Microsoft's E3 Briefing saw the World Premiere of a new trailer for Tom Clancy's The Division and the announcement the Division will have an exclusive beta for Xbox One in December. The trailer…
June 15, 2015 | 02:18 EDT
Forza 6 was revealed during the Microsoft E3 2015 press conference this morning with a showing of the new Ford GT. Henry Ford III discussed an exclusive partnership between them and Turn 10 Studios.…
June 15, 2015 | 02:15 EDT
Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 was announced at Microsoft's E3 2015 conference and is due for a spring 2016 release. They showed off the announcement trailer revealing all kinds of new zombies in…
June 15, 2015 | 02:06 EDT
Microsoft announced the Xbox Elite controller during their E3 Press Conference. This new controller will offer far more precise control and customization options than any previous first party…
June 15, 2015 | 02:02 EDT
In a surprising announcement from the Microsoft E3 2015 press conference, Phil Spencer announced that the Xbox One will now support native backwards compatibility. That opens up the library for the…
June 15, 2015 | 01:55 EDT
Xbox E3 starts off its show with a bang as Bonnie Ross from 343 Industries takes the stage to welcome all the fans and talk about what Xbox is going to do for 2015. Build from the ground up Halo 5:…
June 15, 2015 | 01:38 EDT
This morning before the Microsoft press conference the YouTube E3 2015 stream showed off a story trailer for Mad Max. Riding high on Mad Max Fury Road's success at the box office this summer the…
June 15, 2015 | 01:26 EDT
Welcome to E3 2015, the grandest pageantry in all of gaming. Here we sit around and watch companies announce how they plan to make money in the year ahead. In less cynical terms, it's also where we…
June 14, 2015 | 07:36 EDT
For this year's E3, Microsoft is still running back from their disastrous console launch and subsequent reversals of policy. The Xbox One seems to perpetually be available at a discount with games…
June 12, 2015 | 12:30 EDT
Oculus has kicked off E3 season early with a press conference announcing their VR control solution as well as a few details surrounding its launch. It will be available to buy in stores in early 2016…
June 11, 2015 | 05:24 EDT
Game Informer has unveiled a host of new details for Halo 5: Guardians. The October release will feature a co-op campaign where Master Chief is accompanied by Blue Team, characters that fans of the…
June 9, 2015 | 11:32 EDT
Microsoft has announced the release date of Windows 10 with a host of new features and programs to replace some old ones. In an official statement emailed this morning, Thomas Hunter, a PR account…
June 1, 2015 | 04:15 EDT
Casey Hudson, former project director of BioWare's acclaimed Mass Effect franchise, has joined up with Microsoft. Hudson will be working with Microsoft as a creative director, and will be under the…
May 18, 2015 | 01:37 EDT
Going to the hospital is always a little bit scary, especially for young children. creative minds, however, have devised a way to turn an ordinary waiting room into an interactive stress reliever.…
May 16, 2015 | 12:20 EDT
Earlier today news broke when, VMC Games, the company that is conducting testing on the rumored Gears of War remake, sent an email to testers in light of the recent leaks of game footage on the…
May 14, 2015 | 10:34 EDT
For the folks who have an Xbox One, May's Microsoft update provides long awaited feature requests to the party chats and messages, along with some functions to improve overall stability to party chat…
May 12, 2015 | 11:49 EDT
Tuesday, June 16 marks a special day for Microsoft. On that date, Rob Sinclair, Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer, will accept a Corporate Leadership Award for their longstanding commitment to…
May 9, 2015 | 12:58 EDT
We may soon be able to experience games in a more immersive way than ever before, as development engine Unity announced they will be implementing full support for the newly unveiled Microsoft…
April 29, 2015 | 11:20 EDT
E3 is June 16-18 in Los Angeles this year, and thanks to their recently updated website, Microsoft has confirmed they will be bringing HoloLens along with them to the convention. HoloLens is…
April 29, 2015 | 10:24 EDT
Remedy, the developers behind the upcoming Quantum Break have shared some details about an old Alan Wake 2 prototype. The video has surfaced from an interview with Polygon. In the interview creative…
April 21, 2015 | 09:32 EDT
Sunday April 19, Phil Spencer spent some time talking to people on twitter about various topics, one of which was Microsoft's plans for E3. Spencer wants to focus on first party games for Microsoft's…
April 21, 2015 | 12:51 EDT
The Surface Pro 3 was released last year and caught the appreciative eye of the tech world as an excellent tablet/laptop alternative, although the high price tag was a definite cliff that many…
March 31, 2015 | 08:15 EDT
A pair of new trailers for Halo 5: Guardians has revealed that the game will drop on October 27th of this year on Xbox One. Each trailer shows a scene from a different perspective, one familiar and…
March 30, 2015 | 07:31 EDT
Disgruntled Xbox 360 owners may finally get their day in court now that a class action lawsuit, which was previously rejected by a lower court, has been revived by an appeals court. The lawsuit was…
March 23, 2015 | 08:46 EDT
Bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Apparently, get an upgrade if you're on an eligible device. Windows users who chose to sail the 7 seas for their copy of…
March 18, 2015 | 09:17 EDT
Ding dong, Internet Explorer is dead. Well, sort of. Microsoft is planning to ditch the iconic browser bundled with Windows in favor of a new browser dubbed "Project Spartan" in upcoming Windows 10.…
March 17, 2015 | 11:42 EDT
A team made of former Rare devs is planning to bring their spiritual successor of the Banjo Kazooie franchise to Kickstarter. Playtonic Games, the studio made up by former developers of Rare Ltd.,…
March 17, 2015 | 10:00 EDT
(UPDATE 1) In this blog from Vince Zampella, CEO Respawn Entertainment, some more info was revealed, including that the DLC will also be free on Origin to celebrate the one year anniversary of…
March 11, 2015 | 09:13 EDT
UPDATE: After asking Xbox Support via twitter it has been revealed that this deal is only for a limited time so if you think you'll be needing a top up of Xbox Life Gold then now would be the time to…
February 26, 2015 | 12:26 EST
When the Xbox One was released in Japan on September of last year, it only managed to sell 30,000 systems that month, half the number that the Xbox 360 achieved in its first month. Now the system has…
January 22, 2015 | 11:42 EST
Yesterday Microsoft took to the stage to show off even more information about Windows 10, the latest version of their operating system. This will be the next step up from Windows 8.1 and will…
January 22, 2015 | 01:00 EST
According to Heise online, a German IT news site, more than 1800 account information (email and password) of Minecraft players has been released on the net, giving potentially the possibility to…
January 20, 2015 | 09:28 EST
And so, the year of 2014 has come to pass. Happy New Year to all you lovely readers! Did any of you make any New Year's resolutions? I did. " I shall never again pre-order a game. Ever." As far as I…
January 7, 2015 | 09:00 EST
The highly anticipated beta for Microsoft's next release in the massively successful Halo franchise has been released, and is set to run for the next few weeks. The beta for Halo 5: Guardians has…
December 29, 2014 | 05:10 EST
Metal Gear Solid 5 may be coming as soon as February 24th of next year, if the date listing of Microsoft's store page is to be believed. Microsoft is not the only store showing this. Rakuten, a…
December 21, 2014 | 08:48 EST
Microsoft has joined the group of company's that accept the online currency Bitcoin - adding their substantial weight to the young currency's legitimacy. Microsoft is far from the first, following in…
December 11, 2014 | 06:17 EST
Aaron Greenberg, a marketing manager for Xbox, has revealed on twitter that Microsoft will publish Rise of the Tomb Raider. When asked by a fan asked who the publisher would be Microsoft or Square-…
December 9, 2014 | 10:43 EST
A Destructoid community blogger broke the story that Microsoft are late in paying the developers for their work on games in the Xbox Live Indie Games MarketPlace. Developers are supposed to be paid…
December 3, 2014 | 11:43 EST
Sometimes in this world, we must all stand up to sad news. The moment when we find out that no, Santa Clause is not real. The moment when we realize that no, no one is infallible in life. Sometimes…
December 2, 2014 | 07:02 EST
Surprising no one, the Xbox One has not been a success in Japan, but what has been surprising is how much it has been... unsuccessful. The bossman of Xbox Japan, Takashi Sensui, has resigned from…
November 28, 2014 | 07:12 EST
Last week, we reported on the hacking group DerpTrolling posting a pastebin with several thousands login information from PSN, Windows Live and 2K accounts. Few days later, Sony announced they found…
November 24, 2014 | 11:08 EST
Like I mentioned a few days ago when the resurrection of the Battletoads trademark surfaced, this series has surprisingly awesome music. Well, "surprisingly" only based on the fact that one typically…
November 16, 2014 | 11:00 EST
During today's Connect conference, Microsoft has announced a multitude of updates or new products, including Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio Community 2013, and .NET 4.6. For more information,…
November 12, 2014 | 04:37 EST
Today, an eagle-eyed poster on the NeoGAF forum spotted a trademark filing for the Battletoads name. After Microsoft took over Rare in 2002, there has been a disappointing lack of revival from their…
November 10, 2014 | 01:23 EST
There has been great excitement as the Halo: Master Chief Collection nears its launch date, but there is one snag that the game's development director insists is a non-issue: that there will be a 20…
November 10, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Were you beginning to think that maybe the Mobile Market would slip away from Microsoft Office? That its focus on paid software on a market that is known for its freemium style would undermine it? If…
November 6, 2014 | 01:05 EST
September, October, and November are high volume release months for the gaming industry, and while a large volume of games do get released in this window, some are delayed in order to limit…
November 3, 2014 | 05:15 EST
Back in July, Microsoft announced that it would be laying off 18 000 jobs worldwide over an unspecified period of time, including over 12500 employees acquired when they bought Nokia. Its latest…
November 3, 2014 | 10:52 EST