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Halo: Campaign Evolved – the latest big budget release from Microsoft – is out and in the hands of sci-fi lovers on both PlayStation and Xbox. However, after some arduous testing, you might be surprised at which console runs it best.

Many Xbox owners could not play on Monday. After engineers cleared the problem, the division’s chief technology officer explained what broke. Scott Van Vliet said an external licensing service that Xbox and several partners rely on began failing late Sunday night, and the fallout spread from there.

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A new report claims Xbox’s next-gen console, Project Helix, has undergone several changes since initial planning. It’s said that PlayStation is partly to blame.

TL;DR: Project Helix’s promise of multiple storefront access may backfire: internal data show most Xbox Ally owners who lack an Xbox console buy games on Steam, not the Xbox PC store. With Microsoft reportedly losing money per console, widespread use of non-Microsoft stores could hinder hardware subsidy and Game Pass conversion. Voice: Jak ConnorSpeed 0:00…

Join XBOX at gamescom 2026 as we celebrate 25 years of play. We’re returning to Cologne, Germany to connect with players from around the world and spotlight many of the incredible games coming soon to XBOX.

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UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET:Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said his team has traced today’s outage to the failure of a licensing service that “Xbox depends on.” That triggered sign-in scenarios to fail, followed by “many scenarios that require an entitlement check…such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own,” he tweeted.…

It happened two times in two weeks: First Sony’s PlayStation Network, then Microsoft’s Xbox experienced significant outages. Monday’s Xbox outage was particularly galling for users, since many Xbox games these days require authentication

A day after Xbox suffered a massive service outage (again), the newest iteration of the gaming company’s most iconic title, Halo: Campaign Evolved, is now available to play through Game Pass.