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Microsoft has just concluded their E3 press conference, and one of the many games shown off was a trailer for Super Lucky's Tale. Looks like it will be a classic platform style, which already grabs my attention as those are the games I have been craving as of late Also: it is SUPER adorable[...]

Amid the torrent of gameplay reveals, announcements, and teasers that was Microsoft's insane E3 conference, one title stood out as being frankly disturbing and adorable That game was Ori and the Will of the Wisps As one of Microsoft's partnered Indie titles, this one doesn't look like a game that you'd play on an Xbox[...]

Part of the Microsoft presentation for the Xbox One X showcased a highlight reel of games coming to the system from independent developers Much of what you see below has either been released on PC already, or have been teased online prior to the event, but this is the first confirmation that any of these games[...]

The Microsoft press conference at E3 is happening right now, and a trailer for a new game by Odd Tales/Raw Fury, titled The Last Night, has been revealed Combining cyberpunk sensibilities with retro style graphics, it has a very Blade Runner/noir feel to it Check out the trailer and game description below.   "Xbox One console launch[...]

The new trailer for 'State of Decay 2' — arriving next spring, five years after the first game — features plenty of zombie fun and gore.

Microsoft announced at their E3 conference that they'll be bringing the 4K gaming experience to the Forza franchise with Forza Motorsport 7 which will include a massive stable of cars including a ton of Porsche vehicles courtesy of their recent partnership The game will be available on all Xbox One consoles, including the brand new Xbox One X. Xbox[...]

We knew this was what Microsoft was going to want to hit right out of the gate, and they did not leave us waiting long The Project Scorpio console is now officially unveiled The console will be called the Xbox One X and will bring us truely 4K console, which will bring us faster load[...]

Microsoft has been spending its run-up to E3 by posting tiny teasers for the soon-to-be-revealed Project Scorpio Because of course they have The one thing we all know about Microsoft's E3 plans are that they involve showing off the updated Xbox One console  WHat we didn't see was that a few of those teasers appear to contain[...]

Flanked by Danny McBride staring into a camera holding a controller, Xbox revealed on their official Facebook page today that the Xbox Game Pass is coming

Project Scorpio is allowing developers to dictate the frame rate in which their games appear on the system, according to news first dropped by Gamespot after Xbox engineering lead Mike Ybarra posted the tweet below. A question was raised about Microsoft putting a cap on the FPS, to which Ybarra replied, "No, there isn't," indicating that developers are free[...]

But if you're not doing anything with it, what's the purpose? That's what we find ourselves asking today as Microsoft renewed its hold over the Scalebound trademark, despite killing the game off in January. To be clear: there was no activity on the game's website since October 2016, and the game officially was canceled by Microsoft[...]

Starting today and running until early Monday morning, you can now have all the multiplayer benefits of Gold members! Microsoft has launched "Multiplayer All-Access" and made multiplayer free to all Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners for the weekend One top of that, they're allowing players to download Minecraft: Xbox One Edition totally free for the weekend[...]

Microsoft today renewed their trademark on the title "Scalebound" despite cancelling the game back in January, as well as removing any previous mention of it from Microsoft's many web outlets The trademark renewal was spotted by Twitter user y2konya, even though Microsoft were in no danger of losing their trademark registration. Microsoft es propietaria de la[...]

Microsoft's proprietary studio for all things Halo, 343 Industries, has announced it's new studio head as Chris Lee, who previously worked as an executive producer on Halo 5: Guardians Lee will now head up the production of future Halo first-person shooters This announcement as made by development director Frank O'Connor on Twitter. follow our new studio head @tefferlee because he's keen[...]

The sale is bound to spark a ton of sales as Microsoft continues to outshine Sony and Nintendo in the department of making older games from their library available for current gen systems to play There's no complete list of games or sale prices available yet, nor is there an official end date mentioned, so most[...]

You have until Monday to purchase a copy of Alan Wake, either by download or physical copy, because on May 16 the game will no longer be available. Steam

That doesn't mean we won't see some Halo 6 teases during the Microsoft show, but it's likely that 343 are instead going to focus on DLC for Halo Wars 2. That, or we're getting a big-budget Halo film Either option would be something we'd expect to see at E3 this year. "I'll slip into my Dreamcrusher persona for a minute[...]

One of the main figures behind Microsoft and 343 Industries monolith Halo series has been Dan Ayoub, but this morning it was revealed that Ayoub has left the studio Ayoub won't be leaving Microsoft and is moving over to another division within the company, but he has said goodbye to Halo. The announcement came through a Halo Waypoint blog[...]

We've talked about the Project Scorpio dev kit in the past, but as we draw closer to E3, we're finding out little pieces of information that are either

Some fans took to twitter to ask Microsoft's Phil Spencer whether or not we would be getting the fourth installment of the Fable franchise anytime soon While Spencer confirmed that there is nothing to announce just yet, he did tease that we probably be seeing Fable again Eventually. Nothing to announce right now but I do think the IP[...]

And then they left Microsoft to work on their own projects, and the reins were handed over to 343 Industries And we got Halo 4, which seemed to take us back where we wanted to be Because, let's be honest, it just isn't Halo if we aren't Master Chief And it was pretty good for a game[...]

If you're still playing Xbox 360 games through your Xbox One, you're going to have to take a break from them by force tomorrow as Microsoft will be instituting maintenance on backwards compatibility services tomorrow. The maintenance will kick off around 4 a.m EST (1 a.m PST) on April 27 and will go for roughly two[...]

Today, Microsoft released info about their 2017 FanFest, taking place June 11-13 before E3 kicks off 500 tickets will be available for purchase, with 400 of them (in four drops) being released this Wednesday, April 19, starting at 6 p.m PT (9 p.m ET) through the Xbox Twitter account using the hashtag #XboxFanFest The rest[...]

Though it was quietly revealed on Xbox Insider Program, a subreddit made the news much more public yesterday that Microsoft will be offering Xbox One and Windows 10 users a refund system for digital products This self-service system will cover games and apps that have been used for either less than two hours upon download, or[...]

Yesterday, Gamasutra had a quick interview with Xbox's head honcho Phil Spencer to talk about the Scorpio, and we got some interesting details, including

  Microsoft is putting up a large number of sales on games, apps, music, TV shows, movies, and hardware from April 11th to the 17th Some of those sales are already going live, and are showing price cuts for Overwatch, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Sunset Overdrive, and Watch Dogs 2. Xbox 360 games are also on sale, like Lost Odyssey[...]

Microsoft still hasn't given us much on the upcoming Project Scorpio console, but we do now have tech specs for the console as well as a few photos and a very short video We still have no idea what the console will look like, but we've got a glimpse at some of it's components now[...]

Microsoft revealed the tech specs of the Project Scorpio console to Digital Foundry According to that report, the Project Scorpio stats make it a more significant update than what we got with the PS4 Pro. Digital Foundry calls the Scorpio, "console hardware design pushed to a new level, with a meticulous focus on appealing to the core gamer." The[...]

Microsoft is about to make some E3 attendees very happy as word came down this weekend about the games being featured at the event for "Project Scorpio." Coming out of Windows Central, Forza 7, Battlefront 2, and Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the three games used to show off the system's capabilities, specifically with[...]

Microsoft plans to launch their updated Xbox console, named Project Scorpio, this holdiay season All Xbox One games will be playable on the new console and Xbox head Phil Spencer recently stressed that he believes it is critical for Microsoft's first-party games to be ready for the system's launch. "Having our [first-party] games ready for Scorpio is[...]