verkauft sich die Xbox 200 Millionen Mal.

Clearing the cache on your Xbox Series X can help it retain its snappiness while avoiding glitches, or you can perform a console reset if all else fails.

With games increasingly taking up valuable space on consoles, we take a look at whether going for the extra storage on the Xbox Series X is really worth it.

On this episode of the Official XBOX Podcast, we’re sitting down with Ralph Fulton of the Fable team to dive deep into the recently released gameplay for the XBOX 25th Anniversary celebration! We’re learning more about the world of Albion, finding out where this place in the story, and gathering more details about the characters […] The post Fable: Deep Dive

Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Grand Theft Auto […] The post Next Week on XBOX: New Games for November 16 t

Xbox Cloud Gaming now has a free ad-supported version that's rolling out as part of Microsoft's bigger push to bring more ads to Xbox. Jonathan Stringfield, who worked on Activision's advertising push and is now doing some of the same work in his title as GM for Xbox Media Solutions, said in an interview that people shouldn't see this as a move by Xbox to cr

After quickly selling out earlier this year, Microsoft dropped a limited number of its 25th Anniversary Xbox Series X consoles for sale this week-- aaaaannnd they're already gone . Easily the best-looking Xbox Series X console thanks to its transparent green case, it looks like the majority of people looking to get one of these are out of luck, unless they'r

Microsoft bringt 21 weitere Spiele der ersten Xbox auf Windows-PCs, darunter „Knights of the Old Republic“. Vier Titel bekommen erstmals Achievements.

Twenty-five years after the very first XBOX launched, Team XBOX came home to Seattle, the city where it all began, to close out our eight-city FanFest tour. The celebration has always been about you. Every achievement, every midnight launch, every friend you made along the way: that’s what built XBOX. So before anything else, thank […] The post Thanks for 25

“Wolfenstein 3” is in the works at Xbox’s Machine Games. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the news Thursday amid Xbox’s 25th anniversary celebration, sharing on X: “Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at @MachineGames. One of gaming’s most important franchises, and a team that has done remarkable work bringing it forward. Looking forward to sharing […]

It's been nearly a decade since Bethesda's MachineGames released Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017, and now Xbox is ready to announce a sequel from the studio. Wolfenstein 3 was officially announced today, just days after Bethesda also confirmed that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. In […]

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Starting today, we’re introducing new ways for XBOX Insiders to make Home, My games & apps, and the Guide work better for them. Keep your console Home fresh with rotating backgrounds, find games in your library more easily, or move the Guide to the other side of the screen. Give these updates a try and […] The post Available for XBOX Insiders: More Ways to P

Microsoft is starting to test new customization options for Xbox consoles today. Xbox Insiders will be able to start testing new rotating backgrounds, new library options for digital games, and the ability to move the Xbox Guide menu to the right-hand side. "Xbox Insiders can now save favorite dynamic backgrounds and shuffle through them automatically," […]

2026 is the 25th anniversary of Xbox, and it's been a tough year for the brand with mass layoffs, studio closures/divestitures, and game cancellations. But the celebrations are still going ahead, including an event from the Xbox-owned Candy Crush mobile game juggernaut. Announced today, Candy Crush Saga is marking the Xbox anniversary with a "Game On" season

XBOX’s 25th anniversary has arrived in Candy Crush Saga. Out now, the Game On! Season brings together Halo, Fallout, Sea of Thieves, Forza, DOOM, Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro for four weeks of collectible pins and some very familiar music with a distinctly Candy Crush sound. For anyone who’s spent years with these games, there’s […] The post Cand

Today, 21 more original XBOX games are coming to PC, bringing the XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC library to 25 games as we celebrate 25 years of XBOX. We’re also introducing achievements for four original XBOX games, with more titles planned over time. We brought the first four original XBOX games to PC earlier this […] The post 25 Original XBOX Games Ava

For the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on your Windows PC, as long as you have (or are willing to pay) for digital copies. In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just […]

Like the other console makers (not to mention every other company mimicking Spotify), Xbox typically releases a personal annualized recap, letting you look back on what that year entailed for you. With this month marking the 25th anniversary of Xbox as a brand, the company has delivered a supersized version of that feature, the Playback Archive , letting you

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It's the 25th anniversary of Xbox, and to celebrate, you can see how much time you've spent--or wasted, according to my parents--playing games on Xbox hardware over the years. Not to be confused with the end-of-year wrap-up that Xbox usually offers, Xbox Playback looks at your entire history, from when you first booted up a console to your current-day Achiev

Asha Sharma doesn't specifically mention AI in her 25th anniversary message, but I'm pretty sure that's what she's talking about.

As Xbox celebrates its 25th anniversary, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared her thoughts on where gaming is going over the next 25 years, and people are saying her message is really more about pushing AI. Sharma said modern games demonstrate the "heights of human craft in ways unimaginable just decades ago." However, the costs, resources, and risks that compani

Microsoft has spent the past 25 years trying to shake up the game console market. The original Xbox, which launched on November 15th in 2001, took on an industry dominated by Sony and Nintendo. Twenty-five years later, Xbox finds itself in a similar position. It's not starting from scratch this time around, but to reach […]

Starting today, XBOX Playback brings highlights from your available XBOX history across every generation in a personalized experience. For the first time, you can look back and re-live the part you played in XBOX’s story. See when your journey began, revisit the games you spent the most time with, and rediscover achievements and moments along […] The post XB

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, Microsoft was founded on the belief that computing could put extraordinary capabilities in the hands of ordinary people. Gaming has been part of that story since the company’s beginning. In 1979, we released Microsoft Adventure, a text-based game that looked more like MS-DOS than […] The post

"You just used a very polite and elegant way to say 'Xbox Series S sucks,' right?"

Hello, XBOX community! We’re Feel Free Games, an independent videogame development team based in the Netherlands. We’d like to introduce you to Luma Island, our debut title, launched on PC in 2024. Reception and positive review scores from fans around the globe blew us away, to date more than 800,000 PC players have set foot […] The post How Luma Island Was

Microsoft's upscaling tech for video games is now officially available for select Xbox Ally machines, as well as some other Copilot+ PCs.

FSR is still preferred, when available and well-implemented, though.

Microsofts KI-Upscaler Auto SR ist auf der ROG Xbox Ally X offiziell verfügbar und läuft nun auch im Handheld-Modus. Neu ist ein Modus für bis zu 120 fps.

Microsoft is now rolling out Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), an upscaling technology that competes with Nvidia's DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20, and select Windows Copilot Plus PCs, the company announced today. Auto SR is also getting some new features alongside this official release. In April, Microsoft started testing Auto SR […]

GTA IV vai rodar no Xbox One. Divulgação/Rockstar Games Nesta terça-feira (10), a Rockstar Games liberou o pré-carregamento de Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI) para jogadores que reservaram o game digitalmente. Junto ao anúncio, a empresa confirmou as plataformas em que o título poderá ser jogado: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S e Xbox One. 📱Favorite o g1 no Goo

On PC, however, GTA 6 remains among the least pre-ordered games of all time because, well, you know.

'GTA 6' is officially "the most pre-ordered title of all time on the Microsoft Store," Xbox says.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 releases on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the game is breaking records before it even releases. Sony announced today that GTA 6 is now the most preordered game in PlayStation Store history. Exactly which game it beat to claim the record is unknown, however. In September, Xbox's Matthew Ball said GTA 6 ha

Grand Theft Auto VI, the most pre-ordered title of all time on the Microsoft Store, launches November 19. Considering the unprecedented demand, we encourage everyone to begin pre-loading as soon as possible to ensure you’re prepared for launch day. Grand Theft Auto VI will be playable on day one through XBOX Cloud Gaming on XBOX […] The post Grand Theft Auto

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Grand Theft Auto 6 is out next week, and the game is launching on both Xbox Series X|S and PS5. If you don't have an expensive current-generation system , it previously appeared you would be out of luck to play GTA 6, but that's not the case. Rockstar officially confirmed on November 10 that Grand Theft Auto 6 will support Xbox Cloud Gaming. This feature all

Rockstar has finally shared details on what PlayStation 5 Pro owners can expect from Grand Theft Auto 6 on their expensive consoles, but has also confirmed that all platforms will run at the exact same frame rate . PlayStation 5 Pro players can look forward to PSSR support, which will use Sony's well-tuned upscaler to provide a cleaner image compared to that

Rockstar Games is making Grand Theft Auto VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming when it launches next week. While you'd normally assume that would mean Grand Theft Auto VI would be available to stream on phones, PCs, the web, Xbox consoles, and even TVs, it appears to be restricted to just Xbox Series X / […]

Big news – Warhammer Survivors is out now! If this is your first time hearing about Warhammer Survivors, buckle in for addictive bullet-heaven survivor gameplay set across the battlefields of the 41st Millennium and the Mortal Realms. You might know us, Auroch Digital, from our other Warhammer game, Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun. We’ve teamed up with […] The post

While the PlayStation 5 Pro is the most powerful games console, the Xbox Series X offers features like Smart Delivery and Quick Resume.

Sony offers some older titles on the PS5, but nowhere near the amount that Microsoft added to its Xbox catalogs. It came down to one decision, made years ago.

Like many people who have watched Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s masterful documentary You Can See Everything, I sat down with my friend after our screening to bounce our thoughts off of one another. The film revolves around convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos who was criminally indicted for defrauding investors, and her husban

As our anniversary theme region, Hutuo, prepares to go live on XBOX Series X|S, we couldn’t be more excited to give you a glimpse of what’s to come. On November 13, wanderers across the XBOX community will step into this active, mud-and-steel warzone, navigating the devastating fallout of a sixteen-year conflict and throwing themselves into […] The post A Bl

Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Football Manager 27 […] The post Next Week on XBOX: New Games for November 9

If it's quicker and more efficient, I'm in.

An updated version of the Xbox PC app available to Xbox Insiders loads up to 60% faster, and it's got some other nice improvements too.

The updated app, rolling out to Xbox Insiders first, launches up to 60 percent faster.

Starting today, XBOX Insiders can try an updated XBOX PC app that launches up to 60% faster and makes it easier to find games, connect with friends, and play. We’re also bringing the refreshed XBOX web experience to more players and rolling out updates to XBOX cloud gaming apps on supported TVs and VR headsets. […] The post A Faster, Simpler XBOX Experience

Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches "up to 60 percent faster" than before, with an overhauled design to match new updates to Xbox Cloud Gaming on the web and smart TVs. Xbox Insiders will be able to start testing the updated Xbox PC app today, and the updated Xbox Cloud Gaming […]

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Some of the quests in The End of the Sun began in an unusual way – with objects we discovered in small museums across Poland. Sometimes, an old tool or a fascinating piece of traditional craftsmanship inspired us so much that we decided to build part of the game’s story around it. When we first […] The post From Polish Museums to XBOX: Bringing the World of

The Nano Controller is adopting a Google Stadia trick.

I revealed yesterday that the new Xbox Nano controller supports a Wi-Fi connection directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now Microsoft is making it official today. Two new Xbox previews will let players try out using a phone as a controller on smart TVs, as well as cloud connect on the Xbox Nano to connect […]

Starting today, we’re rolling out two previews for XBOX Cloud Gaming. On supported Smart TVs, you can use your phone as a controller when you don’t have one nearby. In the US, you can also preview cloud connect with the new XBOX Nano Controller. It uses Wi-Fi to connect directly to your cloud gaming session, […] The post Preview Two New Ways to Play with XBO

Microsoft will das französische Studio Arkane loswerden. Laut Bloomberg haben mehrere Unternehmen Angebote abgegeben, darunter Ubisoft.

"At least two" other companies have also pitched themselves as the studio's possible new owners.