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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
Microsoft's Xbox console is having a serious introspection moment, questioning its own reason for existence (at least by those in charge of the system). We've grown accustomed to the console wars dating back decades, and the assumption was...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 27, 2025
A lot of gamers are looking forward to the day when Nintendo finally releases its Switch 2 console, especially after it was teased in a first-look showcase trailer earlier this month. Do you know who else is looking forward to the upcoming...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 10, 2024
In a wide-ranging interview with IGN, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer discussed several aspects of the business, including teasing the possibility of a PC gaming handheld without fully coming out and confirming a release. This isn’t the first time...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Whether on social media or in interviews Phil Spencer can’t stop talking about gaming handhelds, and he has thoughts on what he’d like to see from the current crop of devices on the market. Spencer brings it up often enough, and even likes...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 23, 2024
One rumor that's persisted for several years—at least a half a decade, at this point—is that Microsoft will completely abandon physical discs for its Xbox game consoles. It hasn't happened, though with Microsoft confirming that it plans to...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Feb 16, 2024
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer got to talk about the future of Xbox in a wide-ranging interview with The Verge. The discussion included Xbox titles making their way to Sony’s PlayStation 5 console, the future of Xbox Cloud Gaming on iOS, and the...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Nov 08, 2023
Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says that gamers lack patience and have unrealistic expections when it comes to new content. However, while Ybarra says he is unsure how things will change for the company following Microsoft's acquisition...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Sep 07, 2023
Bethesda's Starfield is a huge hit, according to Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, as he reports the game has reached the incredible milestone of 1 million concurrent players across all platforms. The news comes after Starfield officially...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Aug 24, 2023
Can you believe we're approaching the third anniversary of the release of the Xbox Series X? (That's also the 10th anniversary of the release of the Xbox One, by the by.) Given that three years was the same gap between the release of the...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jun 24, 2023
The Elder Scrolls series started out quite different from how it's known these days. The early Elder Scrolls games, Arena and Daggerfall, were technically-impressive and mechanically-complex games strictly for adults, with mature content...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 05, 2023
It's fair to say that the release of Redfall, one of the most anticipated game launches of the year so far, does not represent Microsoft's finest hour. It's also fair to question why Microsoft would allow a high-profile game to ship in...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jan 30, 2023
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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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Nov 16, 2022
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer insists that the Activision Blizzard acquisition is more about Candy Crush than Call of Duty (COD). The $68.7 billion deal still faces an "in-depth" investigation by the European Commission before it can be...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Sep 09, 2022
The console war goes far beyond just the gamers who hold their beloved choice of hardware dear to their hearts. Two top executives from PlayStation and Xbox are currently going head-to-head over the long-term availability of the fan...
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Lane Babuder - Fri, Aug 26, 2022
In a recent "Bloomberg Studio 1.0" show Emily Chang interviewed Microsoft Gaming/Xbox CEO Phil Spencer. The interview covered a wide range of topics ranging from work culture at Microsoft, the future of gaming, Microsoft's acquisition of...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 21, 2022
There are plenty of opinions to go around on Microsoft's deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, but I'll say this—if Microsoft goes on to reboot franchises like King's Quest and other classics, I'll be ecstatic. It may very...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Jun 10, 2021
There's no love lost between Sony and Microsoft on the console front. The companies are fierce competitors, and things are heating up now that the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 have been battling it out on the market for the past six...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 25, 2020
Have you tried buying a next-generation game console? If so, you might have a hole in your wall, from where you punched it out of frustration. The Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and both PlayStation 5 consoles have been almost impossible to...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 29, 2020
Some of you reading this probably tried, in vain, to order a GeForce RTX 3070 this morning, only to be met with error messages, slow loading sites, and ultimately disappointment. Not that anyone should be surprised—it was always going to...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Oct 23, 2020
At this point, Microsoft is looking to deliver the Xbox gaming experiences on as many platforms as possible. In addition to cross-platform games that work across Xbox One and upcoming Xbox Series S/X consoles, you can play many Xbox games...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, May 27, 2020
Pending any major hiccups along the way, we're roughly 6 months away from the global launch of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5. Given that's it's been nearly 7 years since the last generation of consoles launched (Xbox One...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 02, 2020
This is a big year in the gaming console segment—Sony is set to release its PlayStation 5 in the holiday season (November or December), and around the same time, Microsoft will launch its Xbox Series X. Rumor has it the PS5 will debut at...
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