I hope no one was hoping to escape reality for a few hours using Xbox last night because the service experienced an hours-long outage.

BY Paul Thurrott with 16 Comments
I hope no one was hoping to escape reality for a few hours using Xbox last night because the service experienced an hours-long outage.
BY Brad Sams with 21 Comments
Activision has released a new Call of Duty game and it's going to break the digital download model.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
Microsoft will add several new titles to its Xbox Game Pass subscriptions over the next two weeks. And it's adding touch controls to more xCloud games too.
BY Brad Sams with 2 Comments
Microsoft's Cloud Gaming service for the browser moves closer to release with an expanded beta test.
BY Paul Thurrott with 21 Comments
When Google announced that it was halting internal efforts to develop Stadia games and rely instead on third-party titles, it set off a firestorm.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
Microsoft has announced a new set of several game titles that will land on Xbox Game Pass in the first half of February.
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
Microsoft revealed that several more games are coming to Xbox Game Pass across supported platforms during the second half of this month.
BY Paul Thurrott with 4 Comments
Microsoft announced this morning that several new game titles will be coming to Xbox Game Pass during the first half of 2021.
BY Brad Sams with 4 Comments
As 2020 comes to a close, here is what I am watching for in 2021 when it comes to Xbox.
BY Paul Thurrott with 0 Comments
Less than two weeks ago, Microsoft announced 15 new games for Xbox Game Pass this month. Now it’s announcing another 11 titles that will arrive by next week.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Xbox saw record levels of engagement in 2020, a year in which its audience should have been waiting for new consoles to launch.
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
I’ve been gaming exclusively on Xbox since the release of the Xbox 360 in 2005. But two console generations later, the world is changing.
BY Brad Sams with 5 Comments
Microsoft is expanding its Cloud Gaming service to new regions but desktop and iOS are still at-large.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
With Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Series S set to launch tomorrow, the software giant is announcing several more Xbox Game Pass titles for November.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
Microsoft announced today that it has added touch control support to 10 more titles in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate’s Cloud Gaming library.
BY Paul Thurrott with 29 Comments
Apple infamously decided to block Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming on iPhones and iPads. But Microsoft has a plan to work around that.
BY Paul Thurrott with 7 Comments
Microsoft today revealed the games that are coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of October, and there are some blockbusters in there.
BY Paul Thurrott with 12 Comments
Cloud Gaming will launch tomorrow in 22 countries and will offer Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members an initial launch line-up of over 150 games.
BY Paul Thurrott with 120 Comments
Apple’s latest App Store documentation reiterates and expands on the rules that keep Microsoft’s Project xCloud out of the store.
BY Brad Sams with 3 Comments
Microsoft has released the Surface Duo but how does playing the company's new cloud gaming experience stack up on the new hardware?
BY Brad Sams with 5 Comments
Microsoft will bring cloud gaming to the Xbox Game Pass Beta app starting tomorrow ahead of its full release in September.
BY Paul Thurrott with 15 Comments
Testers who were using Microsoft’s Project xCloud received some bad news this week when the beta expired a month earlier than expected.
BY Brad Sams with 10 Comments
Razer has a new peripheral that is designed to make xCloud gaming better but it doesn't come cheap.
BY Paul Thurrott with 4 Comments
Anyone considering cloud gaming in Xbox Game Pass this fall will want to check out the first peek of new mobile controllers and other peripherals.
BY Paul Thurrott with 15 Comments
Microsoft is describing the functionality provided by Project xCloud in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate as a new feature called “cloud gaming.”
BY Paul Thurrott with 26 Comments
Microsoft has confirmed that it is no longer selling one-year Xbox Live Gold subscriptions, leading to speculation about the future.
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Microsoft may be losing the console wars, but its video game subscription service, Xbox Game Pass is outpacing Sony’s by a wide margin.