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Our incredible journey through Early Access is coming to an end, and the next chapter of our adventure begins with arriving on consoles, free for Xbox Game Pass holders!

Xbox just announced its late-August and early-September titles for Game Pass. Between the upcoming Day One release of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy and Halo’s arrival earlier this month, it might be time to sign up or resubscribe.

Your favorite Swedish particleboard palace may soon carry more than just hard-to-assemble furniture and succulent meatballs. In its infinite wisdom, Microsoft’s beleaguered Xbox division has apparently decided that the answer to its woes is… a partnership with IKEA.

A Bethesda artist says Microsoft’s Xbox ended the studio’s no-layoff era, turning what were once retirement-worthy jobs into big yearly rounds of cuts.

Xbox is telling every console owner to install a mandatory update by August 17, 2026, or risk running into the same bug that locked players out of games they already owned last month. The update closes a hole exposed by a July 26–27 outage that Xbox’s own chief technology officer, Scott Van Vliet, called “unacceptable”…

Following its initial PC release in March, iRacing Arcade is heading to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S later this week on 21st August.

Asus and Microsoft sell two versions of the same handheld idea, and the price tag between them is bigger than most people expect. The ROG Xbox Ally starts at $599.99. The ROG Xbox Ally X costs $999.99. That’s a $400 gap for a device that looks nearly identical on a store shelf, runs the same…

ASUS just backed off one of the more polarizing bets of its 20th-anniversary lineup. On August 14, 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the ROG Xbox Ally X20, the OLED flagship handheld unveiled at Computex in June, will ship as a standalone device instead of being locked to a roughly $2,000 bundle…

Handheld gaming PCs stopped competing on chips alone in 2026. The bigger fight is over what greets you when you press the power button. Valve’s SteamOS, Microsoft’s Xbox Full Screen Experience, and the plain Windows 11 desktop are now the three real choices shaping how a $600-to-$1,800 handheld actually feels to use, and the gap…

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