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UPDATE 5:30 p.m. ET:Xbox says it’s “making progress on recovery” and that “most players should be able to launch titles and complete purchases again.” However, it warns that, “Some may still see occasional failures as we finish up.”

There is no greater joy than playing the first couple of hours of a game. All of the unfinished games in my various libraries that have only a couple hours of playtime are a testament to this.

Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders have been live for a few weeks now and Rockstar Games just shared an update explaining more details about how region restrictions differ between the PS5 and Xbox versions of the game.

Players of indie hit Meccha Chameleon have been warned to update the game and steer clear of its original Discord server after malicious Steam Workshop maps infected PCs.

Microsoft’s Play Anywhere initiative is growing once again. Now, Ubisoft games are included for the first time, meaning for titles like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, you now only need to purchase the game once to get access across both Xbox consoles and PC. 

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Microsoft’s Xbox is currently experiencing widespread service disruption. The tech giant’s games division has confirmed outages affecting multiple parts of its online ecosystem

Ubisoft is expanding its partnership with Xbox in a pretty big way today. After bringing most of its games to Game Pass a couple of years ago, the company will now give Xbox players who own or purchase some of its games on the Microsoft Store a free PC copy through its Ubisoft Connect launcher.

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Ubisoft and XBOX are expanding their partnership with two big updates coming today: the addition of premium editions and selected add-on content for a wide range of Ubisoft titles for XBOX on PC, and a free benefit for select games, where XBOX console players can snag the PC version at no additional cost.