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Helen Chiang, Xbox’s first Chief Operating Officer (COO), has left Microsoft just a few months after the role was created, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge.

Epic Games has officially documented Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) integration for Unreal Engine 5.8, marking an important step toward addressing one of the most persistent problems affecting modern PC games: Pipeline State Object (PSO)/shader compilation stutter.

Microsoft has finally resolved a rather frustrating Windows 11 audio bug that caused certain games and applications to crash unexpectedly, sometimes preventing them from launching altogether. The issue, which was introduced with September’s optional preview update, has now been addressed through the October 2026 cumulative update KB5127648.

Microsoft is encouraging Xbox owners who no longer use their consoles to trade them in at Best Buy.

The rise of artificial intelligence continues to send shockwaves through the tech sector, and the video game industry is paying the consequences. As AI conglomerates corner the supply of memory units and components, gaming consoles have suffered price hikes and mounting supply deficits in recent months. In response, Microsoft is deploying an unconventional strategy to…

Xbox is reportedly gearing up for three more rounds of layoffs as the Microsoft gaming division continues CEO Asha Sharma’s plan to reset the business. According to a new report, the first of these is taking place this month, followed by another in November and one in January 2027.

We haven’t heard many details about Microsoft’s upcoming “Project Helix” gaming hardware since the company announced it in March as a device that will “play your Xbox and PC games.” In a new wide-ranging profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, though, Fortune alludes to a dual release strategy for upcoming Microsoft gaming hardware, with “a…

Component costs have created some rather tumultuous times for techies in 2026, and gamers have been impacted in numerous ways. It seems the situation has gotten so bad that Microsoft is now asking certain Xbox Series X and S owners to sell their consoles to Best Buy to receive up to $375 in gift cards.…

The Echo Aycomb will sell the Xbox-compatible version of its compact flight sim controller for $179.99 in the US from November 20. When we first covered it in July, the company had only promised a fall release and wasn’t taking preorders