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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division took the brunt of the most recent round of layoffs, which resulted in 9,000 job cuts. It has lead many to question every aspect of the Xbox business, including the future of CEO Phil Spencer. More fuel has...
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Xbox Game Pass is building on the gains made from launching Call of Duty Black Ops 6 with a solid set of additions to the service for this month, which include titles like Metal Slug Tactics and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. However...
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Xbox's newly launched ad campaign that uses the tagline “This is an Xbox,” meant to inform viewers about the company's different platform options, has been met with predictable memes and derision from the core of the console’s userbase...
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Leading analysts say Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on Game Pass will hurt overall sales, but will be a big boon for Xbox Game Pass. The analysts suggest offering Call of Duty on Game Pass could cause up to six million lost sales of the game...
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Grand Theft Auto 6, one of the most highly anticipated titles of 2025, probably won’t be launching on Xbox Game Pass. During an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that big games such as Call of Duty: Black...
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A Call of Duty title is finally making its way to Xbox Game Pass roughly 9 months after Microsoft finalized its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The first game to become available will be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. However, this...
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Xbox finally confirmed that the newest entry from the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, will in fact be coming to Game Pass on day one. Prior to this announcement there had been several rumors discussing the possibility of...
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The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has been an item of interest for gamers everywhere. Government regulators have taken a keen interest too, resulting in delays. Microsoft is a dominant force in both the PC world and the...
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If you're trying to game on a budget, Microsoft's Game Pass is a pretty decent deal. As long as you stay subscribed at $10 a month, you get to play quite a few PC games to your heart's content, and they're not just Microsoft's own games...
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Phil Spencer opened up about a disappointing 2022, recent layoffs, the future of Halo, and more in a recent interview. The Xbox CEO admitted the company fell short in terms of steadily releasing "great games" to its players last...
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Microsoft has partnered with HowLongToBeat to ease the guessing out of how much time it will take to beat a game. The quite simply and rather aptly named HowLongToBeat website tells players how long it will take to beat single-player story...
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You started your day with some French Toast Crunch, you've stocked up the fridge with Surge, and you've got four controllers. Your buddies are on the way, it's time to play Slappers Only, no Oddjob! What year is it? Well it's not 1997! It...
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Well, it has been years in the making—Microsoft is finally offering a Friends and Family pack to their Xbox Game Pass service. At only €21.99 per month, it is a great value! Package deals like this, by volume, usually save a ton of money...
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Earlier in the week, we reported that Microsoft got the green light from the SEC and European Commission to purchase ZeniMax Media and all the sub-development studios. It seems Microsoft is moving rather quickly on the acquisition as some...
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In the coming weeks, Microsoft will reportedly be increasing the prices of its Xbox Live Gold subscription, much to the ire of people everywhere. Microsoft cites no change in price over the years, but customers view this as a way to shove...
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The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S launch is only six weeks away, and so too is the launch of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with EA Play. Xbox Game Pass, with EA Play and Bethesda, is poised to offer many games in their library to stream and...
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At E3 2019, Xbox introduced Xbox Game Pass to bring games to the masses with their subscription model. Now, Xbox is pairing up with EA to provide EA Play at no extra cost, thus expanding the offerings of Game Pass Ultimate.
EA Play...
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Microsoft has gone all-in when it comes to the subscription model. It has found success with Office 365 and is even looking to recurring revenue for certain versions of its Windows operating systems. On the gaming front, it has Xbox Live...
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