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Things look healthy for Microsoft and Xbox One owners have every reason to be excited. The Rise of the Tomb Raider coup by Xbox at last year's Gamescom was almost certainly the biggest news to come out of the conference Taking a franchise that was synonymous with PlayStation at one point and wrapping it up for[...]

I don't seem to remember Tomb Raider (2013) being that small. The island it took place on felt fairly large and I appreciated the depth and detail of the

Rare Replay is just a few days away, bringing 30 Rare games to the Xbox One to celebrate 30 years of the developer. This should be enough to satisfy just

Halo has been a series that is synonymous with splitscreen multiplayer. You could probably make a convincing argument that the series wouldn't be as big

Another month looms and that means it is time for more free games in just a few days. Microsoft have now announced their titles for Games with Gold first for August On the Xbox One, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will make up the triple AAA title of the month This is the prequel to the[...]

Microsoft will have just finished their conference, in which we actually suspect quite a lot of surprises. Crackdown is one of the games we know will be there and it will show gameplay footage during the show Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that we will see the game in motion over Twitter when replying to a fan[...]

Phil Spencer has never been shy about praising his competitors. He doesn't pretend they don't exist or only refer to them as 'our competition', which is

Microsoft had one of the stories of E3 this year when they announcing the Xbox One would support backwards compatibility of Xbox 360 titles It was a huge move and has left many fans very pleased with the prospect. Ever since the feature was announced, the most asked for game on the official Microsoft poll was[...]

That is likely a relic of when the console was going to be much more focused on entertainment as a whole, but as Microsoft have moved back to games exclusively, it doesn't feel quite right. That is why I'm happy to hear that the Xbox One is getting a dashboard overhaul This will come with a[...]

Rare Replay sounds like a serious deal. To celebrate the studio's 30th anniversary, the developer is putting out an anthology of 30 games for 30 bucks.

I've spoken previously about how surprised I was by Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. I was expecting a rather uninteresting up-rez, but from what I have played, there has been a serious amount of work to bring the game up into the new generation. Microsoft today revealed that the game has gone gold, meaning that the game[...]

We've been expecting this announcement for a while now, but today it finally came, officially. Square Enix have now revealed that, yes, Rise of the Tomb

The first games initially launched alongside the Xbox 360 on the platform, so it is a nice courtesy to see Microsoft release the PC version again. Sadly, that version won't be launching alongside the Xbox One version next month Responding on Twitter, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that the PC version wouldn't be coming until a[...]

Two new major franchises at Microsoft's E3 press conference were ReCore and Sea of Thieves ReCore is coming from developer Armatage and MegaMan alum Keiji Inefune, while Sea of Thieves is Rare's new MMO Pirate game. If you were hoping to see either at Gamescom though, sadly, we won't be Speaking on Twitter, Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed[...]

The console has been on top more consistently in monthly sales and coming into this holiday period, it just has more first party exclusives releasing than the PlayStation 4. In the Q4 financial report, Microsoft revealed a 2.1 billion overall loss, but sung the praises of the growing Xbox market Microsoft revealed that the brand saw[...]