Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kris Holt is a writer who covers video games and word games. It wouldn’t be the end of a calendar year without getting some ...

Where do I even begin? Microsoft’s stewardship of its increasingly vast gaming empire — which includes Xbox consoles, the Game Pass subscription service, and not one but three massive publishers — had ...

The June 2025 Xbox Games Showcase has come to a close after two hours of announcements for games like The Outer Worlds 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Final Fantasy, Super Meat Boy 3D, and more. It was ...

The 2025 Xbox Games Showcase will take place today, June 8, 2025, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. It will be streamed on the Xbox YouTube and Twitch channels. It will be immediately followed by the Outer ...

Last year, I suggested that Xbox could have a big year ahead in 2025, but that it would once again come at a cost, including layoffs, price increases, and other nasty bits of news. And that is more or ...

While we don’t have E3 anymore, the Summer Game Fest 2025 Xbox Games Showcase appeared on June 8, 2025, and it included a number of titles and ROG Xbox Ally handheld gaming PCs with Xbox elements. The ...

From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

In 2024, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer told Polygon he couldn’t stop thinking about what an Xbox handheld could be. Months later, Spencer told Bloomberg Microsoft had indeed been thinking about it ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a contributor from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself while he ...

As part of its last Xbox-focused software update of the year, Microsoft is improving the Bluetooth performance of the Xbox Wireless Headset to make it work even better with Windows 11. Microsoft ...

As Summer Game Fest continues through the weekend, Microsoft had its own game trailer showcase to reveal all the games coming to Xbox and its Game Pass subscription service. After the Xbox Games ...