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Rumors and leaks have been circulating for a while that Xbox is working on a disc-to-digital feature for the Project Helix generation, but a new update for Xbox Insiders has sparked some theories that it could be ready even sooner

In the wake of all the turbulent news surrounding digital gaming, it’s nice to see the little guy winning one against the corporate titans of the industry. In a recent post on social media, one Brazilian gamer revealed they’d wona lawsuit against the mighty Microsoft to recover their blocked XBOX account, and by association, their…

The gaming industry has been in turmoil for quite some time now, but even more so after Sony made the decision to kill physical discs. While Microsoft has made no such announcements yet, there have been talks of a disc-to-digital feature coming to Xbox, and it looks like the company is finally ready to make…

This week, users in the Xbox Insider program did not receive the usual update for Xbox Series X|S consoles. The delay came as a surprise, especially since Asha Sharma said some time ago that new console updates would be released every two weeks

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Xbox has made a 2026 PlayStation game free to play for a limited time for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S users. More specifically, the PlayStation and PS5 game is free to play on both current Xbox consoles until the end of July 12. In other words, it’s free for the weekend. The catch,…

Thousands of jobs are being eliminated at Microsoft’s Xbox unit as the company says its gaming business needs a fundamental reset, in what executives describe as the division’s biggest shake-up in 25 years

Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, where the company that just cut 1,600 Xbox jobs remains one of the nation’s largest users of the H-1B foreign worker visa program. (Photo: Sean Gallup

We chat with Mike Futter from the Virtual Economy Podcast about Microsoft’s sad Xbox trajectory

Few people know more about helping run a successful console business than Shawn Layden. He was there at Sony when the PlayStation dream was first dreamt, and over the course of three decades he helped realise it and shape it. He was there for PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and 4. He helped lead the Japanese…