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Completionists rejoice — Microsoft is now introducing a new achievement that takes heavy cues from PlayStation’s Platinum trophy. The news was likely teased by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma in an X post back in August (with the cryptic tweet simply stating “Team is working on something for later this year!”), and now evidence points to…

Remember when a report from IGN claimed that Grand Theft Auto 6’s pre-orders on PS5 were beating Xbox Series X/S by six to one? And how that very quickly became eight to one? Granted, that was based on affiliate links and IGN Finds, so there’s a whole swathe of data missing. Cue Xbox swooping in…

First, PlayStation and Xbox took sides over physical versus digital games. Then, the two consoles took sides over Hideo Kojima. Now, according to hardware leaker KeplerL2, the rumored Xbox Helix could be getting yet another advantage over the PlayStation 6: this time over raw graphics-computing capacity. In a NeoGAF discussion documented by VideoCardz.com, KeplerL2 said…

Asha Sharma marked the conclusion of her first hundred days as Xbox CEO with a public blog post in which she called for the next hundred days to be a “reset” of the business. Highlighting the division’s low “accountability margin” and declining revenues, along with macro factors like the hardware component crisis, Sharma’s post was…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the Xbox “streamlining” is “great to see”, even as 268 more employees get cut, with many more to come.

Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in!

On the dawn of the new era of football sim games, Xbox Game Pass has shadow-dropped a surprise free rival to the status quo.

In September 2026, AMD leaker Kepler_L2 released a set of numbers. The PS6’s FP32 compute is 40 TFLOPS. Xbox Helix’s is 56 TFLOPS. On paper, that is a 40% gap. The RTX 5080, a current high-end desktop GPU, has an FP32 compute of roughly 56.28 TFLOPS and sells for nearly 10,000 yuan. The PS6’s 40…

Analyst Joost van Dreunen argues that Xbox is being “reverse acquired” by Bethesda and (especially) Activision, which have better publishing expertise.

After so many years of waiting, the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally on the horizon. The game’s pricing is pretty steep (albeit in line with AAA pricing norms of recent years) depending on what version you want. The Standard Edition retails for $80, and the Ultimate Edition is $100, which gives you…